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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Analytical Databases 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Devin Pratt — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC study evaluates worldwide analytical database software platforms for 2025, highlighting how advances in storage and compute architectures are transforming enterprise analytics. Vendors evaluated include AWS, Broadcom, Cloudera, Couchbase, Google, IBM, InterSystems, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle, SAP, SingleStore, Snowflake, and Teradata. The market is shifting beyond traditional columnar systems toward cloud-native, lakehouse, and distributed query architectures that separate storage and compute to improve elasticity, performance, and cost control.

As organizations modernize data infrastructure and accelerate AI adoption, analytical databases are emerging as the intelligent, high-performance foundation for real-time analytics and data-driven decisioning. Vendors are embedding AI-driven optimization, vector processing, and automation to enhance scalability, accelerate insights, and prepare for agentic AI workloads. The market's growth signals a new phase where analytics, AI, and storage innovation converge to enable faster and more intelligent enterprise decisions.

"Analytics is the engine of enterprise intelligence, and analytical databases are evolving to make it faster, smarter, and more adaptive," said Devin Pratt, research director, Data Management Software at IDC. "As organizations advance their analytics strategies and incorporate AI and agentic AI, leadership will belong to databases that seamlessly unite storage, compute, and automation to turn data into trusted, real-time decisions."

Schneider Electric Innovation Summit 2025: Electrification and AI Convergence Drives the New Industrial Era

Olga Yashkova, Natalya Yezhkova — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Link summarizes the key learnings from Schneider Electric's North America Innovation Summit 2025 that took place on November 18-19 in Las Vegas, NV. This event highlighted the company's strategic focus on integrating electrification, automation, and digital transformation to address the quickly progressing demands of datacenters and other industries.

半导体和AI革命：决定性时刻

Helen Chiang — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

在本报告中，您将看到IDC对半导体市场机遇与趋势的观点，尤其是从半导体供应链的视角，对主要先进工艺与先进封装企业及相关国家的分析，这将有助于您在该市场制定规划。

全球半导体市场正面临前所未有的挑战与机遇。地缘政治与关税问题给半导体市场带来巨大冲击与不确定性，并在供应链中引发恐慌。与此同时，AI与边缘计算为IC设计、先进工艺（制程）、先进封装以及下游应用带来新的发展机会。

Cisco FY1Q26 Earnings: Revenue Growth Continues Driven by Hyperscale and SP AI Infrastructure Buildout as Multi-Year Refresh Cycle Begins to Ramp

Rohit Mehra — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

IBM Quantum Developer Conference 2025: Accelerating the Path to Quantum Advantage

Heather West, PhD — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

IBM Quantum announced several quantum hardware and software innovations at its 2025 Quantum Developer Conference, including the 120-qubit Nighthawk processor, advanced error correction techniques, and Qiskit enhancements for hybrid quantum-classical workflows. These milestones mark steady progress toward quantum advantage and fault-tolerant quantum computing, providing enterprises with a clear roadmap through 2029 and accelerating the transition from proofs of concept to real-world applications.

UKG Aspire 2025: Frontline Data in Action

Zachary Chertok — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

UKG Aspire was held at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV November 3-6, 2025. Aspire launched UKG's future with agentic AI, bringing to life insights-driven workforce planning, placement, forecasting, and management for frontline mid-market, enterprise, and global organizations. Key announcements and releases included several new AI Agents as well as the release of the Workforce Intelligence Hub to serve as a command center for workforce and labor data and insights. UKG expanded its foray into talent acquisition and management with the introduction of Rapid Hire and Dynamic Labor Management as well as enhanced employee support and rapid deployment enablement leveraging Bryte AI.

中国无厂半导体市场预测，2025—2029

Helen Chiang — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

本IDC演示文稿将介绍IDC对2025—2029年中国无厂半导体市场的预测和看法。

IDC亚太区半导体研究负责人Helen Chiang表示：“中国无厂半导体市场在2024年实现强劲增长。尽管全球对尖端技术的管制带来了挑战，但在国家政策支持和强劲内需的影响下，该市场继续快速扩张。除无线通信外，消费电子行业依然强劲。未来市场增长预计将由AI、计算、汽车电子和工业物联网（IIoT）推动。”

Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Datacenter Deployment Model and Spend Forecast, 2025–2029

Mikhail Jaura, Dr. William Lee — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

In summary, the APEJ datacenter market is entering a period of exponential and transformative growth, driven by cloud, AI, and digital services. Although the growth prospects are exceptional, the sector faces mounting pressure to address energy consumption and carbon emissions. Technology suppliers must prioritize sustainability, invest in next-generation infrastructure, and collaborate with ecosystem partners to capture emerging opportunities. The ability to deliver scalable, energy-efficient solutions that meet evolving customer and regulatory demands will be the key to success in this dynamic and rapidly expanding market.

"The APEJ datacenter market is rapidly evolving with cloud and AI driving growth, but rising energy use and emissions demand urgent action. Technology suppliers must focus on sustainability and scalable, efficient infrastructure to stay competitive," says Mikhail Jaura, senior research analyst on cloud and datacenter services, IDC Asia/Pacific.

Dell Technologies Summit 2025: Accelerating Enterprise AI Adoption Requires Professional Services

Leslie Rosenberg — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note highlights Dell's AI strategy by drawing on insights from the recent Dell Analyst Conference, held October 13–15, 2025, in Austin, Texas.

Dell Technologies is accelerating enterprise AI adoption by integrating professional services with its AI Factory. At the 2025 Summit, Dell emphasized its strategy to help customers overcome AI implementation barriers, particularly in data management and infrastructure. By offering life-cycle services and turnkey solutions, Dell enables organizations to efficiently deploy, manage, and scale AI workloads, positioning itself as a key partner for enterprises navigating AI transformation.

"Accelerating enterprise AI adoption isn't just about the underlying infrastructure — it requires a more comprehensive approach, one that involves mastering data, platforms, and applications, as well as people, processes, and governance — and more," states Leslie Rosenberg, research VP, IDC's Network Life-Cycle and Infrastructure Services. "Dell is continuously investing in its services portfolio to ensure that customers are moving forward with their AI initiatives successfully."

Does the Surge in MEC Adoption Provide Momentum for AI Inferencing at Network Edge and Monetization Opportunities for Service Providers?

Ajeet Das — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight presents the growing need for running AI inferencing workload at the network edge to enhance automation, improve security, and speed up processing. It contains data from IDC's May 2025 Telecom DX Survey, based on the response from 130 comms SPs worldwide.

"The true payoff for 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC) is now clearly rooted in the rise of edge AI inferencing. The ability to deploy high-performance AI models for use cases like smart manufacturing and autonomous systems directly onto the edge —billed as a managed service or a dedicated 5G slice — is the engine that will drive the edge computing market and create opportunities for service providers to monetize their edge infrastructure," Ajeet Das, research director, Telecom Network Infrastructure, IDC.