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IT Staffing Ratios: Benchmarking Metrics and Analysis for 16 Key IT Job Functions
The analysis of IT staffing data has been a core competency of Computer Economics since we began publishing our annual IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks study in 1990. Each year, we survey more than 200 IT organizations across 10 major industry sectors, based on our sampling model, to obtain data on IT staffing levels, server counts, network infrastructure, outsourcing, and spending, among other information pertinent to the assessment of IT staffing.
February, 2023
Worldwide IT Spending And Staffing Outlook 2023
Despite most of our survey respondents agreeing that the economy will be worse in 2023 than in 2022, IT spending increases are broad and strong. However, in this annual report of the IT spending and staffing outlook for 2023, we believe there is another major factor at play. We find that IT is no longer seen as a cost center but as a strategic driver of growth. Because of this, business leaders are giving their IT departments greater resources to help plan for the coming recession rather than asking them to tighten their belts.
February, 2023
IT Spending Rising Despite Recession Fears
Despite most of our survey respondents agreeing that the economy will be worse in 2023 than in 2022, they also report IT spending increases that are broad and strong. How can this be? It is because business leaders no longer see IT as a cost center but as a strategic driver of growth. As a result, they are giving their IT departments greater resources to help plan for a possible coming recession rather than asking them to tighten their belts. This Research Byte summarizes the full study.
February, 2023
IT and Apps Managed Services Market Trends: Quarterly Report for Q4 2022
In this quarterly report (Calendar Qtr 4, 2022), Avasant provides key information on IT Services Solution and Pricing Trends. The report covers market (buyer) perspective, macro trends from service provider community and finally, the pricing, solution and staffing trends in the space. The report covers trends across services including Infrastructure and Cloud Services, Application Services, and Digital Services. The geographic coverage is global, with a larger share of data points from North America. The report builds on insights gathered through our enterprise interactions, ongoing market research and data collection, as well as AvaMark Price Benchmarking database.
February, 2023
Strategies for Enterprises in Response to Tech Industry Layoffs
The recent spate of layoffs in the technology industry should raise questions in the mind of customers who have these vendors as essential elements of their IT landscape. These concerns also extend to service providers, who are also seeing a pullback in business and undergoing staff reductions. This Research Byte explores these issues and how business leaders should mitigate risks and take advantage of opportunities during such uncertain times.
March, 2023
Torc Brings a Targeted, Cloud-Native Approach to Tech Talent Acquisition
Torc is a software development talent marketplace that leverages an AI-driven engine to match developers and companies worldwide. It’s a Tech Innovator to watch, the first in a new Avasant series on Tech Innovators.
March, 2023
Orange Cyberdefense Reports Changing Trends in Cyber Extortion and Ransomware
Ransomware and cyber extortion are not only becoming more common but more damaging to enterprises. As cyberattacks become more sophisticated, often supported by nation-states, they are leading to high-profile and embarrassing releases of customer data. Orange Cyberdefense, which held an analyst event in Antwerp, Belgium, followed a few days later by a customer and partner event in London, England at the end of November 2022, is countering these threats by providing new managed security services offerings, including increased threat intelligence, and supporting secure access service edge (SASE).
March, 2023
Business Process Services Market Trends: Quarterly Report for Q2 2022
In this quarterly report (calendar quarter 2, 2022), Avasant provides key information on trends in the business process services space and pricing trends on a functional level. The report covers the market (buyer) perspective, macro trends from the service provider community, and the space’s pricing, solution, and staffing trends. The geographic coverage is global, with a larger share of data points from North America. The report builds on insights gathered through our enterprise interactions, ongoing market research, data collection, and the AvaMark™ Price Benchmarking database.
July, 2022
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
Enterprise Architecture Tops List of Most Mature Best Practices
Avasant has released its major annual study on 35 IT management best practices, with enterprise architecture topping our list of most mature practices. This Research Byte highlights some of our findings on the most mature practices, along with an overview of the contents of the full study. The full study analyzes the growth and maturity of all 35 best practices, which are grouped into five major categories: IT governance, IT financial management, IT operational management, IT security and risk management, and application development.
March, 2023
SAP S/4HANA Services 2022–2023 RadarView™
The SAP S/4HANA Services 2022–2023 RadarView™ helps organizations in defining their approach for SAP S/4HANA adoption and identifying the right implementation partner to support them in their journey. It assesses SAP S/4HANA service providers based on their ability to offer implementation and managed services with limited disruption. The 73-page report also provides our point of view on how SAP S/4HANA service providers cater to enterprises’ changing needs through a wide portfolio of accelerators and preconfigured solutions, thus, delivering a general ranking based on key dimensions of practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation.
February, 2023
Intelligent Automation Services 2022–2023 RadarView™
The Intelligent Automation Services 2022–2023 RadarView assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for IA by featuring detailed capability and experience analyses of leading service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key IA service providers across the dimensions of practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thus supporting businesses in finding the right IA service partner. The 77-page report also highlights top market trends in the IA space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
March, 2023
Intelligent Automation Services: Intuitive Automation for Real-Time Decision-Making
Enterprises face challenges in extracting, organizing, and processing high volumes of unstructured data. However, the advancements in AI have significantly expanded the scope of automation by providing new capabilities such as deep learning and generative AI to automate complex, data-driven tasks with high accuracy. Cognitive bots can now process unstructured data, recognize patterns, and make more informed decisions regarding workflows previously considered too complex for automation. By leveraging automation technologies such as RPA, ML, process mining, and AI, organizations can unlock new levels of productivity, innovation, and growth for increasing customer satisfaction and revenue, and gaining a competitive advantage. These trends, and others, are covered in Avasant’s Intelligent Automation Services 2022–2023 RadarView™.
March, 2023
Simplifying the Adoption of SAP S/4HANA
Transitioning to SAP S/4HANA is a challenging process involving multiple business processes, complex data structures, and numerous customizations. Existing SAP customers transitioning to SAP S/4HANA and new customers considering SAP S/4HANA adoption need to evaluate the business case and define a road map for this transition with minimum risk and disruption. Service providers can help enterprises see a quicker ROI through industry-specific solutions and specialized processes. This RadarView provides an analysis of the service providers who assess enterprise landscape and business requirements and recommend a suitable approach for SAP S/4HANA adoption.
February, 2023
E-commerce Staffing Flat Despite Growth of Omnichannel
Social media, mobile devices, multimedia, and even the prospects of the metaverse, are increasing the ways customers and suppliers interact. The omnichannel experience will pressure organizations to build larger web and e-commerce footprints. With that increasing pressure, we expect web/e-commerce staffing to also increase. This Research Byte summarizes the five-year trend in web/e-commerce staffing ratios.
February, 2023