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The Future of Software Licensing: The Importance of an Optimal License Model in Divestitures
When a company spins off a business unit, the spotlight often shines on financials, operations, and IT infrastructure. Yet, hidden within the fine print of software contracts lies a strategic lever that can make or break the success of a divestiture: licensing. In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, where hybrid cloud, SaaS, and AI-driven platforms reign supreme, software licensing has transcended its role as a mere compliance checkbox. It has become a critical enabler of agility, innovation, and cost control. However, many organizations still underestimate the complexity and opportunity embedded in licensing decisions during a carve-out or spin-off.
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
Business Process Services – Provider Trends CQ1 2025
In this quarterly report for CQ1 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. 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.
July, 2025
The Impact of Broadcom’s Acquisition of VMware: Pricing and Licensing Changes, and Strategies for Mitigation
With VMware’s customer base facing up to 800% price hikes, Broadcom’s $69B acquisition has become a strategic inflection point for enterprise IT leaders. The shift has triggered widespread reevaluation of virtualization strategies, especially as Broadcom transitions VMware’s licensing from perpetual to subscription-based models. According to Avasant’s benchmark data, over 70% of enterprises are now actively exploring mitigation strategies, including hybrid cloud adoption and alternative hypervisor platforms,to offset cost escalations and maintain operational continuity. For organizations deeply embedded in VMware’s ecosystem, understanding these changes and responding with agility is no longer optional; it’s essential.
September, 2025
The IT Consultant’s Playbook: Human-Centered Success in IT Divestitures Why the Consultant’s Mindset Matters
As enterprises accelerate carve-outs to unlock value, IT divestitures have become strategic imperatives—demanding more than just frameworks. Divestitures can lead to significant financial and operational consequences. A failed divestiture, as seen with Meta's $262 million loss on the sale of Giphy due to regulatory pressure, contrasts sharply with successful ones. For instance, in 2023, Fidelity Information Services improved its financial standing and stock price by selling a 55% stake in Worldpay to GTCR for $11.7 billion, showcasing the strategic benefits of a well-executed divestiture
October, 2025
Generative AI Services 2025 RadarView™
The Generative AI Services 2025 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for Gen AI adoption by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key Gen AI service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right Gen AI services partner. The 64-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the Gen AI space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
November, 2025
Life and Annuities Insurance Digital Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Life and Annuities Insurance Digital Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ can help L&A insurance 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 L&A insurance space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
July, 2023
Digital Masters 2023 RadarView™
The Digital Masters 2023 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for their digital transformation initiatives by offering detailed profiles for each service provider. It provides a 360-degree view of the provider’s capabilities and market standings in individual technology prerequisites, hyperconvergence of technologies, and readiness for the future, along with a list of representative clients and brief client case studies. The 60-page report also provides our business forecasts for each Digital Master and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
August, 2023
Intelligent ITOps Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Intelligent ITOps Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any intelligent ITOps projects. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
November, 2023
F&A Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The F&A 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 F&A outsourcing project. The report also highlights key challenges enterprises face today while outsourcing F&A processes.
February, 2024
Unlocking the Power of Zero Cost Transformation: Business Acceleration with Minimal Investment
Enterprises face the complex challenge of balancing IT investment for growth with maintaining operations amidst global economic uncertainties. The Zero Cost Transformation approach has emerged as a solution, emphasizing repurposing savings from streamlined processes to fund innovation. It involves leveraging cloud solutions and proprietary tools and aligning expenses with business outcomes. Additionally, enterprises should implement the Net Economic Value Added™ (NEVA) approach to assess transformation success, focusing on the impact of innovation on core operations rather than just technology cost reductions. It enables enterprises to navigate economic challenges by prioritizing sustained innovation-led growth over short-term cost efficiencies.
April, 2024
Beyond Apple’s Vision Pro: Charting a New Course with Spatial Computing
One of the primary challenges enterprises face when leveraging AR/VR is providing realistic visuals and seamless interaction between virtual and real-world objects. High visual quality traditionally required high-power computing, which further hindered enterprise adoption. In such a scenario, spatial computing has emerged as a solution, enabling superior immersive experiences suitable for enterprise use. The introduction of Apple’s Vision Pro has accelerated this development, with numerous real-world implementations across several industries being introduced shortly after its release.
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
Procurement Business Process Transformation 2024 RadarView™
The Procurement Business Process Transformation 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for procurement business process transformation by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key procurement business process transformation service providers across practice maturity, domain ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right service partner. The 53-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the procurement space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
September, 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