IT Services and Applications

Knowledge-Based Economies generate economic value through knowledge creation / innovation; have strong focus on R&D; showcase an entrepreneurial culture. This report focusses on the technology competitiveness of knowledge economies and what drives them.

Emerging technologies bring in transformation to not just new products but also to the service delivery platforms, infrastructure that act as basic platforms for governance.  This research service highlights some of the technological solutions, emerging techniques (for governance) that are being developed by leveraging innovative technologies.

The exponential growth of digital data has been well accommodated by the Big Data technology. However, gaining useful insights from the huge amount of data is immensely essential. Big Data Analytics delivers the capability to scale down the data and extract information for decision making. Big Data Analytics serves as the means to leverage Big Data...

This study focusses on assessing the Innovation landscape across four different regions that are designated to be innovation belts for the sectors under evaluation. USA, Israel, Sweden, and Korea are the four regions that are being researched in this study. National Innovation Ecosystems comprising the support system, framework, strategy which is...

Gesture and speech recognition technologies, a couple of years back were deemed futuristic, but recent advances in aiding software and hardware technologies have enabled the successful integration of speech and gesture into everyday appliances. Smarter computing technologies, which have high speed, robust performance, and high memory capacity are a...

Service providers throughout Latin America have been for years investing heavily to include Cloud Computing services into their portfolios. This study focuses on two of the regions main service providers with the most developed Cloud Computing portfolio. Datacenter capabilities, strengths and business strategies are reviewed.

The managed security services market in Latin America, particularly in the Southern Cone, has not yet reached maturity and is in an incipient phase compared to developed countries. Competing in this segment is an important challenge for service providers. Innovative devices and platforms are increasing, and new participants are entering the market....

Market concerns for Brazilian IT infrastructure outsourcing services include the need for space (CAPEX), since companies are restructuring, and the need for more capacity to host infrastructure. Brazilian companies are also struggling to increase operational efficiency, reduce management complexity, and save in costs. The data centers have created ...

This study details the main highlights of the São Paulo AWS Summit 2013 that was held July 30 and attended by nearly 3,000 people. Topics include new services, success stories, and key takeaways. The AWS Marketplace and its services are highlighted, as well as two products, Glacier and Trusted Advisor. Three case studies are also presented. The co...