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IDC’s industry research assists business and IT leaders in making technology decisions across six industries - retail, government, financial services, manufacturing, health and energy.

IDC’s industry research helps business and IT leaders:

Optimize IT Strategy with Proven Industry Insights

  • Plan and implement digital transformation strategies with industry expertise from our global analysts.
  • Validate conclusions and identify risks early on based on accurate, relevant data.
  • Plan to meet company goals with guidance from our rigorous research methodology.

Foster Growth and Innovation in Your Organization

  • Drive growth by evolving your organization into the digital age with our analysts’ industry expertise and advice.
  • Build out digital transformation roadmaps with our consulting services.
  • Promote innovation by supplying your team with the latest technology data and trends from around the globe.

Access Insights to Define your Digital Strategy and Operate Efficiently

  • Develop a clearly defined digital strategy and positioning based on our expert industry analysis and guidance.
  • Keep operations efficient and aligned to your digital initiatives with IDC’s most cutting-edge digital strategies for your industry.

Make Informed Decisions with our Industry Expertise

  • Lead informed negotiations with vendors grounded in fact-based industry research, expertise and guidance.
  • Accurately assess supply and demand, market costs and vendor metrics with our industry consulting services.

IDC’s industry research also helps technology suppliers inform their vertical marketing, sales, and product management strategies so that they more closely align with key industry-specific trends and investment priorities.

Explore IDC’s Industry Research

Energy
Financial
Government
Health
Manufacturing
Retail

IDC Energy Insights works with utility companies, energy and water suppliers, and oil and gas producers on how to leverage technology and data to improve asset operations along the value chain, mitigate risk, improve customer experience, facilitate the ongoing energy transition, and more.

Its global team of analysts with decades of industry experience, advise on how to create holistic digital operational strategies that deliver agile operations and how to harness information for improved decision making and the creation of new value-added services.

IDC Financial Insights works with financial institutions to help them achieve success through smart, outcome-oriented technology decisions, value generation via open, agile, and secure infrastructures, delivery of dynamic and personalized customer experiences, and guidance to cut through the marketing noise of the tech industry.

Its global team of analysts, with decades of industry experience, advise financial institutions on how to supplant the functionality of legacy systems with digital technologies that will improve efficiency and profitability, engage the customer in a meaningful way while reducing risk and fraud.

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IDC Government Insights works closely with governments throughout the world on their digital transformation journeys and provide an informed basis for technology vendors to develop effective value propositions. These propositions aim to achieve better quality services for citizens while improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and delivery of government programs and services.

Its global team of analysts, with decades of industry experience, acts as advisers to central, regional, and local governments and suppliers on how to improve the delivery of government services, creating more effective and engaged services and citizens.

IDC Health Insights works with healthcare and life sciences organizations and their technology suppliers throughout the world to harness technology for superior outcomes.

Its global team of analysts, with decades of industry experience, provides guidance to healthcare organizations on how to leverage technology for value-based care and evidence-based medicine. IDC Health Insights assists life sciences organizations in adopting a more knowledge-centric approach to new products development, diseases diagnosis, management, and treatment. Through its strategic insights, it strives to facilitate the transition towards proactive, precision-driven, and patient-centric care in the extended healthcare ecosystem. Its research prioritizes guidance for superior quality and effectiveness.

IDC Manufacturing Insights works with manufacturing organizations and their technology suppliers to accelerate the delivery of business outcomes and innovation through integrated digital products and services.

Its global team of analysts, with decades of industry experience, advises manufacturing and supply chain organizations on how to navigate extremely volatile times by building new ecosystems, resilient supply chains, efficient and agile factories and service operations, and enhancing worker experience to retain and attract talent. IDC Manufacturing Insights also advises technology suppliers and service providers on how to generate leads, revenues, and growth opportunities by leveraging deep industry knowledge and IDC proprietary market data.​

IDC Retail Insights works with retailers across different sub-segments to create exceptional and immersive customer experiences by leveraging key enabling technologies based on top retail stakeholders' priorities and business outcomes.

Its global team of analysts, with decades of industry experience, advises retailers on how to transcend the focus on "transaction" to a focus that blends connected technology with superior customer experience, while engaging and retaining customers along their journey across channels, interfaces, and interaction moments.

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