IDC – Premier Global Provider of Market Intelligence
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. IDC helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. More than 1,100 IDC analysts provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries worldwide.
For 50 years IDC has provided strategic insights to help our clients achieve their key business objectives. IDC's Insights businesses provide industry-focused advice for IT buyers in the Financial, Government, Health, Retail, Manufacturing and Energy verticals. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world's leading technology media, research, and events company. You can learn more about IDC by visiting www.idc.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.6 | Future technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.8 | We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, |
| 0:22.7 | blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.9 | Hello and welcome to FeatureTech Podcast. I'm your host, Juliet Lamar. And we have with us |
| 0:31.3 | on the line, Jeff, CA. He is the senior security analyst at IDC. Welcome, Jeff. |
| 0:38.2 | Hi, Juliet. Thank you for having me here. Of course. Could you give us a little insight into |
| 0:43.0 | IDC as a company and what you do there? Yep, all right. So IDC is a global market intelligence |
| 0:50.4 | company. So we basically track the market of consumer technology. And also, |
| 0:58.2 | we have about 1,100 analysts worldwide. And I'm actually a senior market analyst there. My research |
| 1:06.5 | portfolio covers security. And a couple of months ago, blockchain actually falls into my portfolio |
| 1:13.4 | as well. Yeah, so go ahead and give a little background about how the blockchain bugs that you, |
| 1:18.7 | how you got involved in it. Yep, right. So basically, we have been tracking the market and technology trends in the industry. |
| 1:29.7 | So having done security, we realized that blockchain has a lot to offer |
| 1:34.9 | with the underlying security benefits that they have. |
| 1:40.4 | So automatically that falls into our portfolio as well. |
| 1:44.7 | So as of now, we have been actually taking a deeper look at how blockchain is evolving around the world. |
| 1:54.7 | For my end, I'm actually covering the Asia-Pacific region. |
| 1:58.6 | So some of my research around blockchain actually involves tracking the regulatory |
| 2:03.3 | environment on blockchain and also looking at all the startups that are in the region |
| 2:09.6 | because we realize that although there are many consulting firms, the larger consulting |
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