Gartner: Less Than 1 percent of Consumer Mobile Apps Will Be Considered a...
Gartner predicts that, through 2018, less than 0.01 percent of consumer mobile apps will be considered a financial success by their developers. This is partly because consumers are increasingly turning...
View ArticleMust-Know Telecom/Tech Trends for 2014: Frost & Sullivan
Researchers at Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan expect 2014 to witness extreme, perhaps even radical, change in information and communication technologies and how these technologies will be leveraged....
View ArticleGartner: Augmented Reality Will Become an Important Workplace Tool
Although the adoption of augmented reality (AR) in the enterprise is still in its infancy, AR technology has matured to a point where organizations can use it as an internal tool to complement and...
View ArticleForrester: Companies Race to Catch Up With Mobile Customers in 2014
Companies worldwide are quickly realizing that mobile has not only changed digital operations, but that it will fundamentally change entire businesses in decades to come. 2014 will be an incremental...
View ArticleFrost & Sullivan Reports 10 Million Mobile Downloads for Web Conferencing...
Web conferencing vendors are looking to tap the significant opportunities created by the emergence of disruptive new services, mobility and social collaboration. The transition from audio-only...
View ArticleIDC: Q4 PC Shipments Dropped Less than 6 Percent as Lenovo Expansion Continues
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 82.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2013 (4Q13), representing a year-on-year contraction of 5.6 percent, a shade better than the forecast of a 6.0 percent...
View ArticleAMI Partners: Share of Mobility and Cloud Within India’s SMB ICT to Increase...
India’s SMBs’ (small and medium businesses with 1 to 999 employees) ICT adoption rests on two major pillars: cloud computing and mobility. Their combined wallet share is likely to rise from just above...
View ArticleGartner: Predictive Business Performance Metrics Can Increase Profitability...
Organizations that use predictive business performance metrics will increase their profitability by 20 percent by 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner says organizations should use predictive...
View ArticleBIA/Kelsey: Location-Targeted Mobile Advertising to Hit $10.8 Billion by 2017
A new report by BIA/Kelsey reveals the tipping point for advertisers embracing mobile will arrive this year. Improved location targeting, such as geo-fencing, demonstrates the ability to influence...
View ArticleBizTechReports Q&A: Assessing the Future of the Enterprise CIO with Russell...
To lead…or to support. That has been the perennial question that has dogged the most senior positions in IT since being accepted into the C-level suite. As we approach the mid-point of the decade,...
View ArticleFrost & Sullivan: Demand Grows for Moving Authentication and Identity...
As Europe continues to witness high fraud rates, mainly during card-not-present payments, the need for robust identity access management (IAM) solutions, especially in the sensitive government,...
View ArticleGartner: Annual Smartphone Sales Surpass Sales of Feature Phones for the...
Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totaled 968 million units in 2013, an increase of 42.3 percent from 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. Sales of smartphones accounted for 53.6 percent of...
View ArticleForrester: Ownership of the Business Technology Budget Still Lives Very Much...
Here is a little good news for CIOs who feel they are losing control to non-tech execs making liberal use of their corporate credit cards. According to Forrester, while CMOs have certainly taken on a...
View ArticleFrost & Sullivan: Marketing Automation is a Must-Have Tool to Boost Marketing...
The need to integrate marketing efforts to optimize returns on marketing campaign investments is driving the global marketing automation software (MAS) market. Marketers need intelligent tools to...
View ArticleIDC: Despite Drop in Consumer Sales, PC Market in India Improved in 2013
The overall India PC shipments for 2013 stood at 11.5 million units i.e. a year-on-year growth of 4.8 percent over 2013. The overall market improved marginally on account of buying across different...
View ArticleGartner: CRM Will Be at the Heart of Digital Initiatives for Years to Come
Organizations are leveraging CRM technologies as a major part of their digital initiatives to enhance the customer experience, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner says that demand for modern technology...
View ArticleFrost & Sullivan: Enterprises Harness Social Networking for Increased Agility...
The need to enhance communication and collaboration in the workplace to increase employee engagement, accelerate decision-making, and boost overall productivity is driving the global enterprise social...
View ArticleGartner: New U.S. Government Rules Will Require IT Leaders to Consider How IT...
New U.S. government rules requiring employers to take more affirmative action to hire people with disabilities will mean that by 2015, 50 percent of organizations will have technology projects underway...
View ArticleForrester: Chief Customer Officers Still Facing Uphill Battle
Forty-seven percent of chief customer officers (CCOs), identified by Forrester in its eighth annual CCO evaluation, work at firms with $1B or more in annual revenue. Thirty-one of these large firms are...
View ArticleGartner: By 2017 Web-Scale IT Will Be an Architectural Approach Found...
By 2017, Web-scale IT will be an architectural approach found operating in 50 percent of global enterprises, up from less than 10 percent in 2013, according to Gartner, Inc. Web-scale IT is a pattern...
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