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2026 IDC FinTech Rankings and Real Results Program

Jerry Silva — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Now in its 23rd year, the IDC FinTech Rankings and Real Results program has not only continued to show the strength of technology investments in the financial services industry but has also demonstrated how AI is delivering real business value in those leading institutions that deploy AI enterprise-wide.

“AI has become a dominant force in technology spend across financial services, as indicated by the revenue growth among top IT providers worldwide,” said Jerry Silva, program vice president, IDC Financial Insights. “The deployment of AI across multiple operational and business environments is already creating value for financial institutions, as demonstrated by the IDC Real Results case studies.”

Gloves Off in US Cellular as SpaceX Buys 800MHz Spectrum to Set Up Fourth Carrier Service

Simon Baker, Jason Leigh — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note looks at the rationale for and impact of SpaceX’s announcement that it is purchasing low-band frequency in the US in the 800MHz band as part of a plan to offer a hybrid satellite-terrestrial cellular service to compete with the main US cellular operators.

“SpaceX did not waste time in snapping up attractive and rare ex-T-Mobile low-band frequency to help it launch its US cellular ambitions — a classic Musk move. It is not yet clear whether this will be enough to let Starlink really compete with the American cellular Big Three. SpaceX has to get the ground network built out first,” says Simon Baker, Senior Research Director at IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Telecom Cloud Service Providers 2026 Vendor Assessment

Peter Chahal, Ahmad Latif Ali, Ajeet Das, Nikhil Batra — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study assesses the capabilities and strategies of network equipment vendors and cloud service providers delivering infrastructure and managed cloud services for telecom network workloads. The evaluation focuses on providers' ability to support key network domains, including radio access networks (RANs), cloud-native 5G core, and operations support systems (OSSs), while meeting the performance, scalability, resilience, security, and latency requirements of carrier-grade environments. Emphasis is placed on support for distributed network architectures across operator datacenters, edge locations, private clouds, and public cloud infrastructure through hybrid and multicloud deployment models.

This IDC study evaluates providers on their current capabilities in cloud infrastructure, automation, orchestration, observability, life-cycle management, and multivendor network support, as well as their strategies for enabling telecom providers' long-term network transformation objectives. The assessment considers each provider's vision, road map, ecosystem partnerships, investments, and execution in helping telecom providers transition toward increasingly software-defined, automated, and cloud-native network architectures.

"The story of this market is not who claims to do the most; it's who can prove they've already done it. Nearly every vendor in this assessment describes the same cloud-native, AI-automated vision for RAN, core, and OSS, but the gap between this vision and the disclosed production evidence is where the real competitive separation lies," said Peter Chahal, research director, Worldwide Telecommunications Services and Strategies at IDC. "Telcos evaluating this space should treat the specificity of a vendor's answer, a named customer, a measured outcome, or a documented region as more predictive of future success than the ambition of its road map. In telecom cloud, evidence is quickly becoming the only currency that matters."

International Manufacturing Technology Show 2026: Manufacturing AI Moves From Potential to Execution

Sarah Lee, Gunjan Bassi — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective provides insights from the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS), which was held on September 14–19, 2026, at McCormick Place in Chicago, United States. It draws on briefings, panel sessions, and booth conversations with technology vendors. It groups the show into four themes: execution and operating model, data and software architecture, physical AI and automation, and workforce. It pairs vendor statements with IDC survey data and offers implications for manufacturers that face a choice between agents embedded in applications and orchestration across systems, a shift from building software to configuring and governing it, and a shop floor in which mobility, measurement, and data come before humanoids.

"The question is no longer about whether AI can do the work but about whether manufacturers can build the conditions for AI to do it well," says Sarah Lee, senior research director, manufacturing IT strategies, IDC. "Manufacturers should view IMTS 2026 as a reminder that execution remains the differentiator," says Gunjan Bassi, worldwide industrial IoT and intelligence strategies lead, IDC. Bassi adds, "Agentic AI, robotics, and industrial software are advancing rapidly, but value will depend on how effectively organizations connect data, govern decisions, and extend these capabilities to the frontline workforce."

2026年国内ITサービス市場主要ベンダーのビジネス動向：エージェンティックデリバリーと価値ベースへのシフト

Masaru Muramatsu, Yoshinori Kajitani — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、2026年9月末までの情報を基に、国内ITサービス市場における主要ベンダーのビジネス動向およびベンダー間の競合状況について、定性的および定量的に分析し、同市場における主要ベンダーの成長に向けた提言を行う。

主要サービスベンダーでは、エージェンティックAIによるサービスデリバリー、企業のAI利用を包括的に支援するプラットフォームサービスの提供、ビジネス成果の創出を視点としたFDE（Forward Deployed Engineer）によるAI活用支援の取り組みを強めている。このような主要ITサービスベンダーの取り組みの深化によって、国内ITサービス市場では、プラットフォームを介したエージェンティックデリバリー（AIエージェントが主体となるデリバリー）および人月に依らない価格モデルが徐々に浸透していくとIDCはみている。「今後の主要ベンダーの競争優位は、AIによる成果を高い再現性とスピードをもって創出し、それを価値に基づく価格設定を通じて自社の利益拡大と再投資につなげられるかが鍵となる。そのためには、自社IP（Intellectual Property）によって提供価値を差別化する領域と、パートナーのプロダクト／サービスの組み合わせによって提供価値を実現する領域とを見極め、投資を振り向けることがいっそう重要となる」と、IDC Japan、Software, Services, and IT Spendingのリサーチマネージャーである村松大は述べている。

IDC Survey: SMB Communications Services Survey, 2026 — Mobility

Daniela Rao — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey focuses on mobile services, carrier selection, and device management practices among U.S. small and medium-sized businesses (1–499 employees), based on survey findings collected in August 2026.

Designing for Organizational Agility: Structural, Procedural, and Cultural Principles Technology Leaders Should Adopt Now

Niel Nickolaisen — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective identifies principles that make organizational structures, processes, and culture agile by design rather than agile by necessity. As the pace of technology and market change continues to increase, organizations that wait to react will find themselves perpetually behind; organizations that build simplicity, loose coupling, minimal bureaucracy, and a passion for flow into how they plan, govern, and operate will instead find agility built into their operating models. This shift asks technology leaders to extend principles they already trust in architecture (simplicity and loose coupling chief among them) to the organizational structures, processes, and cultures they lead.

"We have spent years designing our systems for replaceability and simplicity. The organizational structure, processes, and cultures around those systems deserve the same design discipline," said Niel Nickolaisen, adjunct research advisor for IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP) practice. "Agility is not a single reorganization or a new planning template; it is what happens when simplicity, loose coupling, minimal bureaucracy, and a relentless focus on flow are designed into how an organization works, so that adapting to change becomes routine rather than exceptional."

IDC’s Worldwide Smartphone ODM Tracker Taxonomy, 2026

Sean Kao, Kiranjeet Kaur, Nabila Popal — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a taxonomy for segmenting smartphone ODMs. Historical data in IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Smartphone ODM Tracker examines the upstream supply chain for smartphones, which is increasingly shifting toward a different ODM ecosystem. This service provides quarterly insights into which ODMs manufacture for which branded vendors, along with breakdowns by product technologies, supplier relationships, and other categories.

“The smartphone ODM taxonomy and market coverage extend IDC’s mobile phone market research by overlaying technical specifications for these systems and the main ODM market players,” said Sean Kao, senior research manager, Worldwide ODM research at IDC.

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 operational technology (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 approaches, and execution in ways a division of a large network vendor could not. The key points are continuity of the Nokia radio and core relationship, customer support during the transition, and the speed at which the new owner builds out the industrial AI proposition.

IDC Survey: Canadian Consumer Wireless Services Survey, 2026 — Indicators on Consumer Mobile Service Trends

Praveen Datta — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey provides insights on tech mobile service provider share, consumer satisfaction, and recommendation likelihood, intentions, mobile plan length, and contract type, as well as usage of data plans on tablets, laptops, and wrist wearables. IDC Canada's consumer research group conducts annual surveys of 2,000 Canadian consumers to understand the current and future adoption plans for variety of consumer services and related products. The goal of these surveys is to identify/measure Canadian consumer interest, ownership, usage, satisfaction, and future potential for consumer services.

This year, the survey for mobile services was fielded in August/September 2026. This presentation outlines consumer perceptions and the current state of the markets in Canada pertaining to mobile phone service providers, consumer satisfaction with and likelihood to recommend mobile carriers, intentions for their subscription plans by year, age group, and carrier brand. It also explores the length of time consumers have had their plan, the subscription type they have, and whether it is part of a bundle by carrier brand. In addition, this presentation explores whether consumers own cellular-enabled tablets, laptops, and smartwatches/wrist wearables; whether they subscribe to data plans for those devices; and who their service provider is for those data plans. This presentation highlights survey data associated with the consumer responses mentioned previously.

Cuts by various demographic and service factors (age group, region, and others) are shown where relevant. However, there is more data available from the survey than what is presented here. Those interested should reach out to their IDC representative for more information.