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CrowdStrike Fal.Con 2026: AI Agent and OT Device Security Carry Consequences for Device Management Vendors and Buyers

Phil Hochmuth — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Driven Business Cycle in the Media Industry 2026 Vendor Assessment

Alex Holtz — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study assesses global vendors that enable AI-driven business cycle in the media industry, highlighting the shift from isolated AI features to an agentic orchestration layer spanning business operations, production, distribution, and monetization. The document details market trends, adoption trajectories, vendor strengths and challenges, and strategic recommendations, emphasizing that orchestration architecture, data governance, and outcome-based measurement are now central to competitive advantage and investment decisions for media organizations worldwide.

"In 2026, the media industry's competitive edge won't be defined by isolated AI features, but by the orchestration layer that unifies business operations, production, distribution, and monetization. The question is no longer which tool to buy, but which architecture to anchor your future on. Are you ready to compete at the speed of agentic intelligence?," asks Alex Holtz, research director for Media and Entertainment Digital Strategies at IDC.

中国企业级通用Agent产品技术评估

Zhenya Sun — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本次技术评估报告主要围绕企业级通用Agent的任务执行能力、运行机制和企业级生产能力展开。报告通过对中国市场主要产品开展统一环境实测，并结合产品问卷与现场演示，分析通用Agent的技术发展现状、产品差异与未来演进方向。本次评估重点考察任务表现、成本效率、交互体验、多智能体编排、记忆与工作空间、可观测、安全可控、工具与技能、生态与开放性九个维度，同时分析不同产品的技术路线、Agent Harness、系统连接、部署方式和企业级治理能力，为企业开展产品选型、试点验证和规模化部署提供参考，也为市场理解通用Agent进入企业生产环境所需的任务控制与运行支撑能力提供依据。

IDC研究经理孙振亚：通用Agent正在从单一的对话与内容生成工具，扩展为能够持续执行任务、调用多类工具并连接企业系统的任务入口。未来6—12个月，市场竞争将主要集中在企业级场景能力、复杂任务交付、企业系统连接和组织级治理方面。具备企业级场景交付、稳定任务状态管理、异常恢复、成本治理、组织协同及安全控制能力的产品，将更有机会进入企业核心工作流程，在企业级市场中占据领先地位。

Agentic Orchestration Fills the Chart: Media Networks Reach Maturity in Grocery Retail

Alex Holtz, Ornella Urso, Filippo Battaini, Margot Juros — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines how grocery retail media — the most mature, highest-revenue commerce media vertical IDC has studied — is confronting agentic AI shopping assistants that plan and build a shopper’s cart directly, ahead of the sponsored search inventory that the category has monetized for a decade. Confirmed, disclosed programs at Walmart Connect, Kroger Precision Marketing, Albertsons Media Collective, and Instacart’s Carrot Ads already generate billions of dollars a year through named DSP integrations and clean room infrastructure; Walmart’s Sparky, Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping, and Kroger’s Google Gemini–built assistant are the next front, arriving with no disclosed advertising layer built around them yet. This document details what is confirmed to exist, what remains an open question, and what operators, brand advertisers, agencies, and technology vendors need to do differently over the next 24 months.

“Agentic shopping assistants like Walmart’s Sparky and Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping are built to finish the purchase decision before a sponsored placement ever gets a chance to compete — the same upstream interception challenge we’re already watching AI concierges create in travel, arriving in the one vertical that has monetized shopping the longest,” says Alex Holtz, research director, Worldwide Media and Entertainment Digital Strategies, IDC.

“Grocery retail media didn’t just arrive first — it built the DSP integrations, clean rooms, and identity infrastructure that every other vertical is still trying to replicate. The next test isn’t scale; it’s whether this infrastructure can be extended to cover a cart an AI agent builds before a shopper ever sees a sponsored placement,” says Filippo Battaini, research manager, IDC Retail Insights.

CrowdStrike Fal.Con 2026: AI Agent and OT Device Security Carry Consequences for Device Management Vendors and Buyers

Phil Hochmuth — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This year's news from CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026 skewed, predictably, toward security operations (SecOps) and agentic AI — but the endpoint's expanding definition and role have direct implications for unified endpoint management (UEM), patch management, and IT operations strategy.

Market Share: Worldwide Payroll Management Applications Shares, 2025

Zachary Chertok — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

"In 2025, payroll became a frontier for AI innovation as the segment shifted from legacy, period-end batch processing toward autonomous, real-time payroll systems that enable instant pay access, continuous and "always on" compliance, and error-free transparency. AI-native advancements are changing the characteristics of traditional stickiness in the payroll market." — Zachary Chertok, senior research manager, HCM Applications and Agents, IDC

Motivair by Schneider Electric Analyst Event: Engineering Liquid Cooling and Power for the AI Factory Era

Andrew Buss, Luis Fernandes — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note covers Motivair by Schneider Electric’s analyst event, held July 15 and 16, 2026, in Buffalo, New York, where the company laid out its liquid cooling, 800Vdc power, reference design, and modular datacenter road map for AI factory infrastructure, alongside new metrics for measuring AI efficiency and a deployment case study.

“As AI factories replace traditional datacenters, the winners will not be solely decided by megawatts secured, but by how fast and reliably that power can be turned into usable, AI-ready capacity,” said Luis Fernandes, senior research manager, IDC.

The Agentic Evolution of Enterprise Applications — September 2026 Update

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation illustrates how agentic AI is set to transform enterprise applications over the next 10 years, in terms of how they are designed, delivered, and engaged with by users. The included framework visually depicts the steps and phases through which applications will evolve, along with the expected timing and distributed level of adoption associated with each stage of the journey.

The presentation also breaks down the overall market and shows detail at the individual market level for 18 enterprise applications, including Advertising, Contact Center, Customer Analytics, Customer Service, Digital Commerce, EAM/ALM, Employee Experience, Engineering/R&D, Enterprise Collaboration, ERP, Financials, HCM, Marketing, Procurement, PSA, Salesforce Performance & Productivity, and SCM.

Further, this report projects how application pricing models will evolve by agentic phase, by application market, and across applications as a whole.

市场份额：中国本地部署事务型数据库市场份额，2025

Nan Wang — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

IDC中国企业级软件研究领域研究经理王楠表示："2025年中国本地部署事务型数据库市场实现13.2%的同比增长，市场格局出现标志性转折，国产厂商登上市场份额首位，本土数据库正在从数据库国产化替代的受益者转变为市场增长的主要驱动力。"

IDC Survey: SAP Infrastructure View 2026 — Executive Summary Part 3: SAP Infrastructure Dedicated (On-Premises, Managed Service Provider, and Colocation) Environment Trends

Max Pepper — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey is the third part of the executive summary of IDC’s 2026 SAP Infrastructure BuyerView Survey findings. It examines why and how organizations are running SAP compute and storage in dedicated environments like on premises through managed services providers and colocations. It also looks at deployment costs for servers and storage, including CAPEX and OPEX costs and explores the architecture and hardware choices shaping SAP-certified server installations and SAP storage systems. Finally, it looks at the factors that influence which server and storage vendors organizations choose and why they might consider changing vendors.