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Hybrid Enterprise Cloud Services 2024-2025 RadarView™
The Hybrid Enterprise Cloud Services 2024–2025 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for hybrid enterprise cloud services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key hybrid enterprise cloud service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right hybrid enterprise cloud services partner. The 68-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the hybrid enterprise cloud services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
December, 2024
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Finance and Accounting Business Process Transformation 2024–2025 Market Insights™
This report identifies key demand-side trends in the F&A business process transformation space to help enterprises fine-tune their operations. It provides an overview of key observations and business challenges that Avasant considers important to highlight in the F&A outsourcing space.
January, 2025
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Redefining Humanity: The Next Evolutionary Leap?
In an era dominated by discussions on technology and automation, a deeper, more existential question is emerging: What does it mean to be human? This conversation is shifting beyond the confines of traditional tech discourse to explore the intersection of society, spirituality, medicine, space, and the forces that will shape the next 15 years of civilization. The recent Synapse Conclave, a two-day conference featuring over 40 thought leaders from various walks of life, explored the forces shaping the future, challenging long-held assumptions and posing urgent questions about the trajectory of human identity.
February, 2025
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A Playbook to Decode Cloud Strategy: Bridging Business Objectives and IT Priorities
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, cloud transition is no longer a question of if but how well it is achieved. Despite the widespread shift to cloud-based ecosystems, many enterprises still lack a cohesive cloud strategy that balances cost efficiency, business agility, and risk management. This playbook offers guidance on ROI-driven migration planning, robust vendor and data governance, cost transparency through FinOps tools, and cloud-specific contract negotiation. It also highlights key risks in cloud adoption, from vendor lock-in to hidden costs. To unlock long-term value, enterprises need to shift from a cost-first mindset to a strategic and outcome-focused approach.
April, 2025
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Navigating Rising Costs and Member Expectations: The Business Process Imperative for Health Payers
The U.S. health insurance industry finds itself at a critical inflection point as financial pressures mount alongside escalating member demands for digital-first experiences. According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), health insurers reported a stark 14.1% decline in net income to approximately $16 billion during the first half of 2024, compared to the same period in the prior year. Even more concerning, underwriting gains plummeted 31.3% to roughly $12 billion, signaling fundamental challenges in the industry's core operational model.
June, 2025
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Mastering CrowdStrike Negotiations Post-Disruption
Few names resonate as strongly in the world of cybersecurity as CrowdStrike. Known for its cutting-edge technology and robust security solutions, CrowdStrike has become a go-to provider for many enterprises. However, recent incident service disruptions have cast a shadow over CrowdStrike's reputation. For companies that use CrowdStrike for security services and are about to engage in a renewal cycle, strategic negotiation methodologies can be used to leverage these incident service issues and improve terms.
July, 2025
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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
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The $100B Quarter: What It Means for Your Next AI Contract
AI infrastructure sourcing is undergoing a seismic shift as enterprises face volatile compute availability, energy costs, and rapid hardware refresh cycles. Traditional cloud-based pricing models are being replaced by dynamic contracts that secure throughput, align with energy indices, and guarantee upgrade paths. This new economic landscape demands strategic negotiation moves, including capacity reservations, energy-indexed pricing, and portability safeguards. By adopting these practices, organizations can protect their AI investments, ensure scalability, and avoid vendor lock-in as use cases expand.
August, 2025
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Solving the Security Puzzle in Enterprise AI: Insights from Google Cloud Security Summit 2025
The paper captures key insights from the Google Cloud Security Summit 2025, highlighting how enterprises can unlock AI’s full potential securely. It explores Google’s “Secure by Design” approach, focusing on two pillars: AI for Security—empowering security operation centers (SOCs) with intelligent automation for faster, smarter defense—and Security for AI—protecting models, agents, and ecosystems from emerging threats. It also outlines practical strategies to balance innovation with compliance, resilience, and trust, enabling organizations to confidently scale AI initiatives and accelerate digital transformation.
September, 2025
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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
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From Connected Devices to Intelligent and Secure IoT Ecosystems: How AIoT and Cybersecurity Are Redefining IoT Services in 2025
The Internet of Things (IoT) is entering a new era. IoT began by linking devices and collecting data, but now plays a key role in digital transformation. Enterprises across various industries, including manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, retail, and smart cities, are realizing that simply connecting devices is no longer sufficient. The true value lies in how intelligently data is processed and how securely it can be scaled in mission-critical environments.
October, 2025
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Digital Workplace Services 2025 Market Insights™
The Digital Workplace Services 2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying key demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on digital workplace projects. The report also highlights key workplace modernization challenges that enterprises face today.
November, 2025
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Internet of Things Services 2023 RadarView™
The Internet of Things Services 2023 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 provides a 360-degree view of key service providers for IoT services across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovations, thus supporting enterprises in identifying the right transformation partner. The 71-page report also highlights top supply-side trends in the IoT space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
May, 2023
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Rethinking Customer Experience in Uncertain Times
Over the past 12–18 months, customer-facing functions, enterprise applications, and processes have changed tremendously. There has been an uptake in digital channels, direct-to-consumer commerce, omnichannel digital communications, and SaaS-based application services. The period has also witnessed a rise in preference for data and AI-driven, personalized, and automated experiences. This Research Byte showcases how customers’ quest for enhanced personalization and seamless experiences has increased the demand for SaaS-based solutions for addressing industry-specific business needs and how service providers are facilitating this transformation in North America. We highlight the efforts of one such service provider, TCS, based on its recent analyst day in June 2023.
July, 2023
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Data and Cloud: The Silent Soldiers of the Gen AI Revolution
Generative AI is the talk of the town and there is a lot of hyperbole about its capabilities and use cases. However, the true value will be derived by organizations that are able to build the right data and cloud environments that can enable Gen AI applications. In this research byte, we explore the actual maturity of generative AI and what its foundational elements are. We also discuss how service providers need to focus on building services and offerings for helping their customers build the data and cloud environments required to derive Gen AI value. We highlight the efforts of one such service provider, Infosys, based on its recent annual conference, Americas Confluence 2023, held in September.
October, 2023
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