Salesforce leads CRM growth
Salesforce.com overtook SAP as the leading vendor in the worldwide customer relationship management (CRM) software market in 2012, according to Gartner. Total worldwide CRM software revenue totalled $18-billion in 2012, up 12,5% from $16-billion in 2011....NFC becomes de facto in cell phones
Shipments of cell phones equipped with near field communication (NFC) will expand by a factor of nearly 10 from 2012 to 2017, reaching 1,2-billion units as the majority of smartphone makers are increasingly adopting the wireless communications and payment technology...Local development gets a boost
The Altron group has welcomed government’s high-value infrastructure development programme to boost local manufacturing and technology. Public procurement is one of the key drivers in government’s Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP). The regulations that give...Small increase for semiconductors
The worldwide semiconductor assembly and test services (SATS) market totalled $24,5-billion in 2012, a 2,1% increase from 2011, according to final results from Gartner. “After experiencing relatively mild 1,8% growth in 2011, the SATS market remained in a...