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In the nascent market of cloud computing in Brazil, SaaS holds the largest share of IT services outsourced and IaaS is close behind. Meanwhile, PaaS has become a viable market opportunity. This market insight covers the Brazilian cloud computing market, including the market overview, drivers, restraints, trends, competitive analysis, and forecasts ...

During October 2931, 2013, Cisco hosted the Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum in Barcelona, Spain. This 2 and a half-day event was designed for the official launch of IoT globally, and its focus was to explore the size of the opportunity in key market verticals. This Hot Topic summarizes this event and offers analysis regarding the role of the ...

Colombia hosts one of the most interesting markets for cloud computing in Latin America, with several ICT providers investing by building new datacenters and forging strategic partnerships with strong local participants. This study details the current scenario and future perspectives of the cloud computing market in Colombia, presenting the 2012 ma...

The aim of this market research study is to present and analyse the impact of Big Data in the automotive industry. Big Data is not a new phenomenon in the automotive industry. The key reason for the increased industry focus on Big Data is the increasing presence of connectivity, with the short- and mid-terms promising high-speed/high-bandwidth conn...

The global oncology drug delivery market (or oncolytics market) was worth $91.00 billion in 2013 and has been growing at an annual rate of 5.0%. The market, which includes drug delivery systems for cancer therapy and cancer pain, is expected to generate $100.96 billion in 2015. The oral drug delivery systems segment accounted for an estimated 25.0%...

This Stratecast SPIE report analyzes an analytics-driven shopper engagement approach that gets away from the notion of installing a secretive data collection dragnet in a retail location; and, instead, engages customers 24/7, with shopper approval upfrontincluding when they are at or near a retail location.

On the brink of any new high tech era, the temptation is strong for solution providers to hype the benefits and minimize the disruption that such major shifts can produce. In these early days, one of the most important missing pieces in the Big Data puzzle has to do with accurately articulating both the potential payoffs and the attendant challenge...

Big Data, a hot business topic these days, is emphasized on a myriad of web sites of solution providers in the contact center space, claiming the ability to glean customer intelligence and improve the Customer Experience. But what are the realities of this emerging trend? How much is Big Data really being used in the contact center? Is Big Data a...

Big Data has yet to take hold in Brazil, but some verticals (e.g., finance, telecoms, retail) are exploring projects with IT companies who provide solutions for fraud analytics, real-time analytics with in-memory computing, and online and digital analytics, to name a few. These solutions offer clear return on investment such as reduction of churn r...