Johannesburg, 25 Nov 2015
Why is it important to do a Smart City business analytics software vendor analysis? Because business intelligence and analytics are central to Smart City initiatives.
"Smart" or "intelligent" - from intelligent operations centres to smart water meters to intelligent transportation systems - all require BI and analytics. These solutions are what puts the "smart" in Smart Cities, and cities need to have an independent assessment of which vendors can provide the best solution for their needs.
As shown in figure 2, the amount of data that is created each year is expected to grow from 4.4ZB (zettabytes) in 2013 to 44ZB - or 44 trillion gigabytes - in just five years, representing growth of 40% per year. Much of this growth is driven by connected devices and, more specifically, mobile connected devices (RFID, smart cards, body cams, GPS). In 2013, 15 billion things were connected to the Internet, and in 2020, 30 billion things will be connected, 75% of which will be mobile things. Of this, 27% of the data will be generated by devices and people by 2020. Government organisations will need to analyse data created from government systems as well as from outside government. Social media, information from mobile apps and smartphones will become more and more useful to cities as they work on managing traffic, crime, events, and so forth (see EMC Digital Universe Study, 2014).
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