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Nokia Divests Enterprise Campus Edge to AURELIUS: A Fresh Start for a Private Wireless Pioneer

Alejandro Cadenas — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On October 13, 2026, Nokia announced the sale of its Enterprise Campus Edge (ECE) business to AURELIUS, a private equity investor focused on carve-outs. ECE comprises Nokia’s private wireless, industrial device, on-premises OT edge and industrial AI application portfolio, serving nearly 900 customers. Closing is expected in 1H27, and financial terms were not disclosed.

The transaction is the culmination of the portfolio review Nokia began in November 2025, when it concluded that campus-scale enterprise solutions, which are integration-heavy and sold through different channels, sat outside its core carrier and mission-critical focus. Private mobile networks are moving into scaled adoption, and a standalone, fully dedicated company can pursue partnerships, go-to-market and execution in ways a division of a large network vendor could not. The key points are continuity of Nokia radio and core relationship, customer support during transition, and speed at which the new owner builds out the industrial AI proposition.

Evolving Agentic Testing: Leveraging SmartBear with User Reference Context

Melinda-Carol Ballou — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective is one in a series of IDC documents examining agentic testing and the use of AI and ML for automated software quality (ASQ), providing vendor analysis and customer reference context for technology adoption and end-user buyer decision-making. This document examines SmartBear’s BearQ agentic testing system and Application Integrity platform, including observations from SmartBear’s product announcements and demonstrations, as well as customer reference conversations with organizations in the healthcare software, global identity security, and financial services sectors. It is intended to support enterprise buyers evaluating software testing tools that incorporate AI, ML, and AI agents, and to provide comparative context alongside IDC’s broader ASQ vendor coverage. We do so in the context of a volatile economy with tariffs, ongoing flexible work, geopolitical upheaval, and unpredictability evolving into 4Q26 and 2027.

“IDC observes adoption of AI and ML for testing, including agentic testing for AI assurance, enabling dynamic execution for high-quality software, innovation, and adaptive responsiveness to dynamically changing environments. Our research shows that around 91% of organizations are piloting, using, or expanding the use of AI for software testing. Key areas of focus include insights into test process improvement, visual testing, test case creation, root cause analysis, test prioritization, and synthetic test data. As code creation increases rapidly with AI use, the role of agentic testing increases dramatically. Organizations prioritize code quality and consistency over development speed as the primary goal for agentic AI tools, and trust in agentic AI is highest for code testing, in which outcomes are observable and verifiable. It is in part due to these trends that IDC has chosen to prioritize this area as one of several areas of focus for a series of end-user-oriented updated vendor analyses that include customer summaries.” — Melinda Ballou, research director, AI Assurance, ALM, Quality, and Portfolio Strategies, IDC

From Connected Assets to Orchestrated Systems: Schneider Electric's Next Move

Jean-François Segalotto, Shahin Hashim — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note shares an overview of how Schneider Electric is evolving its EcoStruxure heritage toward a broader Energy & Industrial Intelligence architecture built around connected physical assets, contextualized data, ontology, reasoning, and AI-assisted orchestration. Cognite is becoming a key technical foundation for this shift, while grid modernization, life-cycle services, hybrid AC/DC systems, and AI datacenters provide early commercialization paths. IDC sees the opportunity as significant, but execution will depend on proving cross-portfolio integration, scalable customer outcomes, security and sovereignty, and the economic value of increasingly autonomous operations.

"Schneider Electric's opportunity is not simply to add AI to an already broad portfolio. The more meaningful shift is the company's attempt to connect physical infrastructure, operational context, software, and life-cycle services into a common intelligence layer that can increasingly coordinate how energy and industrial systems are operated." — Jean-François Segalotto, senior associate advisor, IDC Energy Insights

IDC Market Glance: EMEA AI-Ready Workforce, 3Q26

Leonardo Freitas, Amy Loomis, Ph.D. — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The IDC Market Glance is a taxonomy document intended to visually depict a concise current-state view of the EMEA AI-ready workforce ecosystem. It groups providers into three segments (software, services, and hardware) and nine subsegments that follow the employee life cycle, including talent acquisition, core HR, AI platforms and agents, and governance. This EMEA edition keeps the worldwide structure and definitions and adjusts vendor selection to the region.

IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Corporate Client Life-Cycle Management for Financial Services, 2026 — Technology Supplier Solution Functionality

Sam Abadir — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC ProductScape offers a comprehensive guide on the key functionalities of client life-cycle management for financial services, featuring products from Fenergo, NICE Actimize, Pega, Avaloq, Delta Capita, and EdgeVerve. The status of each functionality is categorized as fully supported, partially supported, partner provided, road map, or not supported, aiding technology purchasers in quickly identifying which vendors align with their changing requirements.

IDC Survey: Worldwide Data Utilization Survey, 2026 — Data Velocity and Retention

Adam Wright — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey details results from IDC's 2026 Worldwide Data Utilization Survey, which was fielded in March 2026. The survey asked respondents about how organizations generate, collect, use, and store digital data. This document focuses on aspects of the survey related to data velocity and retention practices.

"Data is moving faster than ever, but it's being retained on terms set by compliance and caution rather than by value," said Adam Wright, senior research manager, Storage and Data Management, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC. "With 82% of organizations saying they could get more from their data with longer retention, the opportunity is to keep data deliberately, not simply keep more of it."

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Public Cloud Platform as a Service, 2026

Adam Reeves — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the worldwide public cloud platform as a service (PaaS) market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers.

"The public cloud PaaS market has gone through a massive sea change. While in the past, data management held majority of segment-level revenue, now AI core software dominates with a five-year CAGR (2025–2030) of nearly 60% compared to an overall market CAGR of 35%. This market revolution has created opportunities for new vendors to move up the market share table." — Adam Reeves, research director, PaaS for Developers of Modern and Edge Applications, IDC.

Market Forces Reshaping Technology and Partner Ecosystems

Laurie Buczek, Stephen Minton, Rick Villars, Stuart Wilson — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Web Conference looks at how economic uncertainty, changing technology spending, fast-moving AI, and pressure to deliver business results are reshaping the technology industry. It also covers the challenges organizations face, including infrastructure limits, skills gaps, and the rising cost of AI, and explores what these changes mean for partner ecosystems.

Shifting Partner Economics

Vinay Gupta, Danielle Ibran, Brendan Rouse, Andreas Storz, Stuart Wilson — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Web Conference looks at how AI is changing the way partners make money. It covers where value is shifting, how success is measured, and which new commercial models are emerging. Attendees will gain a clearer view of where partner economics are headed and what will drive future success.

AWS for NFL 2026: AI Transformation of the Sports Industry from the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Daeil Chun — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note provides IDC's observations and analysis from AWS' pregame analyst briefing in Melbourne, Australia, ahead of the NFL's first regular-season game in the country, focused on the decade-long AWS-NFL AI/ML partnership and what it reveals about enterprise AI adoption across industries.

"The AWS-NFL partnership shows that professional sports are among the frontrunners of enterprise AI transformation, where controlled experimentation, data readiness, and long-term, industry-specific partnerships translate directly into the success of AI," said Daeil Chun, senior research manager, AI Research at IDC.