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 energy sector in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is on the verge of smart grid transformation. Smart metering remains the key focal point, and smart grid technologies are deployed in pilot projects. This study provides a market analysis of smart energy development in CEE and presents key characteristics of the fast growing IT market in the reg...

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...

Utilities are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of efficient data management in smart metering projects. To manage and use the growing volume and variety of data, they must be capable of high-volume data management and data-pattern analytics. Although many utilities still fail to consider smart metering as a software project, meter data...