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Super-Intelligence or Super-Humans? The Defining Contest of Our Age
As AI advances toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), humanity faces a paradox: driving machines toward greater autonomy while striving to preserve their own dominance. Emerging signs of AI self-preservation and behavioral manipulation highlight potential existential risks. At the same time, humans pursue their own evolution—extending life through biotechnology, personalized medicine, and brain-machine interfaces. This whitepaper explores the converging trajectories of AI and human enhancement, examining how both paths redefine competitiveness, survival, and the future balance between man and machine.
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
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
AI Governance and Ethical Adoption: A Roadmap for Enterprises
With over 60% of enterprises integrating generative AI into core operations, the urgency for responsible governance has never been greater. Generative AI is revolutionizing how businesses operate, make decisions, and engage with customers—unlocking new efficiencies, innovations, and competitive advantages. But with this transformation comes risk.
October, 2025
Digital Talent Capability 2025 Market Insights™
The Digital Talent Capability 2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that can aid in building a digital talent strategy and help them chart an action plan to address the digital talent gap. The report also highlights Avasant’s viewpoint on key technology and talent-related trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital transformation projects.
December, 2025
Cybersecurity Services 2023 RadarView™
The Cybersecurity Services 2023 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for cybersecurity services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key cybersecurity services providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right cybersecurity services partner. The 83-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the cybersecurity space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
June, 2023
Application Modernization Services 2023 RadarView™
The Application Modernization Services 2023 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for application modernization by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key application modernization service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right services partner. The 68-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the application modernization services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
August, 2023
Cloud Platforms 2023 Market Insights™
The Cloud Platforms 2023 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any cloud adoption project. It also provides insights into the key use cases addressed by enterprises across various industries.
October, 2023
SAP S/4HANA Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
The SAP S/4HANA Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for adopting SAP S/4HANA by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key SAP S/4HANA service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation to help enterprises identify the appropriate service partner. The 77-page report also highlights the top supply-side trends in the SAP S/4HANA services space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
January, 2024
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
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
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
Data Management and Advanced Analytics Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Data Management and Advanced Analytics Services 2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any data management and advanced analytics project. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today in this space. 
September, 2024
Clinical Data Management Business Process Transformation 2024–2025 RadarView™
The Clinical Data Management Business Process Transformation 2024–2025 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for clinical data management business process transformation by offering detailed capabilities and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key clinical data management business process transformation service providers across practice maturity, domain ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right service partner. The 61-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the clinical data management and clinical trials space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
October, 2024