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From Legacy to Leadership: How State and Local Governments Are Powering Public Services through Technology
State and local governments across the US and Europe are accelerating digital transformation to redefine public service delivery, improve governance, and boost citizen engagement. This technological evolution is integral to achieving resilient, efficient, and equitable public sector outcomes. This article examines the complexity and real-world impact of modernization across critical government functions by weaving enterprise-scale deployments and concrete numerical data into each transition stage.
September, 2025
Capacity Wars: Securing GPU’s Without Paying Scarcity Premiums
As AI infrastructure demand surges, organizations face unpredictable scarcity premiums on GPUs and compute resources. These premiums spike during chip launches, regional power constraints, and sudden model feature changes. Instead of overpaying for priority access, enterprises should adopt a “capacity ladder” strategy, diversifying reservations across chip classes, regions, and providers, with pre-agreed substitution rights and pricing step-downs. Avasant’s AI Contract Intelligence framework enables organizations to secure throughput, avoid scarcity premiums, and future-proof their AI sourcing by embedding laddered reservations, chip-class equivalency, and dual-provider orchestration into contracts. The result: predictable costs, assured capacity, and resilience against supply shocks.
October, 2025
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
Canada Digital and IT Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Canada Digital and IT Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ can help Canadian 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 67-page report also highlights top market trends in the Canadian region and Avasant’s viewpoint.
August, 2023
Talent Acquisition Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Talent Acquisition Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any recruitment transformation project. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today while outsourcing their talent acquisition process.
December, 2023
Intelligent Automation Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Intelligent Automation Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for IA services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for 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, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right services partner. The 70-page report highlights top supply-side trends in IA space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
February, 2024
Business Process Services – Provider Trends CQ4 2023 and CY 2023
In this quarterly report (calendar quarter 4, 2023) and annual report (calendar year, 2023), Avasant provides key information on trends in the business process services (BPS) space. It covers facts and figures about service providers (including revenue and resource trends), macro trends, and executive sentiment from the service provider community. The geographic coverage is global, with a larger share of data points from North America. The report 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 sourcing data.
April, 2024
Business Process Services – Provider Trends CQ1 2024
In this quarterly report for CQ1 2024, Avasant provides key information on trends in the business process services (BPS) space. It covers facts and figures about service providers (including revenue and resource trends), macro trends, and executive sentiment from the service provider community. The geographic coverage is global, with a larger share of data points from North America. The report 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 and market interactions.
June, 2024
Multicloud and AI: Enabling Intelligent Workflows across Diverse Cloud Environments
Enterprises are adopting multicloud environments and AI-driven automation to enhance operational efficiency and flexibility. As multicloud adoption grows, challenges such as cost inefficiencies, migration complexities, and integration issues persist. Addressing these challenges, Oracle announced at Oracle CloudWorld 2024 the integration of its Exadata database with AWS, enabling seamless multicloud connectivity, improved latency, and optimized costs. Oracle also introduced over 50 role-based AI agents in its Fusion Cloud Applications Suite to automate repetitive tasks using AI capabilities that adapt to changes and improve over time. These initiatives align with industry efforts by SAP, Microsoft, and Workday in leveraging generative AI to streamline sales, service, finance, and supply chain management functions.
November, 2024
IT and Apps Managed Services Provider Trends: Quarterly Report for CQ3 2024
In this quarterly report (calendar quarter 3, 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.
February, 2025
From Complexity to Clarity: Divestitures Reshaping the Future of Retail and CPG
The retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry is facing mounting pressure to adapt to rapidly evolving market dynamics with global uncertainties, geopolitical tensions, and restrictive trade policies leading to challenging environments for business. As the business landscape is evolving fast, enterprises are dynamically reshaping their portfolios to maintain a competitive edge, and divestitures have emerged as a strategic lever to unlock value and sharpen focus. The transformative power of digital technology and continued advancement in AI, shifting consumer behaviors, complying with sustainability and ESG regulatory requirements, strategic realignment, and reducing overall risk are forcing legacy retail and CPG companies to rethink their business models. This allows organizations to refocus on core brands, shed underperforming or non-aligned assets, and unlock value in businesses that may thrive better outside the parent company’s structure.
June, 2025
Charted Territories: Why Vendor Data Strategy is Now a Boardroom Issue
In today’s AI-powered economy, vendor management is no longer a back-office function—it’s a strategic priority demanding executive oversight. Leaders who master their vendor data unlock cost savings, strengthen supplier partnerships, reduce compliance risk, and prepare their organizations for AI-driven transformation. Yet many companies still treat vendor data as fragmented, tactical, or purely transactional.
July, 2025
Orchestrating Synergies: How IT Procurement Delivers Strategic Value in M&A Integration
Enterprise IT resources are consumed by integration and maintenance, an operational burden largely inherited from M&A-driven expansion, where fragmented systems and overlapping platforms divert focus from innovation. In this environment, the true value of a merger is unlocked not at the deal table but in the speed, precision, and strategy of post-merger integration. IT procurement sits at the nexus of strategy and execution, where converging systems, platforms, and vendors offer immediate, measurable impact. Beyond headline-grabbing cost savings, its real power lies in simplifying decision-making, reducing digital complexity, and speeding up enterprise integration.
October, 2025
IT and Apps Managed Services Pricing and Solution Trends: H1 2025
In this report, Avasant provides key information on solutions and pricing trends for the IT and apps managed services industry within the past 6–12 months. The report covers several aspects, including market trends, pricing model trends, and pricing and staffing trends in the space. The geographical scope of the report is global, although there is an emphasis on data points from North America. The report leverages valuable insights from our enterprise interactions, ongoing market research, data collection through primary research, and the AvaMark™ Price Benchmarking database.
September, 2025
Business Process Services – Provider Trends CQ2 2025
In this quarterly report for CQ2 2025, Avasant provides key information on trends in the business process services (BPS) space. It covers facts and figures about service providers (including revenue and resource trends), macro trends, and executive sentiment from the service provider community. In this quarterly report, we cover 12 pure-play BPS providers or providers with BPS as a primary offering and all industry verticals and markets. The report covers trends across a gamut of business process services, including finance and accounting, hire-to-retire, supply chain and procurement, customer experience, and industry-specific services. The geographic coverage for the report is global, with a larger share of data points from North America. The report 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 and market interactions.
October, 2025