76% of tech leaders ran AI agent spend over forecast, and the credits and introductory rates holding the bill down end in early 2027. A plan built on today’s invoice will miss.
How much of your AI budget sits on credits that expire?
IDC Quanta for Tech Leaders adds price benchmarking and peer comparison to help you answer it.
76% are over budget. Are you? bit.ly/4kjDYIk
#AIEconomics #IDCQuanta
IDC FutureScape 2027 places three technology decisions in the closing window: what AI infrastructure will cost, which models run your workloads, and who protects the systems that build your code.
The pressure behind them is the first prediction in IDC’s Top 10. By 2029, IDC predicts 60% of enterprises will run a majority of their business processes AI-first, up from 13% in 2026.
Our new blog covers each decision, with clips from the live webinar featuring IDC’s Rick Villars and Katie Norton, and a first move for each that fits inside one planning cycle. bit.ly/4imjTOY
#IDCFutureScape #AIStrategy #IDCResearch
PC shipments fell 20.1% YoY in Q3 2026. Mac shipments fell 11.3%.
IDC’s Bryan Ma on Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro: touch has been gaining ground in premium notebooks, and its absence was starting to look dated.
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Planning your 2027 events and pipeline? Start with the calendar.
The 2027 IDC Events Calendar shows exactly where senior IT and AI leaders will be next year, including 10 analyst-led events across North America. See where your buyers will be before you finalize your plan.
Download the 2027 IDC events calendar today: bit.ly/4x61qM2
#IDCEvents #B2BMarketing #TechMarketing
At the IDC CIO Summit & Awards Canada, Terry Hickey, Chief Technology Officer at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, shares an end-user case study on scaling AI in a compliance-heavy industry.
His session, “Regulated, Not Restricted: How Compliance-Heavy Industries Are Scaling AI,” covers moving AI from pilot to production in a regulated environment and balancing innovation with governance and risk. Technology leaders will leave with lessons they can apply to their own AI strategy.
November 19, 2026 | Delta Hotels Toronto
Join Canadian CIOs and technology leaders for a day of peer exchange and recognition of IT excellence.
Register today: bit.ly/4A0wbni
#IDCCIOSummit #CIO #AIGovernance #FinancialServices #Canada
2026 is the year robots left the demo stage. Humanoid shipments in 1H26 already passed all of 2025. Swipe, then watch on demand (translation available): bit.ly/IDC-Global-RoboticsOu… Request an analyst meeting or the slides via the form on the page. #PhysicalAI #Robotics
IDC Quanta customers can ask Anthropic’s Claude for a competitor brief and get it in minutes, with the IDC research behind it cited.
“IDC has spent 60 years helping leaders make better technology decisions, and now it’s putting Claude to work for both its employees and its customers,” said Paul Smith, Chief Commercial Officer, Anthropic.
See how customers and IDC’s own teams use IDC Quanta and Claude: bit.ly/3WboUTc
#IDCQuanta #Anthropic #EmbeddedIntelligence
Congratulations to our Q3 Beacon Award winners: Kelly Matthews, Hui Jia Tan, and Arthur Hunt.
The Beacon Awards are IDC’s quarterly employee recognition program, celebrating the individuals whose work shows true excellence. Thank you for all you do! #BeaconAwards
Your shop floor is probably already on the physical AI maturity curve, mapped or not.
Where it sits shapes where you should start, and that is a useful thing to know before the use case and ROI discussions begin. IDC’s Sarah Lee breaks down the four stages so you can place yours: bit.ly/4zzC0bg
#PhysicalAI #Manufacturing #IndustrialAI #DigitalTransformation
🔥 IDC’s Hot Takes from Apple’s Pro and Tell event are live.
From the new touch-enabled MacBook Pro to the upgraded iPad mini, iMac, and Apple’s pricing strategy, IDC analysts, Tom Mainelli, Nabila Popal, Francisco Jeronimo, Isaac T. Ngatia, and Ryan Reith, are calling it as they see it.
👉 Read through their Hot Takes and see what stood out.
#Apple #IDCHotTakes #MacBookPro
The Great Rewrite is reaching every organization, whether or not it has planned for it.
Agents now act on behalf of the business, and the compute layer, the org chart, and the balance sheet are being rebuilt to match.
IDC FutureScape 2027 sorts what’s changing into closing, open, and emerging windows, so you can see which decisions are due first.
Press play, then see which of these changes has a deadline on it: bit.ly/4iazSkv
#IDCFutureScape #TheGreatRewrite #IDCResearch
The Great Rewrite comes with deadlines.
Enterprises expect to nearly double the types of AI agents they run in production this year, from 23.5 to 43.2 on average. Some decisions about them are nearly made. Others are still yours to shape. A few haven’t been claimed by anyone yet.
IDC FutureScape 2027 sorts its predictions into those three windows: closing, open, and emerging.
Pick one decision on your 2027 plan and ask which window it’s in: bit.ly/4kl6XLP
#IDCFutureScape #IDCPredictions #TheGreatRewrite
Every bet in your 2027 plan has a clock on it. IDC predicts 45% of AI applications and services will fail to move past proof of concept by 2027. IDC FutureScape 2027: 250 predictions sorted into closing, open, and emerging windows. bit.ly/4soXwNq #IDCFutureScape
Not every AI decision on your 2027 list has the same deadline. Tomorrow, you’ll see which ones are due first.
IDC predicts most build-your-own agentic AI projects will be abandoned by 2028 after missing ROI goals. That window is nearly closed. Others are still open, and a few haven’t formed yet.
A panel of IDC experts will sort the IDC FutureScape Top 10 Worldwide Predictions into closing, open, and emerging, so you leave with a ranked list for your leadership team.
Today is your last chance to register: bit.ly/4ebXCSG
#IDCFutureScape #AgenticEconomy #IDCResearch
EMEA’s Android tablet market fell 10.5% year over year in Q2 2026, with Samsung still #1 despite a 20% YoY drop of its own.
IDC’s Vladislav Tsikin says Samsung’s lead looks very different by tier: commanding in the premium segment at 85% share, but considerably thinner across the broader market, where Chinese vendors are closing in.
IDC’s Filip Sretenovic points to Xiaomi as the biggest growth story, going from roughly 180K units in 2021 to 3.4 million in 2025, the largest absolute volume gain of any tablet vendor in the region.
Explore more of the latest insights: bit.ly/4goUnrt
#IDCResearch #EMEATablet #MarketTrend
Some of your biggest AI decisions are nearly made. Others are still wide open. Which is which?
IDC FutureScape 2027: The Great Rewrite. Wed, Oct 28, 11am ET.
See which decisions are still yours to shape: bit.ly/4ebXCSG
#IDCFutureScape #AgenticAI
Only 15% of organizations have realized an AI ROI above 100% to date. IDC's Laurie Buczek says that's natural at this stage.
The harder problem is the next investment. If you sell AI, you need an answer for the CFO and the board, because 69% report a significant gap between AI spending and measurable financial outcomes.
How to prove value in terms finance will accept: bit.ly/4BkmbXF
#EnterpriseAI #AIROI
If your most critical systems went down tomorrow, how long until you’re operating again? And when did you last test that?
IDC’s Michelle Abraham on why leaders need both answers for #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth:
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Not every AI decision on your 2027 list is equally urgent, and treating them that way costs you the ones moving fastest.
IDC predicts most build-your-own agentic AI projects will be abandoned by 2028 after missing ROI goals. That window is nearly closed.
IDC’s Rick Villars sorts the FutureScape Top 10 Worldwide Predictions into closing, open, and emerging, so you leave with a ranked list for your leadership team.
Register today: bit.ly/4ebXCSG
#IDCFutureScape #AgenticEconomy #IDCResearch
24.7% of buyers are done waiting. If the next release doesn’t bring real agentic features, they’re switching vendors.
IDC’s Eric Newmark says that’s the actual story the “SaaSpocalypse” narrative keeps missing: agents need the governed data and process layer inside SaaS to do anything at all. Readiness just became the price of staying visible, and buyers already have the leverage to make vendors prove it.
Read the full IDC blog: bit.ly/47ll8Jb
#SaaS #AgenticAI #IDCResearch
