Category: Consumer Goods & Retailing
Consumer Goods & Retailing market research reports by IDC
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Worldwide Augmented Reality Hardware Market Shares, 2022: Nreal Supplants Microsoft for Leadership
Worldwide Augmented Reality Hardware Market Shares, 2022: Nreal Supplants Microsoft for Leadership This IDC study provides a view of worldwide AR hardware market shares by vendor for 2022."Although the worldwide AR hardware market remained relatively flat in 2022, beneath the surface were major shif ... Read More
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Inside the Video Game Industry's $193 Billion Consumer Experience Machine: A Primer on What Nongame Companies Can Learn
Inside the Video Game Industry's $193 Billion Consumer Experience Machine: A Primer on What Nongame Companies Can Learn This IDC Perspective is a primer that describes where and how IDC's Future of Consumer Experience (FoCX) practice intersects with today's live multiplayer gaming services market. T ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: HR Digital Transformation for Retailers
IDC PlanScape: HR Digital Transformation for Retailers This IDC PlanScape examines how digital transformation in HR can positively affect a retail organization, underlining steps toward a more impactful employee experience in view of flawless and efficient execution of modernization projects."Follow ... Read More
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Worldwide Video Platforms Software Forecast, 2023–2026: 1H22 Update
Worldwide Video Platforms Software Forecast, 2023–2026: 1H22 Update This IDC study provides a sizing of the worldwide video platforms software market in 2021, with an update of the first half of 2022 influencing the forecast through 2026. It includes commentary on market growth and the emerging tren ... Read More
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Worldwide Wearables Market Shares, 2022: Apple Stays Out in Front as Worldwide Wearables Market Declines in 2022
Worldwide Wearables Market Shares, 2022: Apple Stays Out in Front as Worldwide Wearables Market Declines in 2022 This IDC study examines the market share of the major vendors in the worldwide wearables market in 2022."Following years of steady growth and a period of hypergrowth during the COVID-19 p ... Read More
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Kodak Alaris and Sharp Form Strategic Alliance in the United States
Kodak Alaris and Sharp Form Strategic Alliance in the United States This IDC Market Note discusses the strategic alliance recently announced between Kodak Alaris and Sharp in the United States. This alliance gives Kodak Alaris access to Sharp's nationwide dealer network while filling a gap in Sharp ... Read More
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Is the Metaverse Virtually a Reality for Life Science R&D?
Is the Metaverse Virtually a Reality for Life Science R&D? This IDC Perspective reviews the significant potential of the metaverse and how it could transform the life science industry. It covers key use cases, analyzes the vendor landscape, reviews implementation challenges, and provides guidance to ... Read More
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Intelligent Retail Decision Making at NRF 2023
Intelligent Retail Decision Making at NRF 2023 This IDC Perspective covers the direction of intelligent retail at NRF 2023: Retail's Big Show has been a staple fixture in the retail market every year. In the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a noticeable feature at the show. Th ... Read More
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Highlights from NRF 2023: Retail's Big Show
Highlights from NRF 2023: Retail's Big Show This IDC Perspective reviews key trends and technology innovations that were highlighted at NRF 2023: Retail's Big Show — held January 15–17, 2023, in New York City, which attracted over 35,000 attendees across the industry, double the number seen last yea ... Read More
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The Convergence of Media and Retail Use Cases
The Convergence of Media and Retail Use Cases This IDC Perspective features the convergence of media and retail use cases. The concept of home entertainment, automation, shoppable ads, and ecommerce convergence has been debated for years without resolution. The reasons are many but primarily resulti ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Omni-Channel Payment Platforms
IDC PlanScape: Omni-Channel Payment Platforms This IDC PlanScape focuses on the relevance of an omni-channel payment platform as a relevant tool for retailers to meet consumers' channel-transparency expectations and as a powerful source of relevant data to help and support the retailer's strategy an ... Read More
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Worldwide Smart Home Monitoring and Security Device Forecast, 2023–2027
Worldwide Smart Home Monitoring and Security Device Forecast, 2023–2027 This IDC study provides worldwide smart home monitoring and security device market forecast for 2023–2027."The worldwide market for smart home monitoring and security devices remains robust despite downward pressure on shipments ... Read More
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Buyer Needs Shift from Digital Transformation to Operating as a Digital Business
Buyer Needs Shift from Digital Transformation to Operating as a Digital Business This IDC Market Note discusses recent news and themes supporting the shift from digital transformation to digital business. Based on this information, we provide recommendations for professional services providers. Plea ... Read More
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Progress Continues to Enhance Its Front-End Developer Tooling Portfolio with ThemeBuilder Pro and Updates to Telerik and Kendo UI
Progress Continues to Enhance Its Front-End Developer Tooling Portfolio with ThemeBuilder Pro and Updates to Telerik and Kendo UI This IDC Market Note discusses Progress' R3 2022, with specific attention to its ThemeBuilder Pro, Telerik, and Kendo UI products. "ThemeBuilder Pro's ability to accele ... Read More
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Part 2: Developing Realistic Expectations for AR/VR — Device Considerations
Part 2: Developing Realistic Expectations for AR/VR — Device Considerations This IDC Market Perspective investigates the challenges in mass-market augmented reality/virtual reality/extended reality (AR/VR/XR) devices by studying the role of sensors, onboard algorithms, semiconductor processor funct ... Read More
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U.S. Wearable Computing Device Forecast, 2023–2027: CY 1Q23
U.S. Wearable Computing Device Forecast, 2023–2027: CY 1Q23 This IDC study presents the U.S. wearable computing device forecast for the 2023–2027 period."Having witnessed strong growth and high volumes during the pandemic, the U.S. wearables market cooled down in 2022, and we expect that trend to c ... Read More
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NVIDIA's Launch of Omniverse Cloud Services: Opportunities for Industrial Metaverse Concept Development
NVIDIA's Launch of Omniverse Cloud Services: Opportunities for Industrial Metaverse Concept Development This IDC Market Note covers NVIDIA's recent plans to launch Omniverse Cloud services for building and operating industrial metaverse applications. NVIDIA will provide developers and enterprise tea ... Read More
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Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Hardware Forecast, 2023–2027: CY 1Q23
Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Hardware Forecast, 2023–2027: CY 1Q23 This IDC study provides a forecast for the worldwide augmented and virtual reality hardware market for the 2023–2027 period."2022 saw market retrenchment from forces within and outside," points out Ramon T. Llamas, researc ... Read More
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Telcos in the Metaverse Era
Telcos in the Metaverse Era This IDC Market Perspective explores the many definitions of the metaverse with a deep dive on how the telco industry engages with the metaverse. The report also introduces the IDC Metaverse Value Chain Framework. From this, it analyzes the different activities and initia ... Read More
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Worldwide Wearable Computing Device Forecast, 2023-2027: CY 1Q23
Worldwide Wearable Computing Device Forecast, 2023-2027: CY 1Q23 This IDC study presents the worldwide wearable computing device forecast for the 2023–2027 period."Having reached a high-water mark in 2021, the worldwide wearables market started to cool off in 2022," points out Ramon T. Llamas, rese ... Read More
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A Review of Select Fintechs from the Temenos Community Forum 2022
A Review of Select Fintechs from the Temenos Community Forum 2022 This IDC Perspective provides an overview of selected companies participating in the Temenos Community Forum 2022 and portraited through interviews conducted by the author. At the time of the Temenos Community Forum 2022, they were al ... Read More
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Headless Commerce: Modular Headless Commerce
Headless Commerce: Modular Headless Commerce This IDC Perspective looks into headless commerce, more specifically modular headless commerce (MHC). While it may seem ironic, most marketing concerning headless commerce actually emphasizes the "head" (aka the front end, or presentation layer of a websi ... Read More
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Consumer Market Model Insights: Global Market for Consumer Digital Goods and Services and the Sharing Economy
Consumer Market Model Insights: Global Market for Consumer Digital Goods and Services and the Sharing Economy This IDC Market Perspective examines the consumer digital goods and services and the sharing economy spend worldwide. It reveals the regions, key verticals, and generational cohorts that con ... Read More
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Headless Commerce: Simplified Headless Commerce
Headless Commerce: Simplified Headless Commerce This IDC Perspective discusses the importance of simplified headless commerce. The term headless is so overused in technology marketing that it has become cliche. To further understand the category, we need to differentiate between platforms that are c ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Computer Vision + AI Practices to Improve the Grocery Retail Bottom Line
IDC PeerScape: Computer Vision + AI Practices to Improve the Grocery Retail Bottom Line This IDC PeerScape looks at several practices for choosing how and where to implement computer vision + AI in order to drive sales, improve customer experience, and create operational efficiencies in grocery and ... Read More
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