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Unlocking the Power of Zero Cost Transformation: Business Acceleration with Minimal Investment
Enterprises face the complex challenge of balancing IT investment for growth with maintaining operations amidst global economic uncertainties. The Zero Cost Transformation approach has emerged as a solution, emphasizing repurposing savings from streamlined processes to fund innovation. It involves leveraging cloud solutions and proprietary tools and aligning expenses with business outcomes. Additionally, enterprises should implement the Net Economic Value Added™ (NEVA) approach to assess transformation success, focusing on the impact of innovation on core operations rather than just technology cost reductions. It enables enterprises to navigate economic challenges by prioritizing sustained innovation-led growth over short-term cost efficiencies.
April, 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
DeepSeek Hype: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
DeepSeek-R1, a Chinese open-source AI model, is challenging Silicon Valley’s dominance by delivering high performance at a fraction of traditional costs. DeepSeek has redefined AI efficiency, slashing training costs to just $5.6 million. However, while its innovation is undeniable, concerns around transparency, data security, and ethical safeguards raise critical questions. This whitepaper explores DeepSeek’s disruptive potential, its implications for the global AI landscape, and the pressing need for responsible deployment before enterprises integrate it into high-stakes environments.
January, 2025
The Illusion of AI Sovereignty: Washington and Beijing Still Pull the Strings
A new wave of digital nationalism is sweeping through public policy and enterprise boardrooms. Countries including France, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Singapore, and India are doubling down on sovereign AI. They are investing in localized data ecosystems, region-specific LLMs, national AI clouds, and stricter compliance regimes. No nation today enjoys absolute, full-stack AI sovereignty. Rather than chasing total independence, the trend is toward layered sovereignty: choosing which parts of the stack to control, influence, outsource, or codevelop. The sovereign AI game is not binary; it is composable. In the coming decade, national AI strategies will be defined not by what a country builds alone but by what it chooses to own, protect, and shape on its own terms.
June, 2025
IT and Apps Managed Services Provider Trends: Quarterly Report for CQ1 2025
In this quarterly report (calendar quarter 1, 2025), Avasant provides key information on IT and apps managed services provider trends. The report covers key information on the IT services industry and the provider ecosystem. It covers the service provider facts and figures (including revenue and resource trends) and executive sentiment from the service provider community. The report covers trends across a gamut of IT services, including but not limited to IT infrastructure, application, and end-user services. The geographic coverage for the report is global. It builds on insights gathered through ongoing market research, data collection, and proprietary databases. It includes market data from providers accessed through multiple sources such as public disclosures, market interactions, and deals data.
July, 2025
Beyond Digital Transformation: The AI-First Business Revolution
As companies worldwide grapple with AI implementation, a critical gap has emerged between executive ambitions and organizational reality, revealing the urgent need for a fundamental shift in how we approach AI-driven change.
August, 2025
When the Giant Learns from the Neighbor: How Global IT Providers Are Adopting Local Agility in the Nordics
The Nordic IT-services market is booming—expected to climb from US $47.9 billion in 2025 to US $57.5 billion by 2030. Yet price alone no longer wins deals. Nordic customers now want two things at once: local know-how (language, regulations, user insight) and global delivery power (large teams, round-the-clock support). This article argues that competitive advantage is shifting from pure labor-arbitrage to “local intimacy”—the ability to pair Nordic-specific domain fluency with industrialized global delivery. It outlines 4 ways multinationals are borrowing from regional champions: rapid-prototyping labs, hyper-local go-to-market tactics, near-shore GCCs, and “front-plus-scale” alliances exemplified by Tietoevry–Accenture on Google Cloud’s Arek Oy project. A side-by-side matrix reveals how global and local providers now meet in the middle on delivery footprint, governance, pricing, and scale strategy. Buyers should look for proven partnerships and speed-to-value metrics, while providers must blend proximity, ESG readiness, and global reach to stay competitive.
September, 2025
Modeling Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Virtualized CRM Platforms with Dynamic Usage Pricing
As enterprises accelerate digital transformation, the cost structures of CRM platforms have become less predictable, challenging procurement leaders to rethink how Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is modeled. In particular, the variable costs related to AI-enhancements are still in early stages as providers test market acceptance. These platforms not only enhance customer engagement but also enable scalable growth and operational agility. However, the shift toward dynamic, usage-based pricing, where costs fluctuate based on real-time consumption, has disrupted traditional procurement models and introduced new forecasting complexities for CIOs and CFOs.
October, 2025
Life and Annuities Insurance Digital Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
This report identifies key demand-side trends in the life and annuities (L&A) insurance space that can help enterprises fine-tune their digital strategies. It also provides an overview of enterprise challenges in this space based on Avasant’s assessment.
July, 2023
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Region Digital Services 2024 RadarView™
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Region Digital Services 2024 RadarView™ can help enterprises based in the GCC to craft a robust strategy based on regional outlook, best practices, and digital transformation. The report can also aid them in identifying the right partners and service providers to accelerate their digital transformation. The 91-page report also highlights top market trends in the GCC region and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
February, 2024
Internet of Things Services 2024 RadarView™
The Internet of Things Services 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for IoT platforms and services implementation by featuring detailed capability and experience analyses for leading service providers. It offers a 360-degree view of key providers for IoT services across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovations, thus supporting enterprises in identifying the right transformation partner. The 78-page report also highlights top supply-side trends in the IoT space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
April, 2024
Cybersecurity in the Era of Robotics
Recent advances in AI have led to the development of specialized robots that can perform tasks previously thought to be exclusive to humans, including visual perception, speech recognition, and decision-making. However, as the world prepares for a deluge of humanoids, the wide adoption of robots presents unique cybersecurity threats, from data interception to device hijacking. Many are due to a lack of native cybersecurity features in robotic equipment and related technologies, such as the IoT. Hence, to fully capitalize on the potential of robotics, government, industry, and academia are collaborating to strengthen security in every robotic development and deployment area.
September, 2024
The Open-Source Gambit: Did DeepSeek Ignite an AI Arms Race?
On January 20, 2025, DeepSeek stunned the industry with the release of DeepSeek-R1, an open-source, cost-efficient AI model that rivaled OpenAI’s GPT-4 on multiple benchmarks. DeepSeek did not just disrupt the AI industry; it sparked a geopolitical AI arms race. The battle for AI sovereignty has begun. While multiple governments have banned DeepSeek over data security concerns, its impact on AI’s trajectory is definite. Just as Sputnik’s launch in 1957 ignited the space race, DeepSeek has triggered a reckoning in AI strategy, forcing the world to reconsider the balance between accessibility, security, and sovereignty.
February, 2025
SAP Sapphire 2025: A Turning Point for AI-driven Enterprise Operations
At SAP Sapphire 2025, SAP unveiled a cohesive strategy to transform enterprise operations through embedded AI and unified data infrastructure. Central to this is the SAP Flywheel model, which allows applications, data, and AI to reinforce each other, enabling context-aware automation via Joule, SAP’s AI copilot. Joule extends across SAP and non-SAP systems, improving decision-making in users’ daily workflows. Supporting this is the Business Data Cloud, a unified, open data platform designed to eliminate fragmentation and fuel intelligent applications. With partnerships including Palantir and Adobe, SAP is aligning its architecture for the AI era, turning siloed data into real-time, cross-functional intelligence.
June, 2025
Multisourcing Service Integration 2025 Market Insights™
The Multisourcing Service Integration 2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any MSI project. The report also highlights MSI challenges that enterprises face today.
July, 2025