If hindsight is 20/20 vision, can the melee of announcements and exhibitor displays at this year’s Mobile World Congress provide us with the foresight for the year ahead and what to expect at MWC20? As a conference, Mobile World Congress (MWC) has built a reputation for providing a window on innovation and market direction in [...]
View the replay of a webinar discussing the importance of managing workforce visibility and output, whilst at the same time empowering individuals to do and be their best in the digital economy. The event features CIC’s Bola Rotibi and Sarah Andresen, Head of People Science at Sage People (formerly Fairsail), and is moderated by Maggie Holland, B2B [...]
In an age when young start-up tech companies are aspiring to IPO, 30-year-old BMC, a steadfast provider of systems management solutions, has gone the other way. Three years ago it went from being publicly traded to becoming privately owned by a collection of private equity companies. In freeing itself from the responsibilities of the public [...]
For a number of years IBM has been involved in professional sports through various leading events including The Masters Golf and the four tennis Grand Slams (Wimbledon, US, Australia and French Opens). Its level of participation covers the systems that enable these events as well as the ways in which fans engage with them, but [...]
Alex Baldock is the Chief Executive Officer of Shop Direct, a company that owns websites including very.co.uk and littlewoods.com. He puts the company’s recent record revenues down to the growth in mobile commerce. Baldock said that in the last four years’ sales via mobile have gone from zero to 60%. In fact, sales via mobile [...]
It is widely recognised that Internet connectivity will present significant opportunities and savings for a broad range of businesses and organisations. So here at CIC we conducted a survey (sponsored by IBM) to investigate the role of connectivity and the Internet of Things across a range of industries and markets, especially those that produce smart, [...]
The mother of all conferences! That is how Mobile World Congress (MWC) is often billed. Although in reality there are certainly one or two other conferences that can certainly live up to that grandiose title - the Consumer Electronic Show held in Las Vegas every January being one such example. However, anyone who has travelled [...]
Late spring is always a busy time for conferences and events, and it sometimes feels that we are away more often than we are back in the office. Having said that, these events are the lifeblood of what we as analysts do, and it offers us an opportunity to identify the trend, issues and opportunities [...]
Last week Amazon published financials for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business for the first time. These showed that the old man of public cloud computing is a $5bn business with 49% year-over-year growth. The data also showed that Amazon experiences healthy margins on AWS which puts them in a good position to handle the [...]
In 2014 IBM launched its Internet of Things (IoT) Foundation, a cloud based service within its Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering Bluemix. The aim was to attract developers to IoT by making it easy to utilise the cloud as a platform for building applications based on data coming from devices (things). Of course for [...]
