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...

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.