Information Technology

The retail industry had undergone significant change in the past decade, witnessed by the shift from in-store to online shopping and digital engagement. Digital customer care rapidly expanded with new channels on the web, mobile apps, and social media, and older channels, such as chat and interactive voice response (IVR), embellished with new tech...

Frost & Sullivan surveyed 661 IT decision-makers around the globe to IT/Communications to gain a deeper understanding of the impact of COVID-19 and their plans to exceed CX expectations as the world recovers from the pandemic. COVID-19 accelerated the move towards self-service, allowing many companies to invest in technology that deflects calls...

The Software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) has advanced to the growth stage from an early growth phase of the product lifecycle. In Frost & Sullivans 2018 survey, we found that enterprises were aware of the benefits of SD-WAN and prepared for its deployment. Since then, enterprise decision-makers have focused on upgrading network capabilities ...

In 2020, the retail industry faced tremendous challenges, as COVID-19 caused disruptions in product supply and demand; in the labor pool; and in consumer spending. To address the challenges, retailers accelerated their digitalization strategies. The retailers best positioned to emerge stronger from COVID-19 were those that leveraged a cloud foundat...

For financial institutions, the first months of 2020 were a test of operational agility. In response to COVID-19's chaos, including branch shutdowns, concerns about employee health and safety, and shifting government mandates, the financial firms best able to pivot were those that were already well into their cloud journeys. Such firms leveraged a ...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturers accelerated their digitalization strategies in 2020. The most successful firms leveraged a cloud foundation to boost productivity, enable collaboration among remote and frontline employees, and connect people, devices, and data via intelligent platforms. The Frost & Sullivan reveals the progress a...

The world is creating 2.5 exabytes of data daily. Every organization needs to access that tidal wave of information to make better, faster decisions—or risks being left behind. We have discovered that IT decision makers find that cyber security, big data and analytics, and data centers are the most impactful for revenue growth and cost reduction ...

The future success of North American businesses rests in large part on their ability to truly mobilize their employees. Smartphones and tablets are not enough--It is the application software those devices enable that increasingly makes the difference between winners and losers in a high stakes economy driven by an ever more demanding customer base....

This study is derived from a survey of IT decision makers around the world across multiple industries. It provides insightful information on what drives investment in IT solutions, the IT-related challenges that organizations face today, and most importantly, plans for IT budgets. Technologies covered include Enterprise Mobility Management, Social ...