IT Services and Applications

Frost & Sullivan surveyed 313 Brazilian companies in order to understand their current and future ICT investments, drivers, restraints, and their perceptions about trends such as cloud computing and Big Data analytics.

The research service covers technologies enabling smart factories and their convergence. Convergence of technologies in smart factories will be focused on increasing production efficiency by reducing cost and achieving the desired quality product with minimal wastage and monitoring supply chain in real-time. The report primarily covers overview of ...

The connected car market is accelerating globally, driven by several trends such as telematics, navigation, and smartphone integration. This growing market has strong technological implications for various stakeholders in the information and communication technologies (ICT) industry. This research service provides an insight into the global connect...

In this Hot Topic, Frost & Sullivan identifies key areas across the retail sector where the benefits of technology are most acutely felt. It analyzes the key drivers and restraints for technology adoption by retailers and identifies major IT trends in the sector in Brazil, such as online commerce, social networks, RFID, analytics and omni channel i...

As new trends and technologies are being implemented and utilized by Latin American companies, new and complex vulnerabilities are becoming a reality. As such, MSS services are becoming increasingly important. Although budget for security is still a problem, as most companies are not able to gauge the return on investment (ROI) that investing in se...

The IT infrastructure outsourcing market in Latin America is becoming more mature. Companies are understanding the benefits of outsourcing, and focusing instead on the core business, reducing costs, thus, following the strategy to turn capital expenditure (CAPEX) into operational expenditure (OPEX), instead of investing money in expanding capacity,...

The Brazilian education sector is in the global spotlight, capturing the attention of foreign and local investors as well as companies within the sector, and, in turn, driving intense merger and acquisition (M&A) and investment activity. In this hot topic, Frost & Sullivan identifies key areas where the benefits of technology in education are most ...

The development of new, diverse channels such as the interactive voice response (IVR), social media, chat, and short message service (SMS) has driven customers to demand more qualified, personalized services, which has led to a greater adoption of virtual agent (VA) applications. Furthermore, specifically in Brazil, the increase in purchase power h...

Cloud Robotics can be considered as an emerging technology concept where the Internet will provide massively parallel computation and sharing of huge data resources to Remote Brained robots. The existing Internet and cloud infrastructure can provide a range of potential benefits for robots. Interfacing robotics in the cloud will enable faster dep...