Information Technology

This market insight is part of Frost & Sullivan's Real-time Cities Research Program. In recent years, it has become evident that cities see an opportunity to stimulate economic growth by opening up their substantial sources of data to digital services innovators. To become true real-time cities, they strive to do more than simply publish existing i...

12 Jul 2017  |  Europe  |  Market Research

EMEA Managed Security Services Market, Forecast to 2021

Threat Detection and Remediation to Emerge as Key Market Drivers

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The Managed Security Services (MSS) market in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) registered a second consecutive year of double-digit, year-on-year (YoY) growth of 16.0% in 2016, after a 15.0% YoY increase in 2015. By 2015, trends show a decline in the combined market share of the top 3 participants and an increase in the number of suppliers. Me...

The focus of this insight is to understand the key areas of IT spend within the manufacturing sector in South Africa with the aim of highlighting the chief areas of opportunities for IT service providers. The objectives are to provide an overview of South Africa’s macro-environment and its impact on manufacturing; offer insights into the sectorâ€...

Rogue spending can be perceived as a ubiquitous term today. Within the IT industry, however, its definition varies from being fraud or off-policy spending to strategic spending, all the way to employees’ bring-your-own-device (BYOD) or choose-your-own-device (CYOD) trends. A notable cause for concern is that when ICT service providers seek new r...

This research is aimed at identifying the key areas of IT spend within the retail sector in South Africa to highlight the key areas of opportunities for IT service providers. It seeks to: • provide an overview of South Africa’s macroeconomic environment and its impact on the retail sector • offer insights into the retail sector‘s value ch...

In terms of cloud adoption, the financial services industry has been lagging unlike many other industry sectors. While the benefits of cloud adoption are not unknown, there was initial hesitation on account of legacy infrastructure, lack of clarity on regulations, concerns related to compliance and data security. Cloud providers, upon understanding...

Systems integration (SI) makes up a significant portion of IT budgets in South Africa, as enterprises seek to accelerate their digital transformation. In the absence of an established leading technology platform across all operations, enterprises have mostly opted for best-of-breed systems. As a result, systems integration (SI) spend is being drive...

Information Technology & Communications (ICT) investment across vertical markets will outpace Europe’s average gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Compared to the organisation for economic co-operation and development (OECD) nominal GDP forecast during 2014 to 2016 of 2.2%, the total ICT spending by industries in Europe is expected to grow at fa...

This study provides a 2017 outlook for the South African information and communication technologies (ICT) market. The research scope includes telecommunications, broadcasting, data centres, cloud, IT services, business process management (BPM) services, Big Data and analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Market trends that are examined includ...