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Keeping an Edge in Retail: How Edge Computing Supports Retail Agility and AI Success

Publisher IDC
Published Dec 23, 2025
Length 10 Pages
SKU # IDC20676916

Description

This IDC Perspective discusses the importance of edge computing and its key role in retail agility and AI success. Retailers are growing the adoption of edge computing, seeking the benefits of real-time data access, AI-driven insights, and operational agility to better position themselves to meet evolving customer expectations and competitive pressures in a dynamic market environment. Retailers are leveraging hybrid cloud-edge models to modernize infrastructure, drive AI initiatives, enhance efficiency and resiliency, and improve loss prevention and cybersecurity efforts."In the race to transform into AI-fueled, data-driven retail, edge computing isn't just an infrastructure upgrade — it can be the catalyst for agile, real-time AI innovation and competitive transformation needed for success in today's fast-changing environment," according to Margot Juros, research director, Worldwide Retail AI, Platforms, and Technologies, IDC.

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10 Pages

Executive Snapshot

Situation Overview

Why Edge and Why Now?

Edge in Retail — Driving AI Innovation, Agility, and Resilience

Edge Inferencing: Supporting Real-Time AI/Analytics in Action for Agility and Innovation

Unified Cloud-Edge Infrastructure: Foundation to Increase Efficiency/Resiliency and Enhance Security

Retail Edge in Action

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