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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Unified Revenue Orchestration Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

Michelle Morgan — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates vendors against inclusion criteria and market trends for unified revenue orchestration software. It highlights the shift from stage-based pipeline management to signal-driven workflows and agentic AI taking bounded action, with buyer evaluation moving toward execution proof rather than feature counts.

"Agentic AI is pushing revenue orchestration platforms past the point of dashboards and summaries," says Michelle Morgan, senior research manager for IDC's AI-Enabled Sales, Customer Service, and Contact Center Strategies. "The real test isn't what an agent can do; it's what a buyer can verify. Vendors that can show closed-loop outcomes, not just autonomy claims, are the ones worth watching."

Market Analysis Perspective: Japan Digital Business Spending by Industry, 2026

Ko Shikita — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本プレゼンテーションは、国内のさまざまな産業分野の企業や公的機関におけるデジタルビジネス動向と、その活動を支えるAIをはじめとする第3のプラットフォーム関連テクノロジーへの投資動向を簡潔にまとめたものである。本プレゼンテーションでは、デジタルテクノロジーに関わるソリューションベンダー動向やさまざまな産業分野のユーザー企業の動向を分析し、国内第3のプラットフォーム市場予測を提示するとともに、ITサプライヤーに対する提言を提供している。

市场份额：中国银行业本地部署分布式事务型数据库市场份额，2025

Nan Wang — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究分析了2025年银行业本地部署分布式事务型数据库市场领先厂商的市场份额。

本报告主要研究中国银行业本地部署分布式事务型数据库市场的市场规模及主要厂商情况，涵盖整体市场格局分析、厂商发展现状、市场发展趋势以及分析师洞察等内容。

IDC中国企业级软件研究领域研究经理王楠表示："2025年中国银行本地部署分布式事务型数据库市场正从'国产化替代'进入'核心系统规模化复制'阶段，市场规模呈现高速增长。数据安全、监管合规、业务连续性以及核心系统自主可控仍是需求增长的重要驱动力。随着基础分布式能力逐步成熟，银行客户的关注重点也由单纯的性能和可用性，进一步转向异构数据库迁移、强一致性、智能运维、混合事务分析处理（HTAP）以及长期运营成本等综合能力。"

Agentic Orchestration Checks In: The Opportunity for Media Networks Has Arrived for Financial Services

Alex Holtz, Dorothy Creamer — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explores how agentic orchestration and the rise of financial media networks are reshaping advertising as margin compression and credit tightening drive card issuers, payment networks, and fintech wallets toward first-party data monetization. With the emergence of programmatic access to authenticated transaction data, operators such as Chase, American Express, Mastercard, and PayPal are pioneering closed-loop, high-intent advertising surfaces. The document details the architectural, operational, and measurement challenges and opportunities as financial media networks formalize, offering a blueprint for stakeholders to capture non-endemic brand demand and sustainable growth.

"As margin compression pushes card issuers and payment networks to rethink their revenue mix, financial services emerges as the fastest-growing frontier for commerce media," says Alex Holtz, research director, Worldwide Commerce Media and Advertising Strategies, IDC. "The closed-loop infrastructure that transformed retail, and then travel, is now redefining how brands reach authenticated, high-spend audiences through banks, card networks, and fintech wallets. The question isn't if this shift will happen — it is who will own the loop, and how quickly they will build before the market consolidates."

CIO Peer Perspective — From IT Expertise to AI Readiness: Closing the Skills Gap Through Workforce Transformation

Leonardo Freitas, Martina Longo — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Artificial intelligence is transforming the technology skills challenge from a talent acquisition issue into a workforce transformation imperative. While technology talent shortages remain a top concern for both CEOs and CIOs, organizations are increasingly discovering that workforce readiness, rather than technology readiness, is the primary constraint on scaling AI initiatives. This IDC Perspective explores how leading organizations are responding by augmenting employees with AI, redesigning roles and workflows, embedding continuous learning into day-to-day operations, and building new capabilities around governance, orchestration, and AI oversight.

"Organizations have entered a new phase of the skills challenge. The objective is no longer simply to close talent gaps through hiring. Instead, leading CIOs are rethinking how work gets done and combining AI augmentation, targeted upskilling, and new operating models to build sustainable workforce readiness," says Leonardo Freitas, research manager at IDC.

Don't Judge a Beach by Its Shoreline: Saviynt's Zuma and the Real Test for AI Agents

Emanuel Figueroa — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

From Software Consumer to Software Producer: A Framework for Deciding When Finance Should Buy, Extend, or Build

Kevin Permenter — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective presents a framework for finance leaders deciding when to buy commercial software, extend a platform they already own, or build a targeted application in-house. As AI coding tools make it possible for finance professionals to build working software in days rather than months, the decision that used to sit with IT alone now belongs to the CFO as well. IDC recommends that CFOs adopt a repeatable, criteria-based framework for this decision, along with lightweight governance for anything finance builds in-house.

“The most innovative finance organizations, over the next five years, won’t necessarily buy better software. They’ll get better at creating their own. The CFOs who win this shift won’t be the ones who build the most; they’ll be the ones who know exactly when to buy, when to extend, and when to build,” says Kevin Permenter, research director, Enterprise Applications at IDC.

HPE 3Q 2026 Results: Building Momentum Across the AI Infrastructure Stack

Matthew Eastwood — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IBM Quantum Unveils Nighthawk r2, Boosting Circuit Throughput Over Qubit Count

Heather West, PhD — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IBM Quantum's Nighthawk r2 demonstrates that quantum computing performance is increasingly about maximizing useful computation, not simply increasing qubit counts. For enterprises, the ability to execute more circuits, increase sampling, and complete experiments faster within a given allocation could improve resource efficiency and the economics of quantum computing while accelerating the transition from experimentation to more sophisticated workloads.

Market Forecast: EMEA Enterprise Resource Management Applications Software Forecast, 2026–2030

Bo Lykkegaard — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for the enterprise resource management (ERM) applications software market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

“The agentic AI is a golden opportunity for back-office application vendors to add more value for their customers. IDC research shows that customers are looking to their SaaS application providers for AI-related automation and insights. The application vendors own the data and process context, which is crucial for AI to deliver high-quality and reliable results.” — Bo Lykkegaard, associate VP, Software Research Europe, IDC.