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1,967 respondents, 151 use cases,13 business functions, and one pattern that keeps showing up. Agentic AI budgets are growing but execution isn't keeping pace. IDC mapped where that gap lives, and the organizations that spotted it early are the ones pulling away right now. Find out which side you're on before locking in next year's plan. 👉 https://bit.ly/4aZyLQo #AgenticAI #AIStrategy #IDCResearch

Most companies aren't short on market intelligence. They're short on people allowed to use it. IDC's Jamie Fiorda makes the case at the IDC Quanta launch: only about a third of executives actively use the intelligence tools their organization already owns, while cognitive tech applied to M&A due diligence alone is projected to drive a 25% jump in returns by 2027. The bottleneck was never the research. It was who gets to open the portal. 🔗 Read the blog: https://bit.ly/4wk4xQU #IDCQuanta #IDCAIPlatform #IDCResearch

IDC analysts were at AMD Advancing AI 2026 last week and the 'Hot Takes' are in! 🔥

For the first time, ARM just beat x86 in the AI server market with $53.0 billion to $34.6 billion in a single quarter. IDC's Juan Pablo Seminara unpacks what's behind the shift as hyperscalers consolidate around rack-scale GPU platforms, and why IDC just raised its 2026 AI infrastructure forecast to $497 billion. 🔗 Read the blog: https://bit.ly/4wjqlvQ #AIInfrastructure #DataCenter #IDCResearch

Only about a third of executives actively use the intelligence tools their organization already has. At the IDC Quanta launch webinar, IDC's Jamie Fiorda made the case that the real bottleneck isn't research quality, it's access. Market intelligence that could sharpen decisions across finance, product, marketing, and sales too often stays locked inside one team's portal. 🔗 Read the blog: https://bit.ly/4wk4xQU #IDCQuanta #IDCAIPlatform #IDCResearch

Datacenters in the Middle East were direct targets, not collateral damage in this war. IDC's Harish Dunakhe and Jebin George break down how the region responded with 56% of tech buyers accelerating multiregional cloud backup, and providers like Microsoft, Google, and Oracle still committing billions in long-term Gulf investment. 🔗 Read the blog: https://bit.ly/4frpuCa #CloudResilience #IDCResearch #MiddleEastWar

"Hey Alexa, add eggs to my order." Convenient for the shopper. A nightmare for the brand that just lost the sale to an algorithm. IDC's Ananda Chakravarty and Heather Hershey break down why agentic buying is a lopsided deal for retailers with shrinking margins, eroding brand control, and a customer relationship increasingly owned by someone else's AI agent. 🔗 Read the blog: https://bit.ly/3RuZCgO #AgenticCommerce #RetailAI #IDCResearch

IDC forecasts global AI spending will reach $570 billion in 2026. The organizations seeing the greatest returns are building the right foundation today. IDC is bringing CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and senior data leaders together in Chicago on September 17 to address what scaling AI actually requires: data readiness, agentic AI, governance, and measuring business impact in terms a board can act on. Research-led sessions, peer discussions, and frameworks you can put to work immediately. Attendance is curated and complimentary for qualified enterprise IT and technology decision-makers. 📍 Convene 311 West Monroe, Chicago 🗓 September 17, 2026 🔗 Apply to attend: https://bit.ly/3TLAbYX #AgenticAI #AI #EnterpriseAI #DataStrategy #IDCEvents

Most retail AI conversations focus on what the largest players are doing. IDC's Ananda Chakravarty is focused on a more practical question: where do smaller retailers actually start? The answer isn't a new AI platform. Clean data, the right tool selection, and smart partnerships are where the work begins and the blog breaks down why that sequence matters. 🔗 Read the blog: https://bit.ly/3ROVAQs #RetailAI #RetailStrategy #IDCResearch

The tablet market just had its best year in years, however, it's shrinking and getting more expensive. Global shipments declined 8.6% in 2026, but ASPs jump 12.2% as vendors chase higher-value devices. IDC's Isaac Thiga Ngatia and Jennifer Kwan break down how EMEA and APJ are writing very different chapters of the same story. 🔗 Get the full forecast: https://bit.ly/4e8DqSy #TabletMarket #TechForecast #IDCResearch