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Acumatica Summit 2026: Bringing to Life AI-powered ERP, Transformation, and Human Innovation for Real-world SMB Results

Mickey North Rizza — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Acumatica held its annual Acumatica Summit in Seattle, Washington January 25-28^th, 2026. The summit hosted more than 3,000 Acumatica community members, including customers, partners, analysts and media. The event focused on Small and Medium businesses (SMBs) in the manufacturing, retail, distribution, professional services, and construction industries.

Does Cloud-Native Technology Allow Organizations to Be More Innovative with Business Application Workload Functionality Like SAP ERP?

Max Pepper — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes the impact of native cloud capability on supporting innovation around ERP workloads, looking specifically at SAP ERP functionality. This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at the impact both on a worldwide and on a regional level and delves into how this reflects the growth in spending on infrastructure supporting cloud-native applications and SAP's product strategy. These insights come from respondents to IDC's 2025 SAP Infrastructure View Survey, published in May 2025.

EMEA Partners in 2026: Becoming AI Centric to Stay Relevant and Profitable

Stuart Wilson — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note examines how EMEA partners can become AI centric in 2026, focusing on service opportunities, ecosystem complexity, and the skills required to succeed. It also addresses the delicate balance between maximizing vendor incentives and maintaining customer trust, explains why multiple partner archetypes will coexist within collaborative ecosystems, and links partner transformation to top business priorities and market dynamics.

EMEA partners in 2026 face a dual imperative: remain relevant to customers and vendors while building profitable, scalable models. This requires a mindset shift from vendor specialist to ecosystem architect, underpinned by AI-centric services, compliance expertise, and IP-led differentiation. Those who embrace orchestration and co-selling, while maintaining trust and collaborating within ecosystems, will dominate the next wave of enterprise transformation — especially as investment and consolidation reshape the partner landscape. Success will ultimately hinge on a cultural shift toward relationship-led engagement, enabling partners to deliver long-term value and better customer outcomes.

IDC's Worldwide Global DataSphere Taxonomy, 2026

Adam Wright — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study defines and provides a framework for analyzing the worldwide creation, capture, replication, and consumption of data.

"Data is now generated by billions of devices and increasingly shaped by AI-driven workloads, creating a landscape that is broader and more complex than ever," says Adam Wright, research manager for IDC's Global DataSphere and Global StorageSphere. "The 2026 Global DataSphere taxonomy distills this complexity into a coherent framework that helps organizations understand the sources and implications of global data creation."

OpenText World 2025: DevOps with AI-Powered Quality and Compliance

Jim Mercer — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note summarizes the key announcements from the OpenText World 2025 event. OpenText World 2025 showcased the company's AI-first DevOps Cloud, emphasizing integrated AI-driven quality, compliance, and platform consolidation. The OpenText approach embeds compliance and predictive analytics throughout the software life cycle, positioning it as a high-governance solution for regulated enterprises seeking to modernize DevOps, reduce risk, and accelerate delivery.

Qubits26: D-Wave Enables Near-Term Quantum Value with a Path to Fault-Tolerant Systems

Heather West, PhD — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

At its annual Qubits26 conference, D-Wave Quantum outlined a significant expansion of its commercial quantum computing strategy. With the acquisition of Quantum Circuits, Inc., the company formally positioned itself as a dual-platform quantum computing vendor. Across hardware, software, and services, D-Wave emphasized that quantum computing is no longer confined to experimentation. Instead, the company pointed to measurable enterprise adoption, production deployments, and growing system and cloud revenues, reinforcing its message that quantum computing is delivering value today while laying the foundation for fault-tolerant, gate-based systems.

RFP and Vendor Selection Scoring Model

Daniel Saroff — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation discusses RFP and vendor selection scoring model. Organizations often approach vendor evaluation and sourcing with ad hoc methods that vary by project, team, or stakeholder.

Scoring models are frequently inconsistent, weighting logic is unclear, and there is no easy way to model how changing priorities, such as cost versus innovation, impact final outcomes.

This lack of structure leads to slower decision-making, difficulty in comparing vendors objectively, challenges in defending recommendations to leadership and, most importantly, poor selections.

IDC has developed a scoring model to address these issues by defining a clear, repeatable framework for evaluating vendors across both RFP and demo/selection phases.

Which steps have European and META organizations taken to address concerns regarding data sovereignty?

Archana Venkatraman — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes how organizations in Europe and the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META) approach the implementation of practical steps to address data sovereignty concerns. It assesses the differences in their approaches and is based on IDC's EMEA CloudOps Survey, conducted in November 2025 among 509 respondents.

Worldwide Supply Chain Planning Applications Forecast, 2025-2029

Eric Thompson, Simon Ellis — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation discusses the forecast for the worldwide supply chain planning applications market. Off good growth in 2025, this market is expected to see a continuation of that growth through 2029 as organizations look to both better optimize their supply chain operations in the short term while ensuring they are resilient to market disruptions in the longer term. Although the specter of recession continues to linger as a consequence of persistent inflation and flagging consumer confidence, it is still viewed as more unlikely than likely at this point in 2025. IDC continues to see no reason to temper the forecast, although of course, there is always that possibility as we move materially into 2026. Indeed, IDC surveys suggest that, while supply chain executives are mindful of operational efficiency in the short term, they recognize the importance of the supply chain as an enabler of new business models. Growth in the supply chain planning applications market will be driven by both this short-term and long-term focus.

"A half-decade of disruption, macro pressures, and conflict has resulted in increases in supply chains being hyperaware of resilience. This has added complexity and cost pressures at the same time technologies have rapidly advanced. The focus then on supply chain planning applications to address resiliency, manage complexity, and leverage technology has never been greater," says Eric Thompson, research director, Worldwide Supply Chain Planning.

IDC PeerScape: Advanced Practices for Payers in Provider Data Management

Jeff Rivkin — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC PeerScape synthesizes best practices and lessons learned from leading payers and the latest IDC MarketScape research, providing actionable guidance for organizations seeking to modernize their provider data management ecosystem.

"Operationalizing provider data management is not new to most payers, but payer organizations should look to the successes of their peers to take advantage of lessons learned," says Jeff Rivkin, research director, Payer IT Strategies, IDC.