Even if predictive maintenance were to become widespread in the manufacturing vertical, it would impact only one area of a manufacturer’s operations. BDA has the potential to leverage data collected through IoT—and almost 40 other areas—to do much more for manufacturing companies, in almost every corner of the enterprise. This report analyzes...

Mobility has some less obvious impacts that are rapidly transforming not just the telecommunications market, but society as well. Stratecast research provides insights into the subtle influences of mobility on the average consumer, and demonstrates ways that service providers can grow revenues by addressing some of the needs that these impacts crea...

In this report, Stratecast provides several views voiced by our analyst teams into the multiple dimensions of the communications marketplace, including those tied to: big data, business services, cloud, the connected home, consumer services, the operations & monetization functions, and secure networking. These prognostications are what form this, o...

This Stratecast report briefly explores why NoSQL databases came into existence in the first place; the pros and cons of these databases compared to relational DBs; how each of the two DB types is evolving to be more like the other; and how this has led to the development of SQL-based systems that can query all types of data. It then discusses two ...

The ANZ WAF market recorded a 16.6% growth rate on a YoY basis in 2015, as demand for both on-premise and cloud-based solutions continued to rise among enterprises in the region. The enterprises were keen to invest in WAF technology to better protect their Web assets, many of which are increasingly facing external business partners and customers, a...

The WAF solutions market in ASEAN generated an overall revenue of $17.1 million, including both on-premise and cloud-based segments, and indicated a robust growth of 25.3% on a YoY basis. The adoption of WAF solutions in ASEAN mounted significantly in 2015 due to rising reliance on Web services in the dynamically changing business environment. More...

The Greater China region’s WAF solutions market experienced a robust YoY growth rate of 26.8% in 2015 and reached an overall revenue of $70.8 million, of which 90.5% was from China. The region is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18.5% from 2015 to 2020, with more end users, especially large enterprises starting to embrace the cloud-based WAF solutio...

The Indian WAF solution revenue reached $5.3 million in 2015, with a robust YoY growth of 41.5%. Thriving eCommerce and Internet banking activities spurred investments in WAF solutions in the country. Directed government investment in security to support digital inclusion, eGovernment, and smart city projects; the emergence of digital currency, new...

The Japanese WAF solutions market is expected to maintain a strong CAGR of 27.1% in the 5-year forecast period, and reach a market size of $89.4 million by 2020. There were several key market drivers behind the strong growth in Japan. First was awareness of the evolving and increasingly sophisticated threat landscape on the Web front, which is expe...