| | June 20168CIOReviewThe Connected Game of TechnologiesThe English county of Leices-tershire is known for foxes and fox hunting. It was in 1948 that Filbert Fox, the mascot found its way into the Leicester City's football club emblem and flag; the club was nicknamed The Foxes. On May Day this year the Foxes were on the verge of history as they took on Manchester City in the English Premier League. The match ended in a one-all draw. The nail biting of the supporters of Leicester did not end that day. Seventy two hours later they were eu-phoric as another match in the league, between two different teams, also ended in a draw putting The Foxes in an unassailable position in the points table which gave them their first ever League title in their 132-year-old history.Claudio Ranieri, Leicester City's coach, had placed his bets not at Ladbrokes but on technology. He made his players wear tracking devices that measured a range of physical metrics, such as distance covered, sprints and high intensity runs. Using GPS he tracked the areas being covered by players. All this wealth of data was fed into the club's analysis room that housed massively powerful computing devices which spewed analytics that enabled the coach and his team to strategize the next move. Devices were hooked up to the players' dressing room so these could pick up on all the analysis during half-time. This was then used for informed decision-making in the second half: tactics based on what worked well and what didn't in the first half.The club was also able to use the personalization benefits of big data and data analytics to tailor training sessions to individual players through an understanding of what each player needed to By Amitabh Ray, Managing Director, Ericsson Global Services IndiaIN MY OPINIONEricsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) with a market cap of $210.12B, is a Swedish multinational telecom corporation with more than 110,000 professionals and customers in 180 countries. Ericsson's services indulge in software and infrastructure ­ especially in mobility, broadband and the cloud ­enabling the communications industry and other sectors to do better business, increase efficiency.With access to data, customers will be able to evaluate products and services in much more critical way and become ever more demanding
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