Your My IDC pages
My IDC Overview
How To Login and Logout
My Services / My Products/ My Research
My Bookcase
Set Preferences / Edit Profile
My IDC Overview
When you register on idc.com, a personal My IDC page is created for you. You can select topic areas of interest to populate your My IDC page with Recent Research selections; links to Events you have registered for online will appear on your My IDC page, as well as direct links to other IDC Interactive Database products.
If you are a Corporate Administrator, you will find links to the Account Management pages which will help you manage your users and obtain reports on their usage and research access.
How to login and logout:
You will find a "login" link in the upper left-hand corner of every page on idc.com. You will also find a Login button on the home page. You have the option when you login to have the site remember you on future visits, so you won't have to enter your email or password again. If you forget your password, click on the "Forgot my Password" link to have the site send it to you via email.
To logout, click on the logout link at the top left-hand corner of the site. Your session will be ended and you will need to re-enter your password to login again.
If you have saved your password by clicking on the "Remember Me" box during login, you can also end the session by clicking on the "I am not..." link next to Logout.
My Services / My Products/ My Research
Once you login, click on the My IDC tab. You will find a row of links under the tab to your accessible products and services:
My Services: displays links to all the subscription services you have access to. Each link will display the published research for that subscription.
My Products: displays a list of all your subscription services, individual purchases, and events, organized into groups.
My Research: displays ALL research available to you through your purchases and subscriptions. Click on the "select subscriptions" link in the filters section to select only the subscriptions you want to display.
My Bookcase:
Every registration on idc.com has its own Bookcase where you can save links to research, searches that you wish to run frequently, or event proceedings.
To save a quicklink to a document into your bookcase, click on the "save to bookcase" link underneath the document. If you would like to save a search to send you alerts on new research, click on the "save search parameters" button at the bottom of a results page. For additional information on saving searches and setting alerts, please read "How To Search on idc.com" from the Help Topics menu.
Set Preferences / Edit Profile
You can set preferences for the topics and regions of interest that supply your My IDC page with recent research, and also send you email alerts when new research is published to your subscription services. To edit your preferences:
- Click on the Set Preferences link in the My IDC tab
- Choose topic areas, subscriptions, analyst names and regions in the available list by clicking in the checkbox provided.
- If you would like to receive email alerts on new research published to your preferred areas, click on the "frequency" menu at the top of the page. Choices are Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Do Not Send. By default, Do Not Send is selected when you first register.
- Click on Submit at the bottom of the page to update your preferences.
Your profile contains your user information such as Name, Company, Address, email and password assignments. You can update it at any time by clicking on the Edit Profile link in the My IDC tab or on the Edit Profile button in the top right hand corner of every page. For more information, please read the "Change Password" link in the Help Topics menu.
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