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Sector Analysis
NewBusiness of the Golf Majors 2024 – Property Profile, Sponsorship and Media Landscape
Golf Majors 2024 Report Overview Golf is one of the most popular sports in the world and is enjoyed equally at both professional and personal levels. Many amateurs play regularly throughout the year making the sports popular at a recreational level. At a professional level, golf involves a huge amount of money. This, in turn, has made the elite players some of the most well-paid global athletes. The PGA Championship has the largest sponsorship inventory of ‘The Majors’ while ‘The...
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Thematic Analysis
NewIT Infrastructure Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Cisco continues to lead the thematic screen of GlobalData’s IT infrastructure sector scorecard. The company first took the top spot in Q3 2023 and has maintained it since then, thanks to scores of 5 out of 5 for seven of the screen’s 10 themes.
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Thematic Analysis
NewCybersecurity in Sport – Thematic Intelligence
No company is safe from cyberattacks, but sports organizations are more vulnerable than most. The business of sport naturally accrues a large amount of sensitive data, from fans’ personal data to performance data on athletes. The UK National Cyber Security Centre survey found that more than 70% of sports organizations had experienced a cybersecurity breach, more than double the UK average. Sports teams, federations, broadcasters, and sponsors are all vulnerable to attacks due to their significant revenues, the exposure any...
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Thematic Analysis
NewEnterprise Security Software Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a double-edged sword in cybersecurity. It can help organizations improve their threat detection, hunting, and incident response capabilities, but adversaries can and will use AI in cyberattacks. There is every likelihood that AI will spur new merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in cybersecurity, especially of companies judged to be AI specialists. In the thematic screen of GlobalData’s enterprise security software sector scorecard, AI has a weighting of 20%, higher than any other theme.
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Thematic Analysis
NewHigh-Performance Computing – Thematic Intelligence
Supercomputers have existed since the 1960s, but there has been renewed interest in high-performing machines in the last decade following developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and the exponential growth in data. Businesses, governments, and individuals generate huge volumes of data every day, and organizations use high-performance computing (HPC) to store, process, and analyze large, complex workloads to extract value from this data. In the last decade, the commercial use cases for HPC have expanded, supported by improvements in AI, cloud,...
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Thematic Analysis
NewIndustrial Automation Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
The leaders on the thematic screen of GlobalData’s industrial automation sector scorecard are well-versed in artificial intelligence (AI). The top five companies in the thematic rankings all score 5 out of 5 in the AI theme, spurred on by preexisting AI capabilities and strong investment over 2023. Proficiency in AI typically translates to strength in other themes, such as robotics, digital twins, and smart cities. Strength in critical themes like AI can also mitigate against weaknesses in other areas. Microsoft...
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Thematic Analysis
Quantum Computing in Aerospace, Defense and Security – Thematic Intelligence
Quantum Computing in Aerospace and Defense Thematic Report Overview Quantum computing aims to use the counterintuitive behavior of sub-atomic particles to spawn computers of mind-boggling power. Quantum computers can simulate large, uncertain, complicated systems in seconds, including the weather, financial markets, chemical reactions, molecules, and neurons in the human brain. In the aerospace and defense industry quantum capabilities are theorized to have applications in sensing, communications, computing, navigation, and electronic warfare, with the unique properties of quantum mechanics enhancing situational...
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Thematic Analysis
NewCybersecurity in Banking and Payments – Thematic Intelligence
This report explores the impact of cybersecurity in the banking space. It includes an overview of the cybersecurity value chain, explores the key challenges faced by the sector, provides case studies of cybersecurity solutions used in banking, examines market size and growth forecasts, and discusses the key players in the space. Cybersecurity is the practice of defending computers, servers, mobile devices, electronic systems, networks, and data from malicious attacks. Banks have become goldmines for malicious actors as they not only...
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Thematic Analysis
NewSemiconductors Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Companies scoring strongly in artificial intelligence (AI) and geopolitics-related themes lead the thematic screen of GlobalData’s semiconductors sector scorecard. Indeed, the AI, AI chips, geopolitics, and China impact themes jointly account for 50% of the weighting of the thematic screen, reflecting both the growing importance of AI, particularly generative AI, in the industry and the impact of the ongoing US-China trade dispute. Among the thematic leaders are companies with either advanced AI products, such as Nvidia, Amazon, Tesla, and Alibaba,...
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Thematic Analysis
NewBlockchain in Agriculture – Thematic Intelligence
Blockchain in Agriculture Thematic Report Overview Potential uses for blockchain in agriculture are wide-ranging. If successfully adopted, blockchain will improve food security by mitigating the impact of climate change, reducing supply chain inefficiencies, and supporting smallholder farms. For instance, supply chain traceability tools help bring down costs, reduce food waste, and help agribusinesses manage their environmental impact. The blockchain in agriculture thematic research report gives you an in-depth insight into the blockchain theme and the impact it will have on...