IT Services and Applications

The primary aim of this research is to gauge the usage trends of social networking within a business context, specifically related to internal and external communications. It covers drivers for social media use, prevalence of social media engagement, and management tool usage. Overall, 90% of respondents use social media for external communications...

The primary aim of this research is to gauge the use trends of social networking within a business context, specifically related to internal communications. The study covers drivers for social media use, prevalence of engagement, and management tool use as well as factors used to determine social media. About 60% of companies use social media for i...

Big Data solutions are emerging across Africa, driven by increased connectivity and Internet usage, the rapid proliferation of connected devices and the continued investment in Africa-specific innovations. However, the threat of data overload continues to challenge potential adoption as businesses are still struggling to pinpoint how best to moneti...

The overall research objective of the survey conducted during the 4th quarter 2013 was to measure the current use and future decision-making behavior toward IT technologies, specifically mobile solutions such as mobile software applications, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, and mobile device management (MDM). Segmenting the current and fore...

NLP is an emerging market with tremendous growth potential across different industry verticals. This research service covers key applications of NLP and their use across industries. Applications that are bound to have high impact in in the marketplace in the near-term and medium-term are profiled. The study also captures the drivers and challenge...

This research service provides a list of key technology trends in ICT that are likely to have an impact in the year 2014.

Augmented reality (AR) refers to latest and futuristic advancements where real world environments are augmented with virtual information. New technologies and applications are evolving in this space to make an effective contribution to proliferating segments such as social and mobile computing. The research service offer insights upon market potent...

The recent advancements in information and communication technology space have facilitated financial transactions to be done digitally. The digital payment solutions deliver convenient, fast, and secure payments by ruling out the complexity, risk, and processing time of manual payments that use payment instruments, such as, cash, and cheque. This r...

This research service updates the progress in Machine-to-Machine (M2M) opportunities from the telecoms service providers perspective. There have been many new developments. This analysis serves as an update on the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market development in Europe in the last eighteen months. It is written primarily from a telecommunications ...