In the connected age, the flow of data through cities is becoming a key contributor to global competitiveness. European cities are taking advantage of public funds to experiment with open access to data and to assess the monetization potential for selected sources. Although estimating the full value of data in the public sector is difficult, govern...

This study breaks down the contact center applications market across 13 countries in the Asia-Pacific region based on 8 application segments including Automatic Call Distributor (ACD), Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), Interactive Voice Response, Outbound, Call Monitoring, Workforce Management (WFM), Speech Technology, and Multimedia applicatio...

In this Hot Topic, Frost & Sullivan identifies key areas across the retail sector where the benefits of technology are most acutely felt. It analyzes the key drivers and restraints for technology adoption by retailers and identifies major IT trends in the sector in Brazil, such as online commerce, social networks, RFID, analytics and omni channel i...

This Stratecast report will explore some troubling impacts of the failure of financial services organizations to achieve effective data governance; and will provide insights on technologies and business approaches that can help them change their fortunes by harnessing the power of Big Data.

The Directory includes more than 300 vendors offering products that range from core database technologies and general-purpose analytic software platforms, to specialized application software targeting narrow technical niches and specific industries. Vendors are organized into 18 solution types that are grouped into the five broad categories.

In this SPIE, we examine the environmental factors creating the need for automation within our network security environments. The necessary steps to get to automation are discussedsteps that we refer to as the network security manageability tool evolution. Finally, we discuss automation, and provide an example of a company taking an innovative app...

Networking provider Cisco launched a new next generation firewall (NGFW) product on 16 September 2014, as part of its portfolio of Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewalls. The release marks an interesting development in a market where the convergence of NGFW and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) is gathering momentum

This studys objective was to review current and future adoption of customer contact strategies, enabling technologies, and services in the government and education vertical. The use of Web self-service, social media, mobile applications, and video are expected to increase over the next 2 years, but LiveAgent voice and email will likely decline. Ce...

The objective of this study is to analyze the current and future adoption trends of various customer contact strategies, enabling technologies, and services in the healthcare vertical. North American healthcare companies are more likely to have social customer care, but are behind their European counterparts in terms of mobile customer care. 38% of...