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This report assesses the value of social media monitoring to the enterprise, and explores the products and perspectives of three prominent social media monitoring providers. It should be of interest to both buyers and sellers of these solutions as they navigate the emerging social sphere.

The report also explains why Stratecast believes the AsiaInfo billing solution suite is changing the competitive landscape for the CSPs that use its solution to monetize the advanced service offerings their customers are growing to love.

Does mobile advertising work? The fate of an industry that currently generates billions of dollars in revenue depends on the answer to that question. This report provides some answers, and continues Stratecasts analysis of an expanding area of the Big Data and analytics market: mobile, retail, and location analytics.

This SPIE explores the basic value proposition for Big Data and analytics and discusses the several issues that will have to be addressed to convert that value from conceptual potential to quantifiable business success.

Stratecast built its first-ever estimate of the size and growth of the global market for Big Data, analytics and BI solutions organically by triangulating data on contributory markets with the best available data from both users and providers of these solutions.

While organizations are conceptually ready to reap the benefits of Big Data, moving from their current state of data-not-quite-readiness to a Big Data-driven future requires tackling three challenges: one structural, one temporal, and one about reliable data. This Stratecast report briefly analyzes these challenges and the viability of a solution d...

This report analyzes privacy issues surrounding the NSA, how they appear similar to those found in other sectors, and how lessons learned in one area may potentially benefit, or at least inform, other areas in pursuit of an equitable balance between the need to know and the right to privacy.

Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan believes that the current cycle of BI analytic technology adoption being catalyzed by the latest BI self service analytic tools will be broadly disruptive and transformational. This report explains why; and how self-service is a necessary, but insufficient transformative trigger. Given this assessment, we then explore ...

This week's SPIE focuses on what many believe is the top of the data analysis pyramiddecision intelligence. The report explains what decision intelligence is about, why decision intelligence is important, and why it is essential for making critical business decisions for the future.