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The IT industry stands on the brink of one of its most transformative eras, triggering major consolidations in many long-standing sectors and the emergence of major new markets. IDC’s latest research shows that the infusion of autonomy, adaptability, and decision-making into products and services with agentic AI is redefining the very foundation of technology design, delivery, and value creation. It goes beyond an evolution in AI adoption.

Many executive teams are asking the same question: How can we shorten the distance between a business event and a decision that matters? IDC’s FutureScape: Worldwide Data and Analytics 2026 Predictions points to a clear direction: By 2029, 60% of enterprise data platforms will unify transactional and analytical workloads, powering agentic AI and enabling real-time, continuous intelligence.

Many executive teams are asking the same question: How can we shorten the distance between a business event and a…

Software development is at an inflection point. As agentic AI reshapes how teams build, deploy, and manage applications, the boundaries between developers, tools, and systems are dissolving.

Software development is at an inflection point. As agentic AI reshapes how teams build, deploy, and manage applications, the boundaries…

As enterprises accelerate their use of AI, the importance of secure data sharing has never been greater. In IDC’s recent FutureScape 2026 predictions, it was predicted that by 2028, 60% of enterprises will collaborate on data through private exchanges or data clean rooms. With Amazon Web Services (AWS) announcing new privacy-enhancing synthetic data generation within AWS Clean Rooms, we are already starting to see that prediction take shape.

IDC and Amazon are teaming up to make high-quality business insights faster, easier, and more accessible. IDC announced a new strategic partnership that brings its proprietary technology intelligence directly into Amazon Quick Research, an AI-powered research agent inside Amazon Quick Suite. Amazon designed Quick Research to help business professionals generate, synthesize, and analyze complex information across multiple data sources.

Many enterprises are eager to deploy AI-driven capabilities, yet their ambitions are constrained by accumulated technical debt — outdated systems, fragile integrations, and limited data interoperability. IDC research shows that unmanaged tech debt can consume 20–40% of development time, diverting resources away from innovation and modernization. For CIOs, the problem isn’t only technical, it’s strategic.

As enterprises move from predictive and generative to agentic AI, the stakes are changing. Agentic AI — software systems capable of reasoning, acting, and learning autonomously — may sit at the center of critical business operations. For some, this evolution will surface new vulnerabilities. For others, it will create an entirely new source of strategic advantage. In IDC’s FutureScape: Worldwide Agentic Artificial Intelligence 2026 Predictions, two forecasts capture this divergence clearly.

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