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By 2028, 42% of the world's largest companies will have rationalized their entire agent and app portfolio.Open · IDC · target Dec 2028
Asia/Pacific AI and GenAI spending will grow from $121.5 billion in 2025 to $555.2 billion by 2030.Open · IDC · target Dec 2030
European AI spending will reach nearly $470 billion in 2030.Open · IDC · target Dec 2030
There will be no meaningful relief in memory supply for enterprise storage before 2028.Open · IDC · target Dec 2027
The global AI infrastructure market will pass $1 trillion by 2029.Open · IDC · target Dec 2029
AI infrastructure spending will reach $487 billion in 2026, up about 53%.Open · IDC · target Dec 2026
Agentic AI will exceed 26% of worldwide IT spending, about $1.3 trillion, in 2029.Open · IDC · target Dec 2029
Agentic automation will enhance more than 40% of enterprise applications by 2027.Open · IDC · target Dec 2027
Agent use at the world's 2,000 largest companies will rise tenfold by 2027, with token and API loads up a thousandfold.Open · IDC · target Dec 2027
More than one billion AI agents will be actively deployed worldwide by 2029.Open · IDC · target Dec 2029
Companies without AI-ready data will suffer a 15% productivity loss by 2027.Open · IDC · target Dec 2027

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