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By 2025, the combined value of IoT technologies could reach more than $6 trillion. So, it would seem imperative that the market understand what Big Data, AI, and machine learning are, and how they can work together. This Stratecast report briefly discusses exactly that, and presents results that a growing number of organizations are achieving, and ...

In this years look forward, Stratecast provides several views voiced by our analyst teams of likely developments in the multiple dimensions of the communications marketplace, including those tied to: Big Data, business services, cloud, connected home, consumer services, the operations & monetization functions, and secure networking. These prognost...

Few organizations recognize that they could be addressing data governance head-on, initiating lasting improvements in their data quality as part of their efforts to gather and prepare data for BDA projects. In this weeks SPIE, Stratecast summarizes the data quality issue, makes the case for elevating data governance alongside other BDA objectives,...

This weeks SPIE looks primarily at the benefits realized from CSP data analysis, and examines how CSPs, globally, are using data analysis to address a myriad of business needs tied to use cases for improving operations and generating new revenue. However, there are times when data analysis is important for reasons outside of the CSP; when the need...

This weeks SPIE explains how customer data analysisunderstanding the continuous generation of network usage data from customer interaction with apps and contentis used by CSPs globally for improving their internal processes. The report explains how data analysis suppliers such as Guavus address a growing wave of strategic CSP business needs tied...

The field of predictive analytics is one of the most complex and challenging subsets of the Big Data and advanced analytic market. There is also a very wide gap between the practitioners of predictive analyticsmost of whom are statisticians, scientific researchers and data scientistsand the people who most want to use predictive analytics for com...

This SPIE report briefly discusses the patchwork of remedies that have been devised by governments and industries with the stated intent of protecting data privacy. It then presents approaches that may get to the heart of the matter through privacy solutions based not on industry action or government legislation, but on technology.

This report asserts that real-time analytics is not settled science. It is not a foregone conclusion that every company needs and can afford real-time analytics in all areas of the business. There is also not, at this time, one shining example for all to follow in deploying it; but, instead, several models. Therefore, this report explores these a...

This weeks SPIE is designed to help. Its purpose is to lead the reader around the AI hype and hoopla, past the impenetrable bog of specialized terminology and the deep pit of unnecessary detail, to a basic understanding of AIs capabilities and limitations; as well as an appreciation for the reasons why AI researchers are starting to raise concern...