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Maximizing Engineering ROI: Optimizing DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering to Accelerate Customer-Centric Innovation

Helen Beal — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective outlines how organizations can reduce cognitive overload, enforce compliance, and directly link technical investments to measurable business outcomes while avoiding the pitfalls of toolchain sprawl and AI hype.

CIOs face mounting complexity as DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering (PE) have become mainstream but remain fragmented, increasing cognitive load and impeding business alignment. In 2026, the imperative is to consolidate these frameworks into unified, platform-centric solutions and leverage agentic AI to automate, standardize, and optimize the digital value stream.

“Labels like DevOps or SRE are just operational scaffolding; outcomes are the architecture. Modern CIOs must bridge the ‘context gap,’ ensuring engineering teams understand the ‘why’ of the market, while the C-suite respects the ‘how’ of the stack. Success requires aligning engineering throughput with value stream delivery, ensuring technical health maps to business outcomes,” says Helen Beal, adjunct research advisor for IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP).

OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC): A Scalable Governance Framework for Cyber-Capable AI

Frank Dickson, Grace Trinidad — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

United Arab Emirates AI Perspective — Part 1: The Path Toward Agentic AI

Melih Murat — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation is the first part of two-part series, and it examines the evolution of AI adoption in the United Arab Emirates within the context of the country’s aspiration to become an innovation hub.

Part 1 establishes the foundational context by outlining United Arab Emirates’ digital journey, strategic objectives, and emerging tech-driven innovation focus. It provides a high-level view of AI investment trends, highlighting spending patterns and market direction. The presentation also presents an industry perspective on AI adoption and assesses organizational readiness, governance, and decision-making models shaping AI initiatives. Part 1 concludes with practical recommendations to guide technology solution providers in strengthening AI strategy alignment and investment effectiveness.

Building on the market context established in Part 1, Part 2 focuses on generative and agentic AI (see United Arab Emirates AI Perspective — Part 2: The Path Toward Agentic AI, IDC #META54446226, forthcoming). It examines adoption trends, key use cases, and the challenges associated with scaling these technologies. The presentation also incorporates insights into the solution provider ecosystem, offering a view into partner capabilities, delivery models, and market dynamics. Part 2 concludes with targeted recommendations about effective deployment, ecosystem collaboration, and sustainable value realization from generative and agentic AI investments.

2026年国内AI／データプラットフォームソフトウェア市場マーケット構造とベンダー分析

Yasusuke Suzuki, Takuya Uemura — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内AI（Artificial Intelligence）／データプラットフォームソフトウェア市場を対象に、AIプラットフォーム、アナリティクス、データプラットフォームの融合が市場構造と競争環境に与える影響を分析したものである。特に、AI技術の活用に向けて、データ基盤、分析基盤、AI運用基盤の一体的な整備が重要になっている点と、それに伴うITサプライヤーの事業機会および提供価値の変化に焦点を合わせている。

IDC Japan、Infrastructure, Imaging, and Devicesのリサーチマネージャーである鈴木康介は「国内AI／データプラットフォームソフトウェア市場では、AI、データ、アナリティクスの融合が進む中で、ITサプライヤーの競争軸も大きく変化している。今後は、単体ソリューションの提供力ではなく、顧客の業務成果を起点に、データ基盤、分析基盤、AI運用基盤を統合して設計、実装、運用できる能力が差別化の鍵になる」と述べている。

IDC Market Glance: Location and Geospatial Intelligence, 2Q26

Lynne Schneider — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance offers a current view of the rapidly evolving location and geospatial intelligence market, outlining how the ecosystem is structured across data providers, analytics and visualization capabilities, and enabling platforms and tools. As organizations increasingly embed location intelligence into core business processes, the market is expanding beyond traditional GIS boundaries, incorporating a broader set of technologies, delivery models, and participants that reflect its growing strategic relevance.

“The real power of geospatial intelligence isn’t in how many processes it touches, but in how critical those processes are to the business.” — Lynne Schneider, research director, Location and Geospatial Intelligence, IDC. Understanding this landscape requires looking at how these segments are evolving toward integrated, cloud-native, and continuously updated solutions that enable more accessible, high-impact decision-making.

IDC Survey Spotlight: When Measuring Advertising Effectiveness, to What Extent Do Brands Value Simplicity and Convenience Over Accuracy?

Roger Beharry Lall — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes how convenience trumps accuracy for brands when measuring advertising effectiveness. Marketers say they don't trust platform measurement — yet they keep using it! Based on an April 2025 survey of 100+ U.S. marketing and advertising leaders, this document exposes a growing gap between concerns about bias and the tools brands actually rely on. Discover how convenience is winning over accuracy — and the hidden performance costs in an omni-channel world.

IDC Survey Spotlight: Why Do Companies Choose to Build Versus Buy for Search and Knowledge Discovery?

Amy Machado — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight uses data from IDC's November 2025 State of Content and Knowledge Solutions to understand how organizations are considering building a custom knowledge search solution in-house versus buying a commercial product. Respondents were also asked about the factors that influenced their decisions, including time to market, product support, cost, availability of internal talent, and risk exposure.

IDC's Worldwide Software Taxonomy, 2026

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's software market taxonomy. It serves as the foundation for classification and sizing of the worldwide software market. For 2026, the taxonomy includes 79 individual functional markets grouped within a hierarchy of 20 secondary markets, which in turn aggregate into three primary segments: applications, application development and deployment, and systems infrastructure software. Each of the functional markets is described, with a sample list of representative software vendors and products.

"IDC's software taxonomy represents a comprehensive classification of the worldwide software marketplace," said Rasmus Andsbjerg, vice president, Public Cloud Services and Software Trackers at IDC. "It continues to be the premier source for defining and categorizing commercial software and the basis for IDC market sizing and forecast data products such as trackers and spending guides."

Infor Analyst Innovation Summit 2026: Delivering the Agentic Enterprise

Mickey North Rizza — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Infor held its 2026 Analyst Innovation Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 14 and 15. The innovation summit showcased Infor's journey from 2025 well into 2026, with particular emphasis on the customer agentic AI journey and the Infor products and ecosystem partners that are helping their clients become an agentic enterprise.

Japan DevOps Software Forecast, 2026–2030

Shinichi Kimura — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the 2025 market size and market forecast through 2030 for the Japan DevOps software market, broken down by functional market and by delivery model. It also analyzes the drivers and inhibitors of market growth and key market context, presenting directions, growth opportunities, and recommended actions for IT suppliers as they develop their future strategies.

Across all industrial sectors, digital business initiatives are advancing and accelerating the development and release cycles of the applications that form the foundation of these operations, as well as delivering value through software while maintaining and enhancing quality. These challenges have become critical management priorities that determine a company's competitive advantage. Against this backdrop, an increasing number of companies are adopting DevOps initiatives to transform traditional development and operations processes and structures that hinder software delivery.

Shinichi Kimura, research manager for Software, Services, and IT Spending at IDC Japan, says, "Demand for software that underpins the DevOps practices of enterprises and organizations continues to show solid, sustained growth. In recent years, initiatives to integrate generative AI into DevOps pipelines to further automate and advance software delivery have been gaining real momentum, and the DevOps software market is expected to enter a new phase of growth."

This is the English translation of the Japanese document (IDC #JPJ53499826).