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Cell and Gene Therapy Orchestration Solutions

Nimita Limaye — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective frames CGT’s “batch size of one” reality and positions orchestration as the workflow integration/control layer needed to scale autologous patient-product-patient operations. It spotlights the critical challenges, ensuring a secure COI/COC across a multi-enterprise network, constraint-heavy scheduling, interoperability across MES/LIMS/QMS/ERP and partner systems, and GxP-ready governance/auditability. It identifies specific use cases where AI can add value, along with the challenges. It provides practical buyer guidance and KPIs for CGT orchestration solutions.

“The future of precision medicine runs on CGT orchestration solutions: smart execution layers that connect manufacturing, QC, and cryologistics. They digitize COI/COC across the patient-product life cycle, compress vein-to-vein timelines, and optimize clinical outcomes,” said Dr. Nimita Limaye, research vice president, Life Sciences R&D Strategy and Technology, IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide API Management 2026 Vendor Assessment

Shari Lava — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study on worldwide API management for 2026 highlights a rapidly evolving market driven by multiple factors of AI business transformation in a hybrid and multicloud world. API management solutions are increasingly central to AI enablement, software development, and enterprise integration, powering modern applications and serving as the backbone for agentic orchestration. Vendors are expanding capabilities to address API sprawl, unify governance, and support event-driven architectures, with public cloud services outpacing on-premises adoption. The market is projected to grow at a 14.1% CAGR, reaching $42 billion by 2029. Buyers face persistent challenges with fragmented integration, security, and legacy system modernization, while observability, reliability, and AI-powered automation are the most sought-after features. As regulatory and sovereign AI requirements emerge, flexible deployment and robust governance will be critical for future API strategies.

According to Shari Lava, group vice president, AI, Data, and Automation, "API management is no longer just about securing and publishing APIs — it is the foundation for AI enablement, software development, and connectivity. As enterprises shift toward hybrid and multicloud architectures, the ability to unify governance, automate life-cycle management, and expose APIs as agent-ready tools will define market leaders. The winners in this space will be those that deliver robust, federated platforms that support both legacy modernization and rapid AI innovation, enabling organizations to maximize API reuse, security, and operational excellence."

IDC Survey Spotlight: Are Organizations Investing in Tariff Management Solutions?

Megha Kumar — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight presents findings from IDC's October 2025 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 8, on whether organizations are investing in tariff management solutions. It covers 890 organizations across the globe.

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Are Semantic Models/Layers Shaping Business Intelligence and Analytics Solutions in the Era of GenAI/AI Agents?

Megha Kumar — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight presents findings from IDC’s 2025 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, wave 8, on the role of semantic models/layers within business intelligence and analytics solutions as organizations deploy GenAI/AI agents. The survey covered 890 organizations across the globe.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Are the Top Business Concerns or Initiatives Your Facility Management Application Is Meant to Address?

Brian O'Rourke — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight discusses the top business concerns or initiatives that facility management (FM) applications customers wish to address with their software.

The data shown in this document comes from IDC's April 2025 SaaSPath Survey. It queried 2,875 total organizations, with 125 respondents to FM queries. The survey was used to identify what is driving organizations' decisions to select and invest in enterprise SaaS applications.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Comes After Adoption to Drive FinOps at Scale?

Jevin Jensen — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the evolving role of FinOps in large enterprises and how expectations for AI capabilities within FinOps tools are changing. As FinOps adoption reaches new levels, shifts in how organizations evaluate supporting technologies signal a broader transition in market priorities. These developments highlight a move toward greater operational discipline and raise important questions about how vendors should position and evolve their FinOps strategies.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Motivates Enterprises to Adopt Low-Code/No-Code Platforms for Augmenting Software Product and Platform Engineering Services Engagements?

Abhishek Mukherjee — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight outlines the main factors driving enterprise adoption of low-code/no-code (LCNC) platforms in software product and platform engineering (SPE) services: cost-efficient scalability, reduced reliance on developers, and embedded AI capabilities that democratize development and establish LCNC as foundational to modern SPE services strategies.

Trends in Web + API Compute

Rob Tiffany — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines trends in web and API compute. The managed, source-deploy PaaS market for web applications and REST APIs is at an inflection point shaped by four converging trends including the elevation of REST APIs to enterprise integration backbone, the embedding of AI capabilities into web application architecture, the rise of container-based platforms that are gradually encroaching on source-deploy territory, and a widening divergence between consumption-based and instance-based pricing models. For technology buyers, the critical actions are to audit API traffic patterns before committing to a pricing model, evaluate AI integration depth as a near-term platform differentiator, and build applications with portable patterns that provide insurance against the inevitable platform shifts ahead.

“The days of treating web app hosting as a commodity infrastructure decision are over. REST APIs now carry the weight of enterprise integration strategies, and AI is being woven into application logic at a pace that makes platform proximity to AI services a genuine competitive factor,” explains Rob Tiffany, research director, Cloud and Infrastructure Services at IDC. “The real question is which platform positions your web applications and APIs to absorb the next wave of architectural change, whether that’s AI-enhanced endpoints, consumption-based economics, or the eventual migration to container-based deployment without forcing a rewrite.”

AI Advisors, Agents and the Future of ALM: Is Market Demand Outpacing Vendor Supply?

Brian O'Rourke — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective highlights the ALM market, which is rapidly embracing GenAI and emerging agentic AI, with strong user adoption driven by predictive maintenance gains and unmet demand for embedded, domain-specific AI capabilities within ALM platforms.

"IDC global survey data indicates that generative and agentic AI solutions were being used by ALM applications customers in the first half of 2025, even though no embedded solutions were available in the market at that time; so the market for embedded applications for both GenAI and agentic AI should be strong." — Brian O'Rourke, research manager, Enterprise Asset Management and Smart Facilities, IDC

Accelerating Enterprise Transformation Through Data, Analytics, and AI

Deepika Giri, Shashank Nigam — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights how Asia/Pacific enterprises are accelerating transformation through data, analytics, and AI. Market growth is driven by rapid GenAI adoption, cloud-native architectures, and resilient investment in analytics despite cost pressures. Organizations prioritize data intelligence, robust governance, and talent upskilling to unlock scalable AI impact. Strategic recommendations emphasize leading with data excellence, security, and workforce development to overcome challenges and deliver measurable business outcomes.

"AI success is powered by rigorous data management and strategic talent development. Enterprises that prioritize data quality, robust governance, and continuous upskilling will unlock transformative innovation and secure lasting competitive leadership in the dynamic digital landscape," says Shashank Nigam, senior research manager on AI, IDC Asia/Pacific.