Information Technology

The global managed security services market continues to grow at double-digit rates. An increasingly complex and voluminous threat environment, ever-changing regulatory compliance frameworks, and the lack of internal expertise have incentivized organizations to consider engagements with a managed security service provider. In this research service,...

Unified communications (UC) technologies adoption in India is set to change with adjustments in India's telecom policy. The segments of the market researched and covered in this market insight are hosted services for audio, video, Web conferencing, call center, email, and voice. The market verticals covered include government; Internet technology (...

Frost & Sullivan forecasts that the total number of contact center seats will shrink from 4.1 million in 2012 to 4 million by 2017. Even so, there are opportunities for vendors in this mature market. For example, consider hosted solutions. Hosted delivery allows companies to cut costs by buying only the applications and capacity they need, an attra...

Todays customers expect companies to provide a consistent and high quality Customer Experience, regardless of channel, including walk-in retail. Omni-channel strategies that integrate the Web, contact center, and retail channels (and subject matter experts), are becoming increasingly prominent in pursuit of a quality Customer Experience. The di...

The Asia-Pacific managed security services (MSS) market continued to gain greater momentum in 2012. A growing number of enterprises were looking at the professional security services to protect their network infrastructure. Getting more mature about IT security and becoming aware of the benefits of security services models in gaining operational fl...

The managed security services market in Latin America, particularly in the Southern Cone, has not yet reached maturity and is in an incipient phase compared to developed countries. Competing in this segment is an important challenge for service providers. Innovative devices and platforms are increasing, and new participants are entering the market....

The value of transactions over mobile devices is predicted to grow exponentially over the next five years in Europe. The proliferation of tablets and smartphones are blurring the difference between the traditional online commerce and the mobile commerce markets. In-depth interviews with mobile network operators, card networks, financial institution...

Social media contains information and insights that help companies identify issues, threats, trends, sales opportunities, and influential buyers. It provides knowledge about customers, partners, competitors, and employees, and it helps deepen customer and staff relationships. Social media analytics has emerged as a powerful tool to measure social-s...