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...

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 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection solution market continued to gain greater traction among organizations in Asia-Pacific (APAC) during 2013, as it experienced a strong growth of 28.6% on a year-on-year (YoY) basis. Increased number of DDoS attacks on government agencies and organizations across countries in APAC, during 2013, resu...

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 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...

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...

The research service discusses the managed security services (MSS) market in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The current market size has been discussed and forecasts have been provided for the total market and for individual countries. The study covers the impact of new technologies such as cloud computing, vitalization, and other key...