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IDC MarketScape: Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa AI-Enabled Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Applications 2025 Vendor Assessment

Uzair Mujtaba, Harish Dunakhe, Arif Sultan Shiekh — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study thoroughly assesses leading AI-enabled ERP applications in the META region and surfaces the most important criteria for companies to consider when selecting a solution.

“As AI transforms ERP from a system of record into an enterprise-wide decision enabler, the META region stands at a crossroads: Will organizations embrace AI-driven automation and predictive intelligence as a necessity, or risk falling behind in the race for digital transformation? The future of business agility, compliance, and innovation now hinges on how deeply AI is embedded into the workflows that power tomorrow’s enterprises.” — Senior Research Manager Uzair Mujtaba, Software and Cloud, IDC META

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hyperscaler Marketplaces 2025 Vendor Assessment

Nadia Ballard, Frank Della Rosa — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hyperscaler Marketplaces 2025 Vendor Assessment highlights how cloud marketplaces are revolutionizing procurement, enabling organizations to drive greater business value, optimize costs, and accelerate innovation. This document evaluates leading vendors such as Amazon, Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Vultr on their capabilities, strategies, and AI-driven advancements, emphasizing the growing importance of agentic AI, partner ecosystems, and integrated procurement in maximizing ROI and operational efficiency across industries.

"The cloud SP vendors profiled in this IDC MarketScape continue to invest in their respective marketplaces, expanding the range of products and services offered but also improving the user experience for buyers that increasingly include line-of-business and procurement roles, in addition to the traditional IT buyers," said Nadia Ballard, senior research manager, Industry Cloud and SaaS, IDC.

"Cloud marketplaces are no longer just procurement tools — they are strategic growth engines, accelerating innovation, business agility, and AI-driven transformation across every industry," said Frank Della Rosa, research vice president, SaaS, Business Platforms, and Industry Cloud, IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Manufacturing Asset Performance Management 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Sarah Lee, Wai Yee Lee, Gunjan Bassi — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates vendors in worldwide manufacturing asset performance management (APM) for 2025–2026, highlighting how digital transformation, AI, and automation are reshaping manufacturing operations. It assesses vendor capabilities, innovation, and strategic alignment with industry needs, providing guidance for technology buyers on selecting APM solutions that drive operational efficiency, reliability, and resilience across distributed, asset-intensive manufacturing environments. The study emphasizes the importance of domain expertise, integration, and continuous improvement for sustainable business outcomes.

"In a world where manufacturing complexity and digital transformation converge, true competitive edge lies not in assets, but in how intelligently they are managed. Will your organization harness the power of data, AI, and integration to unlock resilience and growth, or risk falling behind in an era defined by operational agility and strategic innovation?" said Sarah Lee, research director, Manufacturing Insights, IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Utilities Asset Performance Management 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

John Villali — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates asset performance management (APM) providers by qualitatively and quantitatively assessing their capabilities and strategies regarding their offerings in the power and utilities industry. With the worldwide perspective, this IDC MarketScape aims to support power and utility organizations in choosing their partners, which aligns with their asset management, asset performance, and asset life-cycle strategies. This IDC MarketScape provides context for power and utilities companies evaluating vendors in this area, examines vendors' comparative success in the marketplace, and looks at how vendor offerings are evolving. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that assesses APM vendors relative to the criteria and highlights the most influential factors for success in this market, both in the short and long term.

"A modernized and data-driven approach to asset performance management is now a strategic imperative for utilities. An advanced APM solution can enable utility and power companies to bridge reliability, sustainability, and digital strategies to ensure resilient and efficient operations," said John Villali, senior research director, IDC Energy Insights.

Smartsheet Unveils Intelligent Work Management Strategy at ENGAGE 2025

Wayne Kurtzman, Melinda-Carol Ballou — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Smartsheet held its 9th annual Smartsheet ENGAGE conference in Seattle, Washington from November 3-6, 2025. Several thousand customers attended the event that highlighted a customer-centric vision with agentic AI as a core enabler. Expanded capabilities include Smartsheet positioning as an intelligent work management platform with AI driven orchestration to unite human expertise with digital agents; increased scale, security, interoperability and governance, and emphasis on business value outcomes (risk reduction, revenue growth, cost savings, specific productivity gains) rather than generic productivity metrics. Key standards and accessibility support underscored Smartsheet's focus on enterprise requirements. Effective keynotes by new CEO Rajeev Singh, recently hired Chief Product Officer Pratima Arora, and relatively new CTO Officer Cynthia Tee coupled with targeted functionality, business and pricing models addressing customer requests allowed the new Smartsheet leadership team to set the tone for the year ahead.

Basware's Third Annual VIP Customer Event Recap: Collaboration, Co-Innovation, and Strategic AI Infusion Are Pillars for Success

Charles Aladesuru — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note summarizes key takeaways from Basware's third annual VIP customer event. It highlights discussions on Basware's AI advances, product road map, customer collaboration, compliance, and its renewed vision for its accounts receivable capabilities.

Dell Technologies Analyst Summit: The Pace of Innovation Is Exponential

Jeff Newton — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note details the Dell Technologies Analyst Summit, which underscored the exponential pace of innovation in AI, compute, networking, and storage, emphasizing the critical role of strategic alliances and a partner-first approach. Dell's strategy centers on ecosystem collaboration, openness, and automation to deliver flexible, end-to-end solutions for enterprises and cloud providers, enabling transformation and operational efficiency. The summit highlighted the importance of integrated management, life-cycle support, and co-innovation to address evolving customer needs and future-proof investments.

Global Partner Survey 2025: North America Infrastructure, Cloud Marketplaces

Danielle Ibran — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the pivotal trends shaping cloud marketplace strategies, including enhanced ecosystem collaboration, mainstream adoption of co-selling, increased focus on marketplace visibility, flexible pricing models, and the evolution of procurement into a strategic function. Together, these trends illustrate how organizations are leveraging marketplace-driven approaches to accelerate growth, foster innovation, and deepen customer engagement in an increasingly competitive digital landscape.

How Do Developers Spend Their Time?

Adam Resnick — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how software developers allocate their time across core development activities, operational tasks, and communication overhead. Survey respondents chose from a list that included coding, software testing, debugging, quality assurance, deployment, meetings, and CI/CD implementation, among other activities. The key finding is that quality verification activities — testing, debugging, and QA — consume substantially more developer time than writing code itself, revealing where productivity tools can deliver the greatest impact. The first slide displays a chart of survey results, while the second slide provides analysis and strategic implications for technology suppliers, particularly those developing AI-assisted development tools.

How to Maximize Employee Adoption of New Tools and Processes

Karen D. Schwartz, Amy Loomis, Ph.D., Gina Smith, PhD, Zachary Chertok — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective explores the challenges organizations can face when they must roll out a new process or technology to improve productivity, reduce costs, or remain competitive. To avoid employee reluctance, resentment, or outright refusal, it's important to take the pulse of employees by understanding their preferences, habits, and dislikes.

By understanding user preferences, habits, and dislikes, companies can get ahead of user adoption issues that can derail important technology and process changes. Using a systematic approach to user adoption — deploying helpful technologies at specific points in the process — can help ensure a smooth transition.

"While employees have no choice but to adopt new processes or technologies if they want to remain employed, they can do a lot of damage by airing negative opinions," says Karen D. Schwartz, adjunct research advisor for IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP). "The best way to avoid negatively impacting morale is to get in front of the issue by understanding employee sentiment, keeping employees in mind during the entire development and testing project, and measuring twice while cutting once."