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Atos SE’s Bailout Decision: A Strategic Analysis
Atos, a French IT company, has chosen a consortium led by Onepoint, along with Butler Industries and Econocom, for its financial rescue plan. The consortium will inject EUR 250M in equity, provide EUR 1.5B in debt instruments, and convert EUR 2.9B of existing debt into equity. This decision aims to uphold Atos’s existing business lines while leveraging capabilities from Eviden and Tech Foundations. Founder David Layani will become CEO. The alternative proposal by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, focused on aggressive debt reduction, was not chosen. Atos now faces the challenge of executing this plan and managing its debt. In this article, we share our analytical perspectives, assessing the deal’s impact on clients and the road ahead.
June, 2024
Revolutionizing Gen AI Operations: Portkey’s End-to-End LLMOps Platform
Generative AI is now vital in enterprise operations, yet many companies struggle to move projects from proof of concept to production due to the lack of robust model management and orchestration. Large language model operations (LLMOps) offers the tools and practices needed to develop, deploy, and maintain LLMs, providing essential infrastructure for managing their life cycle. Portkey excels in this space, offering a comprehensive LLMOps platform with observability, analytics, prompt management, and more. It positions itself as the only full-stack LLM orchestration platform covering the entire LLMOps value chain, including evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and remediation.
July, 2024
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 31: Property and Casualty Insurance
Chapter 31 provides benchmarks for property and casualty (P&C) insurance companies. The firms in this sector include companies that offer property and casualty insurance, auto insurance, homeowner’s insurance, renter insurance, and similar types of insurance. The 16 respondents in this sector range in size from a minimum of $100 million to over $100 billion in annual revenue.
September, 2024
Financial Services Digital Services 2024 RadarView™
The Financial Services Digital Services 2024 RadarView™ can help financial services enterprises craft a robust strategy based on industry 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 in this space. The 92-page report also highlights top market trends in the financial services space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
October, 2024
Governance, Risk, and Compliance Services 2024 RadarView™
The Governance, Risk, and Compliance Services 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right partner. The 53-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the governance, risk, and compliance services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
November, 2024
Intelligent Document Processing Platforms 2024–2025 RadarView™
The Intelligent Document Processing Platforms 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for document processing solutions by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for platform vendors. It provides a 360-degree view of key intelligent document processing platform vendors across the dimensions of product maturity, enterprise adaptability, and future readiness, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right service partners. The 54-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the document processing space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
December, 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
IT and Apps Managed Services Provider Trends: Quarterly Report for CQ4 2024
In this quarterly report (calendar quarter 4, 2024), 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.
March, 2025
From Energy to Intelligence: Saudi Arabia’s Next Big Export
Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN initiative, backed by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), marks a bold and distinctive leap in the global AI race, positioning the country as a serious contender in sovereign AI development. What sets HUMAIN apart is its centralized governance model, distinct from the more decentralized or private sector-led models in countries such as the UAE and the US.
May, 2025
Avasant Quantum Series: Quantum Sensing in Business – What Every Enterprise Leader Needs to Know
Quantum sensing is a breakthrough technology that leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to measure physical phenomena with exceptional precision. Unlike traditional sensors, quantum sensors can detect minute changes in gravity, magnetic fields, motion, and time, often in environments where classical systems fail. With advantages such as ultrahigh sensitivity and resilience in harsh or GPS-denied conditions, quantum sensing is moving rapidly from research labs into real-world pilots, particularly in sectors such as defense, aerospace, and healthcare. As the technology matures, enterprises are encouraged to focus on high-value, high-complexity use cases where traditional sensing falls short. To fully capitalize on its potential, organizations should partner with specialized innovators, explore codevelopment opportunities, and begin building internal readiness through targeted talent development and infrastructure planning.
July, 2025
United Kingdom (UK) Digital Services 2025 Market Insights™
The United Kingdom (UK) Digital Services 2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital project in the UK region. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today in this space.
July, 2025
Bridging Sourcing Cultures in Mergers: A Roadmap to Sustainable Integration
When organizations merge, sourcing functions often become a hidden fault line—not due to systems or spend categories, but because of deeply embedded cultural differences. Avasant’s Six-Pillar Organizational Change Management (OCM) Framework enables successful cultural integration in sourcing, turning potential friction into a platform for growth.
August, 2025
Intelligent Sourcing to Autonomous Sites: How AI is Redefining Construction
The engineering and construction (E&C) industry has historically lagged in digital adoption, ranking among the least digitized sectors globally. While industries such as manufacturing built robust digital backbones, construction remained anchored in legacy systems and labor-intensive practices. Avasant’s IT Spending Trends in Construction and Trade Services 2024 highlights that IT budgets in construction are not only smaller in proportion to revenue but also stretched thin across fragmented organizations and project-based models. For small and mid-sized contractors, the industry’s backbone, these constraints often limit investment in next-generation platforms.
September, 2025
Data Management and Advanced Analytics Services 2025 Market Insights™
The Data Management and Advanced Analytics Services 2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on data management and advanced analytics projects. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today in this space. 
September, 2025
IT and Apps Managed Services Provider Trends: Quarterly Report for CQ2 2025
In this quarterly report (calendar quarter 2, 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.
October, 2025