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IDC Survey: Software Development and Application Modernization Survey

Matthew Flug — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines how organizations approach legacy application modernization and the role AI and agentic AI tools play in that process. Based on IDC's 2026 Software Development and Application Modernization Survey surveying software developers and development and engineering leaders worldwide, agentic AI has reached parity with established, non-agentic AI tooling in modernization work today, even as trust and governance concerns, not budget, remain the binding constraint on broader adoption. Legacy modernization itself is a near-universal near-term priority, and organizations consistently prioritize durable quality, maintainability, and scalability over speed or cost when applying AI to that work.

IDC's Worldwide Global Capability Center Services Taxonomy, 2026

Sreenivas Duvvuri Venkata — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Global Capability Center (GCC) Services Taxonomy. GCC services describe the third-party services an enterprise engages to plan, establish, operate on a transitional basis, and mature an enterprise-owned, insourced capability center. In this study, GCC services draws on multiple foundation and competitive service markets and is intended to be applied through an extraction approach rather than treated as a standalone foundation market. The qualifying test is that a service builds, transforms, or enables a capability the client owns and insources, or runs a center under an arrangement that carries a transfer option.

This IDC Taxonomy establishes qualification criteria for GCC services. It also defines boundaries and exclusions to preserve the insourcing-versus-outsourcing distinction by excluding business process outsourcing (BPO), managed, and professional services delivered and owned entirely by a provider, and staff augmentation with no transfer intent. It organizes the market into four segments, namely advisory, build, run, and transform. Three horizontal layers cut across all four segments: the functions a center supports, the engagement and operating models that structure the work, and the provider-owned platforms, accelerators, agents, and reusable IP that enable it.

The study also includes service-level definitions, buyer and policy-maker context, and segment-level guidance to support consistent application of the taxonomy across services domains and to underpin future IDC research and extraction-based sizing.

"The GCC services market is being reshaped by three forces: agentic technology, a reset of GCC mandates, and rising expectations of value. What makes the market distinctive is that providers are paid to build capability the client will ultimately own and run itself," said Sreenivas Duvvuri Venkata, senior research analyst, Worldwide Global Capability Center and Agentic Business Process Outsourcing Services at IDC. "Transfer intent is a critical element of this IDC Taxonomy, and it is what separates GCC services from outsourcing. As agentic AI resets the head count logic that built the captive model, buyers and providers need a shared vocabulary for what is actually being bought."

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Data Integration and Intelligence Software, 2026

Stewart Bond — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the worldwide data integration and intelligence software market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers.

"The data integration and intelligence market is shifting from tooling consolidation to runtime intelligence, as GenAI and agentic AI push data quality, lineage, and governance to the center of every AI initiative," said Stewart Bond, research VP, Data Intelligence and Integration Software, IDC. "Vendors that build trustworthy context and open interoperability into their platforms will make it easier to embed that context directly into agentic workflows, delivering better outcomes for buyers as programs move from pilot to production."

Red Hat AI 3.5 Extends AI Governance and Cost Controls Across Hybrid Infrastructure

Matthew Flug — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Red Hat has released Red Hat AI 3.5, an update to its AI portfolio centered on pre-deployment safety verification, resource controls for shared GPU infrastructure, agentic operations, multi-tenancy, and native observability with token-level cost attribution. The release reflects a change in what buyers expect from AI platforms, as the operational discipline applied to production infrastructure now governs how AI workloads are evaluated, isolated, and managed.

SafeMind and the Agentic SOC: CrowdStrike's Bet on AI Defense

Michelle Abraham — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At Fal.Con 2026, CrowdStrike positioned AI as both an adversary and a means of defense, introducing SafeMind's paired offense-defense models and an expanded agentic SOC vision built around Charlotte AI and the Enterprise Graph. IDC finds the vision compelling but early: most organizations have yet to deploy AI agents in production SOC workflows, and the data foundation, process documentation, and false-positive tuning needed to support autonomous investigation remain works in progress for the broader market.

Engineering Intelligence at L&T Technology Services: Production Grade AI Across Engineering, Product, Manufacturing, and Operations

Mukesh Dialani — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Vendor Profile examines what L&T Technology Services' (LTTS') "Engineering Intelligence" (EI) approach means in practice, how LTTS has operationalized it across four strategic pillars and a six-layer architecture, and why this approach is likely to redefine the competitive dynamics of product engineering services offered by LTTS over the next three to five years.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Employee Experience — Learning Experience Management 2026 Vendor Assessment

Zachary Chertok, Leonardo Freitas — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study includes analysis of 13 technology providers with large and emerging positions in the LXM, AI coaching, and integrated performative skills markets as referenced from IDC’s Software Tracker. In today’s learning ecosystems, LXM is no longer unidirectional toward driving engagement in prescribed learning tracks from managers to employees. LXM is transforming the learning and development (L&D) environment to be an omnidirectional source of insights. Managing and driving learning experiences now facilitates curated readiness that coalesces employee aptitudes and interests into agglomerated career paths whose journeys through growth milestones are continuously aligned to the capacity of the organization to facilitate them while accounting for its evolving skills needs.

“Learning experience management is evolving as organizations zoom in on skills deficits and leverage skills apart from roles to continuously optimize how employees contribute to outcomes,” says Zachary Chertok, research director for HCM Applications and Agents at IDC. “Advances in LXM are extending in the front end to AI coaching, simulative training, and agentic content curation from institutional knowledge sets. In the back end, insights-driven guidance for content creation and curation is evolving into agentic design, configuration, and behavioral curation as learning environments embed and form the basis for performative value contributions at work.”

Market Share: Worldwide Facility Management Applications Shares, 2025 — Growth Continues as AI Impacts the Market

Brian O'Rourke — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation examines the 2025 market shares of the leading vendors in the facility management applications market.

"Facility management applications, which cover both operations and planning, continue to outgrow the broader asset management category of which they are a part. As GenAI and agentic AI advance, automation will expand across work order management, field support, space planning, and lease administration, though humans will remain in the loop for now." — Brian O'Rourke, research manager, AI-Enabled Enterprise Asset Management and Smart Facilities Strategies, IDC

市场份额：中国制造业制造执行系统（MES）软件市场份额，2025：增速换挡，智能驱动

Yanze Du — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究分析了2025年中国MES市场中领先供应商的市场份额。

研究同时持续跟踪MES软件即服务（SaaS）、八大细分行业MES解决方案两类市场开展统计，明确不同市场的收入统计口径，量化各赛道厂商竞争格局。

IDC中国制造业行业研究高级研究经理杜雁泽表示：“2025年中国MES软件市场同比增长8.3%，在工业软件细分赛道中保持稳健增长，但增速较上年明显回落，市场从高速扩张转向存量深耕。AI正成为重塑竞争格局的长期变量，MES作为生产执行的核心数据底座，正成为各类工业智能体（Agent）调用的基础能力，是否支持命令行接口（CLI）、内置智能体等开放能力成为厂商差异化竞争的关键，推动MES从生产执行工具向智能制造操作系统升级。”

Enterprise IT Highlights from Apple's September Launch Event: A Foldable iPhone and the Official Release of Apple's New Device Management Framework

Phil Hochmuth — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Apple, at its much-hyped September 9 event, unveiled its fall hardware lineup, led by the foldable iPhone Duo, as well as new iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods. The company also confirmed that iOS 27 will be available on Monday, September 14, 2026, for existing supported iPhones. While the iPhone Duo holds potential for many business use cases, new management frameworks underlying iOS 27 are what enterprise IT teams should be paying attention to, more than any single piece of hardware announced at the event. Significant changes are coming to how Apple devices are managed, secured, and governed, with repercussions across the entire corporate managed-device installed base — from the brand-new foldable to a three-year-old iPhone already in an employee's pocket (the moment IT allows the update through MDM/UEM).