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Most manufacturers ask “what’s my use case” for physical AI before they ask “what stage am I actually at.” That’s backwards. IDC’s Sarah Lee on why maturity comes first: bit.ly/4zzC0bg #PhysicalAI
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Andrew Shipe’s team at Sourcewell Ventures doesn’t have a shortage of ideas. It has a shortage of hours to research them, and every idea has to earn its place fast. When agencies kept saying drone first-responder programs were “too expensive” with no specifics, Shipe used IDC Quanta to put real numbers behind the complaint, turning a vague pain point into a problem his team could actually plan around. Read more about the trust problem AI finally solved: bit.ly/3VNdgO7 #IDCQuanta #IDCAIPlatform #EmbeddedIntelligence
IDC tracked 66 open language models released in 2024 alone, with 34 more in a single quarter of 2025. Most enterprises are now running five or more models across different teams, and no one outside the AI group can name all of them with confidence. A recent IDC blog says that’s a governance problem being handled like a procurement one. The fix: a named owner for the model portfolio, not just approval at kickoff. Get the full picture: bit.ly/4jWg6tZ #AIGovernance #EnterpriseAI #IDCResearch
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IDC's benchmarks of 1,900 organizations puts just 3.1% at the optimized stage of AI maturity. IDC's Shari Lava presents the research behind the numbers live, including what the organizations ahead of the curve are doing differently. IDC reveals the AI-Fueled Maturity Model on October 21, save your seat today: bit.ly/4j07d2d #AIMaturity #AIFueledOrganization #EnterpriseAI
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How do you scale agentic AI without the risk scaling right along with it? Autonomous decision-making is unlocking real enterprise innovation, but managing the risk that comes with it is the harder part. IDC’s Shari Lava takes that on at the IDC AI & Data Summit Dallas, covering how leading organizations are scaling agentic AI past the pilot stage, where the biggest risks sit, and what it takes to build trust into autonomous systems. 📍 Renaissance Dallas Hotel 📅 December 3, 2026 👉 Register now: bit.ly/4e97bBQ #IDCAIandDataSummit #IDCEvents #AILeadership
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For the first time in thirty years, enterprise software vendors don’t control their own front doors, and most of them just agreed to it voluntarily. IDC’s Eric Newmark says Salesforce handing its interface to Claude, Slack, and a dedicated coworker agent is the opening move in a much bigger fight: who becomes the landlord of agentic work. Microsoft, Slack, Claude, ChatGPT, and now Meta are all competing for that real estate. His read: the next platform war won’t be won by whoever builds the best agent, but by whoever controls where humans and agents actually meet. Read the recent IDC blog for more: bit.ly/4s4QAop #EnterpriseSoftware #SaaS #IDCResearch
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IDC forecasts worldwide security spend at $310.42B in 2026, up 13.2% from 2025. Among 492 CEOs surveyed in February 2026, cybersecurity is still the highest-ranked anticipated technology risk, ahead of AI. Bigger budgets haven’t made tech leaders feel safer. IDC research points to an evidence gap, not a budget gap. The new IDC Quanta Insights Report shows where the gap sits and closes with three questions to ask before your next budget decision: bit.ly/4jiilHW #IDCQuanta #IDCAIPlatform #EmbeddedIntelligence
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When budgets tighten, security and risk rank as the second-safest line item in the enterprise, right behind AI and automation. At 16% of organizations it is considered immune to cuts, rising to 23% among those with more than 10,000 employees. That’s worth having ready before your own budget conversation: a named, sourced IDC benchmark, not an anonymous one. Full outlook available here: bit.ly/4hGAe0J #IDCQuanta #IDCAIPlatform #EmbeddedIntelligence
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A circular graph shows 43% highlighted in yellow, indicating the proportion of CIOs who measure vendor performance enterprise-wide against a defined benchmark. The remaining percentage is not highlighted. Text below reads: "The rest don't." At the bottom, it notes this data is from IDC's 2025 Annual CIO Sentiment Survey.

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‼️ The IDC AI and Data Summit series is heading to Dallas ‼️ Expect a full day of IDC research and analyst perspectives, practical deployment guidance, and peer conversations with the senior leaders shaping the same roadmap you are. CIOs, CDOs, and AI and data leaders, this one is built for you. Register today: bit.ly/4e97bBQ #IDCAIandDataSummit #DataStrategy #AgenticAI
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Most intelligence platforms sell you an opinion. IDC backs every one of ours with evidence. Behind every answer: $500 billion in tracked tech market spend, turned into something you can act on by a global bench of analysts. Start with the need in front of you. Add more as your decisions and investments grow with room for your whole team. IDC Quanta for Tech Leaders, premium intelligence built to scale with your organization: bit.ly/4sbsglb #IDCQuanta #EmbeddedIntelligence #IDCAIPlatform
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A model cannot be both the worker and the referee of its own behavior, and most organizations are currently asking it to be both. IDC’s Philip D. Harris lays out why system prompts and safety fine-tuning are “courtesy controls,” not security boundaries: a creative-enough prompt can argue past anything living inside the model’s own context window. The fix is five independent controls running outside it, with EU AI Act fines of up to 3% of global revenue now making a provider’s safety posture a financial risk. Read the IDC blog for more: bit.ly/47laVMQ #AIGovernance #GRC #IDCResearch
What is the single biggest roadblock holding your organization back on AI? You'll get to weigh in LIVE on October 21, with IDC's Shari Lava presenting the research behind the numbers. Save your seat today, space is limited: bit.ly/4j07d2d #AIMaturity #AIFueledOrganization #IDCWebinar
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City and state agencies kept telling Sourcewell that drone first-responder programs weren’t affordable. No one could say exactly why. Andrew Shipe, Innovation Strategist at Sourcewell Ventures, needed to turn that vague objection into a structural problem a government partner could plan around. That required intelligence he could verify before it went in front of a decision-maker. On other AI tools: “That’s kind of always been one of my challenges — what is real and what is hallucinated.” On IDC Quanta: “The appeal was that it’s backed by specific articles, and I could read them and make sure that the numbers I’m getting are correct.” Inline citations tied every claim to a source he could open and check. The vague objection became a defined, fundable problem. Read how Sourcewell Ventures puts IDC Quanta to work: bit.ly/3VNdgO7 #IDCQuanta #GovTech #AIResearch
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Meta holds 68.7% of the smart glasses and headset market. Next closest, RayNeo: 3.6%. Shipments up 35.3% YoY in 2Q26. Audio glasses (incl. Ray-Ban Meta) took 70.3% of shipments. 2Q26 share + 2026-2028 forecast: bit.ly/3Wi2UG0 #SmartGlasses #WearableTech #IDC
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Past the immediate shock: what does robotics look like in 3 years? IDC's live session maps the long-term scenarios, not just the fallout. Oct 14. bit.ly/IDC-US-Ban-Global-Rob… #PhysicalAI #RoboticsMarket
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Tech leaders think they’re ahead. Only 3.1% actually are. IDC scored 1,900 organizations on AI maturity across strategy, governance, people, and technology. 3.1% reached Optimized. Of the organizations that call themselves AI thrivers, 15.1% scored Managed or Optimized. Four statements and two minutes will place you on the same scale: bit.ly/3TTeJ4T #IDCQuanta #AIMaturity #AIStrategy
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Where you sit in robotics — builder, buyer, investor — changes how the US ban hits you. IDC breaks it down by position, live Oct 14. bit.ly/IDC-US-Ban-Global-Rob… #Robotics #ValueChain
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Speed and control have long been treated as a trade-off for tech leaders. IDC's CIO and CISO, Dave McKenna, sees it differently: both depend on verified data. In his new blog, Dave evaluates IDC Quanta for Tech Leaders from two seats. As a CIO, he asks whether it helps his team move faster. As a CISO, he asks whether he would approve it. Read Dave's take: bit.ly/4ybVWjp
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A 20.1% decline in worldwide PC shipments tells part of the story. The inventory pull-in underneath it tells the rest. Q3 normally beats Q2. In 2026, it came in 9.1% below. Full Q3 results: bit.ly/4yDX9RD #PCMarket #PCShipments #IDCResearch
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Reshoring isn't the real story here. Supply-chain hedging is and it's moving faster than most coverage suggests. IDC explains, Oct 14. bit.ly/IDC-US-Ban-Global-Rob… #PhysicalAI #SupplyChain
Live webinar announcement by IDC. It is scheduled for October 14, 2026, at 11 AM EDT and 5 PM CEST, discussing "How the US Ban is Reshaping the Robotics Market." Featured speakers include Navkendar Singh, Associate VP, Client Devices, and Ryan Reith, Group VP, Worldwide Device Trackers.

ALT Live webinar announcement by IDC. It is scheduled for October 14, 2026, at 11 AM EDT and 5 PM CEST, discussing "How the US Ban is Reshaping the Robotics Market." Featured speakers include Navkendar Singh, Associate VP, Client Devices, and Ryan Reith, Group VP, Worldwide Device Trackers.
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