Organizations are facing significant challenges in their application management journeys, including legacy systems, decentralized strategies, resistance to change, skills shortage, workflow automation, and integration barriers. To address these complexities, enterprises are increasingly collaborating with application management service providers to modernize legacy systems, integrate disparate systems, develop cloud-native applications, enhance performance monitoring, and facilitate change management. Additionally, they are integrating agentic AI solutions to accelerate legacy modernization, enhance DevOps efficiency, and optimize IT operations. Meanwhile, service providers are leveraging agentic AI for application portfolio assessment, modernization, deployment, and support services.
Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in our Application Management Services 2025 Market Insights™ and Application Management Services 2025 RadarView™, respectively. These reports present a comprehensive study of application management service providers and closely examine market leaders, innovators, disruptors, and challengers.
Avasant evaluated 34 service providers across three dimensions: practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation. Of the 34 providers, we recognized 25 that brought the most value to the market during the past 12 months.
The report recognizes service providers in four categories:
Figure 1 below from the full report illustrates these categories:
“Rising complexity across application ecosystems is forcing enterprises to rethink traditional management models,” said Ruth Steinberg, principal at Avasant. “By unifying cloud-native architectures, AI-driven automation, and DevSecOps practices, organizations can eliminate technical debt and build resilient, future-ready operations.”
The reports provide several findings, including the following:
“The complexity of present application landscapes demands a shift from reactive support to proactive, AI-driven management,” said Amarabati Sen, principal analyst at Avasant. “Enterprises are embedding agentic AI into DevOps and monitoring workflows to enhance agility, strengthen resilience, and accelerate continuous innovation at scale.”
The Application Management Services 2025 RadarView™ also features detailed profiles of 25 service providers, along with their solutions, offerings, and experience in assisting enterprises in their application management journeys.
This Research Byte is a brief overview of Avasant’s Application Management Services 2025 Market Insights™ and Application Management Services 2025 RadarView™(click for pricing).
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