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This SPIE is somewhat unique in that, rather than focusing externally on market forces, Stratecast is taking a hard look in the mirror. Is what we offer so unique that AI technology cannot replace us? Can AI provide the same sorts of market advantages that engaging with an analyst firm can? This SPIE explores these questions.

This SPIE report discusses the software-defined data center, including its evolution from virtualization technology. It also assesses the benefits and challenges of current SDDC platforms, and how Stratoscale answers those challenges with its Symphony platform. Finally, the report reviews the Symphony platform, including its architecture, features ...

Stratecast is currently tracking approximately 600 vendors of Big Data and analytics (BDA) solutions. Stratecast has organized vendors into 18 solution types, grouped into the five broad categories: Big Data & Analytics Core Products and Services; Business Process and Strategic Analytics; Mobile, Retail, and Location Analytics; Social and Site Anal...

This Stratecast report analyzes today’s brave new world of broadband services, and highlights five areas where CSPs need to be focusing mindshare and resources in order to differentiate themselves from their rapidly-expanding pool of large, well-funded competitors.

This weeks SPIE report analyzes another example of how regional and even local businesses, as well as national corporations, are finding a cost-effective way to access Big Data in support of day-to-day business needs and decision making. The report also analyzes the potential pitfalls of such an approach; and what businesses and providers alike ne...

In this years look forward, Stratecast provides a view of likely developments in the multiple dimensions in the communication space. The very complex interplay of the economy, consumer perceptions and technology ultimately make such an exercise more of an art than a science. Nevertheless, as the reader will discover, Stratecasts predictions for 2...

This report is designed to benefit a wide range of readers, including: Every retail or e-tail organization, and individual retailers of all types and sizes; Every brand that sells through either the retail or e-tail channels; Every brand that utilizes mobile technologies for sales and retention activity; Every company that plays a role, or coul...

This Stratecast report analyzes how integration needs to happen across enterprises and CSPs, to keep all of that data flowing; spotlights issues and challenges hampering market growth; presents market size, forecast, and shares; and recommends strategies to help providers survive the coming consolidation.

This report analyzes an innovative approach to enterprise search that parallels one of the highest values attainable by harnessing Big Data: not analyzing part of the data and summarizing the rest, as is done in traditional BI platforms, but analyzing all of the data and presenting only that which is most relevant to the user. In this instance, art...