AnalystPerspectives

This issue of  covers analyst commentary from the week ending July 08, 2016.

Mobile security is just one of the subjects covered in this week’s newsletter.  Here is a sample of the articles you will find in the Mobile & Broadband section:

• Rural Communities Need Investments in Small Cell Backhaul to Narrow the Digital Divide as World Ramps Up to 5G | ABI Research - Wed, 06 Jul 2016  
• BlackBerry Misinformation and the Smartphone Security Crisis | Enderle Group - Fri, 08 Jul 2016 |Rob Enderle
• Securing Trust in Digital Business | Gartner - Tue, 05 Jul 2016  
• Passwords Suck – Bring on Biometrics! | Celent - Wed, 06 Jul 2016 |Bob Meara

Various aspects of Enterprise Applications are covered this week as well.  Here are some the discuss Outsourcing and Hardware:

• Contact Center Providers are blissfully unaware they could lose key clients | Horses for Sources - Thu, 07 Jul 2016 |Melissa O’Brien
• Why Aren’t We Seeing New Technologies Deliver Business Performance Breakthroughs? | Sherpas in Blue Shirts | Everest Group - Thu, 07 Jul 2016 |Peter Bendor-Samuel
• Vendors Are Doubling Down on Hyperconverged Offerings, but That’s No Promise of Long-Term Market Success | Current Analysis - Fri, 08 Jul 2016 |Chris Drake
• Some Food For Thought About Hyper-Converged Infrastructure | IDC - Fri, 08 Jul 2016 |Eric Burgener
• OMG! It’s ODM! | Enterprise Strategy Group - Wed, 06 Jul 2016 |Kevin Rhone

Machines and artificial intelligence could impact IT Management & Human Resources.  Here are a few headlines from that section:

• Automation Impact: India's services industry workforce to shrink 480,000 by 2021 - a decline of 14% | Horses for Sources - Mon, 04 Jul 2016 |Phil Fersht
• Where machines could replace humans—and where they can’t (yet) | McKinsey & Company - Fri, 08 Jul 2016  
• Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work Peppers & Rogers Group - Mon, 04 Jul 2016  

Here are more headlines to note this week:

• Anatomy of a unicorn: Why tech start-ups are staying private | McKinsey & Company - Tue, 05 Jul 2016  
• The WRC risks being sidelined in the push for new 5G spectrum | Ovum - Tue, 05 Jul 2016 Julian Bright
• Brexit. Eventually. Possibly. | Celent - Mon, 04 Jul 2016 |Gareth Lodge
• Microsoft’s Big Bang: Everything CRM and ERP On One Platform | Forrester - Fri, 08 Jul 2016 |John Bruno
• Brexit Effect: UK Software & IT Services Growth to Relent Given Murkier Market Outlook | Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) - Mon, 04 Jul 2016 |Christophe Chalons, Nick Mayes, Kevin Restivo
• I Want To Be A Superhero -- What About You? | Horses for Sources - Wed, 06 Jul 2016 |Christine Ferrusi Ross
• Rise in mobile enterprise applications met by digital developer skills shortage | Ovum - Thu, 07 Jul 2016 |Phil Pexton
• Slack and the Future of Enterprise IT | Sherpas in Blue Shirts | Everest Group - Tue, 05 Jul 2016 |Nitish Mittal