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Anthropic Touts Claude Code for COBOL Modernization

Michele Rosen, PhD — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Anthropic’s recommendation that enterprises use tools like Claude Code to automate key phases of the COBOL modernization process underscores the growing role of AI in legacy application modernization, with market impact contingent on the tools’ ability to deliver high-quality results for mission-critical enterprise applications.

Apple Introduces $599 MacBook Neo, Expanding Its Reach Downward into the Entry-Level Notebook Market

Tom Mainelli — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Is the Transition to Flexible Working Models Impacting Mail and Customer/Employee Communications?

Robert Palmer — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines data collected from IDC's 2025 Mailroom Management and Services Survey. IDC conducted a U.S.-based survey that evaluated trends in mailroom management and operations. The goal of the survey was to understand current conditions and challenges in mailroom operations, adoption trends around mailroom outsourcing and digital mail, benefits and barriers to adoption of digital mailroom solutions, and ongoing trends around digital versus printed mail. This Survey Spotlight examines respondent perspectives regarding the impact of flexible work policies (hybrid work) on the transition to digital mail.

IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight: How Do Talent Acquisition Priorities Vary Between HR and IT Leaders?

Abhinav Shrivastava — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight draws from IDC's Global HCM Survey, 2025. It highlights the differences in talent acquisition (TA) priorities between HR and IT leaders. While HR leaders prioritize recruiting effectiveness, IT leaders focus on seamless operational integrations. Both groups align on the need to accelerate access to skilled talent, as reflected in similar expectations for improved speed to hire. However, widespread misalignment between HR's outcome metrics and IT's architecture priorities can slow talent acquisition transformation, underscoring the need for structured HR-IT collaboration and a shared evaluation framework to enable faster hiring, stronger skills validation, and improved experiences.

IDC's Worldwide Storage and Computing Infrastructure Software Platforms Taxonomy, 2026

Shahin Hashim, Phil Goodwin, Ryan Caskey — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC taxonomy document provides a detailed description of our storage and computing infrastructure software platforms (SCISP) research coverage. It defines the functional markets and submarkets that make up IDC's SCISP program, including core coverage areas of storage software and physical and virtual computing software.

For 2026, this taxonomy introduces the private cloud market as an additional program scope, representing the aggregate market for infrastructure hardware and software used to build and operate dedicated cloud environments. This document defines the three contributing layers of the private cloud market, infrastructure hardware, infrastructure software, and experience/operations/management software, along with the seven qualifying attributes that distinguish private cloud from other deployment models.

Worldwide Service Mesh Forecast, 2026–2030

Paul Nicholson, Taranvir Singh, Petr Jirovsky — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation forecasts and analyzes key trends impacting the worldwide service mesh market for 2026–2030.

"As service mesh deployments mature, organizations are evolving with a goal to enhance agility and resource efficiency for microservices-based network architectures and associated requirements for AI." — Paul Nicholson, research vice president, Cloud and Datacenter Networks.

Capgemini: A Key Consortium Partner in Protecting the EU’s Critical Digital Infrastructure

David Clemente, Craig Robinson — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Foundations that Compound at Scale: ZohoDay 2026

Jim Mercer, Melinda-Carol Ballou — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

The ZohoDay 2026 analyst event marked an inflection point in Zoho Corporation’s evolution, moving from a broad SaaS portfolio provider to an architect of a vertically integrated business application operating system, which it named AppOS. Across executive keynotes and breakout sessions, Zoho articulated a clear thesis that fragmentation is the root problem in enterprise software, and durable competitive advantage in the AI era requires owning and integrating the foundational layers, namely data, infrastructure, development, and intelligence.

Recently surpassing one million customers and 150 million users in its 30^th year, Zoho is pairing scale with a long-term strategy centered on unified data, visual accessibility, contextual AI, full-stack data and analytics, modern developer tooling, and observability through its ManageEngine solution.

For developers, DevOps teams, software testers, and observability leaders, the announcements reflect a platform shift with material implications for how Zoho applications are built, operated, secured, and continue to evolve.

From Cost Center to Profit Driver: Transforming Accounts Payable into a Strategic Asset

Kevin Permenter — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into transforming accounts payable (AP) into a strategic asset. Accounts payable is shifting from a transactional function to a strategic intelligence hub for the CFO organization. As working capital pressure, supply chain risk, and margin scrutiny intensify, invoice-level data is emerging as a critical source of cash visibility, supplier insight, and spend governance. Organizations that modernize AP to unify data, enable predictive insight, and influence spending decisions can improve liquidity precision, detect risk earlier, and protect margins. The market is moving beyond automation efficiency toward decision intelligence, positioning AP as a control point for financial resilience and operational agility.

"Accounts payable is no longer just processing invoices. It is becoming the finance organization's earliest signal engine for cash risk, supplier instability, and margin leakage," Kevin Permenter, research director, Financial Applications and Agents at IDC.

IDC Survey Spotlight: What Industries Are of Primary Focus for Software Providers?

Nadia Ballard — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight presents insights based on IDC’s 2026 SaaS Provider Pulse Survey, where software providers were asked about their focus on customizing their offerings for specific industries. While most vendors pursue horizontal platform strategies to maximize total addressable market, many layer industry-specific capabilities to compete effectively. Most software providers serve a broad range of industries, with a few highly regulated and/or competitive industries among the most frequently targeted markets. A notable subset identifies a single primary industry, underscoring the continued rise of vertical SaaS. IDC discusses the benefits, challenges, and current trends impacting vertical SaaS vendors, including the emergence of vertical AI solutions.