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Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide IT Skills for Digital Business, 2026

Gina Smith, PhD — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the IT skills for digital business market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a tech leader perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers.

"In 2026, the IT skills business is showing steady growth, fierce competition, and rapid transformation. The half-life of skills keeps shrinking as AI and other fast-emerging technologies rewrite what workers need to know. That churn is pushing training demand higher across all sectors and regions." — Gina Smith, senior research director, Applications

Evaluating Business Office Operations and Services Vendors for the Media Industry 2026

Alex Holtz — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective examines how media companies are converging production, distribution, monetization, media orchestration, and business operations data into a single agentic orchestration layer that surfaces variance in real time and routes corrective action back to back-office ERP systems. It assesses where agentic AI use cases in media stand in 2026, the human-in-the-loop governance that separates durable vendor deployments from stalled pilots, and the road map toward ERP convergence and cross-pillar autonomous orchestration by 2030. This document also profiles the ERP incumbents and media-native and AI-native specialists — including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Workday, Salesforce, Mediagenix, TwelveLabs, AWS, Dalet, and Vizrt — building this agentic layer and offers guidance for technology leaders on sequencing data, governance, and vendor selection decisions.

“The media companies that win the next five years won’t be the ones running the most AI pilots — they’ll be the ones whose agents see the whole business cycle and act on it in the same breath. When a production delay, a distribution cost spike, and a monetization shortfall all speak the same language to the same ERP, media stops reconciling its plan after the fact and starts steering it in real time,” said Alex Holtz, research director, Worldwide Media and Entertainment Digital Strategies, IDC.

IDC MarketScape: Japan Sustainability Programs and Services Hardcopy 2026 Vendor Assessment

Eiji Ishida — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内オフィスプリント市場における主要ベンダーに対して、IDC MarketScapeモデルに基づいて「戦略」および「能力」の評価を行い、その分析結果を報告するものである。また、ITバイヤーが、サステナビリティ視点でベンダーを選定する際に留意すべき事項を提示している。

「ITバイヤーには、自社サステナビリティ目標をブレイクダウンし、オフィスプリント環境に求めるサステナビリティ目標を設定することが求められる。さらに、プリント機器に求める環境性能を決めるだけでなく、サステナビリティ活動をどの程度ベンダーに委託するのか、つまりマネージドプリントサービスとしてサステナビリティに関する報告と改善活動を委託するのかといった視点での検討も重要である。こうした点を踏まえて、サステナビリティ戦略および能力を評価し、ベンダー選定を行うべきである」と、IDC Japan、Infrastructure, Imaging, and Devicesのシニアリサーチディレクターである石田英次は分析している。

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Life Sciences R&D Lab of the Future Technology Solutions and Consulting Services 2026 Vendor Assessment

Nimita Limaye — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study has a specific focus on LotF solutions and consulting services in the life sciences R&D space. This document seeks to compare major service providers with each other based on criteria that should be important to life sciences companies when considering the selection of a technology solutions and consulting services partner to help implement a LotF strategy, transformation, and modernizing labs, across the value chain, from design of experiment (DoE) to manufacturing, and back. This is the second time that an IDC MarketScape assessment on this topic in life sciences has been performed.

“The ‘lab of the future’ is no longer a pipe dream — it’s an enterprise-level imperative grounded in clear strategic vision, phased execution, and measurable governance. Organizations that move beyond pilots to architecting scalable, end-to-end LotF road maps, building a cloud-native API-first platform, scaling deep scientist engagement, and driving business outcomes aligned with C-suite priorities will build sustainable competitive advantage. These organizations will be the ones leading the market in 2026,” said Dr. Nimita Limaye, research VP, Life Sciences R&D Strategy and Technology at IDC.

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Should Managed SPs Optimize the Value of All Service Providers Used for Agentic AI That Are Also Used as Partners to Support Managed Services?

David Tapper — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results from the following question posed to 820 respondents and firms with over 1,000 employees across multiple countries and industries, as part of IDC’s 2026 Worldwide Managed Services Survey: “Provider preference for agentic AI platforms and capabilities. Which type of provider or operating model would be your organization’s primary preference for round-the-clock (24 x 7) management of agentic AI capabilities over the next 12–24 months?” This IDC Survey Spotlight then highlights the investments that managed SPs need to pursue to optimize the value of partnerships with all service providers that support agentic AI and are also utilized to support the provisioning of managed services with these capabilities. These investments include implementing critical governance structures, establishing key architectural structures, and building strategic organizational and operational structures.

KoçSistem: Leveraging Proprietary Platforms, Managed Services, and Strategic Alliances to Grow Its Footprint Across the Gulf

Eren Eser, Eric Samuel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes KoçSistem, a Türkiye-headquartered technology services company expanding into the Gulf and the wider Middle East. The document examines KoçSistem's history, strategy, vision, service offerings, intellectual property, partnerships, and delivery model, as well as the opportunities and challenges the company faces as it scales beyond its home market. It is relevant to buyers of cloud, managed services, cybersecurity, data and AI, and IoT services in the Middle East and Africa; to technology vendors evaluating regional alliances; and to other stakeholders following the entry of Türkiye-based providers into Gulf markets.

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Managed Cloud Services, 2026

David Tapper — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the worldwide managed cloud services market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers/service providers.'

Fundamental changes in enterprise sourcing strategies for managed cloud services driven primarily by increased competition from public cloud providers to provide enterprises with cloud and AI capabilities and increased enterprise adoption of AI are placing intense pressure on managed service providers (SPs) to transform their businesses to stay competitive. Consequently, managed SPs must make fundamental changes to their business models, with particular focus on assisting organizations to effectively use AI, particularly agentic AI, along with utilizing new partners such as AI model providers. Key changes must also focus on investing in autonomous operating platforms, creating new business metrics for success, incorporating robust AI governance, utilizing AI services supply chains, and maintaining control over their partnership ecosystems.

Market Analysis Perspective: Japan Services, 2026

Masaru Muramatsu — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本プレゼンテーションでは、国内ITサービス市場における現在の市場動向や将来動向に対する知見を簡潔にまとめている。本プレゼンテーションによって、エンドユーザー視点での市場の見方を理解し、市場へのインパクトを知ることができる。

Market Forecast: Asia/Pacific Services Forecast, 2026–2030

Shivangi Gupta, Souganth Manjhiparambil — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study provides the five-year forecast for the services market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth. This study sizes the Asia/Pacific services market and presents IDC’s 2026–2030 forecast across project-oriented, managed, and support services, with the key trends shaping demand.

“The Asia/Pacific services market looks resilient through 2030, with growth leaning toward AI-led demand, local delivery, and the region’s faster-growing emerging markets,” said Shivangi Gupta, research manager, AI-Enabled Asia/Pacific Services Strategies, IDC.

IDC Market Glance: Japan IT Services, 3Q26

Yoshinori Kajitani, Masaru Muramatsu — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内ITサービス市場における主要ベンダーのマップを提供するものである。国内ITサービス市場を「Project-based services」「Managed services」「Support services」の3つのセグメントに分類し、各セグメントおよびサブセグメントの定義を提供している。