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Enhancing Project Success through Effective Onboarding
Starting a new job can be both exciting and challenging, especially when it comes to understanding the specifics of a new project. A well-structured project-specific onboarding process is essential for ensuring new hires are adequately prepared and confident in their roles. This article explores the importance of project-specific onboarding and how it differs from general company-wide onboarding. It details our approach to creating a dynamic and engaging onboarding experience, which includes comprehensive orientation, interactive training sessions, mentorship, gradual integration, and regular feedback. By prioritizing project-specific onboarding, we aim to foster a positive and productive work environment that benefits both the individual and the team, ultimately driving the project's overall success.
August, 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
Navigating the Divestiture Process: From Strategy to Execution
In today’s volatile market, over 70% of Fortune 500 companies are actively reshaping their portfolios through divestitures. While the rewards are high, the risks are real. At Avasant, we help organizations turn complexity into clarity—transforming divestiture into a strategic growth engine.
October, 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
Higher Education Digital Services 2021–2022 RadarView™
The Higher Education Digital Services 2021–2022 RadarView report addresses the need for educational institutions to evaluate their strategic priorities for future growth. Additionally, it identifies essential global service providers that can help these educational institutions in their business transformation. It brings out detailed capability and experience analyses of leading vendors to assist higher educational institutions in identifying strategic partners for their digital transformation journeys. The 62-page report also highlights key industry trends, the industry’s outlook in the higher education space, and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
August, 2021
Hybrid Enterprise Cloud Services 2020-2021 RadarView™
The Hybrid Enterprise Services 2020-2021 RadarView™ report provides information to assist enterprises in charting out their action plan for developing hybrid cloud environment. It identifies key global service providers and system integrators that can expedite their transformation journey. It also brings out detailed capability and experience analyses of leading providers to assist enterprises in identifying strategic partners for their digital transformation journeys. The 85-page report also highlights key industry trends in the hybrid cloud space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
December, 2020
Envisioning The Future Of Education
The education sector, across both higher education and schools in the US and UK, is in the midst of long-term change that has accelerated with the pandemic in 2020. Technology adoption will be fundamental to the ongoing and impending transformation in the industry. This report identifies the key trends in education and highlights the role of technology in enabling a new future. This report is based on inputs from nearly 90 academic and technology leaders from universities and schools across the US and UK.
August, 2020
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2019/2020: Chapter 18: Education Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 18 provides benchmarks for the education sector. The sector includes public and private colleges and universities, business and medical schools, for-profit educational institutions, and school districts. The 20 respondents in the sample have annual revenues ranging in size from a minimum of about $50 million to $1.9 billion. [Full Study Description]
July, 2019