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Higher Education Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Higher Education 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 projects in the higher education space. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
November, 2024
Invest Kerala Global Summit 2025: Key Insights and Strategic Opportunities
The Invest Kerala Global Summit 2025 highlighted Kerala's strategic advantages as an investment destination. Key insights include Kerala's robust infrastructure, thriving IT and startup ecosystem, and strong focus on emerging technologies like AI and robotics. The state boasts significant investment in IT parks such as Technopark, Infopark, and Cyberpark, and has a highly skilled workforce supported by government-backed skill development programs. Kerala's business-friendly policies, high literacy rate, and quality of life make it an attractive location for global enterprises. Recommendations for further growth include expanding technology hubs, developing industry-specific strategies, and enhancing leadership and workforce skills.
March, 2025
The Essential AI Skills for Procurement Professionals in 2025: Staying Relevant in a Transformative Era
As AI becomes deeply integrated into procurement processes, the skillset required for success now includes technical competencies that complement traditional procurement expertise. The procurement landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. For decades, procurement professionals relied on sourcing acumen, negotiation skills, and supplier management expertise to navigate their roles. To lead in 2025 and beyond, procurement professionals must master three AI-powered capabilities: data fluency, prompt engineering, and model validation. These aren’t just technical skills — they’re the new core competencies of a modern, AI-augmented procurement leader.
July, 2025
Rethinking B2B Marketing Execution:The Age of Execution Reinvention
In Rethinking B2B Marketing Execution: The Age of Execution Reinvention, a report by Avasant commissioned by 2X, we examine how enterprise CMOs are redesigning how work gets done. The data is clear: the current model can’t keep up with pipeline goals, but leaders are already shifting.
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
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
Contract Harmonization in Mergers and Acquisitions: Strategies for Seamless IT Integration
As enterprises pursue mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to expand market share and accelerate innovation, one critical success factor often remains under the radar: IT contract harmonization. Misaligned agreements can quietly erode deal value leading to duplicated services, compliance risks, and operational disruptions. In fact, up to 10% of projected synergies are lost due to poor contract alignment.
November, 2025
Workday HCM Services 2022–2023 RadarView™
The Workday HCM Services 2022–2023 RadarView™ helps organizations define their approach for Workday HCM adoption and identify the right implementation partner to support them in their journey. It assesses Workday HCM service providers based on their ability to offer implementation and managed services with limited disruption. The 55-page report also provides our point of view on how Workday HCM service providers cater to enterprises’ changing needs through a wide portfolio of accelerators and preconfigured solutions, thus delivering a general ranking based on key dimensions of practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investment and innovation.
November, 2022
Cloud Platforms 2022 RadarView™
The Cloud Platforms 2022 RadarView™ addresses the need for enterprises to leverage cloud platforms to accelerate their digital journeys, embrace the cloud, and identify the right cloud platform providers to partner with. The 42-page report also provides our point of view on how cloud platform providers cater to enterprises’ changing needs through a wide portfolio of products and services, thus delivering a general ranking based on key dimensions of product maturity, enterprise adaptability, and innovation road map.
October, 2022
Network and Digital Services were Never More Vital
As organizations emerge from the pandemic and adopt flexible hybrid operating models, the reliance on digital technologies has only increased, with mobility at its center point. The cloud, cybersecurity, and network form the foundational pillars to enable organizations to achieve digital transformation, as it requires unfettered access to data across the entire infrastructure. This Research Byte outlines what organizations must rapidly do to manage networks and infrastructure as they make the changes enacted during the pandemic permanent. It builds on findings from the Orange Business Services Analyst Event, held on July 6–7, 2022, and Avasant Research.
September, 2022
Embracing the Hybrid Workplace with a Cloud-first Strategy
During the pandemic, organizations quickly transitioned to remote work. But now, as we emerge from the pandemic, organizations need to transition to a more flexible, hybrid work model driven by cloud-enabled digital transformation. The employee experience must be at the center of defining a digital workplace. This Research Byte outlines the things that organizations should do to embrace the digital workplace models of tomorrow and how service providers are helping to facilitate this transformation. We highlight the efforts of one such service provider, Unisys, based on its recent analyst and advisor event.
July, 2022
Workday HCM Services 2021–2022 RadarView™
The Workday HCM Services 2021–2022 RadarView™ helps enterprises define their approach for Workday HCM adoption and identify the right implementation partner to support them in their journey. It assesses Workday service providers based on their ability to offer implementation and managed services with limited disruption. The 58-page report also provides our point of view on how Workday service providers are catering to the changing needs of enterprises through a wide portfolio of accelerators and preconfigured solutions, thus delivering a general ranking based on key dimensions of practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investment and innovation.
December, 2021
Cloud Platforms 2021 RadarView™
The Cloud Platforms 2021 RadarView™ report addresses the need for enterprises to leverage cloud platforms to accelerate their digital journeys, embrace the cloud, and identify the right cloud platform providers to partner with. The 50-page report also provides our point of view on how cloud platform providers are catering to the changing needs of enterprises through a wide portfolio of products and services, thus delivering a general ranking based on key dimensions of product maturity, enterprise adaptability, and innovation road map.
September, 2021