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Agentic AI Is Rewriting PaaS Decision-Making

Adam Reeves — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Agentic AI is driving structural disruption in the PaaS market, with 80% of enterprise platform decision-makers reconsidering their portfolios as vendors converge on integrated architectures spanning development tooling, agent life-cycle management, governance, and data access. Developer enablement is a primary mechanism through which platform selection happens, with developers influencing 47% of cloud adoption and vendor selection spend. Enterprise IT leaders who govern developer toolchain adoption, assess governance depth, and require portability terms before committing will be better positioned than those who allow platform dependencies to accumulate by default.

"The worst outcome for enterprise IT is not choosing the wrong PaaS platform in the age of agentic AI. It is making no deliberate choice while dependencies accumulate by default," says Adam Reeves, research director, PaaS for Developers of Modern and Edge Applications, IDC.

Best in Future of AI Center of Excellence Winner Award Profile 2025

Deepika Giri, Shashank Nigam, Daeil Chun — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study discusses the development and impact of AXA Hong Kong and Macau's AI Center of Excellence (CoE) that centralizes AI strategy and governance, aligning advanced initiatives with business goals to drive efficiency and innovation. By integrating scalable infrastructure, ethical oversight, and continuous talent development, the CoE embeds AI across operations and empowers employees, positioning AXA as an industry leader in responsible and impactful AI adoption.

"A truly visionary AI Center of Excellence is not just a hub for technology, it is the strategic engine that transforms business objectives into measurable innovation, ensuring every AI initiative drives real value and positions the organization ahead of the curve," says Deepika Giri, associate VP, IDC Asia/Pacific.

Cultivate 2026: Eightfold AI's Transformation from Talent Intelligence to AI Operating Layer

Abhinav Shrivastava — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note discusses Eightfold's Cultivate 2026 event, which marked a strategic shift from traditional HR systems to an AI-powered operating layer, introducing the Infinite Workforce vision where humans focus on strategy and AI agents handle execution. Key launches include a rebuilt recruiting funnel, Workforce Readiness for AI adoption measurement, and TalentForge for custom app development. The company's move to a software-plus-services model, deeper Oracle Recruiting integration, and expanded platform capabilities position Eightfold as a horizontal talent solution. However, success hinges on enterprise adoption and the continued relevance of its skills graph in an evolving AI-driven landscape.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Are the Top Business Priorities for Content and Experience Platforms?

Jordan Jewell — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how IT and line-of-business (LOB) buyers prioritize the business goals driving their content and experience platform investments, based on results from IDC's 2025 CX Path Survey.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What's Driving APAC's Pivot Toward Resilient, Sovereign, and Analytics-Ready Data Platforms?

Deepika Giri, Shashank Nigam — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes results from IDC's Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey (FERS Survey) Wave 2, fielded in March 2026. Highlighting drivers behind Asia/Pacific (APAC) organizations' pivot toward resilient, sovereign, and analytics-ready data platforms. Geopolitical uncertainty is prompting enterprises to prioritize cybersecurity, multi-region cloud architectures, and robust backup strategies. Investments in sovereign cloud and locally owned datacenters are rising to ensure data residency and regulatory compliance.

The survey reveals a shift from traditional analytics to mission-critical AI workloads focused on operational efficiency and resilience. APAC leaders are uniting resilient infrastructure, sovereign cloud, and analytics-ready data to build compliant, intelligent, and future-ready foundations.

IDC Survey: AI's Growing Influence in Data and Analytics

Megha Kumar, Stewart Bond — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines how GenAI and agentic AI are reshaping the role of data and analytics (D&A) across the enterprise, influencing investment ownership, AI readiness priorities, governance requirements, and modernization strategies. The study examines how organizations prioritize operational, customer, financial, and master data to improve their readiness for AI. It highlights the importance of data intelligence, governance, modernization, and event-driven architecture. The survey highlights how organizations are addressing trust and control in AI-generated insights.

"The data and analytics landscape has moved to an enterprise control point for AI readiness, governance, and execution. Tech vendors must sell into a broader buying committee across IT, D&A, governance, and line-of-business stakeholders. Those that help organizations govern diverse data sources, embed trust controls into AI workflows, and bridge the gap between core structured data and the broader context GenAI demands will be the ones enterprises turn to as AI scales. The opportunity is in making varied, complex data reliably AI ready without sacrificing quality, lineage, or accountability," says Megha Kumar, research VP, Analytics and AI, IDC.

The Evolution of Distribution From Middlemen to Value Orchestrators

Vinay Gupta, Daniel-Zoe Jimenez — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Asia/Pacific distribution is moving from logistics to value orchestration. Distributors are becoming the data, financing, and orchestration layers between vendors, partners, and customers. Five forces are driving this shift: AI, marketplace seller-of-record economics, multicloud as geopolitical hedge, channel consolidation, and the move to recurring revenue. The market is consolidating into three archetypes: global broadliners, international specialists, and country champions. IDC's 2025 Asia/Pacific Partner Survey shows that 78% of the surveyed partners said they procure through distributors and 47% said they matter more than ever. Vendors designing programs from headquarters for headquarters-style distributor models will lose Asia/Pacific share.

"Asia/Pacific distribution is consolidating around three archetypes: global broadliners, international specialists, and country champions. The squeezed middle disappears. Vendors that keep designing partner programs from headquarters for distributor models that exist only in headquarters markets will lose Asia/Pacific shares," says Vinay Gupta, senior research director, IDC Asia/Pacific Channels and Ecosystem.

AI Pricing Complexity Demands a New Monetization Stack: Zuora's AI Monetization Suite Announcement

Heather Hershey — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On June 4, 2026, Zuora announced an expansion of its AI Monetization Suite. Zuora's expanded AI Monetization Suite is a meaningful step toward closing the gap between how AI products are priced and how the underlying commercial infrastructure operationalizes that pricing. For CROs and CFOs, the announcement signals that the quote-to-cash category is beginning to catch up to the realities of AI monetization.

Build 2026 Marks Microsoft's Most Substantive Push to Orient Windows Around Agentic Development

Adam Resnick — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Build 2026 focused heavily on agentic enablement, with announcements across the Microsoft stack targeting the development, deployment, and governance of AI agents at enterprise scale. Within this context, Windows and related hardware updates signal a coordinated push to reinforce Windows as a primary platform for agentic development. These investments emphasize OS-level agent containment, on-device AI execution, expanded Linux tooling, and purpose-built, low-friction OS experiences for developers. Microsoft's installed base and deep enterprise reach already position Windows ahead of macOS and Linux across much of the developer market. Improvements in usability and developer-centric design strengthen its case as agentic workloads scale, but shifting developer preference among Mac-centric, start-up, and AI-native segments will take time and will not be driven by capability alone.

Cisco Isovalent Launches Networking for Virtualization Platform to Capture the Virtual Machine Migration Market

Paul Nicholson — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Cisco has announced the general availability (GA) of Isovalent Networking for Virtualization (INV), providing enterprise IT teams with a supported path to migrate virtual machine (VM) workloads from existing platforms to OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes KubeVirt without disrupting network connectivity or security policies. For IT leaders managing infrastructure modernization, this is a meaningful addition to the Cisco portfolio: It addresses one of the most common blockers in VM-to-Kubernetes migration projects, backed by networking technology already trusted by the world's largest cloud providers. Launched at Cisco Live (June 2026), INV becomes the fourth pillar of the Isovalent Enterprise Platform and demonstrates that Cisco's networking capabilities now extend well beyond traditional hardware.