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Beyond Hyperscalers: The Need for Purpose-Built Cloud in Enterprise IT
As enterprises embrace hybrid and multicloud environments, they face increasing challenges in managing distributed workloads, controlling cloud costs, and scaling AI-driven applications. This whitepaper explores the limitations of conventional cloud models and the need for a unified solution that seamlessly integrates IaaS, PaaS, AI, security, and connectivity on the back of an open-source architecture that helps eliminate vendor lock-in. It also examines Tata Communications’ Vayu Cloud, launched to help enterprises seamlessly orchestrate workloads across multicloud and hybrid environments, optimize cloud spend, and integrate AI capabilities within a secure and scalable framework.
March, 2025
Avasant Quantum Series: Quantum Sensing in Business – What Every Enterprise Leader Needs to Know
Quantum sensing is a breakthrough technology that leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to measure physical phenomena with exceptional precision. Unlike traditional sensors, quantum sensors can detect minute changes in gravity, magnetic fields, motion, and time, often in environments where classical systems fail. With advantages such as ultrahigh sensitivity and resilience in harsh or GPS-denied conditions, quantum sensing is moving rapidly from research labs into real-world pilots, particularly in sectors such as defense, aerospace, and healthcare. As the technology matures, enterprises are encouraged to focus on high-value, high-complexity use cases where traditional sensing falls short. To fully capitalize on its potential, organizations should partner with specialized innovators, explore codevelopment opportunities, and begin building internal readiness through targeted talent development and infrastructure planning.
July, 2025
Business Process Services – Provider Trends CQ4 2024
In this quarterly report for CQ4 2024, 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.
April, 2025
Democratizing AI Development: From Technical Silos to Enterprise-wide Enablement
Democratizing AI development marks a shift from centralized CoEs to enterprise-wide participation, enabling business units to actively engage with AI tools. Initially, adoption was confined to data science teams, with business users limited to consuming prebuilt insights. The progression from rule-based automation to AI/ML tools has empowered nontechnical users to develop cognitive applications without writing code. Generative AI (Gen AI) and agentic AI have accelerated this trend, allowing functional teams to interact with models and build entire process workflows with AI agents. As decision-making decentralizes, enterprises must ensure governance through granular controls, explainability, and resilient fallback mechanisms.
August, 2025
Workday HCM Services 2025 Market Insights™
The Workday HCM Services 2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any Workday HCM project. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
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
Generative AI: The Next Pivotal Point for Productivity and Efficiency
Generative AI is more than a buzzword. It holds genuine transformational potential that resonates with senior executives and employees across industries. It sparks imagination and innovation by promising to automate tasks previously deemed impossible to replicate by machines. From generating human-like text and creative content to assisting in complex decision-making, generative AI drives a paradigm shift in how businesses operate. This transformative technology is not merely hype but a catalyst for redefining productivity and unleashing unprecedented opportunities for growth and efficiency.
October, 2023
Hybrid Enterprise Cloud Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Hybrid Enterprise Cloud Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for hybrid enterprise cloud services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key hybrid enterprise cloud service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right services partner. The 74-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the hybrid enterprise cloud services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
February, 2024
Digital Enterprise 5.0: Digital Readiness in the Era of AI
The Digital Enterprise 5.0: Digital Readiness in the Era of AI report explores the evolving digital transformation landscape for end-user enterprises. It covers numerous aspects, such as digital enterprise shifts, sectoral digital maturity, digital technology spending, generative AI strategy, digital talent approach, outsourcing decisions, and business strategy. The report offers insights into how enterprises are focusing on competition differentiation rather than cost management while increasing digital spending. It provides valuable findings for enterprises of varying sizes across sectors and geographies, enabling them to make informed decisions and successfully navigate the complexities of digital transformation in an ever-changing business environment.
April, 2024
Business Process Services Pricing and Solution Trends: H1 2024
In this report, Avasant provides key information on pricing and solution trends for the business process services industry from the past 12 months. The report covers various aspects, including market demand, provider solution trends, commercial engagement trends, emerging location trends, and pricing and staffing trends in the space. The geographic coverage is global, with a large share of data points from North America. The report builds on insights gathered through our enterprise interactions, ongoing market research, data collection, and the AvaMark™ Price Benchmarking database.
July, 2024
Pioneering Innovation In Global Capability Centers: Insights and Success Stories
The report Pioneering Innovation In Global Capability Centers: Insights and Success Stories, explores the significant role of Global Capability Centers (GCCs) in driving business growth and innovation. It highlights the evolution of GCCs from operational support units to strategic hubs, particularly in India, which hosts over 1,700 GCCs employing more than 2 million professionals. GCCs in India have been growing at an average of over 60 new centers established each year until 2024. The report showcases various success stories and case studies, emphasizing the importance of collaboration with tech innovators, startups, and government authorities in fostering innovation and achieving key breakthroughs.
December, 2024
IT and Apps Managed Services Provider Trends: Quarterly Report for CQ4 2024
In this quarterly report (calendar quarter 4, 2024), Avasant provides key information on IT and apps managed services provider trends. The report covers key information on the IT services industry and the provider ecosystem. It covers the service provider facts and figures (including revenue and resource trends) and executive sentiment from the service provider community. The report covers trends across a gamut of IT services, including but not limited to IT infrastructure, application, and end-user services. The geographic coverage for the report is global. It 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, market interactions, and deals data.
March, 2025
Avasant Quantum Series: Decrypting the Quantum Threat – What Every CISO Must Know
While quantum computing could supercharge scientific discovery, materials design, and AI, it simultaneously threatens to break the foundation of today’s cybersecurity. Current encryption standards, such as RSA and ECC, which protect everything from online banking to classified government communications, rely on the near impossibility of solving certain mathematical problems with classical computers. But with quantum algorithms such as Shor’s algorithm, these problems can be solved exponentially faster, rendering today’s public-key encryption useless almost overnight. This looming threat has led to a new urgency in cybersecurity circles. Experts are calling it the Quantum Apocalypse—a scenario where powerful quantum computers could decrypt vast troves of previously secure data. Experts fear this scenario to be only decades away. The threat is not just in the future: data harvested today can be decrypted tomorrow once quantum machines are operational. The only way forward is to upgrade our cryptographic infrastructure before it is too late.
July, 2025
Securing the Digital Frontier: Protecting Enterprises in a Hyperconnected World
At Avasant’s flagship Empowering Beyond Summit 2025, a dynamic panel discussion brought together cybersecurity leaders from academia, healthcare, government, and global technology firms to explore how enterprises can responsibly adopt artificial intelligence at scale. Moderated by Jay Weinstein, Distinguished Fellow at Avasant, the panel featured George Mansoor (Chief Security Officer, California State University), Alexandra Landeggar (Global Head of Cyber Strategy & Transformation, RTX), Manju Naglapur (SVP & General Manager, Unisys), and John Caruthers (Lead Director, BISO, CVS Health). Together, they unpacked the strategic and technical imperatives shaping AI adoption ranging from governance frameworks and privacy safeguards to post-quantum preparedness and the expanding role of cybersecurity in enabling innovation. As regulatory pressures mount and AI becomes more embedded in critical systems, cybersecurity is increasingly recognized not just as a defense mechanism, but as a foundational pillar for responsible, scalable transformation.
August, 2025
Intelligent Sourcing to Autonomous Sites: How AI is Redefining Construction
The engineering and construction (E&C) industry has historically lagged in digital adoption, ranking among the least digitized sectors globally. While industries such as manufacturing built robust digital backbones, construction remained anchored in legacy systems and labor-intensive practices. Avasant’s IT Spending Trends in Construction and Trade Services 2024 highlights that IT budgets in construction are not only smaller in proportion to revenue but also stretched thin across fragmented organizations and project-based models. For small and mid-sized contractors, the industry’s backbone, these constraints often limit investment in next-generation platforms.
September, 2025