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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.

Frost & Sullivan classifies all analytics solutions into 2 broad segments, namely data discovery and visualization (DDV) and advanced analytics (AA). The study discusses the segment architectures, end users, and major components. The regional forecast spans North America and Latin America; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and Asia-Pacific marke...

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.

Big Data solutions are emerging across Africa, driven by increased connectivity and Internet usage, the rapid proliferation of connected devices and the continued investment in Africa-specific innovations. However, the threat of data overload continues to challenge potential adoption as businesses are still struggling to pinpoint how best to moneti...

The overall research objective is to measure the current use and future decision making-behavior toward IT technologies, specifically cloud computing. More than half of US and European respondents currently using cloud technologies find cloud computing technologies to be highly effective, which indicates that exposure to these technologies can lead...

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...