Information Technology

Bitcoin is a powerful and successful digital currency. Based on cryptography and a decentralized ledger, it has simultaneously been heralded as the future of finance and a gateway to the criminal underworld.

This analysis chooses the somewhat provocative thesis: "Big Data Analytics and Lean Six Sigma – A Marriage Made in Heaven?" It explores the validity of this thesis through five main sections. First, it starts with a brief introduction to the key aspects of Lean Six Sigma (LSS).

On 5 and 6 November, T-Systems held its most recent Analyst & Sourcing Advisor Summit in Berlin. The event took place as T-Systems, the IT services and enterprise customer division of Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG), is coming into the home stretch of a major restructuring.

Managed cloud provider Rackspace recently launched managed security and compliance offerings to assist clients with the planning of their security monitoring and threat analysis needs. To begin with, the offerings will be available to global customers of Rackspace’s managed hosting services; although, the provider sees a distinct market opportuni...

Cisco and Ericsson have embarked on a global strategic partnership that combines their market leadership in IP networks and mobile telecom, respectively. Ericsson will begin reselling Cisco's portfolio immediately, and both companies are already primed to deliver joint customer support.

Globally, the situation is similar. In 2014, the European Central Bank (ECB) published a report that highlighted fraud trends: €1 in every €2.635 spent on credit and debit cards was lost to fraud. According to a recent report from Barclays, the United States contributes disproportionately to global credit card fraud, accounting for more than 47...

This market analysis research provides market sizing and forecasts for premises-based contact center systems in the Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. The product segments covered are: inbound contact routing, IVR and voice portal, outbound dialer, quality monitoring, workforce management, and contact center analytics. The study pro...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new buzzword both in labs and in public. Advancements in deep learning and neural networks are improving computers' ability to perform difficult machine intelligence problems such as vision, language, and movement.