The field of predictive analytics is one of the most complex and challenging subsets of the Big Data and advanced analytic market. There is also a very wide gap between the practitioners of predictive analyticsmost of whom are statisticians, scientific researchers and data scientistsand the people who most want to use predictive analytics for com...

This report explores the current state of the AR market, and the role that devices and applications have in jump starting the growth of this very promising new technology. It also explores the activities of major market participants such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, as they position themselves to capture significant portions of what t...

In this analysis, Stratecast provides an overview of the PaaS landscape. We look at the various manifestations of Platform as a Servicepublic and private, open and proprietary, domain-specific and general. We examine the value of PaaS to developers, and what shapes their choices across PaaS providers, including pricing, functionality, and deployme...

This report asserts that real-time analytics is not settled science. It is not a foregone conclusion that every company needs and can afford real-time analytics in all areas of the business. There is also not, at this time, one shining example for all to follow in deploying it; but, instead, several models. Therefore, this report explores these a...

In this paper, we will examine the latest net neutrality ruling; in particular, its focus on non-discrimination. We will, then, look at the record to determine how the impact of this notion has played out so far, and how it will likely evolve over time. Since the impact of net neutrality is much more extensive than simply influencing broadband acce...

This report explores the evolving home networking space in terms of recent survey data. It identifies challenges preventing a robust home networking market, and suggests opportunities that remain to be exploited. It will be of interest to communication service providers and those companies providing them technology.

This report explains that despite an apparent pull-back in market enthusiasm for a full-fledged, autonomous, closed loop SON solutionwhich includes solution suppliers removing or downplaying the term SON from their discussionsboth suppliers and CSPs are still moving inexorably toward SON by way of their continuous pursuit of optimization and auto...

This guide begins with a short primer on the OTT market, how it is parsed and how it is evolving; then offers a directory, sorted by service types, that lists major players in each of the sub-markets. Interested readers are encouraged to read the primer, and then skip to the sections of most interest.

This Stratecast report makes the case for why a truly comprehensive approach to retail analytics needs to transcend the rudimentary data points retailers have been settling for, up to now; and instead needs to support the end-to-end data requirements of retailer-as-enterprise; including executive management, store operations, store design and layou...