IoT projects face a number of technical and business challenges. Connectivity and proving ROI are ranked as the biggest challenges by European IT professionals.
Enterprises face a number of technical and business challenges when it comes to planning and deploying "Internet of Things" projects. A survey...
Red Hat’s Mobile Application Platform to power Telefónica’s global enterprise mobile platform
Telefónica Business Solutions is set to use Red Hat’s Mobile Application Platform as a global reference for operators within the Telefónica Group looking to mobilize business processes for customers.
Red Hat said Telefónica has...
DAS makes sense for the enterprise even if carriers won't pay for it
Distributed antenna systems and in-building small cells have traditionally been used by carriers to keep enterprise customers happy, and now those customers are starting to purchase mobile infrastructure on their own. The...
Text messaging remains a significant form of communication between people, but it also looks set to become an ordering platform for businesses
Remember when you could sign up for online email notifications? You could ask your bank to email you an alert if your balance...
Sprint unlocks Global Wireline Business Unit to target enterprise market, though tasked with ‘full profit-and-loss responsibility’
Sprint may be most known as the domestic market’s former No. 3 wireless carrier, but it also has a wireline network that has garnered accolades from industry veterans and...
There’s been a few questions asked recently in RCR Wireless News and Network World about the go-to-market challenges faced by the small cell community, especially in the enterprise space. And of course it is true, there are some questions to be answered.
The pleasing element...
Verizon probably looks pretty good to its former customers now
1. Former Verizon Communications customers who are now served by Frontier Communications are struggling with unreliable service, according to multiple reports. Problems range from the inability to access online banking to a failure to reach...
Within the telecom industry, views differ widely on the scale of the IoT investment opportunity
Asked at a recent conference when the "Internet of Things" will make a material difference to his company’s financial performance, the CEO of one major telecom operator replied: “Not in my tenure.”
That...
Awareness and intent is growing around IIoT manufacturing, but companies have yet to see significant impact
The 2016 edition of the global MESA international and LNS Research survey on "Metrics that Matter in the manufacturing world” shows the industrial "Internet of Things" manufacturing sector’s take on IoT...
CommScope tapped for Sprint small cell deployment
Sprint has chosen CommScope for a significant indoor small cell deployment designed to support LTE and Wi-Fi. The carrier plans to use CommScope's S1000 small cell, one of the assets CommScope acquired when it bought small cell specialist...
Awareness and intent is growing around IIoT manufacturing but companies have yet to see significant impact
The 2016 edition of the global MESA International and LNS Research survey on ”Metrics that Matter in the manufacturing world” shows that the IIoT manufacturing sector’s take on IoT is changing...
Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, emphasizes artificial intelligence, machine learning
Google is investing big in artificial intelligence and machine learning, which will set the stage for a transition from mobile-first to AI-first as devices fade away, Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a recent post to...
I just returned from the well-organized and well-attended Wi-Fi Now conference in Washington, D.C. Topics at the three-day conference included enterprise applications, home security, innovations, leadership, carriers, spectrum, LTE-U, the "Uber-ization" of the wireless industry and the disruptive role of Wi-Fi. There was less talk about...
Asset efficiency is important to a manufacturer's bottomline
A recent study on the maturity of asset efficiency practices from Infosys and the Institute for Industrial Management (FIR) at Aachen University revealed that 85% of manufacturing companies globally are aware of asset efficiency, but only 15%...
Increase productivity with enterprise asset management cloud and data analytics tools
Companies of all sorts, particularly those working in physical plant-intensive markets, need to keep up with their equipment to understand maintenance needs, optimize process efficiency and, ideally, get more productivity for less money.
The practice...
Dell’Oro Group looks at challenges facing small cells as they try to garner scale in the consumer and enterprise space
At a high level, small cells have moved from the hype phase to reality. The Dell’Oro Group estimates the nonresidential small cell market approached 300,000...
MaaS360 by IBM provides 6 tips for the decommission of bring-your-own-devices in the enterprise
In the world of bring-your-own-device policies, users may run through multiple devices per year – a departure from the typical 18-month or two-year upgrade for the general population. As BYOD grows,...
Essentially since the advent of health care, diagnosis has been dependent on a direct, face-to-face interaction between the patient and the doctor. But now, as robust, high-capacity mobile networks transmit insightful data generated by sensors and other remote monitors comprising the "Internet of Things,"...
Enterprise and businesses are at the cusp of a major transformation, a new wave of industrialization based on IoT
IoT will involve the intersection of powerful supply and demand factors that will cause a tremendous amount of change and value creation. Beyond the economic benefits of business use-cases...
In the age of cloud computing and borderless workflow, enterprise IT is under going a seismic shift to accommodate the needs of the modern worker while enabling business-wide flexibility and responsiveness through technology integration.
In a new report from Oracle titled "The Era I Enterprise: Ready...
Flexibility of cloud gets carriers 5G ready, eases enterprise digitalization
The complexity of ultimate 5G networks, often described as a network of network, will acquire a new approach on the radio access side, according to Huawei officials presenting during the firm's annual Huawei Global Analyst...
Cloud-as-a-service trades capital hardware, software and licensing costs into an operating expense
Faced with the ever-increasing need to cut costs and boost revenues, many enterprises are turning to digitalization strategies focused on using cloud computing platforms and attendant data analytics functions to gain efficiency and...
Essentially since the advent of health care, diagnosis has been dependent on a direct, face-to-face interaction between the patient and the doctor. But now, as robust, high-capacity mobile networks transmit insightful data generated by sensors and other remote monitors comprising the "Internet of Things,"...
Wi-Fi interoperability, enterprise sales and costs could slow small cell adoption
The market for the coverage and capacity benefits of a small cell deployment are there, but enterprise adoption is a key challenge facing mobile carriers, according to an opinion column by Peter Thornycroft of...
