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IDC FUTURESCAPE 2027

The Great Rewrite: Winning in the Agentic Economy

AI factories, autonomous agents, and physical robots are rewriting IT and business planning at every layer. FutureScape 2027 shows where your organization stands, and what it takes to win what comes next.

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Three windows, moving at different speeds

The forces rewriting IT and business planning aren’t moving at the same speed. FutureScape 2027 sorts them by how much time you have left to act, so you can decide where to put your next move.

The closing window

The AI-foundations gap is hardening into structural disadvantage for whoever didn’t act.

The open window

Agent governance and sovereignty are live decisions, compressing fast.

The emerging window

New categories of opportunity, open to whoever moves first.

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The windows defining 2027

AI-FIRST TIPPING POINT

60%

of enterprises will run a majority of business processes AI-first by 2029, up from 13% in 2026.

Closing

By 2031:

the revenue gap between G2000 brands that can identify, authenticate, transact with, and trust a customer’s AI agent and those that can’t will widen to 3X.

Open

G2000 enterprises

without kill switches on production AI agents by 2028 will see 25% higher liability insurance premiums and 2X more material audit findings.

Emerging

By 2029:

G2000 CIOs will shift 25% of services budgets from staffed hours to outcome-priced agent fleets.

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Proof Behind the Predictions

A lookback at previous FutureScape predictions

Jeff Hojlo

Research Vice President at IDC

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Group Vice President, Cloud and Datacenter Infrastructure at IDC

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