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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Quantum Resilience: Navigating Cybersecurity in a Quantum World
Recent advancements in quantum computing raise concerns about the future of cryptography, given the computational capabilities of quantum computers to perform complex calculations rapidly and break traditional encryption algorithms. Although cybersecurity systems can tackle quantum threats at present, the promising pace of development in quantum computing poses an inevitable, if not imminent, threat to organizations. Moreover, there is a risk that malicious intruders could steal information now and decrypt it in the future with mature quantum computers. This necessitates enterprises to use post-quantum cryptography to safeguard confidential data and stay ahead of quantum-powered adversaries.
July, 2024
From Fugaku HPC to Quantum: Fujitsu’s Leap into Next-Gen Supercomputing
The quantum era is here, and it is compelling enterprises to act. Once seen as a distant tech milestone, quantum computing is now reshaping strategies, accelerated by generative AI’s rapid ascent in 2022. Companies realize the risk of unpreparedness as quantum promises to disrupt industries from logistics to cybersecurity. Fujitsu is demonstrating a rapid transition from research to real-world applications. At its recent Executive Analyst Day 2024 in Pune, India, Fujitsu showcased a groundbreaking 64-qubit superconducting quantum chip and an audacious road map to a 256-qubit system by 2025 and over 1,000 qubits by 2026. Its scalable hardware, HPC legacy, multi-architecture approach, and qubit efficiency solidify its edge in this race.
December, 2024
From Energy to Intelligence: Saudi Arabia’s Next Big Export
Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN initiative, backed by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), marks a bold and distinctive leap in the global AI race, positioning the country as a serious contender in sovereign AI development. What sets HUMAIN apart is its centralized governance model, distinct from the more decentralized or private sector-led models in countries such as the UAE and the US.
May, 2025
Blockchain Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Blockchain Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that can help enterprises identify key application areas and use cases and develop a strategy around blockchain adoption. The report also highlights Avasant’s viewpoint on key technology and blockchain-related trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital transformation projects.
December, 2023
Retail Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Retail 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 retail industry. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today in this space.
March, 2024
Advanced Network Services 2024 RadarView™
The Advanced Network Services 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for advanced network services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key advanced network services providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right advanced network services partner. The 68-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the advanced network services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
July, 2024
The Evolution of Synchronous AI Agents: Enterprise Adoption Trends and Strategies
The next leap forward is the rise of synchronous AI agents—self-learning systems capable of executing complex, end-to-end tasks from a single prompt. Avasant presents The Evolution of Synchronous AI Agents: Enterprise Adoption Trends and Strategies report in this context. This study is based on in-depth interviews with over 60 industry leaders, including C-level decision-makers, advisors, providers, and tech vendor executives. It offers recommendations for enterprises to accelerate adoption while addressing associated risks and challenges. The report delves into the evolution of synchronous AI, adoption timelines, and industry priorities while uncovering key challenges, opportunities, and strategic considerations, including workforce strategies and outsourcing impacts.
January, 2025
Closing the Gaps: Standardizing Responsible AI Amidst a Fragmented Global Governance Landscape
The global AI governance landscape is fragmented, with over 1,000 proposed and enacted policies spanning 69 countries, resulting in a complex web of inconsistent and often reactive regulations. Laws governing AI are rarely harmonized across borders and are deeply entangled with broader data protection, cybersecurity, and digital governance policies. This legal complexity makes it difficult for enterprises, especially those operating in sensitive sectors like telecom, healthcare, and government services, to implement AI solutions responsibly. In healthcare, AI tools risk exacerbating diagnostic inequities without fairness testing; in public services, opaque algorithms can reinforce systemic exclusion; and in telecom, restrictions around cross-border data sharing introduce significant governance challenges.
May, 2025