Reports

During 2018 the Smart Home market in Italy reached a value of €380 million, registering extremely high growth (+52% compared to 2017) in the wake of smart home speakers, which were finally launched on the Italian market.

Digital Innovation priorities for companies in 2019 and the scenario of hi-tech startups funded in Italy.

Effectively introducing the Cloud within the company means embarking upon an evaluation procedure taking into consideration variables of different nature. In the course of the 2015 Research, the Cloud &ICT as a Service Observatory developed an analysis model called Cloud Project Framework that identifies technologic, organizational and business variables that are triggered when moving to as a Service information model from a traditional one and the critical aspects encountered when making this change.

ICT Departments are becoming more aware and are beginning to take a more mature approach to this topic and to understand the real repercussions for the corporate information system. Companies have invested 1.05 billion Euros to develop and update their existing infrastructural and application assets. In doing so, the use of Cloud services appears less improvised and more closely connected to corporate information system strategies of evolution. Investment for these enabling factors, which we know under the umbrella term “Cloud Enabling Infrastructure”, allow a hybrid information system to be created. This system combines the internal systems with the services offered by the Public Cloud and enhances the features and opportunities of both models.

After years of delays and lack of attention, Digital Healthcare appears to have finally taken an important position within Government action plans. Furthermore, in 2014 all healthcare system organizations were granted an increase of their digital innovation budgets, with an estimated overall value of 1.37 billion euros. This, however, is insufficient: achieving a “Smart Healthcare System” requires the implementation of the eHealth Journey, that identifies priority areas of intervention and innovation within a consistent organization and technological model evolution roadmap.

A big gap exists between the real world of business and financial word and this is an issue especially for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEBs), looking for new liquidity and credit access opportunities. But which are the main existing Supply Chain Finance solutions? What is the real value of the Supply Chain Finance market in Italy? Who are the main providers and how is the Italian situation compared to other countries?

The shadows overhanging Cloud computing have vanished and now is a good time to act. Despite a 25% overall growth in Cloud computing with an estimated value of 1.51 billion Euros in 2015, organisations are still unable to grasp the enabling elements, reference models and main approaches linked to Cloud technology. We will begin by examining the choices that affect an organisation’s strategies in the Cloud field, what is changing in the ICT offer, how the offer is evolving to meet new company requirements, how intermediation and aggregation models for Cloud services have altered and what their level of maturity is.

Retailers face a series of challenges. On the one side, Italian consumers are ever more digitally aware, on the other increasingly burdensome management of back-end processes, due in part to the greater range on offer and in part to the shorter average life-cycle of the products. In this complex and constantly evolving scenario, digital innovation can help retailers to respond more effectively to consumer requirements and design processes that are more efficient.

This report identifies which technologies belong to the smart manufacturing model and which processes are most affected. By analysing the current situation and identifying the most mature fields of application within the wide scope of investigation, we will present a synthesis of smart manufacturing in Italy and an interpretation of the tendencies for the next few years.

Big Data allow companies to gain a much deeper understanding of their customers than in the past. This is why marketing is the greatest utiliser of Big Data Analytics solutions, according to Italian CIOs.

The report illustrates the possible roadmap involving IoT technology to help in bringing the smart city into being in Italy. Numerous projects have been started in Italy, although lack of economic resources and appropriate skills is proving to be a stumbling block for starting large scale IoT projects within the smart city field. Synergy with smart metering for gas in a smart urban infrastructure perspective remains the preferred route to take.

Banks were among the first players to recognise that the diffusion of mobile devices was exceptionally far-ranging, while being those most affected by the changes in the field. This meant that they had to evolve in terms of their offer strategy, providing banking services calibrated to the upgraded profiles of their customers.

Using electronic invoicing for public authorities has helped in clarifying the situation on the digital front. The offer in this field is wide, diverse and layered. The potential benefits (in both monetary and non-monetary terms) of using digital solutions are both tangible and significant. Alongside the opportunities for simplifying the procedures that are materialising are the incentives put in place by the legislator to open the way to B2B electronic invoicing. It is now up the companies to make their move. 

In this report, we will present an overall view of the main evolutions taking place within the Internet of Things in Italy, highlighting the state-of-the-art and principle trends of growth. The report also addresses our aim of analysing the diffusion and the market value of the most common IoT applications utilising mobile phone networks. We then will extend this analysis to the total value of the market in Italy, including the part based on other communication technologies (for example, WiFi, Wireless Sensor Networks).

Mobile remote payment & commerce still remains the main source of value in this market, with transactions worth 2.2 billion Euros in 2014, a growth of 55% (1.2 billion Euros in 2013). In the sector of mobile proximity payment & commerce, NFC has become the preferred technology for proximity/contactless payments and, as a consequence, the first commercial launches based on the SIM-based ecosystem have been taking place in Italy.