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Oracle Cloud ERP Services 2024–2025 RadarView™
The Oracle Cloud ERP Services 2024–2025 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for adopting Oracle Cloud ERP by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key Oracle Cloud ERP service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation to help enterprises identify the appropriate service partner. The 66-page report also highlights the top supply-side trends in the Oracle Cloud ERP services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
May, 2025
Avasant Quantum Series: The Provider Imperative — Preparing Enterprises for the Quantum Era
While many Tier 1 and Tier 2 service providers have started laying the foundation for quantum computing and adjacent technologies, progress remains inconsistent, and most are still in the early stages of true readiness. At Avasant, we recognize that service providers often require strategic guidance in navigating this complex and rapidly evolving space, particularly in understanding enterprise expectations and aligning capabilities accordingly. Drawing on deep client interactions and insights into enterprise aspirations across AI and quantum, we have developed a comprehensive framework for service providers to assess and build quantum readiness. This framework spans four critical dimensions: practice capabilities, talent development, ecosystem partnerships, and investment priorities. It also incorporates key decision-making principles that enterprises are using to evaluate and select providers for their quantum journey.
June, 2025
Beyond the Balance Sheet: ESG-Driven Divestitures
When a global consumer goods company divested its plastics-heavy packaging division last year, the move wasn’t just about cutting costs—it was about cutting carbon. This wasn’t just a business decision; it was a bold statement about priorities. In the fast-changing world of corporate strategy, ESG-driven divestitures are flipping the script, proving that letting go of the wrong assets can mean holding on to what really matters.
August, 2025
Super-Intelligence or Super-Humans? The Defining Contest of Our Age
As AI advances toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), humanity faces a paradox: driving machines toward greater autonomy while striving to preserve their own dominance. Emerging signs of AI self-preservation and behavioral manipulation highlight potential existential risks. At the same time, humans pursue their own evolution—extending life through biotechnology, personalized medicine, and brain-machine interfaces. This whitepaper explores the converging trajectories of AI and human enhancement, examining how both paths redefine competitiveness, survival, and the future balance between man and machine.
September, 2025
Powering Resilience: Strengthening Supply Chains in the Age of Grid Strain and AI Expansion
In today’s hyperconnected economy, supply chains are only as strong as the infrastructure that powers them. Yet, the U.S. electricity grid—much of it built in the mid-20th century—is buckling under the dual pressures of aging infrastructure and surging demand from AI-driven data centers. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects global electricity demand could increase by about one-third to three-quarters by 2050, depending on the case . As AI becomes a cornerstone of modern business operations, its energy appetite is reshaping the grid and exposing vulnerabilities that could ripple across global supply chains. For C-level executives, the question is no longer if disruptions will occur, but how to prepare. Can AI, paradoxically, be both the disruptor and the solution? How can C – Level executives leverage AI to future-proof their supply chains against energy volatility and infrastructure fragility?
October, 2025
Modeling Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Virtualized CRM Platforms with Dynamic Usage Pricing
As enterprises accelerate digital transformation, the cost structures of CRM platforms have become less predictable, challenging procurement leaders to rethink how Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is modeled. In particular, the variable costs related to AI-enhancements are still in early stages as providers test market acceptance. These platforms not only enhance customer engagement but also enable scalable growth and operational agility. However, the shift toward dynamic, usage-based pricing, where costs fluctuate based on real-time consumption, has disrupted traditional procurement models and introduced new forecasting complexities for CIOs and CFOs.
October, 2025
Trust and Safety Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Trust and Safety 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 trust and safety services project. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
November, 2023
Fortifying Generative AI: Microsoft’s Vigilance on Security, Trust, and Governance
As businesses increasingly experiment with generative AI solutions to streamline their processes, it becomes clear that the risk environment is growing. Since threats change constantly, CIOs and CISOs are realizing more and more that AI and generative AI models need to be trusted with some decision-making to stay up with new threats. In line with this, cloud service providers and managed security service providers have made major investments in large language models for security applications during the past year. In this article, we highlight the efforts of Microsoft, focusing on the Microsoft AI Tour Mumbai event held in January.
February, 2024
Multisourcing Service Integration 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Multisourcing Service Integration 2023–2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any MSI project. The report also highlights MSI challenges that enterprises face today.
April, 2024
Leading Change: Strategies for Generative AI Transformation
Over the past two decades, we have been at the forefront of technological innovation, from RPA in the early 2000s to AI in the 2010s, and now Gen AI is becoming essential after ChatGPT’s launch in 2022. Technology’s impact has evolved from automating blue-collar tasks to transforming white-collar roles like strategy and design thinking. Amid this shift, change management is critical yet often overlooked, with a success rate of only 33%, leaving many employees struggling or unfit for new roles. This research byte analyzes change management strategies across different use cases and identifies best practices for driving effective organizational change.
September, 2024
The Golden Age of America: Implications for Enterprises in Trump’s Second Term
President Donald Trump’s return to the White House on January 20, 2025, marked the beginning of a policy revolution that is reshaping the socioeconomic landscape of the United States. A mix of ambitious initiatives and polarizing decisions, these actions have already left a significant mark on enterprises operating in the region. From high-profile tech projects to dismantling diversity mandates, the administration’s “Build in America, by America” ethos signals a transformative era for businesses. Here is a closer look at key executive orders and their potential impact.
January, 2025
Oracle Cloud ERP Services 2024–2025 Market Insights™
The Oracle Cloud ERP Services 2024–2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any Oracle Cloud ERP implementation or maintenance project. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today in this space.
May, 2025
Avasant Quantum Series: From Hype to Strategy — A Quantum Readiness Guide for CIOs and CTOs
Quantum technology—rooted in the principles of quantum mechanics—is poised to tackle problems far beyond the capabilities of today’s most powerful classical computers. Its potential spans computing, cybersecurity, advanced sensing, and next-generation materials. Yet, many enterprises remain on the sidelines, assuming quantum computing is still years from real-world impact. Drawing on client interactions and insights into enterprise aspirations across AI and quantum, we have developed a comprehensive framework for service providers to assess and build quantum readiness, spanning technology readiness, talent and capability, ecosystem partnerships, and investments and innovation. It also incorporates key decision-making principles that enterprises can use to evaluate and select providers for their quantum journey.
June, 2025
Bridging Sourcing Cultures in Mergers: A Roadmap to Sustainable Integration
When organizations merge, sourcing functions often become a hidden fault line—not due to systems or spend categories, but because of deeply embedded cultural differences. Avasant’s Six-Pillar Organizational Change Management (OCM) Framework enables successful cultural integration in sourcing, turning potential friction into a platform for growth.
August, 2025
From Legacy to Leadership: How State and Local Governments Are Powering Public Services through Technology
State and local governments across the US and Europe are accelerating digital transformation to redefine public service delivery, improve governance, and boost citizen engagement. This technological evolution is integral to achieving resilient, efficient, and equitable public sector outcomes. This article examines the complexity and real-world impact of modernization across critical government functions by weaving enterprise-scale deployments and concrete numerical data into each transition stage.
September, 2025