IT Services and Applications

Recent innovations in advanced information and communication technologies have enabled the digital transformation of financial services. As one of the fastest growing mobile network markets in the world, the Middle East represents an attractive opportunity for mobile-backed financial services solutions. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region has...

Cloud services have evolved to become the backbone of IT infrastructure, cutting across all segments of the industry, from large to small enterprises. Companies today are adopting different types of cloud offerings, including infrastructure hosting, SaaS offerings, productivity suites, and database hosting. They implement cloud technologies to sim...

This market insight highlights global healthcare trends and the GCC’s position in relation to these developments. It also assesses opportunities for technology providers with a focus on the penetration potential of key medical technologies. Countries under study are the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman. Top 3 ...

As the global banking industry struggles with issues related to rising costs, legacy infrastructure, evolving customer demand and changing regulations, the NeoBanking industry is making slow but steady progress. With new business models, innovative products and services, use of technology and approach to business, NeoBanks are engaging their custom...

Fintech companies are disrupting the traditional banking and financial services ecosystem by leveraging innovative technologies in order to provide value-added services. Paytech appears as the most exciting subsector of the Fintech industry. Indeed, most technology innovations are used to perform payment transactions in a disruptive way: faster, an...

This Industry Docket explores opportunities for infrastructure development in the cloud market including planning and implementing best practices in Kuwait. Recent changes in the country's legislation allow to international IT service and cloud providers like IBM to set up shop. This provides an opportunity for SMEs in Kuwait to leverage global s...

This Industry docket covers the trends in Indian Unified Communications (UC) Applications and UC Services market. It also provides insights into the on premise vs the hosted UC adoption in the enterprises. The research also cover the adoption by various verticals. Also, taking into perspective the end user needs, the docket also anlayzes the needs...

Although India is one of the fastest growing mobile and broadband markets in the world, telcos in India face challenges on a number of fronts: an intensively competitive market with a large number of players, declining fixed-line revenues, increasing mobile customer churn brought about by mobile number portability, declining mobile revenue per user...

According to Cisco, the number of mobile-connected devices per capita will reach 1.5 units by 2020. There will be 11.6 billion mobile-connected devices by 2020 globally, including M2M modules—exceeding the world's projected population at that time (7.8 billion). As a result, the need to be strongly identified when accessing cloud-based platforms ...