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Don't Judge a Beach by Its Shoreline: Saviynt's Zuma and the Real Test for AI Agents

Emanuel Figueroa — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

HPE 3Q 2026 Results: Building Momentum Across the AI Infrastructure Stack

Matthew Eastwood — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Market Forecast: EMEA Enterprise Resource Management Applications Software Forecast, 2026–2030

Bo Lykkegaard — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for the enterprise resource management (ERM) applications software market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

“The agentic AI is a golden opportunity for back-office application vendors to add more value for their customers. IDC research shows that customers are looking to their SaaS application providers for AI-related automation and insights. The application vendors own the data and process context, which is crucial for AI to deliver high-quality and reliable results.” — Bo Lykkegaard, associate VP, Software Research Europe, IDC.

Navigating Programmatic Convergence: How Brands Should Invest as Holdcos, Platforms, and Services Collapse

Roger Beharry Lall — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective reframes the programmatic buying decision for a market in which the old categories no longer hold. Demand and supply platforms are merging, retail data and streaming inventory are arriving as a single product, holding companies are operating as technology platforms, and services firms are building agentic delivery of their own. A brand that once asked which category to buy now faces a different question: How to design the path its budget travels, who it transacts with, how many intermediaries sit between spend and impression, who owns the data behind the decision, and whose software acts on its behalf? This document maps the boundaries that are dissolving, replaces category selection with a small set of recurring decisions, and frames advertising technology as an enterprise choice that the CMO, CIO, and CFO make together, rather than a media line item marketing settles alone. AI runs underneath all of it as the accelerant, compressing intermediaries and turning proprietary identity data into a durable advantage. The through line is that convergence buys efficiency and costs independence in the same motion, and the brands that come out ahead are the ones that keep re-deciding the trade rather than settling it once.

“The question is no longer which platform to buy, because the platforms are becoming one another. It’s how to design the path a budget travels, and to keep the right to change this path when the market shifts under you,” says Roger Beharry Lall, research director, Advertising Technologies and SMB Marketing Applications at IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Datacenter Facilities Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment

Luis Fernandes, Mary Johnston Turner — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study leverages the IDC MarketScape methodology to evaluate several major datacenter facilities management software providers worldwide. IDC identified a plethora of significant players in this market and analyzed their current offerings as well as planned updates.

"Gaps in monitoring, automation, and orchestration constitute a major hindrance in today's management of datacenter facilities," according to Luis Fernandes, senior research manager, Cloud and Datacenter Research at IDC. "By choosing a best-in-class software solution to manage their datacenter facilities, IT and OT managers are effectively choosing a path of less resistance, with fewer instances of unforeseen incidents which, in turn, lead to overall better human resource management, reduced total cost of ownership, and less unplanned downtime."

IDC Survey: SAP Infrastructure View 2026 — Executive Summary Pt 1: SAP Infrastructure Landscape and SAP HANA Trends

Max Pepper — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey is the first part of the executive summary of IDC’s 2026 SAP Infrastructure BuyerView Survey findings. It explores the complexity organizations face in managing SAP’s evolving product demands and how that and other factors impact SAP deployments and infrastructure requirements. The survey examines where SAP workloads run today and how that’s shifting, including a detailed analysis of ERP and data management trends. Finally, the survey examines SAP HANA migration trends and deployment characteristics.

Market Analysis Perspective: 中国软件定义存储市场，2025

Yunxu Yang, William Zhang — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本IDC市场分析观点（MAP）报告剖析了中国软件定义存储（SDS）市场的现状与未来发展走势。报告涵盖当前市场格局概述、技术采购方视角分析、市场未来展望，以及IDC针对该市场内技术服务商提供的专业建议。

IDC中国企业级存储市场研究经理杨昀煦表示："2025年全球行业采购重心全面向AI场景倾斜。在中国，依托AI训练等场景发展的中国软件定义存储市场实现高速增长。三大传统核心行业仍是SDS市场基本盘；与之相对，汽车制造、高等院校科研、轨道交通等AI新兴赋能赛道增速远超大盘，成为2025年SDS市场核心增长引擎。2025年中国软件定义存储市场同比增长11.5%。能源、交通、制造等传统行业持续落地数据湖业务，将持续带动市场稳健增长；随着各类AI应用落地铺开，SDS市场增长具备长期确定性。"

Market Forecast: EMEA Financial Applications Forecast, 2026–2030

Bo Lykkegaard — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation presents the five-year forecast for the EMEA financial applications market.

“Regulatory change is doing more to drive financial application investment in EMEA right now than efficiency arguments alone ever could. The open question is whether vendors can convert that compliance-driven spending into durable adoption of agentic capabilities in financial close and forecasting, rather than one-off projects that end once the regulatory deadline passes,” says Bo Lykkegaard, Associate VP, Software Research Europe, IDC.

Market Share: Worldwide Archiving Software Shares, 2025

Johnny Yu — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

"The role of archiving software has shifted from a passive compliance requirement to something more proactive. AI capabilities enable archiving software to quickly surface risky emails, chats, and calls, detecting timely compliance risks and delivering speedy insight," said Johnny Yu, research manager, Infrastructure Software Platforms and Core Infrastructure at IDC.

Anthropic and Salesforce: AI and CRM Join Forces

Tim Law, Shari Lava, Neil Ward-Dutton, Max Pepper — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce. This new partnership launches with Salesforce in Claude, a plugin available to select pilot customers now, with open beta expected in September 2026. It signals a shift in the AI partner ecosystem, where large enterprise application providers combine with AI models to leverage deterministic, trusted enterprise applications alongside the power of nondeterministic AI models and natural language interfaces. It also solidifies Anthropic's focus on bringing frontier reasoning and intelligence to commercial enterprises by collaborating with large enterprise systems of record.