As a byproduct of COVID, the chip shortage impact made itself known in 2021. For the SIM cards market, this impact is forecast to be significant on the removable SIM card form-factor. According to ABI Research, removeable SIM card shipments will decline from 4.36 billion in 2021 to 3.93 billion in 2022.
Read MoreGlobal companies can significantly decrease their costs and boost their profitability by reducing excessive carbon emissions, lowering taxes, and leveraging advanced tools such as carbon capture and reuse technology.
Read MoreSecurity and risk management (SRM) leaders now invest significantly more effort into evaluating and influencing the cyberhealth of external parties. Employees are making more decisions with cyber risk implications, and executive committees being established outside the scope of the cybersecurity leader.
Read MoreB2B sales organizations must take a more situationally aware approach, tuning engagement skills and tactics with empathy for, and personalization to, a prospective buyer’s current state, according to Gartner, Inc. Standardized customer engagement in today’s buying environment will only get sellers so far, even with the best methodology.
Read MoreParks Associates finds that 48% of security system owners report that their system triggers too many false alarms. The research explores consumer attitudes, preferences, and experiences in security event management among households with professional monitoring.
Read MoreABI Research’s reports that dozens of always-on 5G portable device models will hit the market in 2022 when sales of these 5G devices will exceed $12 million, growing to $46.5 million by 2026.
Read MoreDriven by evolving data communications networks, including 5G, Gartner, Inc. predicts that 25% of supply chain decisions will be made across intelligent edge ecosystems through 2025. Advances in data communications services, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 5G, are poised to support edge ecosystems and complement traditional centralized supply chain solutions with more virtualized and remote networks processing data.
Read MoreDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, wearables became a tool for tracking, monitoring, and combating the spread of the disease throughout the world. According to a recent study from global technology intelligence firm ABI Research, the number of wearables shipped worldwide in 2020 increased to 259.63 million, with sports, fitness, and wellness trackers accounting for 112.15 million and Smartwatches 74.30 million.
Read MoreBy 2025, the carbon emissions of hyperscale cloud services will be a top three criterion in cloud purchase decisions, according to Gartner, Inc. As environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities and reporting received growing levels of enterprise attention, more than 90% of organizations increased their investments in sustainability programs since the start of the pandemic compared to investments in 2017.
Read MoreWorldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.5 trillion in 2022, an increase of 5.1% from 2021, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc.
Despite the potential impacts of the Omicron variant, economic recovery with high expectations for digital market prosperity will continue to boost technology investments. “2022 is the year that the future returns for the CIO,” said John-David Lovelock, distinguished research vice president at Gartner.
Read MoreNetwork connections are becoming more complex as more devices require connectivity from infinitely more locations. This proliferation of IoT has driven demand for software-defined solutions to optimize networking costs, improve enterprise agility/scalability, and enable the integration of cloud applications.
Read MoreMaterial growth in the value of global goods traded over the last five years represents the evolution of globalization, increasing incomes in many locations, and the need to connect people and devices. Baseline forecasts for 2022 exceed anything seen in the prior six or more years. According to ABI Research, e-commerce revenue will grow from $560 billion in 2020 to $8 trillion in 2026.
Read MoreGlobal technology intelligence market firm ABI Research forecasts that the Chinese Wi-Fi IoT market will continue to grow at a CAGR of 29% from 252 million connections in 2021 to 916.6 million in 2026. The COVID-19 pandemic had highlighted the prospects of remote working to the world, and the importance of having a reliable office and home network.
Read MoreSixty-six percent of logistics leaders increased their logistics outsourcing budget in 2021, and 74% anticipate an increase in the next two years, according to a survey from Gartner, Inc. From March through May 2021 Gartner surveyed 298 supply chain professionals in the U.S., Europe and APAC who had decision-making capacity regarding supply chain outsourcing.
Read MoreBy 2026, 75% of customers who call customer service and support organizations will do so out of loneliness, not because they have a customer service issue, according to Gartner, Inc. This will affect service and support leaders’ priority of migrating customers to self-service and ensuring rep well-being.
Read MorePersonalization, 24/7 availability, and support through digital channels should enable most brands to keep up with changes in customer behavior. According to Frost & Sullivan, the European outsourcing industry’s focus on improving the conversational customer experience has significantly boosted pandemic recovery, with CX outsourcing revenues expected to grow by 10.1% this year.
Read MoreOil & Gas firms face a myriad of operational, commercial, and existential threats. According to ABI Research, Oil & Gas firms are turning to digitalization to combat these threats and will spend $15.6 billion on digital technologies in 2030.
Read MoreAutomotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are expected to replace powertrain suspension and steering systems with electric corner modules (ECMs) as the demand for purpose-built vehicles increases. Their suitability for autonomous delivery vehicles, eShuttles, and electric light commercial vehicles (eLCVs) is expected to result in a $5.20 billion global market by 2030.
Read MoreBroadcasters and TV Channel executives worldwide have been exploring ways to manage the complex issues associated with delivering high-dynamic-range (HDR) experiences across the wide variety of content they present to their viewers. The HDR industry must determine an effective way to absorb these new technologies and innovations as they become available without completely disrupting operations.
Read More2022 is shaping up to be a very big year for NextGen TV as adoption of Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) version 3.0 and rapidly maturing video technologies like high dynamic range (HDR) gather momentum. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) recently increased their estimate of televisions sold with ATSC 3.0 capability in 2021 from 800,000 to more than 2 million units.
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