IT Services and Applications

Utilities are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of efficient data management in smart metering projects. To manage and use the growing volume and variety of data, they must be capable of high-volume data management and data-pattern analytics. Although many utilities still fail to consider smart metering as a software project, meter data...

This research service updates the progress in Machine-to-Machine (M2M) opportunities from the telecoms service providers perspective. There have been many new developments. This analysis serves as an update on the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market development in Europe in the last eighteen months. It is written primarily from a telecommunications ...

The need to reduce IT costs and develop increased efficiency in IT management is causing European organisations to turn towards IT outsourcing models. Data centre services consisting of the retail colocation and managed hosting segments are increasingly being adopted by organisations to benefit from cost efficiencies and to focus internal IT resour...

This quantitative research service estimates the ICT spending by 14 industries in 26 European countries. This analysis provides a holistic top down view on which industries already have a high ICT spending pattern, which countries have the highest ICT spending, and which industries are prepared for smart transformation towards a connected society. ...

This analysis investigates why the platform in the home is an important step to win in the smart home opportunity. It also highlights the opportunities for IT and Communications Technologies (ICT) industry as the smart home market evolves to fit in a connected world future. Frost & Sullivan believes that transformation in the energy industry will...

Globally, enterprises are moving their IT infrastructure to the cloud, aiming to benefit from advantages of scalability and cost. However, the rate of adoption of cloud is varied with some sectors quick to implement the cloud and others choosing a more gradual approach. In this study, Frost & Sullivan discusses the pace of cloud adoption in 3 secto...

This market insight explores the role of the Information and Communications technology industry in the European electric vehicles market. It examines the requirement of various ICT tools in the electric vehicle environment such as IT mobility platforms, software systems, and connectivity. It finally discusses the current role of various ICT infrast...