Industries

Stratecast is currently tracking approximately 600 vendors of Big Data and analytics (BDA) solutions. Stratecast has organized vendors into 18 solution types, grouped into the five broad categories: Big Data & Analytics Core Products and Services; Business Process and Strategic Analytics; Mobile, Retail, and Location Analytics; Social and Site Anal...

In this insight, we discuss approaches to mitigate ransomware risk, and present our opinions on their advantages and limitations. In the process, we will pay particular attention to two security technologies we have discussed in previous insights—namely, isolation and deception—and another security technology that we will be spending increasing...

The Consumer Communication Services tracker has been reformatted to reflect feedback received from Stratecast's clients. The new format provides detailed information for several companies in the consumer communication services market for US and Canada. The aggregated data—delivered by country, technology, and company—includes subscriber, revenu...

This report examines the Millennial generation and its preferences, as well as the population demographics that will make this generation the one to pursue as technology vendors and communication service providers find their businesses increasingly dependent on Millennials’ buying habits and preferences.

The Stratecast Operations, Orchestration, Data Analytics & Monetization (ODAM) team has taken its annual deep dive into the changing communications marketplace, and evaluated the role of billing within the communications service provider (CSP) monetization practice. This study involves over 100 global suppliers, and results in a multi-part report...

Recently, public cloud leader AWS rolled out a new service, AWS Application Discovery, to automate the application discovery process, which offers a foundation for additional migration planning for customers moving applications from private, on-premises facilities into AWS. Originally available through its partner network, the service is now availa...

Based on responses from IT decision-makers, Frost & Sullivan looked at the IT challenges that are likely to drive a managed services decision. We also examined which businesses are adopting managed services and which services they are adopting, as well as what they expect of their managed service providers (MSPs). We present results by business seg...

Stratecast’s 5th annual survey explores the dynamics of a connected home based on communication services, network, telemetry, and home entertainment. Stratecast took a different approach to displaying this year’s survey data, which focuses on conveying data through graphics so that busy decision makers can quickly understand the connected hom...

Growth in Business IoT Deployments Drives Increasing Market Penetration of IoT Devices in Diverse Range of Applications. Led by AT&T, Verizon, Sprint & T-Mobile, the cellular IoT market is growing rapidly with ubiquitous connectivity and growing list of applications designed to solve customer challenges. Quarterly connections provided from Q4 2014 ...