This real-time Fast Data collection and analysis can help optimize traffic management, provide forensic analysis, identify traffic hotspots or help with crime prevention.
When it comes to making investment decisions in the market, we have refined information management systems that provide real-time information to data analysts.
In a different, though parallel, category, Allianz Group Chief Information Officer Ralf Schneider suggests 2012 will see strides in "in-memory datamanagement, " which will pave the way for real-time enterprise computing.
Likewise, CRM data should be accessible to approved users through real-time communications tools like Lync or via the document management capabilities of SharePoint to foster increased collaboration or streamline offers.
Enterprises can deploy M2M technology now to reduce the cost of field service management through remote maintenance, they can optimize fleet scheduling with real-time location and traffic data and they can tap into new business models such as usage-based (or pay-as-you) go billing.