IT Services and Applications

The sharing economy has long established itself in everyday life. Disruptive digital platform companies such as Uber and AirBnB have emerged. Uber is disrupting taxi companies and traditional car manufacturers such as BMW, and AirBnB is disrupting traditional hotels. These innovators are demonstrating that the value of asset ownership as a competit...

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 ...

The growth dynamics of the South African smart card market are complex, affected by varying trends across technologies and industries. The markets for SIM, banking, and payment cards are also heavily impacted by emerging technological trends such as near-field communication (NFC) technologies, long term evolution (LTE), cloud-based services, and mo...

This research service delves into emerging Communication and Automation trends and their impact, penetration and future in the Oil and Gas sector. Communication technologies provide the connection to remote oil rigs and wells while automation enable proper functioning of machines at locations where human services are minimal. It is important to ens...

Availability of information is one of the major challenges that exists in healthcare system due to lack of technology infrastructure and connectivity. With a distributed network architecture, information is scattered across several repositories, however it fails to integrate these repositories to provide valuable insights in critical situations. Th...

This research service provides a study of the ICT technologies adopted by the automotive industry, including, wireless technologies, sensing technologies, and computational technologies that enable the creation of intelligent applications geared toward providing a cheaper, safer, automated, quicker and more sustainable transportation system. The ad...

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.

With air travel becoming more commoditized and airlines looking to optimize costs and resources, IT systems in aviation has become a critical component in airline business models. From passenger experience to maintaining the airlines, IT systems are being used to perform critical functions, track and maintain data, and provide analytics for better ...

The travel, cruise, and hospitality has gradually become a more technologically equipped sophisticated market. The service providers strive to harness emerging technologies to enhance customer experience and loyalty. The pressure to operate efficiently is driven by the dynamic growth in passengers and increased customer expectations while deliverin...