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Athena Health Acquires Epocrates
A 2011 report by IDC estimates that the electronic health reform (EHR) market will grow from $1.9 billion in 2009 to $3.8 billion by 2015. Outpatient EHR is projected to account for $1.41 billion of the market, and the inpatient EHR services will contribute the remaining $2.4 billion by 2015. A more recent report by
Pure Storage Grows on Flash Memory
According to the 2013 McClean Report, the total flash memory market (NAND and NOR) is estimated to have grown 2% last year to $30.4 billion. While growth in the flash memory market has been driven by the increased consumer adoption of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, the enterprise segment is also shifting toward this
Cloudera’s Big Data Growth Story
In a report published by IDC earlier this year, Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services 2012-2016 Forecast, the worldwide big data technology and services market is projected to grow annually at 31% to be worth $23.8 billion by 2016. This is a conservative estimate compared with Wikibon’s research, which projects the big data market to
MobileIron Protects Ever-Growing Mobile Data Pool
Analysts at Gartner believe that the mobile device management (MDM) market will see strong growth in the coming years. Studies estimate that nearly 20% of medium and large businesses in the country have already purchased MDM tools. The MDM market is still small and was estimated to be worth more than $500 million in revenues
Adobe’s Creative Cloud Takes Stock to 52-Week High
According to Gartner, the global public cloud services market was estimated to have grown 20% last year to $109 billion. Business process services (BPS) was the largest segment in the market at $84.2 billion, with a 77% market share, compared with $72 billion a year ago. The software as a service (SaaS) market is estimated to
ExactTarget’s Growth Continues
According to a recent report, the marketing automation industry is the fastest growing segment within the $4 billion CRM market. Researcher SiriusDecisions believes that adoption of marketing automation will grow 50% by the year 2015. Another report by TechNavio pegs the growth of the worldwide marketing automation market at 8.2% annually from 2011 through 2015.
OpenTable at 52-Week High
According to recent market reports, traffic to restaurants in the United States is projected to grow a mere 3% this year. But there are still opportunities, and online restaurant reservation services provider OpenTable (Nasdaq:OPEN) is working to improve their offerings to capture a bigger share of this diner growth.
Coursera’s Business Model Challenge
According to a report, The U.S. Market for Self-Paced eLearning Products and Services: 2010-2015 Forecast and Analysis, by market research firm Ambient Insight 2015, the number of post-secondary students in the U.S. who are taking online classes will rise from 12.36 million in 2010 to 21.13 million by 2015. Annual growth over the five-year period