Category: Technology
Technology market research reports by IDC
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IDC PlanScape: Marketplaces for Retailers
IDC PlanScape: Marketplaces for Retailers This IDC PlanScape explores the characteristics of digital marketplaces as facilitators and robust tools to enhance a brand's online presence, underlying characteristics that make them particularly effective in specific business moments."Marketplaces are one ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Best Practices for Livestream Shopping in Retail and D2C
IDC PeerScape: Best Practices for Livestream Shopping in Retail and D2C This IDC PeerScape discusses the main issues that emerge in retailers' livestream business models and how to solve them through decisions and directions."A retail company using livestream shopping for the first time might be bew ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Secure IoT for Retail
IDC PlanScape: Secure IoT for Retail This IDC PeerScape provides a road map for implementing IoT security in retail organizations. "Amid rising retail crime and cyberattacks, now is an important time for retailers to take a proactive approach to security across the many, varied IoT applications acro ... Read More
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These Five Trends Will Allow Grocery Retailers to Ride the Waves of Economic Volatility
These Five Trends Will Allow Grocery Retailers to Ride the Waves of Economic Volatility This IDC Perspective predicts five ways that grocery retailers will accelerate their digital transformation strategies to survive and thrive in rapidly shifting social and economic conditions. Already a narrow ma ... Read More
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The Inflation Challenge and Retail Price Optimization
The Inflation Challenge and Retail Price Optimization This IDC Perspective discusses the inflationary pressures that retailers face and the implications of pricing tied to merchandising and operating when under these pressures. This study outlines the causal insights that lead to dynamic events duri ... Read More
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Create Multilayered, Digital Retail Experiences for the Customer Using Smart Shelves, Computer Vision, and Artificial Intelligence
Create Multilayered, Digital Retail Experiences for the Customer Using Smart Shelves, Computer Vision, and Artificial Intelligence This IDC study discusses how the future of retail is a continuum of multilayered, digital shopping environments in which invisible streams of data drive personalized exp ... Read More
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IDC's Worldwide Retail Industry Spending Guide Taxonomy, 2022
IDC's Worldwide Retail Industry Spending Guide Taxonomy, 2022 This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC Retail Insights' taxonomy and is intended to be a companion document to the IDC Worldwide Retail Industry Spending Guide. This structure provides the foundation for research and retai ... Read More
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Look Ma, No Hands: Virtual, Automated, and Personalized — the Future of Retail Mirrors What Digital First Holds for Hospitality, Dining, and Travel
Look Ma, No Hands: Virtual, Automated, and Personalized — the Future of Retail Mirrors What Digital First Holds for Hospitality, Dining, and Travel This IDC Perspective reviews several of the major themes and trends that dominated at the 2022 National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show. Global hospita ... Read More
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IDC Perspective: How to Grow In-Store Sustainability with Technology Solutions
IDC Perspective: How to Grow In-Store Sustainability with Technology Solutions This IDC Perspective discusses how to grow in-store sustainability with technology solutions. Over the past few years, retailers are increasing attention to and investment in technologies to enhance their environmental su ... Read More
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Reporting from NRF: Retail Technology to Support Profitable Hybrid Shopping Experiences
Reporting from NRF: Retail Technology to Support Profitable Hybrid Shopping Experiences This IDC Perspective discusses themes addressed at the 2022 NRF Big Show. Hybrid omni-channel experiences open opportunities to please the consumer in new ways, but they also add significant expense and complexit ... Read More
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Retail Applications of Cryptocurrency
Retail Applications of Cryptocurrency This IDC Perspective discusses the current consumer-level cryptocurrency market, examining what is driving the increasing use of cryptocurrencies in retail point-of-sale payments as well as how consumers are beginning to learn of the advantages cryptocurrencies ... Read More
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IDC Retail Insights' European Retail Trends, 2022
IDC Retail Insights' European Retail Trends, 2022 This IDC Perspective examines key technology trends that emerged in retail during 2021 — namely autonomous stores and contactless, inventory forecasting, and the metaverse — and are expected to develop further in 2022. We will see how these trends ar ... Read More