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How Important Is Workflow Integration Capability When Selecting a Print Hardware Provider by Contract Type?

Sharon McNee — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights an extract from IDC's European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions (IPDS) Survey, conducted in June 2025 among 2,007 respondents from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, the Nordics, Czechia, and Poland.

This survey covered topics including print services provider selection criteria, the importance of services and solutions beyond print, the shift from paper to digital, content management, esignatures, print security, cloud-based device/print management, remote assistance, and augmented reality.

Survey analyses are available by region, company size, industry, types of decision-maker, and types of print contract. For further information, please contact your IDC account manager.

How important is it to include scanned pages in your print contract offerings?

Sharon McNee — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights an extract from IDC's European Imaging, Printing, and Document Solutions (IPDS) Survey, conducted in 2025 among 2,007 respondents from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, the Nordics, Czechia, and Poland.

This survey covered topics including print services provider selection criteria, the importance of services and solutions beyond print, the shift from paper to digital, esignatures, print security, and cloud-based device and print management.

Survey analyses are available by region, company size, industry, types of decision-maker, and types of print contract. For further information, please contact your IDC account manager.

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Will AI Shape IT Environments for Enterprise Workloads?

Natalya Yezhkova — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight examines enterprise sentiment toward AI-assisted workload placement and migration, drawing on data from IDC's Cloud Migration and Placement Survey, fielded in November 2025 among 758 IT decision-makers worldwide. The analysis explores expectations for AI's role across workload placement decision-making and migration processes over the next three years. Findings show that AI is commonly viewed as a copilot rather than an autonomous decision-maker or migration executor, with 54% of respondents expecting AI to support analysis, workload preparation for migration, and managing hybrid environments while humans retain final control. Company size emerges as the primary differentiator, with large enterprises uniformly anticipating AI-assisted or autonomous approaches due to greater architectural complexity, operational risks, and IT administration skill shortage.

Worldwide Server Market Summary and Outlook, 3Q25

Kuba Stolarski — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation offers an overview of the worldwide server market, related trends, and forecasts for the third quarter of 2025. Detailed results were released on December 11, 2025, in IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker and on December 18, 2025, in IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker Forecast. This presentation provides insights into the regional, vendor, and market-level performance as well as details on key developments and trends in the market, including accelerated servers (i.e., GPUs and other accelerators), offering advice to suppliers on how to navigate various issues present in the current market and developing over the next five years.

Datacenters as Grid Assets: Regulatory Turning Point and the Nuclear Pivot

Olga Yashkova — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note explores the latest developments in the relations between datacenters and the utility grid, coupled with the latest related regulations in the United States and their impact on the datacenter market. Surging AI-driven datacenter energy demand is outpacing grid capacity, prompting a regulatory shift that repositions datacenters as active grid assets. Federal and state initiatives, including the DOE's emergency orders and Texas SB 6, now require datacenters to support grid reliability. The government's "nuclear + compute" strategy, fast-tracked by EO 14301, is accelerating modular nuclear deployment to provide scalable, carbon-neutral power but introduces new operational and financial challenges for datacenter operators.

Ricoh Intelligent MPS: A Blueprint for Customer-Centric Managed Print Services

Robert Palmer — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective discusses Ricoh's Intelligent Managed Print Services (iMPS) that represents a strategic evolution in managed print, offering a modular, cloud-based, and vendor-agnostic platform that addresses modern challenges in print management, security, and digital transformation. By leveraging IoT, AI, and a customer-centric approach, Ricoh iMPS enables organizations of all sizes to optimize print environments, streamline workflows, and enhance productivity, positioning Ricoh as an innovator in next-generation MPS solutions.

"Modularity, scalability, and simplicity in design and delivery are key to enabling next-generation managed print services," says Robert Palmer, research VP with IDC's imaging, printing, and document solutions group. "With Ricoh Intelligent MPS, customers can quickly deploy a comprehensive solution tailored to meet existing requirements, with the comfort of knowing that enhancements and future readiness will be continuously supported as needs evolve."

IDC Survey: Worldwide Systems Integration Services Usage and Investment Priorities

Jason Bremner — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey highlights data from IDC's Worldwide IT Professional Services Survey, a broader survey of the spending intentions and behaviors of buyers of IT consulting and systems integration services. This document focuses on questions related to systems integration. The survey was fielded in July 2025 and collected responses from 839 organizations globally. Respondents represented IT and business decision-makers from organizations in North America, Asia/Pacific, and Western Europe. Organizations were enterprise size with at least 500 employees. Organizations were sampled from across industries.

IT for Circularity: Vendor Offerings and Best Practices (Part One)

Katharina Grimme, Melvie Espejo — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective evaluates six leading technology vendors in the IT for Circularity space, highlighting their solution portfolios, capabilities, and best practice examples. It provides guidance for tech buyers navigating regulatory requirements who seek to leverage traceability, data management, and AI-powered tools to accelerate circularity initiatives, achieve compliance, and unlock business value. This is the first of two reports analyzing key tech vendor offerings and real-world applications.

"In the race toward circularity, technology is not just an enabler but the catalyst redefining value, resilience, and innovation across tomorrow's supply chains," says Katharina Grimme, AVP and EMEA sustainability research lead, IDC.

Kyndryl FY 3Q26: Revised Fiscal Year 2026 Guidance Overshadows Strong Kyndryl Consult Growth

Jason Bremner — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Kyndryl released its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2026 on February 9, 2026, hosting a call with financial analysts the same day to comment on the results. Overall, the results were mixed with positive results being offset by some pessimistic news. Revenue growth was positive as Kyndryl reported year-over-year (y/y) revenue growth of 3% for the quarter ending December 31, 2025, delivering $3.86 billion. This revenue figure represents 0% y/y growth in constant currency. Revenue for the first nine months of fiscal 2026 was $11.32 billion, representing 1% y/y growth as reported, and a decline of 2% y/y in constant currency. The remainder of this document analyzes and reports on year-over-year growth in constant currency, unless otherwise noted, rounded to the nearest percentage point as Kyndryl disclosed in its financial release. Analysis and commentary on signings figures are as reported.

Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight: How Do Contact Centers Plan to Leverage GenAI Technology in Their Operations?

Raymond Pucci — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight provides insights from IDC's 2025 Worldwide Business Process Services Survey, where enterprises report how they plan to use GenAI solutions for customer support services.