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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Lease Administration Applications 2026 Vendor Assessment

Brian O'Rourke — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a vendor assessment of the worldwide AI-enabled lease administration applications market through the IDC MarketScape model.

Post-pandemic shifts toward shorter, more flexible commercial leases are reshaping lease administration software demands. Emerging trends include AI-driven automated lease abstraction, expanded sublease and lessor-side administration capabilities, and portfolio strategy tools with forecasting and scenario planning. In addition, AI has a growing role across data entry, classification, risk mitigation, and reporting throughout lease administration workflows.

“Leases have changed over the past several years, and lease administration applications are changing as well,” said Brian O’Rourke, research manager, Enterprise Asset Management and Smart Facilities at IDC, “evolving from static recordkeeping to a key component in strategic AI-driven enterprise workflows.”

IDC's 2026 SaaS CSAT Awards

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides an overview of the results from IDC's SaaS CSAT Awards.This award program recognizes the leading SaaS vendors in each of the 22 application markets, based on the highest customer satisfaction scores received in IDC's SaaS and Agent Path survey.

SaaS Path is a global survey of roughly 2,845 organizations across all geographic regions and company sizes, in which customers are asked to rate their vendor on more than 30 customer satisfaction metrics.

Broadcom Consolidates Its AI Portfolio Under VMware Private AI Cloud

Matthew Flug — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Broadcom's announcements at VMware Explore 2026 center on consolidating its AI portfolio under a single Private AI Cloud banner. The company intends to move what agentic workloads require in production, including agent containment, credential isolation, and gateway-level governance, from custom engineering to VCF platform services, positioning the private cloud as a viable destination for AI workloads.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Compliant e-Invoicing Solutions 2026 Vendor Assessment

Bo Lykkegaard, Kevin Permenter — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of e-invoicing compliance solution providers worldwide through the IDC MarketScape model. For this study, IDC evaluated 23 vendors with operations and customers across multiple regions, focused on the needs of global, enterprise-level organizations navigating the rapid worldwide spread of e-invoicing mandates. Of the vendors evaluated, all vendors participated in a structured request-for-information process, and most supported their responses with vendor briefings and customer reference interviews. IDC also conducted desk research on the vendors and their e-invoicing offerings. Vendors were evaluated based on their current capabilities and future strategies for delivering compliant e-invoicing to enterprise customers worldwide. As reflected in the inclusion criteria, all vendors evaluated support compliant e-invoicing across multiple regions and mandated countries.

“e-Invoicing has become a legal obligation that spans the globe, and choosing a compliance vendor is no longer a software purchase but a multiyear commitment to a partner that must keep pace with regulatory change in every market you operate in,” says Bo Lykkegaard, associate vice president on European Software Research, IDC. Lykkegaard adds, “The vendors that lead are those combining genuine native coverage in a buyer’s actual markets with proven responsiveness when a mandate goes live. Headline country counts and AI road maps matter far less than what reference customers experience under real pressure.”

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Edge Services 2026 Vendor Assessment

Ghassan Abdo — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a vendor assessment of the worldwide managed edge services market using the IDC MarketScape model. The assessment evaluates eight vendors — Akamai, Cloudflare, Comcast, Fastly, Lumen, Tata Communications, Telefónica, and Tencent Cloud — across a comprehensive set of capability and strategy criteria spanning platform architecture, AI and compute readiness, security integration, pricing model, customer service delivery, vertical alignment, and go-to-market strategy.

The managed edge services market is at a strategic inflection point. What began as a market defined by content delivery performance and network proximity has evolved into a critical infrastructure category encompassing distributed AI inference, data sovereignty, application modernization, and autonomous compute governance. Enterprise demand is being reshaped by three converging imperatives: the economics of AI inference, which favor distributed edge execution over centralized cloud at scale; the tightening of data sovereignty and regulatory compliance requirements across major markets; and the accelerating cost and complexity of hyperscaler-dependent architectures, which are driving enterprises to seek more predictable, sovereign, and operationally accountable infrastructure models.

IDC's assessment finds that the vendors best positioned in this market are those that have made the architectural transition from their legacy infrastructure category — whether CDN, telecom network, or enterprise IT — toward platforms purpose built for the converged requirements of AI inference, security, programmability, distributed life-cycle management, and regulatory compliance. Competitive differentiation in this market is increasingly defined not by any single capability dimension but by the depth of platform integration across these requirements, the operational model flexibility offered to enterprise buyers, and the credibility of the vendor's innovation trajectory as the market continues to evolve rapidly toward agentic AI infrastructure, edge federation, and mobility-aware compute.

"The managed edge market has passed its inflection point. AI inference, data sovereignty, and the rising cost of centralized cloud are not future trends — they are active procurement drivers reshaping enterprise infrastructure decisions today. The vendors that will define this market over the next five years are those building platforms where security, compute, networking, and AI are not integrated as an afterthought but designed as a single architectural fabric from the ground up. For enterprise buyers, the question is no longer whether to invest in managed edge — it is which architecture, which operational model, and which vendor partner is best positioned to carry them through a period of rapid and consequential change in how and where compute happens," says Ghassan Abdo, research VP, Worldwide Telecom, IDC.

IDC Market Glance: Korea AI Core Software, 2Q26

Daeil Chun — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides a concise current-state view of Korea’s AI core software market, spanning AI platform and applied AI software, and shows a market that is expanding rapidly, with forecast growth of 58.4% CAGR from 2025 to 2030. The presentation is intended to help business executives, product managers, and analyst relations teams understand how the market is structured, where it is concentrating, and how their organizations fit within the competitive landscape.

The market view highlights a clear shift toward AI platform capabilities, including AI build and deploy, MLOps, foundation models, GenAI life-cycle management, AI governance platforms, agent build and deploy, and agent orchestration. At the same time, applied AI remains relevant across conversational AI, search and knowledge discovery, computer vision, and document AI, with vendors increasingly repositioning around agent integration.

Market Forecast: Event-Driven Automation and Analytics Forecast, 2026–2030

Carlos Gonzalez — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a five-year forecast for the worldwide event stream processing software market and examines the technology, deployment, and operational factors shaping growth through to 2030. Market revenue is forecast to increase from $11.1 billion in 2025 to $35.5 billion in 2030, representing a 26.2% CAGR, as enterprises expand event-driven architectures across application integration, operational analytics, IoT, automation, and agentic AI workloads.

Public cloud will account for most of the new investment, as managed services reduce the complexity of provisioning, scaling, monitoring, and maintaining distributed streaming environments. However, on-premises, edge, and hybrid deployments will remain important where workloads require predictable latency, data sovereignty, security, or direct operational control.

As event streaming becomes part of the runtime foundation for AI and automated decision-making, differentiation will extend beyond throughput and event transport. Enterprises will place greater value on resilient delivery, interoperability, state management, governance, lineage, observability, and the ability to connect real-time events to measurable operational outcomes. Adoption will depend not only on platform capabilities but also on enterprise readiness to redesign applications, establish ownership, and operate event-driven systems reliably at production scale.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Database Management Systems Software Forecast, 2026–2030 — Agentic AI, Multicloud Adoption, and Platform Consolidation Drive Market Growth

Devin Pratt — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides a five-year (2026–2030) forecast of the worldwide database management systems (DBMSs) software market, with estimates by deployment model (public cloud versus on premises), submarket, and region. It examines how agentic AI, multicloud and sovereignty adoption, and platform consolidation are reshaping demand, and identifies the developments database suppliers should track to position for growth across the forecast period.

Database buying has moved up the enterprise, from a technical purchase to an executive priority as AI and data strategy became board-level concerns. The next shift adds a third consumer, the autonomous agent, and suppliers that design for a multiagent world will lead the market through 2030.

“Database buying has moved to the C-suite as data and AI strategy became a board priority. Now, a third consumer enters, the autonomous agent. Suppliers that embed governance, semantic context, and autonomous operations into platforms working across multicloud and sovereign environments will lead through 2030.”— Devin Pratt, research director, Database Systems for Enterprise Intelligence, IDC

Market Share: Worldwide Database Management Systems Software Shares, 2025 — Agentic AI and Vendor Consolidation Reshape Competitive Dynamics

Devin Pratt — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation examines worldwide database management systems (DBMSs) software vendor revenue and market shares for 2025, with the market reaching $107.8 billion, up 15.8% over 2024. It analyzes share and growth across the leading vendors, by deployment model and region, and provides commentary on the competitive dynamics and AI-driven developments shaping the market, along with guidance for technology suppliers.

In 2025, the database market pivoted from adding AI features to operationalizing agentic AI, and growth concentrated among cloud and AI-native vendors that embedded vector retrieval, semantic layers, and autonomous operations as core platform capabilities rather than add-ons. Strategic M&A consolidated the market around integrated platforms supporting converged transactional, analytical, and agentic AI workloads simultaneously.

“The DBMS market expanded as databases became the operational foundation for AI, analytics, and automation. In 2025, leading vendors embedded vector search, autonomous operations, and AI model access directly into core platforms as baseline capabilities, with multicloud and hybrid flexibility and open standards becoming requirements rather than differentiators.” — Devin Pratt, research director, Database Systems for Enterprise Intelligence, IDC

Equinix Horizon 2026: From Interconnection Fabric to AI Infrastructure Orchestrator

Andrew Buss, Matthew Eastwood, Paul Nicholson, Rick Villars, Olga Yashkova — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT