Demand response (DR) models are enabling real-time analysis of customer demand trends and allowing the generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure to react accordingly. Growth in this market means utilities will increasingly invest in innovative technologies and predictive tools to reduce power generation costs as well as grid failure...

This report focuses on creativity and innovation in the workplace, and follows an earlier report on the future of work. See Intellectual Property Workers: The Impact on Network Operators, (SPIE 2015-11) March 2015. In particular, it explores why exercises in innovation that are mandated by executive leadership are doomed to failure; and why designi...

Inventory is beginning to play a much more important role at the center of this change, supporting fulfillment, planning, maintenance, analytics, service creation, and service enablement in a much more dynamic fashion than legacy systems ever did in the past. This SPIE examines the need for a dynamic, real-time OSS with a flexible, accurate invento...

This study analyses the regulatory environment concerning telecommunications in selected countries within the African continent. The aim of the research is to assess the impact of regulations on the development of the telecommunications market in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. The key objectives are to provide an overview of developments relatin...

By 2025, the combined value of IoT technologies could reach more than $6 trillion. So, it would seem imperative that the market understand what Big Data, AI, and machine learning are, and how they can work together. This Stratecast report briefly discusses exactly that, and presents results that a growing number of organizations are achieving, and ...

In this SPIE, the first in a series of reports detailing the results of the 2015 Frost & Sullivan Cloud User Survey, we look at the adoption trends for public, hosted private, and bare metal cloud services.

In this years look forward, Stratecast provides several views voiced by our analyst teams of likely developments in the multiple dimensions of the communications marketplace, including those tied to: Big Data, business services, cloud, connected home, consumer services, the operations & monetization functions, and secure networking. These prognost...

Integration of CASBs with enterprises’ existing security infrastructures is materializing; and, with this integration, a more robust security ecosystem is being fostered. This week’s announcement by Cisco®, in partnership with Elastica, on the launch of Cisco Cloud Access Security (CAS) is evidence of synergistic integration between existing s...

The research service provides an overview of the key highlights of IAA Frankfurt Motor Show. It focusses on breakthrough technologies and launches of selected OEM's and offers a comparative analysis on OEM strategies.