Agent lineage and decision trace is the verifiable record of what an AI agent did, on whose authority, and which records it touched, so every binding action can be reconstructed, attributed and ...

AI agent governance is the set of policies, controls and oversight mechanisms that keep autonomous AI agents operating safely inside defined authority, with a named human owner accountable for every ...

AI gaslighting is the exposure an enterprise faces when its own AI systems generate reports, communications, analytics and automated decisions that are misleading or factually wrong, and people cannot ...

An AI-first enterprise runs a majority of its business processes with AI agents as the default starting point and humans assisting and providing oversight, an operating model IDC predicts 60% of ...

A software factory is the set of systems that create, build, and deliver an organization’s code. IDC predicts that by 2028, 50% of large enterprises will treat these systems as critical infrastructure ...

Insights from IDC FutureScape: Commoditized Knowledge Drives a Results Economy for Services 2027 Predictions and IDC FutureScape: IT Industry 2027 Predictions Physical AI shared responsibility is ...

The bigger change is that document work once split across separate products is starting to run as a single workflow. IDP was not new in 2023. What changed was the work it took to get value from it.

Ricoh and ETRIA (a manufacturer built on Ricoh, Toshiba Tec and OKI technologies) announced Circular New on October 6, 2026, to build new A3 multifunction printers (MFPs) partly from components ...

Techflation is the sustained increase in technology costs caused by capacity demand for processors, memory, and datacenter power and cooling that supply cannot match. According to IDC, the trigger is ...

An AI-fueled organization is one where strategy, governance, people and technology are orchestrated so AI is embedded across the operating model, and IDC’s MaturityScape tracks it across five stages ...

Human-speed governance is oversight that depends on committees, scheduled reviews and manual reconciliation, a model that cannot keep pace with AI agents making thousands of decisions per second. What ...

Datacenters are outrunning the grid, water supplies are stretched, and engineers will not act on AI they cannot verify. IDC's FutureScape 2027 energy and resources predictions show technology leaders ...