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Market Share: Worldwide Event Stream Processing Software Shares, 2025

Carlos Gonzalez — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

"The value in event-driven analytics and automation continues to move up the stack. Real-time data remains essential, but competitive advantage is increasingly shaped by the ability to provide analytical context, support AI-driven decisions, and connect intelligence with operational outcomes." — Carlos Gonzalez, research manager, Event-Driven Automation and Analytics, IDC

Market Share: Worldwide Team Collaboration Applications Shares, 2025

Wayne Kurtzman — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

"Collaboration is people working together to reach common goals. AI now assists, and agents can work with people or autonomously. Team collaboration applications, now a $28.9 billion market, enable grounding AI in the current content and context; connect people, AI, and agents; and serve as the launch point for the human differentiator: Creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving," said Wayne Kurtzman, research vice president, Social, Communities and Collaboration, IDC.

NuGuard AI Ships Introduces their Enterprise Platform, Extending Open-Source Behavioral Validation to Close the Pre-Production Trust Gap in Agentic AI

Craig Robinson — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

NuGuard AI, founded by security veteran Ranjan Goel, has moved its open-source behavioral validation CLI, downloaded more than 26,000 times since its January 2026 GitHub launch, into general availability as a full enterprise AI Trust Platform. The platform runs a continuous discover-define-validate-govern loop against an AI agent's source code, using automated, application-specific red-teaming to catch behavioral violations before agents reach production rather than after an incident. IDC views this pre-production, evidence-generating approach as a direct response to the trust gap limiting enterprise confidence in autonomous AI agents. Research from Cisco found only 11% of organizations fully trust AI for mission-critical applications, while 79% of enterprises already running AI agents in production lack a formal behavioral policy for them. Keeping its detection logic open source, and validating entirely within the customer's environment, answers two objections IDC hears from regulated-industry security teams: black-box logic and data leaving a controlled boundary..

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Trade Finance Systems 2026 Vendor Assessment

Maria Adele Di Comite — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents the assessment of 12 vendors for 2026 that provide trade finance solutions to the corporate banking sector: Adria B&T, Aurionpro, BT Systems, CGI, China Systems, Finastra, ICSFS, Infosys Finacle, Intellect Design Arena, Newgen, Oracle, and Surecomp. This research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the features of different solutions, along with other characteristics that define vendors' ability to support trade finance activities, streamline bank and corporate operations, and facilitate interactions with the ecosystem. The evaluation is based on a standardized, comprehensive framework and a set of parameters identified as most conducive to success in providing trade finance services in the short and long term. This year's assessment places particular emphasis on the extent to which vendors have moved AI, generative AI, and agentic AI capabilities from road map ambition into production use, alongside their readiness to support the accelerating shift toward electronically recognized trade documents. Evaluation also considers features to support risk management and regulatory compliance evaluations, as well as the ability to address emerging needs in a challenging and fast-evolving market, in times of uncertainty.

"In 2026, trade finance vendors are facing three key challenges: proving that their AI claims hold up under customer scrutiny, preparing for a trade ecosystem that is steadily shifting from paper to electronically recognized documents, and proving they have strong governance to meet tightening regulatory requirements and support advanced risk management. Across this assessment, vendors show meaningful progress on each of these fronts, though the pace and depth of progress vary across the vendor landscape," said Maria Adele Di Comite, senior research director, IDC Financial Insights.

IDC PeerScape: Practices to Overcome DevSecOps Challenges

Sam Abadir — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC PeerScape examines practices to overcome DevSecOps challenges.

"DevSecOps has been well established for quite some time within the industry, yet implementing it effectively is still a challenge. Overcoming that requires good cooperation and adherence to best practices," says Nick Kirtley, adjunct research advisor, IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP).

Tanium Reinstalls Founder Orion Hindawi as CEO to Lead Its Autonomous IT Push

Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK, Phil Hochmuth, Grace Trinidad, Michelle Abraham — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Tanium, the Autonomous IT company, reappointed co-founder Orion Hindawi as CEO on August 20, succeeding Dan Streetman, who led the company's go-to-market scale-up over the past three years. Streetman will advise through the transition, while co-founder David Hindawi (Orion's father) returns to the role of Chairman of the Board. Tanium positions the move as a way to deepen AI across its portfolio, continue its primary initiative of advancing Autonomous IT, and push and sharpen customer and partner relationships. IDC views the move as a confident bet that Tanium's next chapter of growth will be driven by a deep, founder-led technical and AI product vision --- one that is already taking shape with the May release of Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system. The approach raises the execution bar, and sustaining continuity through the transition will be a key watch item for a company widely regarded as IPO-ready but still without a public listing timeline.

Autonomous Telecom Operations: Oracle Digital Business Experience

Chris Silberberg, Peter Chahal — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note discusses how telecom operators that are pursuing autonomous operations too often confine their ambition to the network. Yet the same principles — faster execution and greater personalization — apply across the customer and commercial life cycle. This document also examines how Oracle Digital Business Experience, Oracle Communications' packaged solution spanning marketing, sales, and service, contributes to telecom operators seeking to develop autonomy across their businesses.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Innovation Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment

Jeffrey Hojlo — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study analyzes vendors in the innovation management software segment and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a vendor.

"Yes, AI can help you come up with new ideas for new or extended products, assets, processes, and operations, but cannot (unless embedded within your innovation workflow) structure new initiatives that are aligned with your business strategy, resources, and processes as innovation management platforms can. Human involvement in this process — from inside and outside the company — to verify and validate that any innovation, whether new or expanding on existing products, services, or processes, remains essential," said Jeff Hojlo, research vice president, Engineering and Product Innovation Strategies.

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Should Managed SPs Optimize the Value of All Service Providers Used for Agentic AI That Are Also Used as Partners to Support Managed Services?

David Tapper — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results from the following question posed to 820 respondents and firms with over 1,000 employees across multiple countries and industries, as part of IDC’s 2026 Worldwide Managed Services Survey: “Provider preference for agentic AI platforms and capabilities. Which type of provider or operating model would be your organization’s primary preference for round-the-clock (24 x 7) management of agentic AI capabilities over the next 12–24 months?” This IDC Survey Spotlight then highlights the investments that managed SPs need to pursue to optimize the value of partnerships with all service providers that support agentic AI and are also utilized to support the provisioning of managed services with these capabilities. These investments include implementing critical governance structures, establishing key architectural structures, and building strategic organizational and operational structures.

KoçSistem: Leveraging Proprietary Platforms, Managed Services, and Strategic Alliances to Grow Its Footprint Across the Gulf

Eren Eser, Eric Samuel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes KoçSistem, a Türkiye-headquartered technology services company expanding into the Gulf and the wider Middle East. The document examines KoçSistem's history, strategy, vision, service offerings, intellectual property, partnerships, and delivery model, as well as the opportunities and challenges the company faces as it scales beyond its home market. It is relevant to buyers of cloud, managed services, cybersecurity, data and AI, and IoT services in the Middle East and Africa; to technology vendors evaluating regional alliances; and to other stakeholders following the entry of Türkiye-based providers into Gulf markets.