Author: Connected World

Gartner predicts 65% of B2B sales organizations will transition from intuition-based to data-driven decision making by 2026.

Parks Associates says two-thirds of prospective MDU residents report pre-installation of smart home devices is an important factor when selecting a new home.

Berg Insight says the number of smart homes in Europe and North America will reach 105 million in 2021.

Juniper Research says hearables shipments will exceed 200 million globally by 2024.

IDC says India smartphone shipments declined for the third consecutive quarter in 1Q22.

The past week and a half in the tech sphere has seen a lot of news, thanks in part to two conferences that shared several of the same days last week: Intel Vision 2022 and SAP Sapphire 2022. Both events are worth covering, thanks to many of the announcements’ broad implications for the IoT (Internet of Things) space. Check out some of the highlights from each conference here. First, Intel. One of the noteworthy discussions coming out of Intel Vision 2022 was the company’s IPU (infrastructure processing unit) roadmap, which outlines its IPU-related plans through 2026. This year, Intel says…

Gartner says nearly half of finance executives see self-service data and analytics as a driver of employee productivity.

ABI Research says the smart-apartment market is soaring to $13 billion value by 2030.

Parks Associates says 66% of security system owners are interested in a cybersecurity add-on service for their security system.

Forrester says 75% of U.S. B2C marketing executives plan to invest in the metaverse this year, despite consumer skepticism.