Rufus Connell on April 1, 2014
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John Iovieno on March 27, 2014
Over the last dozen or so years, the Cloud Computing (CC) industry has made monumental strides, and there seems to be no shortage of opinions and analysis around the CC solution having huge potential across many applications. In fact, several analysts expect the market to eventually reach hundreds of billions of dollars from an estimated $35.6 billion in 2013. However, market size does not appear to be the question. The pressing issues for the CC industry lie in its security, business adoption/transformation and infrastructure, which will have a significant impact on when that market potential can be realized.
Mind Commerce Staff on March 11, 2014
Wearable devices represent technology that humans can wear on-the-go. According to market intelligence, these devices will ultimately replace most of today's traditional gadgets that are used on a daily basis. Just as today’s devices are wholly unrecognizable to someone from twenty years ago, wearable technology and other advances will make today's gadgets seem obsolete only in about ten years.
Wearables are a pioneering approach to integrating smarter and more practical gadgets into daily life. Initially focused on communications, applications, content and commerce, wearables will ultimately be involved in many other aspects of life and transform the lifestyles we once knew. Routine tasks will be transformed as activities become more efficient, entertaining and controllable.
Vladimir Vukicevic on March 5, 2014
Despite the hype, mobile payments are still rare and likely to remain so over the next ten years, at least in the developed world. It appears that the market leaders, in particular large banks, have little incentive to invest in alternative payments.
Taking into account current knowledge of market drivers, the global value of mobile payments will triple from $311 billion in 2013 to $1.1 trillion in 2017, representing a rise from less than 1% to 3% of the world card payments.
While e-commerce has become mainstream, most online purchases are still card based.
In the healthcare IT industry, two of the driving goals that are often at odds with one another are controlling costs and improving the quality of medical treatment. Telemedicine is one of the practical concepts that truly has the ability to do both at once. Despite being called telemedicine, this group of technologies is used in hospitals, nursing homes and other care facilities, just as much if not more that in a home care or remote setting.
Currently, telemedicine focuses largely on remote patient monitoring, but it also includes the use of videoconferencing for medical purposes as well.
Cindy Frei on April 25, 2013
If you are involved in the healthcare IT market, you might be familiar with the term eHealth, meaning digital medical records and systems. Are you and your company ready for mHealth? In brief, mHealth refers to mobile health, the practice of medical health aided by mobile devices. It is part of the expanding universe of the healthcare IT market and eHealth systems and applications, and is gaining traction in developing nations and in Western countries including the United States. By one estimate, the market for mobile healthcare applications will be worth $26 billion by 2017.
A few years ago, upon entering a hospital emergency room, you would likely be asked about your symptoms by a triage nurse holding a clipboard. Today, it's just as common for the nurse to wield an iPad and add notes from your conversation that can later be accessed by several members of the hospital staff. This upgrade in healthcare technology saves the emergency room physician from undertaking a second detailed work-up on your condition.
Richard Washington on March 24, 2013
The Cloud has changed the way we go through our day. From the moment we wake up, we're updating our statuses on social networks and checking work e-mails before the coffee hits the cup. An online community manager can access the administrator functions from his iPad. A marketing manager can check Google Analytics from her Android smartphone. The cloud computing market has enveloped our modern society and streamlined our days.
Richard Washington on March 17, 2013
Two decades in, the cloud computing industry has grown from a "intergalactic fantasy" to an integral part of our lives. If you take a moment to realize how it has influenced our behaviors, you would be amazed. From streaming a movie on Netflix, to uploading your camera photos to the filesharing website, Dropbox, the growth of cloud computing has been impressive and wide-reaching.
Cindy Frei on March 14, 2013
If you're thinking of bringing your business into the cloud computing industry, there are several key elements to consider.
During the past decade, the opportunity to relocate computing functions that are software-based to remote servers -- aka the cloud-- have multiplied rapidly.The shift from traditional software models has radically transformed flexibility and cost for many businesses.
