IT Services and Applications

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 ...

In the nascent market of cloud computing in Brazil, SaaS holds the largest share of IT services outsourced and IaaS is close behind. Meanwhile, PaaS has become a viable market opportunity. This market insight covers the Brazilian cloud computing market, including the market overview, drivers, restraints, trends, competitive analysis, and forecasts ...

During October 2931, 2013, Cisco hosted the Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum in Barcelona, Spain. This 2 and a half-day event was designed for the official launch of IoT globally, and its focus was to explore the size of the opportunity in key market verticals. This Hot Topic summarizes this event and offers analysis regarding the role of the ...

Colombia hosts one of the most interesting markets for cloud computing in Latin America, with several ICT providers investing by building new datacenters and forging strategic partnerships with strong local participants. This study details the current scenario and future perspectives of the cloud computing market in Colombia, presenting the 2012 ma...

The South African data centre market is fast maturing, and it is viewed by service providers as an exciting market with endless opportunities. Companies are seeking to transform from a capital expenditure model to operating expenditure model by reducing their total cost of ownership. The result has, therefore, been a more prominent move towards dat...

The need to reduce IT costs and develop increased efficiency in IT management is causing European organisations to turn towards IT outsourcing models. Data centre services consisting of the retail colocation and managed hosting segments are increasingly being adopted by organisations to benefit from cost efficiencies and to focus internal IT resour...