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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...

This report explores AR from the standpoint of market opportunities in human augmentation. It examines the areas where such augmentation can generate substantial returns for companies that pursue them; and it finishes by looking at how a major player in the headset market plans to fold AR into its product line.

This report discusses how some types of fraud have grown more sophisticated. It also explains how the escalating number of advanced methods used by would-be perpetrators¯to gain ill-gotten revenue and/or to create mayhem for the organizations they target¯is capturing CSP attention. The report further explains how new generation fraud management t...

Might there be a means to consistently produce high-fidelity alerts that are unmistakably associated with attackers and malicious insiders, which include a comprehensive catalog of the attacker’s system moments, and are triggered in real-time? That, in a nutshell, is the objective of deception, and the focus of this week’s insight. Also include...

The important question now is how do communication service providers (CSPs), especially those that are network operators, succeed in the new regulatory regime? What characteristics will enable CSPs to grow revenue while ensuring that equal access requirements are facilitated? This report examines the evolving regulatory dynamic in the US, and then ...