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Digital Sovereignty in Canada: Part 1 of the 2025 Survey Data

Nigel Wallis — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey, using data from IDC's 2025 Worldwide Digital Sovereignty Survey, explores digital sovereignty and sovereign cloud in Canada compared with the rest of the world.

Respondents answered questions about sovereign cloud:

Current and future state of adoption
Drivers and inhibitors to adoption
Perceived benefits
Challenges to implementation
Leading sovereign cloud vendors today and next year
Selection attributes for choosing sovereign cloud providers

The document also examines the Canadian responses to digital sovereignty issues, including:

Diversifying technological ecosystems
Data sovereignty
Technical sovereignty
Operational sovereignty

"Interest in digital sovereignty and specifically sovereign cloud has risen greatly in the past year, driven by geopolitical events, regulatory compliance, and new vendor investment and offerings. As nearly every organization has now embraced a cloud architecture, the question and debate about which workloads to utilize sovereign clouds is a live issue for Canadian CIOs and their line-of-business counterparts. The federal government's November 11 position paper Digital Sovereignty: A Framework to improve digital readiness of the Government of Canada will only stoke the curiosity of Canadian organizations. As a result, IDC is providing not only a taxonomy for digital sovereignty but also data on the commonalities and differences between Canadian perceptions of sovereignty and their global counterparts." Nigel Wallis, research VP, IDC Canada

Ecosystem Development in Insurance 2025

Inci Kaya — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey shares the ecosystem development–related findings from IDC's 2025 Financial Insights Industry Intelligence Survey from insurance respondents. This document explores the insurance sector's key drivers, use case adoption, and underlying technologies related to building or developing ecosystems.

Carriers view ecosystem development as a key priority, though it follows higher-ranking initiatives focused on leveraging AI and GenAI and improving compliance, regulatory oversight, and antifraud measures. Ecosystem development entails engaging with new ecosystems like payments, ecommerce platforms, and partnerships.

Technology vendors can use this document to:

Identify suitable products and services to distribute across a broader ecosystem
Identify partners and marketplaces that may be a good fit to expand the reach of their products and services to new audiences
Develop success metrics and partnerships to track how well partnerships are working

Technology vendor executives in marketing, sales and product strategy, and other areas can leverage the insight from this document to inform and formulate their approach with buyers in the insurance sector.

Technology Investment and Innovation Monitor, October 2025: Tech Buyer and IT Spending Priorities for 2026 and the Use of Cloud Marketplaces

Rick Villars — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey presents results from IDC's 2025 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending (FERS) Survey, Wave 8, which focuses on issues related to IT leaders' economic outlook, spending priorities for 2026, the use of cloud marketplaces, and the implications of GenAI for business intelligence and analytics. It was conducted in late October 2025.

Building custom agents, modernizing corporate datacenters, and migrating apps to cloud are the top drivers of 2026 spending increases worldwide. The implications of AI on business and apps are the primary drivers. It is part of a series of IT buyer outlook FERS Surveys across regions, technologies, and industries throughout 2025. This survey of 890 respondents in North America, Asia/Pacific, and Western Europe was conducted in October 2025, while IT leaders were making initial decisions on 2026 plans.

Vendor Value Attributes and Strategic Technology Partners to the C-Suite, 2025: C-Suite Tech Survey, Part 4

Tony Olvet — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey explores the results of IDC's Worldwide C-Suite Tech Survey to provide insights into C-suite persona priorities and plans for the next year. The survey highlights C-suite views on priorities, challenges, and decision-making dynamics for technology initiatives. This analysis is based on the full international set of respondents of the Worldwide C-Suite Tech Survey, conducted in August–September 2025. The respondents include 914 respondents across North America, Asia/Pacific, and EMEA. This is part 4 of a four-part series, focusing on questions related to vendor value attributes and strategic technology partners for the C-suite. The study findings are designed to help tech vendors understand how to meet the changing priorities of C-suite executives and can serve as peer reference research for C-suite executives in the enterprise.

2025年国内金融IT市場動向調査：「モダナイゼーション」後の金融IT市場の展望

Hitoshi Ichimura — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートでは、国内金融機関のIT支出動向の調査、分析を行う。国内金融機関は18業態に分類し、2024年～2029年のIT支出動向を分析する。現在、業態を問わず多くの金融機関で既存システム刷新、モダナイゼーションに着手している。したがって、現状は各金融機関における既存システム刷新、モダナイゼーション案件が牽引するがこれらの案件が一段落した後、国内金融IT市場は新たなデジタルビジネス推進を目的とした案件が牽引することになり、ユーザー、ITサプライヤーを取り巻く市場環境は大きく変わるとみている。本調査レポートでは、国内金融機関の「モダナイゼーション」後の新たなデジタルビジネスの展望、テクノロジー利用動向、支援するパートナー企業の動向を分析することで、国内金融IT市場でITサプライヤーがビジネスを拡大させる施策を考察する。

国内金融機関では既存システム刷新、モダナイゼーションの大型プロジェクトの終息後、デジタルビジネス推進が見込まれる。しかし、国内金融機関の多くでデジタルビジネス分野を中心に内製化、スタートアップ企業の採用が増えるため、既存ベンダー、SIerのビジネス拡大にはつながらない可能性がある。すでに大手金融機関、ネット金融機関ではデジタルビジネス推進における内製化、スタートアップ企業の活用が進んでおり、今後業態を問わず国内金融機関の多くで内製化、スタートアップ企業の採用拡大が不可避である。したがって、「既存ベンダー、SIerは、金融機関の内製化の体制整備に向けて伴走型支援、またはスタートアップ企業との連携を強化し提供ソリューションの拡充などの取り組みが求められる」と、IDC Japan、Vertical & Cross Technologyのシニアリサーチマネージャーである市村仁は分析している。

Digital Sovereignty and Compliance

Rob Tiffany — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight looks at where enterprise data is stored across datacenters, remote offices, edge locations, and public clouds with the associated complexity that comes with managing disparate locations. It also calls out the relative importance of maintaining digital sovereignty and regulatory compliance via datacenter selection in regions around the world. The document draws upon data collected from IDC's 2Q25 Cloud Pulse Survey.

European Public Cloud IaaS Market Shares, 2024: Architecting for Sovereignty and AI

Carla Arend — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study examines the 2024 market shares of the leading vendors in the European public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market.

"The European public cloud IaaS market showed strong momentum in 2024, growing 22.5% year on year to reach $30 billion. Enterprises are re-architecting their infrastructure with sovereignty and AI on their minds. Cloud infrastructure is now expected to be sovereign, distributed, interoperable, and optimized for efficiency, data sovereignty, observability, and cost control." — Carla Arend, associate vice president, European cloud research, IDC

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance Consulting Services 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Philip D. Harris, CISSP, CCSK — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study explores the services underpinnings required to enable a successful and fully implemented cybersecurity GRC program that can be managed either by the end customer or by the service provider that built it. This study also raises questions that buyers and vendors in this space can use as a guide to make informed decisions and achieve desired outcomes. The discipline and design of cybersecurity GRC services can provide a framework for orienting organizations from optimizing standard checkbox outcomes to optimizing a value-added program that effectively manages cybersecurity risks. This framework should also provide a prescriptive life-cycle approach that drives commitment and support from senior executives, board members, and various stakeholders in between.

"A well-defined cybersecurity GRC program is critical in today's ever-changing and growing threat landscape," said Phil Harris, research director, IDC's GRC Services and Software program. "Attackers are in the business for the long haul, extracting as much valuable data or intelligence while undetected to reap as many benefits as possible. A practical and pragmatic way to combat this is to adopt an ongoing methodical approach to assessing the depth and breadth of cybersecurity controls and the maturity to cull new or not-so-obvious vulnerabilities and exposures that attackers exploit. This is an ongoing race, and organizations with strong cybersecurity GRC programs will be better prepared to withstand evolving attacks."

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Software Asset Management Managed Services 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Nishant Bansal — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study assesses 11 managed service providers offering SAM managed services at a worldwide level. It is based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters that compare providers and assess them based on the factors expected to be most conducive to success in each market in both the short and long term.

"As organizations continue to expand across SaaS, hybrid cloud, and multivendor ecosystems, the complexity of licensing and usage governance has accelerated. SAM managed services are increasingly moving beyond reactive compliance management to become strategic enablers of cost transparency, digital governance, and value realization. Providers that combine automation, analytics, and informed advisory guidance will be best positioned to help enterprises optimize spending, manage risk, and align software investments with business priorities," said Nishant Bansal, associate research director, Worldwide Services, IDC Worldwide.

IDC's Worldwide Communications Platform–as-a-Service Survey, 2025: Developers Leverage AI-Enabled Tools

Courtney Munroe, Avinash Naga — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines results from IDC's 2025 Worldwide Communications Platform–as-a-Service Survey. The details are follows:

AI adoption is accelerating and driving competitive differentiation: Approximately 72% of organizations are already implementing advanced analytics or AI engines and 69% are using GenAI. AI capabilities have become the most critical CPaaS vendor selection factor, surpassing price and security.
Security and monetization APIs lead usage: Quality-on-demand (QoD) services (62%), payments (61%), and antifraud (59%) dominate API adoption. The Asia/Pacific region shows the highest uptake, with network information at 74% and QoD at 68%, signaling strong demand for advanced network features.
CPaaScombined with telecom network APIs is now mainstream: CPaaS platforms have become mainstream, with 84% of organizations already engaging directly with cloud communications vendors and another 14% planning to within a year. Similarly, 73% use telecom network APIs today, with 24% planning to use in the next 12 months.