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Google Cloud Next '26: Google Repositions Its Cloud AI Stack Around Agent Operations

Arnal Dayaratna — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

AWS Expands Enterprise AI Stack with OpenAI Partnership and New Agentic Solutions

Sarah Lee — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Amazon Bets on Healthcare AI: AWS Connect Health Takes Aim at Clinician Burnout, Patient Experience, and the Future of Care Delivery

Silvia Piai, Jennifer Eaton — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

With the launch of Amazon Connect Health, AWS is directly addressing two of healthcare's most persistent pain points: clinician burnout driven by documentation overload and patient friction across the care journey, from scheduling and access through to follow-up and continuity of care. By embedding purpose-built AI agents into existing clinical workflows rather than layering on yet another standalone tool, and by extending that intelligence to the patient touchpoints that surround the clinical encounter, AWS tackles these pain points. This announcement signals a broader strategic shift: AWS is competing in the AI-enabled vertical application layer, bringing its scale, proprietary data assets, and agentic platform to bear on care delivery models that are rapidly evolving toward hybrid and virtual modalities.

IDC PeerScape: Best Practices for Asset Management in Utilities

John Villali — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC PeerScape highlights five key best practices that distinguish successful APM implementations in utilities: adopting risk-based asset prioritization, integrating IT and OT data, transitioning to condition-based predictive maintenance, aligning APM with business and regulatory objectives, and strengthening data governance. Together, these practices enable utilities to optimize maintenance strategies, improve reliability metrics, reduce operational costs, and enhance their ability to justify investments in a highly regulated industry.

Utilities that treat APM as an enterprise transformation rather than a standalone technology deployment are better positioned to manage risk, extend asset life cycles, and deliver consistent, high-quality service to customers. As grid complexity continues to increase, APM will play a central role in enabling utilities to balance reliability, affordability, and sustainability objectives.

"Asset performance management is becoming a foundational capability for utilities navigating grid modernization, changing market dynamics, and rising reliability expectations. Organizations that integrate data, analytics, and operational decision-making into a cohesive APM strategy will be best positioned to reduce risk, optimize assets, extend asset life cycles, and deliver measurable business and regulatory outcomes," said John Villali, senior research director, IDC Energy Insights.

IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Enterprise Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Applications, 2026

Megha Kumar — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The IDC ProductScape offers a comprehensive guide on the key functionalities of enterprise planning, budgeting, and forecasting applications, featuring products from Anaplan, Board, Epicor, IBM, insightsoftware, OneStream, Oracle, Planful, Prophix, SAP, Strata Decision Technology, Vena, Workday, and Unit4. The status of each functionality is categorized as fully supported, partially supported, partner provided, road map, or not supported, aiding technology purchasers in quickly identifying which vendors align with their changing requirements.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What IT Investments Are Asia/Pacific Organizations Prioritizing Because of the Conflict in the Middle East?

Yih Khai Wong — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight summarizes findings from IDC's Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending Survey, Wave 2 on IT investments, highlighting how the conflict in the Middle East has affected the investment priorities of Asia/Pacific organizations.

The survey was conducted among 303 organizations in the region, and this report focuses on answers to the following question: "Which IT investment priorities is your organization most likely to increase in the next 6–12 months because of the situation in the Middle East?"

Infor Analyst Innovation Summit 2026: The Agentic Enterprise, Velocity Suite, and the Next Phase of Industry ERP

Alan Webber — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note provides insights into Infor's analyst event, which marked a shift from broad AI messaging to a more structured platform and commercialization story built around Velocity Suite and The Agentic Enterprise. The company's central theme is that enterprise AI will create the most value when it is grounded in industry-specific process knowledge, not generic copilots. Announcements focused on bundled AI packaging and pricing, domain-specific agents, adaptive user experiences, multiagent orchestration, and stronger governance controls for how agents operate inside ERP workflows. Infor's near-term opportunity is in improving execution across supply chain, manufacturing, finance, workforce management, and public sector operations through governed automation. For defense and national security, the most relevant implication is the potential to strengthen sustainment, production, logistics, and administrative resilience through more auditable, process-aware enterprise AI.

Oracle and AWS Expand Multicloud Networking

Adam Reeves — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Oracle and AWS are extending their multicloud partnership by integrating their networking frameworks to enable private, high-performance connectivity across cloud environments. The announcement underscores Oracle’s continued focus on open multicloud and highlights the growing importance of network-level integration as enterprises scale distributed, AI-driven workloads across multiple clouds.

Velotic: The Journey Toward an AI‑Ready Industrial Data Fabric

Lorenzo Veronesi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective analyzes the role of Velotic in the modern industrial software ecosystem. Velotic's creation out of the integration of Proficy, Kepware, and ThingWorx marks a shift from monolithic industrial applications to data‑centric, AI‑ready platforms. The company offers manufacturers not only an OT backbone and ecosystem but also introduces choices around architecture, DataOps, branding, and partner models.

"Industrial software is no longer a sidecar to hardware or IT procurement; long‑term value will accrue to those that control and structure industrial data, not just to those selling individual point solutions," said Lorenzo Veronesi, associate research director, Manufacturing Insights, IDC. "Manufacturers should treat Velotic not just as a logo change, but rather as a chance to evolve their architecture. They should pursue a map drafting of the as-is versus to-be Proficy, Kepware, and ThingWorx dataflows and define a mid-term target for an integrated, AI‑ready data fabric."

火山引擎AI创新巡展：OpenClaw正在改变厂商产品技术路线

Zhenya Sun — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

4月21日，火山引擎AI创新巡展在成都举办，发布内容围绕企业级Agent、统一入口、长期记忆、Skills生态和企业级管控展开。本报告重点关注火山引擎在巡展现场提到的敏态Agent和稳态Agent概念，以及AgentSphere、ArkClaw、skills等产品和能力。