From ISE 2026: The New Control Layer for Offices and Rooms

This IDC Market Perspective discusses how the ISE 2026 event confirmed that the workspace technology market is entering a platform-driven phase. Vendors are repositioning management layers as the operating foundation for collaboration environments, addressing buyer demand for reliability, automation, and governance across mixed estates. As meeting rooms become more complex and cross-functional ownership becomes the norm, differentiation increasingly depends on how well suppliers enable enterprises to run, not just equip, their workspace infrastructure."The vendors that win in the next stage of workspace deployments will be those that reduce operational complexity, not those that add more features," notes Senior Research Manager Gala Spasova, IDC.