Information Technology

When Stratecast began its Augmented Reality (AR) coverage, the general consensus was that AR would be mostly relegated to the gaming community, with few practical real world applications. Stratecast has been consistently bullish on the utility of and the eventual dominance of AR in both the consumer community as well as in business. This year’s r...

The Stratecast Operations, Orchestration, Data Analytics & Monetization (ODAM) analyst team has completed its annual assessment of the communications service provider (CSP) monetization. This market is defined by Stratecast to include the key business management functions of: billing mediation, rating & charging, other core billing, and policy mana...

Can a network operator be a provider of digital services and engage customers digitally the way many enterprises now run their business? The answer is a surprising and emphatic yes, if the right system updates and business process changes are made. This report explains why digital transformation is about the operations, business management, and m...

While network architectures are top of mind in the current transformations of Communications Services Providers (CSPs), operations and monetization software is undergoing its own architectural transformation—to a microservices architecture. Microservices will play an important role in how new services are created and fulfilled. This paper focuse...

In this report, we look at the role played by co-location in the hybrid IT environment. As a model for next-generation co-location services, we consider vXchnge, a new-to-market co-location and data center service provider. We provide a close look at how vXchnge incorporates industry best practices and modern design components to meet its clients�...

This year’s Stratecast Consumer survey illustrates the changing preferences that are redefining the connected home. Using the data collected from a survey that polled consumers in the US and Canadian markets, it is clear that the new connected home is truly a home in the cloud, where consumers will increasingly live in a connected lifestyle that ...

In this insight, Stratecast assesses two recent AWS service offerings that have a direct bearing on subduing enterprises’ security wariness in public cloud, specifically with AWS; and, correspondingly, accelerating enterprise AWS adoption. These service offerings are AWS Managed Services and Amazon Macie. First, we summarize cloud security viewpo...

This profile report examines Gigya’s approach to helping enterprises build deep, trusted relationships with their customers. A key component of the Gigya strategy is to invite users to become part of the process upfront. By engaging the user upfront, and being more open about the data collection process, businesses are now building individual rel...

Two years ago, in our 2015 Cloud User Survey, Stratecast asked IT decision-makers to identify their company’s “primary” deployment model for a series of business applications. Our goal was to track responses, over time, to identify trends: for example, is a consensus emerging regarding the optimal deployment model for a particular workload? ...