This IDC Perspective covers the National Retail Federation (NRF) 2024 event from an analytics and AI lens. The National Retail Federation provides one of the most engaging, exceptionally mapped forums to understand retail in the modern age. The NRF Big Show held annually in January…

This IDC Perspective discusses the importance and benefits of “what-if” scenario planning in retail with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI). “The value of scenario planning challenges existing models and the status quo. In retail, AI allows decision-makers to speed up the process, simulate real-time…

This IDC Market Glance looks at the current makeup of the transportation and global trade market across all industries. The presentation provides an overview of technologies involved, illustrates the participating vendors, and depicts the segments and structure of the market. Read the report here (subscription required).

This IDC PeerScape is part 2 of a two-part series that aims to home in on specific practices that retailers can enable through improved processes and technology to improve customer experience, profitability, and sustainability outcomes across the end-to-end order life cycle. While inventory, orders, and…

Changing supply chain software investment and consumption patterns are creating new growth and market entry opportunities. Technology general managers must seize such opportunities to monetize the forecast five-year CAGR of 16% and secure a share of the projected annual spend of $53 billion in 2027….

It can be time-consuming to align capabilities with requirements when selecting software to enable supply chain design. Supply chain leaders can use this tool to identify supply chain network design vendors that offer required capabilities, so they can be engaged for software evaluation. Read the…

As complex global supply chain networks require redesigning to operate under more-dynamic conditions, optimizing them requires the use of analytical tools. Supply chain leaders can leverage this research when evaluating the market for supply chain network design tools to support these analytics. Read the report here…

Cloud xP&A is a maturing approach to enterprise planning that packages financial and operational planning on a single vendor platform. Application leaders should understand the relevant factors of how these solutions achieve this to enable continuous enterprise-wide planning and collaboration. Read the report here (subscription required).

This tool provides a schedule of Gartner’s regularly updated forecasts and market shares. Users can browse the tool to see documents by publication month, geographical coverage, methodology guides and a list of upcoming changes to market coverage. Read the report here (subscription required).

Gartner’s Hype Cycle Builder is a tool that enables CIOs and IT leaders to build enterprise-specific technology roadmaps and situational analyses. The Tool provides the capability to search and filter all the innovation profiles and create custom Hype Cycles for business and IT initiatives. Read…