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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Oil and Gas AI-Enabled Enterprise Asset Management 2026 Vendor Assessment

Gaurav Verma — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study evaluates enterprise asset management (EAM) providers by qualitatively and quantitatively assessing their capabilities and strategies regarding their offerings across all value-chain segments of the O&G industry. With a global perspective, it aims to support O&G organizations in selecting EAM partners for their asset life-cycle management journeys. It provides context for O&G companies evaluating vendors in the EAM 'space, examines vendors' comparative success in the marketplace, and examines how vendor offerings are evolving. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that assesses vendors relative to the criteria, and it highlights the most influential factors for success in this market in the short and long terms.

"More than just an experimental add-on, AI, generative AI (GenAI), and agentic AI are increasingly shaping how the operational assets are monitored, maintained, and optimized across the O&G value chain. In this environment, EAM platforms are evolving from a static system of records into a dynamic intelligence layer that underpins both operational excellence and the energy transition," said Gaurav Verma, research director, IDC Energy Insights.

F5 Launches Managed Cloud-Native ADC as a Service on Google Cloud

Jim Mercer — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

F5 has announced the general availability of F5 NGINXaaS on the Google Cloud, a fully managed, cloud-native application delivery controller as a service (ADCaaS) powered by F5 NGINX Plus and developed in close collaboration with Google Cloud. An application delivery controller (ADC) sits between clients and application servers to optimize performance by managing traffic flow through load balancing and acceleration techniques. This new offering from F5 is designed to address gaps between native cloud load-balancing services and the advanced requirements of modern, highly distributed, and increasingly AI-enabled applications.

IDC Market Glance: EMEA Healthcare Provider Clinical IT Solutions, 1Q26

Silvia Piai — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance is a taxonomy document intended to visually depict a concise current-state view of the healthcare provider clinical IT solutions market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). It reflects available market information as of December 2025 and highlights key segments, including clinical documentation and workflow, digital patient engagement and experience, and ancillary clinical IT solutions.

Business executives, product managers, and market insights or analyst relations professionals can use this information to understand the structure of the overall market or ecosystem, enabling them to assess market, business, and partnership opportunities and helping them to identify how their organization fits into the competitive landscape.

Market Glance content is current as of the date it is published. The representative content in this presentation provides a qualitative snapshot that is regularly refreshed. Company logos are illustrative only and do not represent an exhaustive view of a market.

"EMEA healthcare remains an attractive growth market, but clinical IT is entering a decisive transition: A still-fragmented, country-driven vendor landscape is being reshaped by platform-led consolidation, active M&A, and AI-enabled digital front doors. As large EHR players expand from core records into virtual wards and patient engagement, midtier local vendors face a strategic crossroads: They must align with emerging platforms and differentiate on data, workflow, and experience, or risk being squeezed out by global suites and focused cloud-native challengers," says Research Director Silvia Piai, IDC Health Insights.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Certificate Lifecycle Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment

Jennifer Glenn — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides an overview of certificate lifecycle management software. Certificate lifecycle management is getting more executive attention with PQC on the horizon. However, practitioners are currently focused on more immediate challenges such as shortened TLS lifecycles. Buyers are looking for ways to get a handle on increasing certificate volume — a move that can help prepare the organization to handle both transitions. Vendors in the space have the tools and approaches to help customers achieve their desired outcomes for automation and compliance preparedness. These vendors need to work closely with their existing customers to identify and invest in capabilities that help attract and retain new customers.

"Certificate expiration–related outages continue to challenge enterprises of all sizes. This becomes an operational and business-level issue that will only get worse with shrinking TLS lifecycles and the transition to PQC," said Jennifer Glenn, research director for IDC's Security and Trust Group. "Vendors in this space need to meet customers wherever they are in their certificate management journey. At the same time, these vendors will need to clearly demonstrate how their capabilities are uniquely designed to help customers demonstrate technology and business value in the long term."

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Applications 2026 Vendor Assessment

Megha Kumar — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of worldwide enterprise planning, forecasting, and budgeting vendors through the IDC MarketScape model. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that assesses vendors relative to the criteria and one another. The study highlights the factors expected to be the most influential for technology buyers as they seek to modernize or automate their financial planning and analysis and integrated planning processes within their organization. This assessment can be used to help define a short list of vendors.

"As organizations shift toward continuous, data-driven planning, enterprise planning, forecasting, and budgeting applications are becoming the backbone of financial resilience. The ability to pair GenAI and agentic workflows with trusted, governed data will help drive accuracy, consistency, and continuous insights that will allow organizations to navigate economic uncertainty more effectively," said Megha Kumar, research vice president, Analytics and AI, IDC.

Procurement Application Predictions for 2026

Patrick Reymann — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note reviews IDC's 2025 procurement application predictions and sets out key forecasts for 2026.

国内ローコード／ノーコード／インテリジェント開発テクノロジー市場シェア、2024年：AIによる開発テクノロジーの進化と新たな市場競争環境の形成

Shinichi Kimura — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

ローコード／ノーコード開発プラットフォームを提供する主要なベンダーは、AI（Artificial Intelligence）エージェントの構築・展開・運用を支援するための機能強化を加速している。また、AIエージェントを構築、運用するためのプラットフォームには、クラウドサービスプロバイダーや、エンタープライズアプリケーションベンダー、データプラットフォームベンダー、AIネイティブの新興ベンダー、さらには、SIer（Systems Integrator）やコンサルティングファームなど、多様なITサプライヤーが参入しており、新たな競争市場が形成されつつある。

IDC Japan、Software & Servicesのリサーチマネージャーである木村伸一は、「多くのユーザー企業がAIへの投資を加速し、AIエージェント／エージェンティックAIの導入・活用に向けた取り組みを進めている。一方で、実務レベルでAIエージェント／エージェンティックAIによるビジネス効果を得られている企業は限定的である。ITサプライヤーは、成果に基づくビジネスモデルの導入、明確なベースラインの策定、効果測定プロセスの透明化、継続的な価値追跡などを通して、顧客のビジネス成果創出に向けたコミットメントを示すことが重要となる」と述べている。

Konica Minolta High Velocity Dealer Summit: Charting a Course to Market Leadership

Robert Palmer — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

During its 2026 High Velocity Dealer Summit, held January 12–14 in Palm Beach, Florida, Konica Minolta brought together key executives and representatives from approximately 60 dealers. The event provided a platform for the company to highlight a strategic pivot at a time when the print and imaging industry continues to face contraction, economic volatility, and evolving customer demands. Rather than focusing on defensive measures and cost management, Konica Minolta's leadership made it clear that the company is moving toward proactive, AI-enabled growth, with new operational models, product innovations, and channel programs designed to capture market share, drive service revenue, and enable dealer resilience.

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2026 Predictions — Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Implications: Positioning for Success — Opportunities for Tech Sales and Marketing Leaders

Daniel-Zoe Jimenez, Linus Lai — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC FutureScape presents the top 10 predictions set to define CIO agendas in the coming years, highlighting key challenges, strategic priorities, and the evolving role of the CIO in driving organizational success. It offers guidance for sales and marketing teams on how to keep customers engaged and differentiate their solutions in the light of many options in the market

"The next era of technology leadership demands that CIOs and their partners move beyond incremental change — embracing unified digital architectures, orchestrating AI-human collaboration, and embedding governance at every layer. Success will hinge on the ability to co-innovate across business and IT, proactively address emerging risks from quantum to compliance, and drive measurable value at scale across the enterprise as it embraces Agentic AI capabilities. In this landscape, tech suppliers who act as strategic advisors will define the competitive frontier," says Linus Lai, GVP IDC.

IDC PlanScape: DevSecOps/Outsourced SOC Integration

Christopher Tozzi — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC PlanScape offers guidance on how organizations can integrate outsourced security services seamlessly with internal DevSecOps tools, platforms, and teams. Specifically, it details the challenges that commonly arise for customers of outsourced security services providers, as well as actionable tactics and strategies for mitigating those difficulties as part of a holistic DevSecOps strategy that draws on internal and external cybersecurity resources to full effect.

"Outsourcing the SOC and other security functions can solve many operational challenges in areas such as cybersecurity hiring and scalability," says Christopher Tozzi, adjunct research advisor with IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP). "But it also creates new difficulties, especially when it comes to connecting external security teams, tools, and dataflows to a company's internal DevSecOps assets."