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Clock Is Ticking: Broadcom Mainframe Software Addresses Digital Certificate Lifecycle and Post-Quantum Cryptography Risk

Frank Dickson, Emanuel Figueroa — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At its 2026 Analyst Relations Forum, Broadcom Mainframe Software presented a two-part cybersecurity session covering the management of digital certificates on the mainframe and the emerging threat posed by quantum computing to classical cryptographic algorithms. Both topics are gaining urgency simultaneously, and Broadcom is developing new capabilities to help customers mitigate the risk posed by these challenges.

DigitalXForce Launches the Industry’s First Enterprise TRiSCM™ Platform, Redefining Governance, Security, and Trust for the AI and Quantum Era

Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

DigitalXForce has launched the industry’s first Enterprise TRiSCM™ (Trust, Risk, Security, and Compliance Management) platform, introducing a unified operating model for continuous trust assurance across AI, cloud, operational technology, third parties, and emerging quantum threats. The platform converges Automated GRC, Enterprise Security, and Risk Posture Management (ESPRM), AI TRiSCM, and the newly introduced Quantum Risk Operations Center (Q-ROC) into a single intelligence fabric and Continuous Enterprise Trust Operations Layer. As enterprises accelerate AI and quantum adoption, DigitalXForce delivers the autonomous, continuously operating governance architecture that fragmented legacy GRC and security platforms were never designed to provide. IDC views this launch as a meaningful signal of the market’s evolution beyond compliance-oriented governance toward continuous, operationalized digital trust.

IDC Presentation: State of Agentic Commerce in EMEA

Cristiano Quattrini — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation examines the state of agentic commerce in EMEA, with a specific focus on how retailers are moving from broad GenAI experimentation toward more concrete agentic AI deployment and commerce execution in 2026. It highlights that investment momentum is no longer limited to customer-facing AI features, but is expanding across the enabling foundations of agentic commerce, including CDP, CRM, agentic data management, IAM, hybrid architecture, edge capabilities, and retail data security.

The analysis shows that EMEA retailers increasingly view agentic commerce as a data, identity, orchestration, and infrastructure challenge, rather than simply as an AI-powered shopping interface. While investment intentions are strong, execution remains selective and uneven. Most organizations are still operating at mid-level journey orchestration maturity, with the market progressing from AI-assisted discovery and personalization toward more advanced but still selective, autonomous delegation.

The presentation also compares the EMEA, Germany, and the U.K. retail markets in this context. Germany emerges as a market with relatively strong actual agentic AI investment and infrastructure readiness, but a more cautious approach to front-end commerce and CX stack expansion. This suggests a disciplined, staged adoption model focused on data control, governance, product information consistency, and operational resilience. The U.K., by contrast, shows a broader and more aggressive modernization agenda across commerce, CX, and architecture priorities. Overall, the presentation argues that scalable agentic commerce will depend less on isolated AI pilots and more on retailers’ ability to build trusted, secure, real-time, machine-readable commerce environments.

“Agentic commerce in EMEA should not be interpreted as an overnight shift to fully autonomous purchasing. The market is moving through a staged progression, from AI-assisted discovery, service, personalization, and orchestration toward selective delegation of commercial decisions. Retailers that will move fastest are not necessarily those experimenting most visibly with customer-facing agents, but those building the data, identity, security, and architecture foundations required to make autonomous commerce trusted, scalable, and operationally reliable,” said Cristiano Quattrini, senior associate advisor, IDC Retail Insights.

Magnitude Emerges from Stealth to Launch the First Autonomous AI Workforce for Third-Party Risk Management

Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK, Grace Trinidad — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Magnitude has emerged from stealth with $10 million in seed funding to launch the first autonomous AI workforce purpose-built for continuous third-party risk management. Founded by AI and security leaders from Amazon, Abnormal AI, Proofpoint, and Pandora, and backed by Ballistic Ventures, Magnitude deploys AI risk agents that continuously assess vendor risk, govern AI agents, and drive remediation across third- and Nth-party ecosystems at machine speed. As frontier AI models accelerate supply chain threats, Magnitude delivers the autonomous governance and defense capabilities that modern enterprises urgently require.

Microsoft Build 2026: Expanding Azure to Meet Agentic AI Demands

Matthew Flug, Adam Reeves — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Build, the company's annual developer-focused event, took place between June 2^nd and June 3^rd, in San Francisco, CA. At the event, Microsoft reframed its Azure application platform around a single operating assumption: that AI agents are now both a workload to host and an actor that provisions and deploys other workloads. The announcements made at the event follow from that assumption, extending Microsoft's services to AI agents while reducing the effort required to build them.

SAP Acquires Dremio and Prior Labs: How Acquisitions and the Revised API Policy Shift the Value Boundary for SAP Service Providers

Cyrille Chausson — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note analyszes SAP's May 2026 acquisitions of Dremio and Prior Labs, and their combined effect on the data-to-agents value chain in the SAP ecosystem. Viewed in conjunction with SAP's revised April 2026 API policy, the deals reveal a strategy to internalize federation, modelling, and agentic AI orchestration around SAP Business Data Cloud.

ServiceNow Knowledge 2026: The Agentic Enterprise Requires More Than a Platform

Amy Loomis, Ph.D., Melinda-Carol Ballou — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Telia IoT Connect: Sovereign IoT as a 5G Monetization Proof Point in Europe

Alejandro Cadenas — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On May 20, 2026, Telia announced the launch of Telia IoT Connect, a sovereign Internet of Things service where connectivity and data are fully managed within Sweden's borders. The service targets organizations requiring secure, resilient IoT communication for business and mission-critical applications, built on Telia's nationwide 4G and 5G networks and offering a long-term platform for implementing, streamlining, and scaling IoT solutions while reducing dependence on global suppliers. This announcement represents one of the first commercial-grade sovereignty-framed IoT managed services from a European operator explicitly positioned as an alternative to hyperscaler-dependent models. It signals that the European 5G monetization narrative has entered a phase in which sovereignty is no longer a regulatory constraint but a primary commercial value proposition and a differentiator in enterprise sales.

Vodafone FY26 Full Year Results: Steady Progress, Germany Stabilizes

Ahmad Latif Ali — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Camunda Bets on "the Great Reengineering"

Neil Ward-Dutton — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note discusses CamundaCon 2026, held May 19–21 in Amsterdam, where Camunda launched ProcessOS — an AI-powered intelligence layer that adds process discovery, AI-first reengineering, and continuous improvement capabilities to its existing agentic orchestration platform. The event drew 1,200 attendees from 25 countries and featured practitioner sessions from organizations including Barclays, Proximus, Finnova, R-KOM, Danica, and Bouygues Telecom.