[New] IT services - including application implementation, managed services, infrastructure implementation, managed services, and IaaS - will see the largest overall spending at $1.87 billion.
Campus Technology
[New] Software, IT services, and devices see spending increases: Gartner forecasts IT services at $1.87 billion, software at $1.44 billion, communications services at $1.36 billion, and devices at $856 million.
Campus Technology
[New] Hyundai's global software center, 42 dot, will focus on software-oriented solutions, including PBV (Purpose Built Vehicle) devices.
HYUNDAI MOTORS
[New] The software vertical is forecast at $1.44 billion in spending, a 2026 growth of 15.1%; communication services forecast at $1.36 billion in spending, a growth of 4.8%; and devices forecast at $856 million, a growth of 8.2%.
Campus Technology
[New] Driven by the growing adoption of artificial intelligence, infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is forecast to record the fastest growth among the main cloud segments, rising 24.1% to A$7.1bn.
ComputerWeekly.com
[New] The multi-vendor e-commerce SaaS segment is forecasted to grow to $12 B in 2026, building on 2025's 18% rise (Statista).
Appscrip
[New] Freshworks, a software-as-a-service company, plans to reduce its workforce by 11% as artificial intelligence reshapes operations, even as it posted a 16% year-on-year revenue growth in the first quarter of 2026.
Yourstory
[New] Zeta Global teamed with Snowflake to push an Open Semantic Interchange for AI-powered marketing - a standardization push that could speed cross-platform data flows for martech buyers.
Stock Titan
[New] According to Parks Associates research, on average US internet households subscribe to 5.3 streaming services, making streaming TV the anchor for the unified video platform, and its users are far more likely to engage with interactive ad formats, creating new opportunities in advertising innovation.
Parks Associates
[New] Software spending is expected to increase 14% in 2026, with AI deployments adding to investments in security, optimization, and analytics, per IDC's 2026 forecast.
SQ Magazine
[New] (Gartner) Global IT spending on software is expected to grow 9.8% in 2026, exceeding $6 trillion total.
Uvik Software
[New] (IDC) Enterprise software spending is projected to hit $1.4 trillion in 2026, a 15% year-over-year increase.Uvik Software
[New] (IDC Worldwide AI Spending Guide) AI software alone will account for $157 billion of the 2026 global AI spending total.
Uvik Software
[New] The SaaS landscape in 2026 emphasizes vertical solutions over generic tools, with AI automation projected to account for 40% of new revenue streams according to Gartner's 2025 forecast, a trend carrying into early 2026.
Appscrip
[New] Freight management SaaS is projected at $18 B in 2026, accelerating from 2025's supply chain disruptions (Mordor Intelligence).
Appscrip
[New] Growth in cloud computing, data consumption, and AI is driving a step change in computing requirements, with global contracted data center capacity projected to increase by more than 200% from 2025 to 2035.KKR
[New] $1.17 billion in 2026 for web scraping software, projected $2.28 billion by 2030.Scrap.io
Serverless architectures will account for a substantial portion of cloud workloads, further influencing the future of cloud computing 2026.
Devigon Tech
Amazon Web Services grew 28% in Q1 2026, Azure grew 40%, and the largest cloud and platform companies plus Meta are expected to spend well $600 billion in 2026 to expand AI capacity.
Mean CEO's BLOG
80% of enterprises will have used GenAI APIs or deployed GenAI-enabled applications by end of 2026, making AI integration a near-standard line item in SaaS project estimation.
Ariel Software Solutions
Management stated it expects Software to grow 10% or more for FY 2026, Consulting to accelerate to low to mid-single-digit growth, and Infrastructure revenue to decline low-single-digits for the full year despite a strong start to the z17 cycle.
Futurum
