Claude is ready for its corporate close-up

IDC says recent moves show Anthropic racing to meet enterprise requirements Thomas Claburn Thomas Claburn Senior reporter Published thu // UTC Enterprises that have watched Claude claw its way toward mass appeal over the past few months of capacity challenges and pricing realignment should take a closer look at Anthropic's offerings, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). Enterprises, IDC says, remain largely unsold on Anthropic's Claude models, with only 19 percent using them extensively and 25 percent actively evaluating them. OpenAI and Google are better represented in enterprises, with about 42 percent and 38 percent of organizations using their respective products, per IDC's FERS Survey, March 2026. According to The Information, about 86 percent of Anthropic’s 2025 revenue was projected to come from enterprise sales. OpenAI, the report claims, derives just 40 percent of its revenue from business sales, though that figure ($5.2 billion) represented a higher dollar amount than Anthropic's business revenue ($3.9 billion) at the time. That was back in January, only two months after Anthropic began shifting enterprises away from seat-based pricing toward usage-based pricing. Since then, IDC says Anthropic has taken a series of steps to make itself more credible as an enterprise AI provider. "This conclusion might not be obvious: From January through May 2026, Anthropic produced well over 100 public interactions, including official announcements, release notes, blog posts, X posts, partner announcements, hiring news, policy moves, and press-covered transactions," the report says. These initiatives, such as the launch of the Claude Partner Network, have expanded distribution, bolstered brand perception, facilitated future growth, enhanced "stickiness" (aka lock-in), strengthened enterprise support, addressed the needs of specific industries, demonstrated innovation, and shored up the compute supply necessary to deliver services at scale. According to IDC, the enterprise ecosystem commonly focuses on a vendor-neutral, multi-LLM strategy. UK goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields Angry bug hunter with Microsoft beef drops new Windows 0-day Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all' EVENTS Thriving Through Volatility: The Everpure Advantage in an Uncertain Market Learn how a consumption-based operating model provides flexibility, improves efficiency, and brings predictability to infrastructure investments. From Prompt to Exploit: How LLMs Are Changing API Attacks Modern applications are API-driven, interconnected, and often over-permissioned, making them an ideal target for AI-assisted attacks. Architecting the Future: Unlocking Enterprise Data Services for Kubernetes Join us to discover how to eliminate infrastructure silos and establish a standardized, enterprise-grade cloud-native platform.