Monday, 6 June 2016

Slide Preparation Systems Market - Global Industry Forecast 2016 – 2023

Slide preparation, staining, probing and analysis require tools and equipment that yields high-quality samples. Slide preparation systems comprise an automated device which helps in the preparation of cytology slides. With the help of the device, cells are collected in suspension on a filter tape by filtration and are then dispersed, after which it is transferred to a glass slide using pressure-fixation technology. The usual process of the slide preparation system includes cell preservation, dispersion, enrichment, pipetting, sedimentation, staining and coverslipping, which finally leads to the preparation of slide for cytology screening.
The overall slide preparation system results in clean and uniform samples accompanied with better visualization of the cells to be diagnosed. Better diagnosis of the cells through slide testing would result in improved assessment and management of the patients’ conditions with various forms of illnesses. The slide preparation system is an extremely useful device for the preparation of slides from various cytological preparations as the systems are automated to provide standardized results, thereby enabling easier interpretation of the cell sample. These slide preparation systems are compatible with a number of reagents for staining frozen sections, paraffin-embedded tissue, cell smears and fine-needle aspirates.  

Slide Preparation Systems Market: Segmentation
Based on components of the automated systems, the slide preparation systems market can be segmented as follows:
·         Staining module: Staining module comprises all the staining tools such as automated strainers which create an optimized environment for the preparation of slides
·         Fluidics module: Fluidic module comprises various bottles which provide on-board bulk fluid capacity for up to 90 slides
·         Waste module: Waste module has level-sensing containers that provide walk-away capacity for up to 90 slides
By geography, the slide preparation systems market is divided into four broad segments: North America, Asia Pacific, Europe, and Rest of the World (RoW). Currently, it is North America that holds a leading position, with Europe trailing behind the market leader.

Slide Preparation Systems Market: Drivers

The prime reasons which are driving the growth of the market in these regions are significant scientific and technological advances in instrumentation pertaining to slide preparation, and increasing demand for accurate treatment solutions for patients. Furthermore, certain factors such as optimum quality of slides, and increased workflow and turnaround time are also propelling the growth of slide preparation systems market. Asia is one of the most promising markets for the growth of slide preparation systems market due to the presence of vast population and various emerging economies.

Thursday, 2 June 2016

Global Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration Market: Trends and Opportunities

Improving the overall reliability of the grid is an essential objective of the electric power industry. A dependable grid can reduce customer inconvenience arising from power disruptions, lost productivity, and economic losses. To help accomplish these goals, several utilities across the globe are adopting fault location, isolation, and service restoration (FLISR) technologies and systems.
Fault location, isolation, and service restoration technologies are distribution automation (DA) tools that reroute power to reduce the number of customers affected by power supply faults, power outages, and other disturbances. FLISR systems automatically isolate the fault zone and restore services to remaining consumers by transferring them to adjacent circuits. In addition to reducing the number and duration of power outages for consumers, FLISR technologies help power supply companies improve their reliability index and provide them greater visibility into the trouble zones. This allows crews to track and repair the affected areas more quickly, resulting in shorter outages.
This report on the global fault location, isolation, and service restoration market outlines the present state of the market and gives a forward-looking perspective of the market’s growth prospects over the period between 2016 and 2024. The report gives a thorough overview of the major forces that are influencing the market’s development and shall have a major impact on its growth over the forecast period.
Global Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration Market: Trends and Opportunities
Many governments are making vast capital investments to develop smart grids by either upgrading or replacing aging power supply infrastructure. Moreover, the emergence and rising adoption of new technologies, such as energy production from renewable sources, distributed generation, and electric vehicles, are also placing increased pressures on the already stressed conventional power supply infrastructure. Consumers have also started demanding enhanced quality of power supply from power distribution companies. These factors have collectively led to the increased adoption of FLISR systems in the power distribution industry over the past few years.

Over the report’s forecast period, the rising adoption of partially or fully electric vehicles as a cleaner and more cost-effective means of transportation will emerge as a major growth opportunity for the global FLISR market.
The key components of a typical FLISR system include line monitors, automated feeder switches and reclosers, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, communication networks, grid analytics, outage management systems (OMS), data processing tools, and distribution management systems (DMS).
Global Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration Market: Region-wise Outlook
From a geographical standpoint, the global fault location, isolation, and service restoration market has been analyzed for Europe, Asia Pacific, North America, and Rest of the World. Of these, developed regions such as North America and Europe are currently the largest regional markets for a variety of FLISR systems. The availability of large private and government funds and presence of several regulations mandating a certain percentage of the overall energy mix be derived from clean/renewable energy sources are the major propellers of the FLISR market in these regions.

According to a report published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the U.S. DOE, in association with the electricity industry, had invested funds of nearly US$ 7.9 Bn in 99 cost-shared Smart Grid Investment Grant projects. The funds were invested for modernizing the grid, strengthening cybersecurity, collecting data on smart grid and consumer operations, and improving interoperability. This significantly accelerated the application of FLISR technologies and systems in the country and helped the global FLISR market grow. Over the forecast period as well, the goal of improving grid reliability will drive the global FLISR market in developed regions.

Parking Reservation System Market Trends and Opportunities

Growing economy in many developing countries have fostered high disposable income among population which has given rise to increase in number of vehicle purchase. This has led to sharp increase in the number of vehicles on road in recent years. Passenger and goods carrier vehicles contribute to the most of the numbers of vehicles compared to as compared other types. Increase in number of vehicles have given rise to huge traffic congestion thereby leading to serious parking issues in many countries.
Most of these problems are associated with urban areas where parking problems arise due to space constraint. Vehicle drivers waste substantial amount of their time finding proper parking space thereby creating traffic congestion for other vehicles. Lack of proper on-street parking lots and slow development of new parking complexes is expected to further increase the traffic congestion in coming years.
Further, the current absence of parking slots in residential and commercial complexes creates serious concerns for employers and residential societies. Thus, the need for parking reservation or convenience parking is increasing owing to the time wasted in finding a proper parking slot. Parking complex providers are also facing problems in maintaining daily records related to parked vehicles thereby leading to inability to ensure round the clock security. Thus, the demand for parking reservation system is expected to witness trong growth owing to the above factors in coming years.
Parking reservation system provides information of parking availability for both drivers and parking complexes providers in a certain area through continuous monitoring. Parking reservation system comprises software and equipment such as parking meters, cameras, sensors and automatic gates which help maintaining the smooth flow of traffic. Additionally, parking reservation system also enhances the aspect of security in parking lots.
Parking Reservation System Market: Segmentation
Parking reservation system can be classified as on-street and off-street parking system. Off-street parking system consists a single point of interaction between parking areas and access points. Thus, the application of off-road parking system is expected to see more adoption among parking complex and garage providers in coming years. On-street parking system provides information of parking slot on real-time basis through web, mobile and voice based solution. Thus, the demand for on-street parking system is expected to increase owing to the increase in rise in smart cities projects across various region.
Parking Reservation System Market: Region-wise Outlook
Further, the demand for parking reservation system is expected to increase in transportation sector due to the traffic congestion caused in truck terminals. Developed countries such as the U.S. and Germany are investing heavily in implementing parking reservation system for trucks. The market can also be segmented on the basis of end-use sector such as retail, government, hospitality, transportation and logistics, airports and commercial and corporate parks. The market for parking reservation system is expected to get a boost with the adoption of smart parking system in developed countries. India and China is expected to be a potential market for parking reservation system market in coming years. However, a slower adoption rate of parking reservation system in developing countries is expected to pose a challenge for this market in coming years.
Parking Reservation System Market: Key Players
Some of the key parking reservation system providers in the market are VINCI Park S.A., Streetline, Inc., National Car Parks Ltd., APCOA Parking AG, Ace Parking Management, Inc., ParkMe, Inc., Siemens AG, 3M Company and Xerox Corporation.

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Wednesday, 1 June 2016

Global Utility Billing Software Market: Overview

Effective billing and collection systems form the core of successful utility businesses. The rapidly changing industrial environment, convergence of digital devices and technologies with traditional business processes, and the presence of digitally advanced consumers are collectively making these two processes increasingly complex for the utilities industry.
Utilities have understood that to deliver services at par with the rising expectations for effective services, the current legacy billing and customer information systems are not suitable for the long term. As such, utilities are switching to smart billing software products that are capable of handling every critical aspect of a service lifecycle – from connection, rating, and meter reading to bill generation, payment processing, collection, and field work. Highly scalable utility billing software, some of which also have the capability of managing customer information, also help improve customer services, allow utilities to more effectively serve the consumers, and stay ahead of competition.
All these factors are collectively aiding the increasing demand for a variety of utility billing software across the globe. As such, the global utility software market is projected to expand at an excellent pace over the report’s forecast period.
The report gives an expansive account of the current state of the global utility billing software market. It provides an overview of the major factors that are expected to have a substantial impact on the overall growth of the market over the future. The report also gives a detailed overview of product and technological developments witnessed in the market in the recent past.
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Global Utility Billing Software Market: Trends and Opportunities
A variety of utility billing software is already available in the market, serving utility sectors such as water, gas, electricity, cable, Internet, telecommunications, and sewage. The demand for more exclusive products that would cater to the specific requirements of these end-use areas is on a significant upswing around the globe.
The increasing improvements in legacy billing systems, especially in developing regions, is one of the crucial factors driving the global utility billing software market. The rising adoption of smart grid technology in the electrical power supply industry in regions such as Asia Pacific has brought about a new level of complexity in the billing and collection infrastructure for utilities. In response to the changing business dynamics, many utilities have already switched to the more adaptable and scalable utility billing software. The trend is projected to intensify in the coming years and a larger number of utilities will begin to adopt utility billing software.

Global Image Recognition Market: Trends and Opportunities


The field of image recognition has gained widespread acclaim in the past few years. Consumers are increasingly demanding a variety of image recognition applications and technologies in mobile computing devices and gaming consoles. Businesses have started recognizing the numerous benefits of collecting digital info from images. This digital info can help enhance customer experience and offer new ways to approach customers.
Image recognition refers to technologies that identify places, logos, people, objects, buildings, and several other variables in images. Users are sharing vast amounts of data through apps, social networks, and websites. Additionally, mobile phones equipped with cameras are leading to the creation of limitless digital images and videos. The large volume of digital data is being used by companies to deliver better and smarter services to the people accessing it.

The fields of security and surveillance, defense, automatic automobiles, financial services, health care, and education are also deriving many definitive benefits from advancements in image recognition. A variety of image recognition software products and services are being employed by companies for enhancing many industry-specific business processes. As such, the global market for image recognition is witnessing expansion at an exponential rate.
The report gives a thorough overview of the present state of the image recognition market, which is still in its nascent phase. A detailed overview of technological and product advancements has been included in the report, with a thorough outline of the growth trajectory exhibited by the market in the past few years. The major end-use areas and technologies, the key regional markets, and the factors that are expected to lead to the most lucrative growth opportunities in the global image recognition market are analyzed at length.
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Global Image Recognition Market: Trends and Opportunities

The rising sophistication of image recognition technologies is creating a plethora of growth opportunities in several fields. In the field of digital shopping, e-commerce companies can easily target the rising number of users shopping online from their smartphones or other mobile computing devices. This expanding group of potential consumers can be attracted by making the digital space more interactive and making everything easily searchable, and thus purchasable. The market also has a huge scope of development in the field of health care, where the rapid adoption of electronic health records and remote health care practices are boosting the scope of utilization of various image recognition products and services.

Over the report’s forecast period, the market is expected to gain substantial revenue from applications in end-use sectors of automatic vehicles, smartphones, e-commerce, health care, and wearable devices. Other key end-use segments of the global image recognition market include academia/government, media, financial services, gaming, education, and libraries and archives.


Some of the major applications of image recognition are industrial automation and inspection, face recognition, code recognition, surveillance and security, visual geolocation, object recognition, gesture recognition, medical and biomedical image analysis, automotive driver assistance, traffic management, and road surveying.

Online Movie Market - Global Industry Analysis Forecast 2016 – 2024

Online movie refers to a service, where an individual can access featured movies online using internet protocol. This platform enables user to watch any available movie from the database as desired at any given time and at any place with internet access. Rising demand for online movies is mainly attributed to the increased adoption of smartphones, augmented broadband services, hectic lifecycles, ease of access towards comprehensive movie collection, convenience of watching movies at any place or time and others such notable factors.
Moreover, user friendly interface has influenced maximum users to access broad range of collection through genres, recommendations and augmented filter options. Furthermore, with the introduction of online featuring movies, the competition between online movie vendors and multiplex owners is rising significantly.
Online Movie Market: Drivers
Recent advancements in the Internet have enabled users across the globe to retrieve wide array of movie collection with the help of high speed internet connection through downloading or streaming. Rising box-office success throughout the globe is one of the major factors driving a large number of users to switch to online movies.
Furthermore, increasing efforts by the vendors to encourage more and more users by offering attractive subscription packages are further driving the market growth. Moreover, declining trends of consumers buying physical copies of movies such as DVDs and VCDs is the another key driving factor affecting the market growth for online movies. The online movie market is expected to witness tremendous escalation in the North America market owing to rising success and attractiveness of Hollywood movies. This success is due to advanced graphics, themes and concepts. Also, increase in mobile advertisement spending to bring brand awareness has further influenced the market for the vendors of online movies.
However, rising threat of piracy is one of the major concerns restraining the market growth for online movies market. Introduction of “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) and the “Protect IP Act” (PIPA) by the U.S. has affected online movies vendors significantly, thereby restraining the market growth.

Online Movie Market: Segmentation
Online movie market can be segmented on the basis video file formats, types of services provided, delivery mode, end-use device and geography. On the basis of video file formats, the market is segmented into AVI (All Video Interlaced), AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition), FLV (Flash Video Format), MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group), WMV (Windows Media Video), and MOV.
Based on delivery mode, market segmentation includes self- hosted websites, software as a service (SaaS), application managed service framework and others. Types of services provided by the online movie vendors includes online streaming, DVD rental service, video on demand, downloading, subscriptions and others. Segmentation on the basis of end-use devices featuring online movies include tablets, smart phones, IPTV, DTH, laptops or personal computers and others. The online movie market has been studied for five geographies namely North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa and Latin America.


Operational Predictive Maintenance Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2016 - 2023

Operational predictive maintenance software retrieve multiple data sources in real time to predict quality issues or asset failure. Adoption of these software solutions facilitate organizations to prevent downtime and reduce maintenance costs. Operational predictive software solutions detect failure patterns and minor anomalies to determine the assets and operational processes that are at the greatest risk of failure. Deployment of operation predictive maintenance software boosts equipment uptime and enhance supply chain processes and quality. One of the major factors for the increasing usage of these software solutions is their ability to accurately predict asset failure, enabling enterprises to take the asset out of production ensuing efficient supply chain.
Operational Predictive Maintenance Market: Drivers
The operational predictive maintenance market has been experiencing massive growth in the recent years due to rise in demand for transforming maintenance operations and reducing asset downtime. Moreover, steadily rising dependence on big data and emerging concepts such as the Internet of Things (IoT) coupled with the rising focus of organizations on cutting back on operational cost is further expected to fuel the growth of operational predictive maintenance market during the forecast period. However, lack of training for operators and lack of trust in predictive maintenance technology is hindering the market growth. Increasing demand for real time steaming analytics and increasing demand from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is expected to create huge opportunities for the companies operating in operational predictive maintenance market.
Operational Predictive Maintenance Market: Segmentation
The global operational predictive maintenance market is segmented on the basis of components, deployment type, application, and geography. Based on the component, the global operational predictive maintenance market is classified into solutions and services. Further, services segment is further categorized into system integration, training and support, and consulting.  Based on the deployment type, the global operational predictive maintenance market is further segmented into cloud-based and on-premise.
Among these, cloud based operational predictive maintenance solutions market is expected to show swiftest growth enabling enterprises to reduce their dependence on data mining specialists, data integration and IT. In terms of application, the market is segmented automotive, energy and utilities, healthcare, manufacturing facilities, government and defense and transportation and logistics. Among these, manufacturing facilities are expected to hold the major market share for operational predictive maintenance market due to high deployment rate by manufacturers to reduce the maintenance cost consequently increasing the profitability.
Operational Predictive Maintenance Market: Regional Dynamics

On the basis of geography, the global operational predictive maintenance market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa. Among these, North America is expected to lead the operational predictive maintenance market in 2016. The growing big data market and high adoption of IoT are contributing to the growth for operational predictive maintenance market in the North America region. Moreover, heavy investments made by countries such as China, Japan, Korea, and India in Asia-Pacific to enhance the efficiency of production assets is further expected to offer sufficient growth opportunities for the operational predictive maintenance market in this region.