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Power is the New Procurement: Buying Compute + Kilowatts Together
As AI workloads scale, the true cost of compute is no longer measured in tokens or instances; it is measured in kilowatts, carbon intensity, and latency thresholds. This shift demands a new commercial playbook where energy becomes a first-class contract term. Enterprises must now co-price compute with power, embed energy-indexed clauses, and negotiate for sustainability-linked incentives. Avasant’s AI Contract Intelligence framework helps organizations future-proof their sourcing strategies by integrating energy terms across the compute stack, from hardware to application. The result: predictable costs, assured capacity, and measurable ESG impact.
September, 2025
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Broadcom–VMware Shake-up: Rising Costs, Subscription Shock, and Enterprise Response
Broadcom’s overhaul of VMware’s licensing and pricing models has sent shockwaves through global IT budgets. This Research Byte from Avasant examines how the shift to subscription-only models is driving cost escalation and operational challenges for enterprises, universities, and partners. More importantly, it highlights how forward-looking organizations are using this moment to realign their sourcing strategies, strengthen negotiation leverage, and modernize their virtualization environments. Backed by Avasant’s deep sourcing intelligence and client case studies, the article reveals how disruption can become a catalyst for transformation.
October, 2025
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AI in Media: Solving the Challenges of Attention and Output
In an age where content is unlimited, but attention is scarce, media companies face a growing paradox: how to deliver stories that capture attention without drowning audiences in noise. At the same time, the pressure to produce content faster has intensified, particularly in journalism where deadlines often cut into depth. Together, these twin challenges—the demand for personalized engagement and the need for speed—have forced the industry to search for new solutions. Increasingly, the answer lies in artificial intelligence. Far from replacing creativity, AI is emerging as a tool to repurpose content, personalize experiences, and streamline production, allowing creators to focus on what matters most: telling stories that resonate. Industry leaders, including those speaking at Avasant’s “Empowering Beyond Summit,” have echoed this view—arguing that AI is becoming not a threat, but an enhancer of creativity (Avasant Summit Video, 2025).
November, 2025
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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
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Healthcare Payor Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Healthcare Payor Digital Services 2024 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 healthcare payor industry. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
March, 2024
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IT and Apps Managed Services Pricing and Solution Trends: H1 2024
In this report, Avasant provides key information on solutions and pricing trends for the IT and apps managed services industry in the past 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.
June, 2024
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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
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UAE’s AI Gambit: From Bold Vision to a Global Contender
Dubai AI Week was not just another tech conference but an ecosystem-wide movement. Spanning over five days, it brought together every stakeholder in the AI value chain—from startups, big tech, and academia to government bodies, developers, coders, and students. The event captured the true spirit of how Dubai envisions its AI future: inclusive, action-driven, and globally connected.
May, 2025
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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
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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
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GCCs in Europe: Trends, Challenges, and Strategic Outlook 2025
This paper explores the evolving landscape of global competency centers (GCCs) in Europe in 2025, focusing on their strategic shift from being traditional cost centers to becoming AI-driven innovation hubs. It examines key industry adoption trends, talent management strategies, geographic hotspots attracting investments, government policies and incentives, including specific initiatives and programs, and examples of GCCs set up by leading European enterprises. The analysis draws on the latest industry reports and market insights to provide a comprehensive overview of GCC dynamics in the European region and their implications for businesses and policymakers.
September, 2025
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Unlocking Efficiencies for AI Implementation in Procurement Optimization
By the end 2025, over 60% of procurement decisions will be influenced by AI, yet most organizations still struggle to implement it effectively. Procurement leaders face a paradox: Artificial Intelligence promises transformation, but only when implemented with surgical precision. The hype is over—AI is now a board-level mandate actively reshaping how procurement functions, but turning promise into performance demands more than interest; it requires executive clarity. In our last article, we explored how AI creates value. This time, we’re focused on how to unlock it. From fragmented data and compliance constraints to change resistance and misaligned processes, the road to AI success is lined with pitfalls. What separates the leaders is a practical, people-first approach—one that aligns technology with business goals, ensures stakeholder trust, and delivers measurable impact.
October, 2025
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Strategic Evaluation of CRM Vendors’ AI Road Maps: An Executive Guide
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has fundamentally redefined the role of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platforms. No longer confined to record-keeping, CRM platforms have evolved into predictive engines that drive personalization, operational efficiency, and customer loyalty. For executives and procurement leaders, the challenge is no longer whether to adopt AI, but how to select CRM vendors whose AI roadmaps align with long-term business strategy, governance, and regulatory requirements.
November, 2025
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Blockchain Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
Avasant’s Blockchain Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ provides information to assist enterprises in identifying key application areas and use cases and developing a strategy around blockchain adoption. It helps organizations in charting out an action plan to drive blockchain initiatives. The report identifies key service providers who can help companies expedite business transformation by leveraging blockchain. It brings out detailed capability and experience analyses of leading providers to assist enterprises in identifying the right strategic partners. The 67-page report also highlights key industry trends in the blockchain space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
December, 2023
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Retail Digital Services 2024 RadarView™
The Retail Digital Services 2024 RadarView™ helps retail 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 86-page report also highlights top market trends in the retail space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
March, 2024
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