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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled PSA ERP Applications 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Mickey North Rizza — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a thorough assessment of market-leading AI-enabled PSA ERP applications and discusses the criteria that are most important for companies to consider when selecting a solution.

"Organizations are embracing AI quickly; however, AI-enabled PSA ERP functionality is just beginning to become AI enabled. As AI becomes more engrained in the services project life cycle and financial aspects, it will immediately help reduce manual and semi-manual workflows, improve time of insights to action, and help deliver improved business performance for services-focused business or as part of the product and additional services businesses," said Mickey North Rizza, IDC Group VP, Enterprise Software.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Analytical Databases 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Devin Pratt — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC study evaluates worldwide analytical database software platforms for 2025, highlighting how advances in storage and compute architectures are transforming enterprise analytics. Vendors evaluated include AWS, Broadcom, Cloudera, Couchbase, Google, IBM, InterSystems, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle, SAP, SingleStore, Snowflake, and Teradata. The market is shifting beyond traditional columnar systems toward cloud-native, lakehouse, and distributed query architectures that separate storage and compute to improve elasticity, performance, and cost control.

As organizations modernize data infrastructure and accelerate AI adoption, analytical databases are emerging as the intelligent, high-performance foundation for real-time analytics and data-driven decisioning. Vendors are embedding AI-driven optimization, vector processing, and automation to enhance scalability, accelerate insights, and prepare for agentic AI workloads. The market's growth signals a new phase where analytics, AI, and storage innovation converge to enable faster and more intelligent enterprise decisions.

"Analytics is the engine of enterprise intelligence, and analytical databases are evolving to make it faster, smarter, and more adaptive," said Devin Pratt, research director, Data Management Software at IDC. "As organizations advance their analytics strategies and incorporate AI and agentic AI, leadership will belong to databases that seamlessly unite storage, compute, and automation to turn data into trusted, real-time decisions."

Meter's 2025 MeterUP Event Showcases Commitment to Fully Integrated, Service-Driven Networking and Announces Lumen Partnership - Without Using Buzzwords

Paul Hughes — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Meter's annual MeterUP 2025 conference for customers, partners and analysts provided a focused and refreshing view of the company's growth strategy for its full integrated networking stack and strategy for enterprise connectivity. The announced agreement with Lumen for a unified wide area network (WAN) and local area network (LAN) solution to enterprise customers stood out as it offered simplicity and lower cost of ownership for the customer and a bigger partnership path with the CSPs.

SAP Earnings 3Q25: Growth Continues

Mickey North Rizza, Robert Parker, Daniel-Zoe Jimenez, Bo Lykkegaard — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

SAP recently announced its 3Q25 results. All results discussed in the document will be non-IFRS and growth rates and percentage points are non-IFRS, year over year at constant currencies, unless otherwise specified. The 3Q25 financials show cloud and software revenue was up 12% to €8,016 million. Cloud revenue grew steadily, up 27% to €5,290 million. Total revenue was up 11% to €9,076 million. The current cloud backlog was up 27% to €18.8 billion. Non-IFRS operating profit was up 19% to €2,566 million.

Schneider Electric Innovation Summit 2025: Electrification and AI Convergence Drives the New Industrial Era

Olga Yashkova, Natalya Yezhkova — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Link summarizes the key learnings from Schneider Electric's North America Innovation Summit 2025 that took place on November 18-19 in Las Vegas, NV. This event highlighted the company's strategic focus on integrating electrification, automation, and digital transformation to address the quickly progressing demands of datacenters and other industries.

Ten Key Takeaways from Sibos 2025

Maria Adele Di Comite — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The Sibos 2025 event in Frankfurt highlighted the transformation of global finance, with AI, CBDCs, instant payments, and tokenization driving innovation and operational efficiency. Banks are prioritizing customer-centricity, regulatory compliance, and risk management while adapting to new payment infrastructures and digital assets. The event, organized by SWIFT, emphasized the need for interoperability, responsible AI adoption, and ecosystem collaboration to meet evolving customer expectations and regulatory demands, thus paving the way for a resilient, integrated, and future-ready financial industry.

"The future of global finance is being shaped by customer-centricity, instant payments, and digital currencies; banks must adapt fast to remain relevant in this new landscape and need to embed AI in their processes to support evolution efficiently and at speed." — Research Director Maria Adele Di Comite, Financial Insights, IDC

中国MES市场份额，2024：格局重塑

Yanze Du — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究报告分析了中国MES市场环境和重大市场变化，给出了整体市场规模和核心厂商的市场份额，并对2024年代表厂商进行了介绍。

"在众多工业软件细分市场中，MES是厂商数量最多、竞争最为激烈的领域之一，低价竞争与产品同质化现象普遍存在。在市场高竞争烈度的状态下，本土厂商在行业深度与产品广度两个方向上同时突破，逐步打破了长期以来的市场格局。与此同时，AI与生成式AI正与MES及各类工业软件加速融合，应用场景也从概念验证走向规模化落地，成为推动中国MES市场新一轮增长与结构性变革的重要力量。"——IDC中国制造行业高级研究经理杜雁泽表示。

中国联络中心市场份额，2025：稳中求变

Kai Cui — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

通过本报告，您将洞察到中国联络中心软件市场在过去一年中呈现的 "稳步重塑"的市场变化：中国市场依然保持本地部署与云服务并存的格局，行业分散、场景异构特征明显。联络中心正从传统的售后通道转型为企业经营与治理的前台，AI技术逐步从辅助坐席升级为可上岗的数字员工。企业在投资时更加注重一体化目标与可持续回报，供应商需在合规、安全与智能增值之间实现平衡。未来，谁能将AI坐席、行业流程与合规能力打包为可持续运营的生产力引擎，谁就将在市场份额中占据重要位置。

中国企业通信市场助理研究总监崔凯表示："2024年中国联络中心的关键词是'结构重塑'。"联络中心产品与服务正从'渠道工具'进化为'经营与治理前台'，以'本地/专属域托底＋云侧AI增值'的分层路径推进，而可审计、可量化的业务结果成为预算与采购的核心抓手。展望未来2—3年，中国联络中心市场将保持温和增长，能够提供混合交付、将行业流程沉淀为可复制模板，并以清晰经营指标作出价值承诺的厂商，将在下一轮份额重排中占先。"

Braze Forge 2025: Highlighting Full-Stack Infrastructure for Agentic Marketing

Gerry Murray, Roger Beharry Lall — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective analyzes the Braze Forge 2025 conference held September 29–October 1, 2025, in Las Vegas. Braze Forge 2025 demonstrated the company's commitment to transforming customer engagement through AI integration and platform innovation. Announcements at the event addressed every aspect of the modern marketing technology stack, from data activation and personalization to channel optimization and workflow automation.

"The breadth and depth of innovation showcased at Forge 2025 reinforces Braze's position as a leader in customer engagement technology," said Gerry Murray, director, IDC's Enterprise Marketing Apps and Agents service. "Braze is providing the foundation for brands to build more meaningful, responsive, and profitable customer relationships with a fully integrated stack for agentic marketing."

IBM Quantum Developer Conference 2025: Accelerating the Path to Quantum Advantage

Heather West, PhD — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

IBM Quantum announced several quantum hardware and software innovations at its 2025 Quantum Developer Conference, including the 120-qubit Nighthawk processor, advanced error correction techniques, and Qiskit enhancements for hybrid quantum-classical workflows. These milestones mark steady progress toward quantum advantage and fault-tolerant quantum computing, providing enterprises with a clear roadmap through 2029 and accelerating the transition from proofs of concept to real-world applications.