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The Questions to Ask About Telecommuting Before Someone Else Does
Whether allowing work from home is a good idea depends on the organization, the role, how centralized your business is, the strength of your management team, and many other variables. But if you are going to allow more telecommuting, you need certain ducks in a row.
March, 2023
HR/HCM Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2023
In the past, human resources (HR) departments were typically seen as cost centers, but there is a growing appreciation for the strategic value that HR can bring to an organization. By embracing HR’s strategic role, organizations may realize the full potential of the function as a value-add that propels business success.
July, 2023
IT Salary Report 2024
The Avasant IT Salary Report 2024 provides total compensation for 82 IT job functions for more than 400 US metro areas and 20 industry sectors. The executive summary also provides our forecast for pay raises and hiring in 2024 and includes job descriptions for each job function. The salary tables are provided as a downloadable Microsoft Excel workbook, with total salaries reported at the 10th, 25th, 50th (median), 75th, and 90th percentiles.
December, 2023
DevOps Best Practices 2024
Development operations (DevOps) is an organizational model that promotes collaboration between software developers and IT operations. The model allows for frequent deployment of systemic changes and includes a use for automation. DevOps is a natural extension of agile development into the deployment and operational phases of the systems life cycle. Just as agile development builds software in small, iterative build cycles, DevOps applies enhancements as small incremental changes committed daily, hourly, or even moment-by-moment into the production system.
February, 2024
Oracle’s Bold Move: Freely Embedding Gen AI in Business Apps
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Generative AI (Gen AI) is rapidly transforming industries, and Oracle, a major player in the enterprise technology market, is making a bold move. It is offering its base Gen AI capabilities across its suite of business applications, including Fusion Cloud Applications Suite and NetSuite, at no additional cost.
April, 2024
IT Spending Trends in Retail 2024
Retail CIOs are feeling the pressure. Retail is in a change-or-die mode, but most CIOs in the sector feel they are not being given the budget to make those changes. Retailers are looking to reduce costs to protect the bottom line and digitally transform to better serve their customers. This report analyzes the IT characteristics of this sector. Based on our latest benchmarking survey, it provides key metrics for this sector.
June, 2024
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 3C: Benchmarks by Organization Size: Large
This year, Avasant Research is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Computer Economics IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks study. To mark this milestone, we have accumulated the largest sample of companies in our history (over 350 companies in our single-year sample compared to 215 last year), including a significant number of the world’s largest enterprises. For the first time, we not only have small, midsize, and large chapters but also a very large chapter for companies with over $500 million in IT spending.
September, 2024
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 37: Professional Services
Chapter 37 provides benchmarks for professional services organizations. The 35 respondents in the sample range in size from a minimum of about $50 million to about $20 billion in annual revenue. This subsector includes firms that provide professional services, including legal, accounting, financial advice, consulting, marketing, and other services.
September, 2024
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 25: Aerospace and Defense
Chapter 25 provides benchmarks for aerospace and defense companies. This category includes airplane and aerospace manufacturers, makers of weapons systems, aerospace and defense research, and other defense companies. The 18 respondents in this sample range in size from a minimum of about $50 million to around $30 billion in revenue.
September, 2024
IT Spending Trends in the Media and Information Sector 2024
Amid the perpetual evolution of the digital terrain, the media and information sector finds itself undergoing a profound digital transformation. Consumer preferences for personalized, on-demand content alongside relentless technological advancements necessitate adaptation for companies to remain relevant. IT has become the linchpin of the industry’s survival strategy in this fiercely competitive landscape. As audiences increasingly gravitate toward digital channels for news, entertainment, and information consumption, media companies are compelled to reassess their operations.
September, 2024
E-commerce Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2024
E-commerce adoption numbers are more difficult to interpret than some other technologies in our Tech Trends reports. Some sectors, such as healthcare and manufacturing, may have fewer e-commerce needs than sectors like retail. As such, adoption and investment numbers have seemed low. Even among sectors that are quicker to adopt e-commerce, there is a divide.
January, 2025
Business Analyst Staffing Ratios 2025
The role of a business analyst (BA) within IT departments has experienced a period of flux in recent years. Traditionally, this role was a core function within the IT department, but there is now a growing trend toward decentralizing BA responsibilities. This shift is reflected in the 2024 data, showing BA staff as 3.7% of total IT staff, a notable decrease from 8.0% in 2023. This drop demands careful dissection.
April, 2025
Data Management and Business Intelligence Staffing Sees Notable Increase After Years of Stability
In the past four years, organizations have maintained data management and business intelligence (DMBI) head count at about 5.4% of the IT staff. However, our latest data shows a significant increase. Traditionally, productivity gains from cloud-based business analysis and reporting tools mitigated the need for more staff. But there is a new business focus. This Research Byte summarizes our full report on data management and business intelligence staffing.
June, 2025
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 14: Transportation and Logistics
Chapter 14 provides benchmarks for the transportation and logistics sector. The 39 respondents in this sample range in size from a minimum of $50 million to over $80 billion. The category includes organizations that operate buses, trucks, railways, airlines, barges, and ships. The sector also includes logistics companies that transport goods, transportation companies, and regional transportation authorities that move people. 
August, 2025
Data Management and Analytics Staffing Ratios 2023
The amount of data that IT organizations need to manage is growing with no end in sight. Whether it be sensor data from IoT devices, social networking data, online advertising and e-commerce transactions, or multimedia files, the complexity of the data to be analyzed also is increasing. With the continued growth of data and its importance in the day-to-day activities of organizations, it is surprising that the data management and analytics function has decreased this year. After significant growth over previous years, this staffing ratio has declined to 5.5% in 2023 from 5.9% in 2022.
July, 2023