77% of organizations already have AI agents in production. The deployment debate is over. Vendors are embedding. System integrators are building proprietary. Buyers are hedging. Nobody bets on one supplier in a market this young. IDC's Neil Ward-Dutton maps the full agentic AI ecosystem and what it means for your enterprise strategy. Read the blog today 👉 bit.ly/4xucEeO #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI #AIStrategy

PC prices are rising and IDC doesn't see relief before end of 2027. Global shipments down 11.3% in 2026. Q4 forecast to fall 20% YoY. Average selling prices up 17% this year. The window for favorable pricing is closing fast. IDC analysts Jitesh Ubrani and Jean Philippe Bouchard have the full breakdown Learn more 👉 bit.ly/3PUSBFp #PCMarket #SupplyChain #TechIndustry #IDCResearch

IDC welcomed three leaders to its C-suite. Nick Mercurio as CRO. Joe Bradley as CTO. Dave McKenna as CISO. The team defining technology intelligence for the AI economy just got a lot stronger. 🔗 Read the full announcement: bit.ly/4aEa6Ra #IDCLeadership #TechIntelligence

Your buyers in Europe have heard "sovereign" so many times it stopped meaning anything. That's your problem to solve. IDC analysts Rahiel Nasir and Duncan Brown are sharing the research on what customers are measuring and what that means for how you sell. 🕐 One hour 📆 June 18 🔗 Register today: bit.ly/49vDj0o #IDCResearch #DigitalSovereignty #IDCWebinar

Enterprise technology roadmaps used to span five years. Now many organizations are planning 18 months ahead, and that window keeps shrinking. @Perficient's VP of AI Data Platforms, Eric Walk explains how the firm helps clients navigate this reality: move in weeks not years, apply AI to specific problems with clear outcomes, and ground every recommendation in trusted research rather than internet noise. "Trusted inputs produce trusted outputs." It is a simple principle. Getting it right is not. Read the blog ➡️ bit.ly/4vE9B1K #AIStrategy #EnterpriseConsulting #DigitalTransformation #IDCResearch

Rankings don't find you. You earn them. The IDC FinTech Rankings revenue survey is open, the program that sets the definitive market record for FinTech providers globally. So is Real Results, IDC's platform for documenting the outcomes your customers have actually achieved. Both submission windows are live. If your company belongs in the conversation, this is where it starts. 🔗 bit.ly/4uufair #IDCFinTechRankings #IDCRealResults #AcceptingNominations

1.15 billion active AI agents by 2029. 217 billion actions per day. That scale changes what governance means for your organization and how much it costs to get it wrong. The gap between early winners and costly remediators won't be the technology they chose. It'll be the discipline they applied before they deployed it. Stephen Elliot maps the 7-domain framework executives need to get ahead of that gap. 🔗 bit.ly/4v0F7qO #AgenticAI #AIGovernance #EnterpriseAI

With the release of Fitbit Air, Google is consolidating Google Fit, Health Connect, and Fitbit into a single platform. The $99 screenless tracker is the entry point. The real play is what sits underneath: an AI health coach built on Gemini, medical records integration, and a subscription model bundled into Google's broader AI tiers. Google is less interested in selling you a tracker than in becoming the platform that ties all your health data together. IDC Research Manager Jitesh Ubrani breaks down what that means for the wearables market and the competitors in its path. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4xpv6VQ #Wearables #DigitalHealth #GoogleHealth #AIStrategy #IDCResearch

Most hardware strategies for 2H were locked before the situation got worse. One hour with IDC analysts on June 17 sharpens the picture. Shipments, pricing pressure, procurement risk, the numbers that should be driving your decisions right now. 📅 June 17 | 11:00 AM ET 🔗 bit.ly/4vrnekC #IDCTechTalk #IDCResearch #MemoryShortage #2HOutlook

The Middle East war didn't just test business continuity plans. It broke them. Drone strikes on data centers, more than 800,000 cyberattacks per day, and physical and cyber threats arriving at once. IDC's Shilpi Handa discusses what the new resilience mandate looks like and why organizations that adapt early will be the ones to weather the storm. 🔎 bit.ly/4wZCIxT #BusinessContinuity #CyberResilience #META #IDCResearch

70% of B2B buyers self-qualify with AI before they talk to sales. They arrive ready to decide. Your qualification process filters them out anyway. IDC's Heather Hershey: "The funnel isn't filtering for quality. It's filtering for patience. And your best buyers have none." Get the full breakdown and on-demand panel today: bit.ly/4dXY1al #IDCResearch #B2BSales #RevenueOperations #PipelineConversion

AI adoption is moving faster than enterprise security can follow. That gap has consequences. The democratization of AI compute has changed what your security posture needs to cover. Most organizations are still working out where the new perimeter is. IDC's analysts have mapped it. Four experts. One session. Register before your 2H decisions get made without this. 🔗 bit.ly/4fzI3Wm #AIWebinarSeries #IDCResearch #AISecurity

Your buyers are doing their research before you ever enter the conversation. AI is now the filter between your content and your credibility, and most brands don't know where they stand in that equation. Being a recognized source of insight used to be a long-term brand play. In an AI-mediated buying journey, it's a near-term revenue variable. The brands getting this right aren't producing more content. They're producing the right kind. See how IDC builds that credibility for you 👇 bit.ly/4m2eoX8 #IDCResearch #BusinessValue #CredibleInsights

The belief that fast AI answers can't be trustworthy ones has become a governing assumption for most technology organizations. But it doesn't have to be that way. Find out how you can get both speed and quality. 🔎 bit.ly/3PRbRDp #AIResearch #TrustedAI #IDCQuanta #IDCResearch

Apple Park. June 8. Three IDC analysts with opinions. Tom Mainelli, Nabila Popal, and Francisco Jeronimo will be on the ground at WWDC26, watching every announcement and telling you what's worth your attention. Follow along. The Hot Takes won't wait. 🔥 📍 WWDC26 | Apple Park, CA | June 8, 2026 #IDCHotTakes #IDCResearch #AppleWWDC26

Most technology benchmarks weren't built for a company like The Resorts Companies. Too complex for one industry, too niche for another. Phillip Langeberg, CTO, needed a perspective that could meet him where he actually was. This is how he found it. 🔗 bit.ly/4nXmSQb #ITStrategy #TechLeadership #IDCResearch #IDCQuanta

Geopolitical risk just became a line item in your IT budget. The US-Iran war is reshaping enterprise tech spend in real time including logistics costs, memory pricing, and supply chain exposure. The organizations revising their 2H plans now are the ones that will spend smarter. The ones waiting are building their budgets on yesterday's assumptions. IDC's analysts have the updated forecast. June 4 is when they share it. 🔗 Reserve your seat today: bit.ly/4nRZeor #IDCResearch #IranWar #ITSpending #2HPlanning

Frontier AI companies now compete on compute access as much as model quality. Anthropic's deal with SpaceXAI makes that impossible to ignore. 300 megawatts. ~220,000 NVIDIA GPUs. Dedicated capacity that conventional clouds contracts cannot replicate. And a clear signal: as agentic workflows compound inference volume, whoever controls the capacity controls the product quality ceiling. Learn more from IDC Research Vice President of Software Development, Arnal Dayaratna 🔗 bit.ly/43mKXq4 #FrontierAI #EnterpriseAI #Anthropic #IDCResearch

Fewer phones. Higher prices. Longer upgrade cycles. 2026 is the year the smartphone industry's cost assumptions stopped working. Memory constraints plus US-Iran logistics pressure pushed ASP to a record $550 and shipments to their steepest decline in history. This isn't a down cycle. It's a structural reset. Get the full breakdown from IDC's Nabila Popal and Francisco Jeronimo 🔗 bit.ly/4wTjutJ #IDCResearch #WorldwideSmartphone #SmartphoneMarket

The next trillion-dollar tech opportunity is taking shape. Agentic AI is moving from experimentation to enterprise reality. And every company now claims to be an AI company. IDC is in Boston this Thursday to cut through all of it. Join us for an afternoon of expert briefings and sharp analysis as part of Boston Tech Week. We hope to see you there. 📍bit.ly/43meTCM #BostonTechWeek #AgenticAI #AIStrategy #IDCResearch