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Canadian C-Suite Executive Perceptions of Vendor Value: C-Suite Tech Survey, Part 3

Teodora Snoddy — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey explores a subset of Canadian respondents from the results of IDC's Worldwide C-Suite Tech Survey. The survey focuses on C-suite views on the priorities, challenges, and decision-making dynamics for technology initiatives. This analysis looks at 100 respondents from Canada. This is part 3 of a three-part series and focuses on questions related to vendor perceptions and vendor characteristics. The survey findings are designed to help tech vendors understand how to meet the changing priorities of C-suite executives and can serve as peer reference research for C-suite executives in the enterprise.

Canadian C-Suite Tech Priorities, Challenges, and Responsibilities: C-Suite Tech Survey, Part 1

Teodora Snoddy — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey explores a subset of Canadian respondents from the results of IDC's Worldwide C-Suite Tech Survey. The survey focuses on C-suite views on the priorities, challenges, and decision-making dynamics for technology initiatives. This analysis looks at 100 respondents from Canada. This is part 1 of a three-part series and focuses on questions related to priorities, challenges, and responsibilities. The survey findings are designed to help tech vendors understand how to meet the changing priorities of C-suite executives and can serve as peer reference research for C-suite executives in the enterprise.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled PSA ERP Applications 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Mickey North Rizza — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides a thorough assessment of market-leading AI-enabled PSA ERP applications and discusses the criteria that are most important for companies to consider when selecting a solution.

"Organizations are embracing AI quickly; however, AI-enabled PSA ERP functionality is just beginning to become AI enabled. As AI becomes more engrained in the services project life cycle and financial aspects, it will immediately help reduce manual and semi-manual workflows, improve time of insights to action, and help deliver improved business performance for services-focused business or as part of the product and additional services businesses," said Mickey North Rizza, IDC Group VP, Enterprise Software.

EMEA Enterprises’ Container Investment Strategies, Challenges, and Data Management Needs

Archana Venkatraman — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective examines the renewed interest in containerization among EMEA enterprises, who are accelerating container investments to modernize IT infrastructure, driven by AI innovation, cost optimization, and resilience needs. Containers offer portability, disaster recovery, and compliance advantages but require data management, storage scalability, and automation to run mission-critical workloads. Technology providers must deliver intelligent, flexible, and secure data services to address evolving enterprise requirements by enabling seamless migration, protection, and management of containerized applications across hybrid environments.

“As EMEA enterprises race to modernize, containerization holds tremendous promise to deliver resilience, sovereignty, and AI-driven innovation. However, this is only possible if organizations are able to successfully address management complexity and mitigate data management risks with the help of enterprise-grade container data services, real-time monitoring, easy data portability, and policy-driven management.” — Senior Research Director Archana Venkatraman, European Data Management and Cloud Operations Research, IDC

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Application and Platform Marketplaces 2025 Vendor Assessment

Nadia Ballard, Frank Della Rosa — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

The IDC study presents the 2025 IDC MarketScape for worldwide application and platform marketplaces. it highlights the shift of SaaS marketplaces, from static catalogs to operational procurement and agentic AI–powered integration hubs. It evaluates the leading vendors — Adobe, AVEVA, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, and Siemens — on their strategy and capabilities, governance frameworks, in-app discovery, and buyer–seller enablement, emphasizing the impact of embedded AI, procurement automation, and governance maturity on buyer experience, implementation speed, and ROI.

"The different characteristics of the marketplaces profiled in this IDC MarketScape demonstrate how closely application and platform vendors are listening to their user base and adapting their marketplace strategies to meet buyers' needs while adopting the latest developments, such as agentic AI," said Nadia Ballard, senior research manager, Industry Cloud and SaaS, IDC.

"As AI agents reshape SaaS marketplaces, the true differentiator is not catalog size but how deeply intelligence is woven into the marketplace operational workflows and governance," said Frank Della Rosa, research vice president, SaaS, Business Platforms, and Industry Cloud, IDC.

Services Path 2025: Visualization and Analysis Dashboard

Eric Newmark, Nadia Ballard, Simo Balghannou — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective provides clients of IDC's Services Path program with access to the Services Path 2025 Visualization and Analysis Dashboard. This dashboard is the perfect "playground" to explore all Services Path data and look at findings through the lens of various buyer profiles. The portal allows you to slice and dice the Services Path 2025 data using various filters, including:

Service category
Region
Country
Industry/subindustry
Company size
Revenue
Department
Role

As you select your filters, the portal instantly presents you with a visualization of the data and allows you to export the graphic easily into PPT, PDF, or Excel.

The Visualization and Analysis Dashboard can be accessed here.

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, Nevada, 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 midmarket, enterprise, and global organizations. Key announcements and releases included several new AI agents and 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.

IDC MarketScape: 中国AI咨询服务市场2025年厂商评估

Anne Cheng, Yanxia Lu — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

本IDC研究聚焦于AI咨询服务市场。大模型与生成式AI落地面临算力成本高、场景适配难、安全合规风险大等问题，AI服务商通过降低企业成本、解决工程化难题、保障安全合规等全流程服务，推动技术从概念走向产业应用。AI咨询服务作为企业AI落地的“导航仪”，精准匹配需求与技术、降低决策与试错成本、衔接落地与长期优化，帮助企业避免盲目投入，实现AI应用持续贴合业务迭代，真正创造价值。

IDC人工智能研究经理程荫表示：“AI服务商是AI产业链中必不可少的关键力量，而AI咨询服务也是促使企业AI应用落地的‘导航仪’。当前，中国AI咨询服务市场的主要参与者主要有全球和中国本土咨询服务商、企业服务与企业管理软件供应商、IT服务供应商、以及AI技术供应商、垂直领域的解决方案提供商等。这些群体正在自上而下、自下而上地拓展AI业务版图，将在未来提供咨询、实施交付、运维及运营全链条服务，以适配行业企业长期全面拥抱AI的战略意愿，确保AI应用落地给企业带来实际价值。”

AI Knowledge Orchestration Tools and the Services Provider

Matthew Wilkins — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the use of AI knowledge orchestration tools by service providers in Europe. It discusses ideas for how the use of such tools can potentially change and accelerate the evolution of roles within service provider organizations.

"AI orchestration tools in service providers are not just enablers of efficiency; they can become catalysts for role evolution, empowering staff to deliver strategic value in client engagements," said Matthew Wilkins, research director for European Services, IDC.

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.