As many organizations continue to face challenges with legacy ERP solutions that have been in place for more than a decade, cloud offerings are gaining traction over existing on-premise systems, as they enable greater business agility and scalability. Several financial service organizations are migrating to cloud solutions to deliver innovation, customization, and security, with the sole purpose of gaining a competitive edge. According to Capgemini, cloud solutions are helping the banks to significantly cut expenses by slashing infrastructure costs by a quarter and potentially saving about USD 15 billion by 2019. Owing to this, many vendors are providing IaaS and PaaS applications to eliminate the need to manage hosting, maintaining, updating, and scaling service operations.

Digital Scent technology has witnessed exponential development from its initial deployment by the US Army in the Vietnam war to massive e-nose networks setup, around the world, presently. The digital scent technology has gained momentum recently with the development of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and IoT. E-nose technology has seen widespread adoption in the waste management industry. Countries, such as the Netherland, UAE, Kuwait, and Italy have the most comprehensive e-nose networks. Countries like South Africa, Oman, and Estonia, have also invested in developing such e-nose networks. Odor pollution has become a sensitive issue in many parts of the world, with many severe instances reported by different countries in the world. The latest was from Malaysia in July 2019, when the authorities in Malaysia had to dispatch several teams to comb Batang Kali, which was considered to be the source of foul smell which spread through the region.

Currently, the market studied is comprised of international players that have wide portfolios of laboratory filters and related products. The market studied has been witnessing continuous innovations. Significant resources have been allocated in the R&D of the membrane filtration technology, in order to meet the industry goals.  With the allocation of resources, companies have been able to introduce advanced and novel laboratory filters that are being demanded by the industry. Studies indicate that the applications of membrane filtration have increased since the last decade, which in turn, has propelled the demand for the same. Currently, microfiltration (MF) membranes are witnessing high demand in the industry, along with reverse osmosis (RO) membranes.

The number of pests in different crops across the world is rising, and there is a tremendous increase in the number of insecticide-resistant pests. Insecticides can be used to control a variety of pests, however, overtime, they loose their effectiveness, as pests develop resistance, a significant decrease in sensitivity to a pesticide, which reduces the field performance of the pesticides. Reliance on insecticide-based pest management of insect pests often leads to the development of insecticide resistance. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working on slowing and combating pests’ resistance to pesticides. These pests have caused enormous loss with regard to many economically important crops and have forced farmers to rely more on the usage of chemicals. Farmers are applying higher quantity of the same insecticides to kill crop pests, which has lead to pesticide resistance in the field. With each application, a few pests survive, who pass on their genes to their offspring. Eventually, the pesticide stops killing pests, leading to crop damage, which leads to demand of more investment in the R&D and new formulations of insecticides in the market. According to an International Survey of 2017, by Issac and McManus, currently, there are 500 cases of pesticide resistance and 200 cases of insecticide resistance, worldwide.

In recent years, the demand for hydrogen peroxide in the paper and pulp industry has significantly grown, due to improved paper quality and increased yield of wood mass. In addition, hydrogen peroxide is used in eco-friendly bleach products, in order to remove chlorine compounds through bleaching processes.  In the paper and pulp industry, hydrogen peroxide is primarily used for: Bleaching of wood pulp. Bleaching of cellulose. Recycling of wastepaper (de-inking)  North America, Asia, and Europe together account for most of the world’s paper and pulp production. China had the world’s largest paper and pulp production with 99.3 million metric ton as of 2018, followed by the United States. Other leading pulp and paper producers in the world include Germany, Japan, Finland, and Canada. The global production of paper and pulp is increasing constantly (as shown in the figure), despite at a slow pace. Potential regions, like Asia-Pacific, are witnessing an increase in the volume of paper production, since the demand for packaging has increased recently. This can be attributed to the growing demand for eco-friendly products and increasing sales of newspapers and books, due to growing population in the region.

Pap and HPV tests are vital for diagnosis of cancers and precancer stages in cervix. Mostly these tests are performed together for the patient age group between 21-65 years. As per the international Agency for Research on Cancer, more than 85% of cervical cancer patients are from the developing countries, which demands better efficacy screening and treatment programs for women’s health. Since the cancer progression is slow and may take up to 20 years to develop into an advanced stage, there are many opportunities to stop the disease before it becomes fatal. At present, there are many cities in the emerging market that lack resources for a good laboratory with highly trained cytotechnicians and other specialized staff, which is among the major challenges for good results from Pap testing. With the advancement of HPV tests, the prevention possibility of expansion of cervical cancers increases even in the low resource settings because it is a more affordable and cost-effective strategy, leveraging self-sampling potentially. There are countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, which have effectively taken positive measures related to proper HPV and Pap testing to eradicate cervical cancer. However, the current scenario demands more countries to take better initiatives to roll out the advanced screening tests of HPV and Pap through financial support from the government.

The proliferation of handheld devices has led to developments in the field of gas sensors, detector, and analyzer, which has considerably widened the scope of application across multiple end-user segments. Due to their chemical composition and properties, metal oxide gas sensors are well-suited for a wide range of applications, including the detection of all reactive gases. Depending on the material used and the gases that need to be detected, typical operating temperatures range between 300°C and 900°C. Currently, some of the prominent companies are developing products across the detector, as well as the analyzer segment having application across clinical assaying, environmental emission control, explosive detection, agricultural storage, and shipping, along with workplace hazard monitoring.

In the recent years, the sales of internal combustion engines, which are the main source of environmental pollution, declined significantly, primarily due to the rising awareness regarding environmental pollution. The pollution caused by automotive had been increasing drastically, since the past few decades, and it is estimated that about 30% of air pollution is primarily due to automotive emission. Sudden increase in automotive pollution considerably impacted the environment, intensifying the threat of air pollution in most of the big cities around the world.