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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.

This Stratecast report analyzes the challenges that OTT places on CSPs, and how Big Data is helping CSPs to meet those challenges.

This report provides a brief historical tour of the enterprise CEA market, including representative suppliers of CEA solutions. The report also acknowledges and discusses the structural and cultural obstacles that organizations can encounter, whether they approach CEA from a top-down, corporate standpoint or allow bottom-up, silo-specific implement...

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...