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AI-Driven Application Security with Context Intelligence Graph from Cycode

Katie Norton — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Cycode announced the Context Intelligence Graph, expanding its platform to formalize the relationship between security signals, decisions, and their outcomes over time. The approach addresses a critical gap as security moves toward autonomous agents: most platforms record what was found, but few preserve why teams acted the way they did.

IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Enterprise Community Applications, 2025

Wayne Kurtzman — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC ProductScape offers a comprehensive guide on the key functionalities of enterprise community applications, featuring products from Bettermode, Bevy, Circle, Gainsight, Higher Logic, Hivebrite, Jive Software, Khoros, Mighty Networks, Salesforce, Sprinklr, and Verint. 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.

Dynatrace Acquires DevCycle to Integrate Progressive Delivery and Observability

Jim Mercer, Matthew Flug — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

The recent acquisition of DevCycle by Dynatrace reflects a broader shift where observability is moving from passive insight to active control. By combining Dynatrace's AI-powered observability and causal analysis with DevCycle's OpenFeature-native feature management, the company is positioning itself to help customers reduce release risk while sustaining high delivery velocity.

Infrastructure Channels Leadership Council, December 2025 — Rewiring Partnerships in the AI Era

Danielle Ibran — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation from the IDC Infrastructure Channels Leadership Council, held in Palo Alto, California, December 2025, explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping IT market dynamics, partner strategies, and sustainability efforts. Global IT spending remains resilient, driven by the growing importance of AI infrastructure and strong enterprise confidence in future budgets. For partners, the focus is shifting toward profitability, recurring revenue, and differentiation through customer success, AI-enabled service delivery, and industry-specific capabilities. Cloud marketplaces and evolving partner programs are creating new opportunities while complexity and lack of support remain challenges. Sustainability is emerging as a strategic differentiator, with increased investment in sustainable IT infrastructure and software. Despite progress in renewable energy, datacenter energy consumption and carbon emissions continue to rise, highlighting the need for low-carbon solutions. AI-driven transformation, automation, and cloud marketplace evolution will dominate IT strategies, while sustainability and vertical specialization become critical for competitive advantage.

Insurers Are Investing Through Uncertainty, on Their Own Terms

Inci Kaya — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines how insurance carriers are prioritizing technology investment, risk management, and AI adoption amid economic uncertainty, based exclusively on findings from IDC's Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 4. The data explores insurers' expectations around recession risk, IT spending plans, budget priorities, and sentiments on technology risk factors. The study also explores how insurers view agentic AI across the enterprise.

For insurance executives, these findings underscore the importance they place on the ability to operate technology safely and consistently, on their own terms and timeline, rather than from adopting tools fastest.

For technology vendors, the implication is that insurers are seeking partners that can integrate into insurance-specific workflows, provide clear pricing and value propositions, and share accountability for outcomes. Solutions that emphasize governance, phased adoption, and operational fit will align best with how insurance buyers make decisions in 2026 and beyond.

Technology vendors can use this document to:

Understand what features, functionality, or other capabilities are top of mind for insurers.
Identify the optimal way to frame, demonstrate value, and present their offerings to insurers.
Assess where insurers' technology investment priorities lie for the next 18 months.

Technology vendor executives in marketing, sales, and product strategy and other areas can leverage the insight from this document to inform and formulate their approach with buyers in the insurance sector.

The SMB AI Adoption Journey, Part 1: Top Priorities in AI Investment

Elisabeth Clemmons, Katie Evans — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presentation looks at SMBs' top priorities in terms of investment in forward-looking technologies, namely AI and automation. It also provides an overview in terms of employee size, region, digital transformation journey, and vertical. This presentation draws from IDC's February 2025 Worldwide Small and Medium Business Survey.

What Are the Key Expected Outcomes for Enterprises Prioritizing Application Modernization in 2026?

Michele Rosen, PhD — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight presents data from IDC's Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey conducted in November 2025. It analyzes the most important outcomes expected by respondents who indicated that their organizations are prioritizing the modernization of core enterprise applications in 2026.

Excluding PLM, Which SaaS-Based Product Development Applications Are Manufacturers Prioritizing Based on Company Size?

John Snow — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights how manufacturers of different sizes (based on number of employees) are prioritizing various SaaS-based product development applications (not including PLM). The research reflects challenges that product manufacturers face, especially related to developing complex products that incorporate mechanical, electrical, and software components. Overall product manufacturers are increasingly deploying SaaS-based engineering applications to improve collaboration and ensure faster time to market, at lower cost, and with higher quality.

The data in this IDC Survey Spotlight is part of IDC's broader 2025 Product and Service Innovation Survey, which asked a wide range of questions about the challenges, strategies, and opportunities related to improving the development of manufactured products.

Global Partner Survey, 2025: Partner Business Models, Vendor Relationships, and Program Value

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey is based on IDC's 2025 Global Partner Survey and provides insights into partner businesses and priorities. The survey was fielded from August to October 2025 and combines responses from nearly 2,500 senior stakeholders at partner organizations across North America (NA); Latin America (LATAM); Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia/Pacific (AP).

Key themes covered in this data cut include:

Partner firmographics and business models
Business outlook, market conditions, and cloud marketplaces
Vendor relationships and program value

IDC FutureScape: 全球开发者和DevOps 2026年预测——中国启示：成功定位——技术销售和营销领导者的机遇

Bryan Wang — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

本IDC市场演示文稿给出了2026—2031年有关开发者和DevOps的十大预测，描述了影响IT和业务决策者负责该项支出并有效利用相关解决方案的主要驱动因素，并给出了面向技术销售领导者和技术营销领导者的相关建议。