Paris protests and a major data leak exposing the personal information of hundreds of drivers are just two more things to add to the litany of unfortunate events to befall Uber. Since the app-based cab aggregator launched in March of 2009, its existence has been marked by regulatory strife, with many cities imposing strict rules…
Technavio is set to publish new industry analysis of the global integration platform as a service (iPaaS) market, which is expected to grow at a CAGR of 37.76% from 2014-2019. iPaaS is a cloud integration platform that assimilates applications to improve efficiency. An iPaaS solution attends to the development, execution, and governance of the integration process for on-premise or…
As much as IT helps an organization, inefficient IT can actually hinder business operations and cause more problems than it solves. This is a big reason why IT assessment and optimization is emerging as a field. It aims to reduce IT costs and optimize IT assets in a bid to drive better utilization value. IT…
Nearly 80% of all US companies are likely to adopt cloud-based storage by 2019 as this switch from on premise infrastructure allows for large reduced storage costs. The storage as service market in the US is expected to increase nearly $6 billion by 2019, growing at a CAGR of over 33% through 2019. Here are…
While traditional travel technology was always the domain of computer reservation systems for airlines, the definition has expanded significantly in recent years. Technologies like online booking and global distribution systems (GDSs) for both the airline as well as tourism and hospitality industries will help the global travel technology market reach $12.21 billion by 2019, growing…
Software as a service (SaaS) is creeping into every aspect of business. Both large and small organizations are turning to centrally hosted, subscription-based and on-demand services for scalable, economic business operations. And portfolio and project management (PPM) is no different- the global SaaS-based PPM market is expected to reach $1,644.21 million by 2019, growing at a CAGR…
Location-based services were once the domain of the outdoors, with Google Maps quickly securing the top spot among digital mappers. But it turns out that we, as humans, are not only useless at finding our way outside, we also have issues indoors. So now the race is on to map not only our streets, but…
Cellular M2M—which uses CDMA, 2G, 3G, and 4G/LTE networks to help electronic devices ‘talk’—has become a cornerstone for a new breed of data transmission, with the global cellular M2M connections and services market expected to grow at a CAGR of 31.77% and 28.47%, respectively, from 2014-2019. Expansion of LTE Networks Facilitating M2M Growth At the…
The business environment is facing changes in customer needs and rising price pressures due to intense competition. This has accelerated the need for enterprises to use metrics for measuring the performance of various business operations. Enter Intelligent Video Analytics Intelligent video analytics (IVA) solutions help enterprises to rise ahead of their rivals since they transform…
It’s pretty safe to say that our formerly paper-based society is now inarguably digital. Even institutions like healthcare, which were reluctant to evolve at first, are now digitizing. And while this means we’re not scrounging for space in overstuffed file cabinets anymore, all this extra data is still causing storage issues. In enterprises, spending on…
