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AI for Profit: How Generative AI is Reshaping Revenue Strategies
Most enterprises are leveraging generative AI for its exponential productivity gains across departments such as marketing, operations, and IT and for better alignment with user expectations. However, some innovative enterprises have initiated the use of generative AI to unlock new monetization prospects, allowing companies to strategically boost revenue streams and profitability. Enterprises across sectors such as high-tech, telecom, banking, and healthcare are leading the charge by introducing generative AI-powered solutions and services or adding new features as a service with a focus on policy, people, and partnerships. This, in turn, is driving other organizations to seek similar monetization opportunities.
December, 2023
Fortifying Generative AI: Microsoft’s Vigilance on Security, Trust, and Governance
As businesses increasingly experiment with generative AI solutions to streamline their processes, it becomes clear that the risk environment is growing. Since threats change constantly, CIOs and CISOs are realizing more and more that AI and generative AI models need to be trusted with some decision-making to stay up with new threats. In line with this, cloud service providers and managed security service providers have made major investments in large language models for security applications during the past year. In this article, we highlight the efforts of Microsoft, focusing on the Microsoft AI Tour Mumbai event held in January.
February, 2024
Multisourcing Service Integration 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Multisourcing Service Integration 2023–2024 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.
April, 2024
Text-to-Video Generation Tools: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
Video generation technology has undergone multiple evolutionary leaps. In the 2010s, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a deep learning algorithm, revolutionized the ability to classify and analyze images, spreading its applications across facial recognition, medical imaging, and more. In 2014, generative adversarial networks (GANs) emerged, another deep learning algorithm capable of creating realistic images but limited to simpler tasks like anime creation, face swapping, and basic video analytics due to the lack of context understanding and gesture synchronization.
July, 2024
Automation to Autonomy: How Synchronous AI Agents are Shaping the Future of Business Operations
Over the last three decades, automation has evolved from back-office to middle-office and now front-office tasks, with each step driven by advancements in AI. We now stand on the threshold of a new era: synchronous AI agents. These specialized agents can independently manage end-to-end execution of complex processes, limiting human involvement to governance and key approvals. The automation fabrics of the future will likely combine RPA, AI copilots, and synchronous AI agents, coexisting and complementing each other. This research byte explores the industry’s shift toward synchronous AI agents, the changing market landscape, and key enterprise considerations for adopting this transformative technology.
November, 2024
IT and Apps Managed Services Pricing and Solution Trends: H2 2024
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.
February, 2025
Reimagining Enterprise Applications: Powered by Gen AI, Aligned with Industry, and Driven by Sustainability
This paper explores the radical transformation of enterprise applications, highlighting how generative AI (Gen AI), industry alignment, and sustainability are reshaping modern software landscapes. Once rigid and monolithic, enterprise systems are now intelligent, composable, and context-aware—driving strategic agility and innovation. Showcasing TCS’s vision and platforms including TCS Crystallus™ and Net Zero Carbon Platform, the paper illustrates how enterprises are embedding Gen AI, industry-specific solutions, and ESG principles into core operations. With real-world examples from Vantage Towers and Tata Power, it presents a compelling blueprint for building intelligent, future-ready, and sustainable enterprises.
May, 2025
Cash Generation Through Divestiture: A Strategic Enabler
Imagine a company shedding its skin not in retreat, but in renewal. From global giants like Procter & Gamble to tech titans like Hewlett-Packard, companies are increasingly turning to divestitures not as a last resort, but as a deliberate strategy to unlock capital, sharpen focus, and fuel transformation. Divestiture is a powerful financial lever—one that generates immediate cash inflows, improves liquidity, and enables reinvestment into high-growth areas. Whether through asset sales, spin-offs, or equity carve-outs, divestitures are helping enterprises streamline operations and strengthen their financial health.
July, 2025
Leading Change in IT Procurement Integration: How to Align People, Process, and Outcomes
Digital transformation is a critical focus for the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) sector as organizations seek to improve operational efficiency, enhance system integration, and maintain competitiveness in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. With increasing reliance on data-driven systems, automation, and advanced analytics, A&D firms are exploring new ways to modernize processes while ensuring security, compliance, and reliability.
August, 2025
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