Analyst report stories - Page 216

Tablet market stagnates with shipments dipping to 50.4m in Q1 2014, hinting at a tough year ahead for the tech industry.

Spending on Business Intelligence and analytics software in New Zealand reached $75.3m in 2013, a 7.5% increase from the previous year.

SMB spending in New Zealand grew by only 0.7% in 2013, but excluding hardware, the market expanded by 3.5%. Medium sized businesses are the star segment.

CEOs lagging in understanding of digital business, with few mentioning it in annual reports. Organizations over-optimistic about achieving business change.

Microsoft is hoping its recent acquisition of Nokia will help it gain a larger share of the smartphone market.

CMOs and CIOs face an ongoing challenge: bridging the gap between their distinct vocabularies in the digital marketing realm.

PC market in Asia/Pacific (excl. Japan) contracts for 8th quarter in a row, hitting 23.8 million units in 2014 Q1 amidst political and economic shifts.

Technology is crucial for business growth, but CEOs lack understanding of digital business, warns Gartner's CEO survey.

Palo Alto Networks has been recognised by Gartner as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Firewalls for the third year running.

Post-M&A, companies must engage broadly to keep sales momentum, says Gartner, highlighting proactive strategies to prevent competitive disruption.

Asia-Pacific cloud providers have lowered prices for core services, which could make it difficult for smaller providers to stay afloat.

The ability to spot fleeting opportunities will be the hallmark of a digital business, says analyst firm Gartner.

Cloud-managed Wi-Fi market set to reach $2.5bn by 2018, driven by increased adoption in midmarket and distributed enterprise.

CEOs have a bullish attitude towards tech, but investors in tech-related stocks don't feel the same way, according to a Gartner survey.

For such organisations that understand their information assets need to be valued and managed as assets, using Bitcoin as the valuation method could h.

The digital universe is set to multiply 10-fold between 2013 and 2020, resulting in a staggering 44 trillion gigabytes of data.

New Zealand businesses risk falling behind due to unutilised data growth, facing litigation and missed opportunities, warn experts.

Global PC shipments in Q1 2014 decline by 1.7%, but eased compared to the past seven quarters, reports Gartner.

According to Gartner, one-third of enterprises still have more than 10% of their systems running on Windows XP.

During the last decade, x86 server virtualisation has risen to become a dominant feature of the enterprise data centre.