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What Exactly is Digital Engineering and Who is a True Digital Engineering Partner?
Both B2B and B2C products have become smarter and more connected, requiring real-time integration and interaction between hardware and software components. To develop connected products and digitize the engineering and manufacturing life cycle, enterprises need an amalgamation of product and software engineering capabilities through digital engineering. While digital engineering is a growing domain, it is crucial that the ecosystem players, especially engineering and manufacturing companies, get the essence of digital engineering right to realize its true potential.
June, 2023
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Retail Digital Services 2025 RadarView™
The Retail Digital Services 2025 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 89-page report also highlights top market trends in the retail space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
June, 2025
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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
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Navigating Rising Costs and Member Expectations: The Business Process Imperative for Health Payers
The U.S. health insurance industry finds itself at a critical inflection point as financial pressures mount alongside escalating member demands for digital-first experiences. According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), health insurers reported a stark 14.1% decline in net income to approximately $16 billion during the first half of 2024, compared to the same period in the prior year. Even more concerning, underwriting gains plummeted 31.3% to roughly $12 billion, signaling fundamental challenges in the industry's core operational model.
June, 2025
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Rethinking Customer Experience in Uncertain Times
Over the past 12–18 months, customer-facing functions, enterprise applications, and processes have changed tremendously. There has been an uptake in digital channels, direct-to-consumer commerce, omnichannel digital communications, and SaaS-based application services. The period has also witnessed a rise in preference for data and AI-driven, personalized, and automated experiences. This Research Byte showcases how customers’ quest for enhanced personalization and seamless experiences has increased the demand for SaaS-based solutions for addressing industry-specific business needs and how service providers are facilitating this transformation in North America. We highlight the efforts of one such service provider, TCS, based on its recent analyst day in June 2023.
July, 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Revolutionizing Gen AI Operations: Portkey’s End-to-End LLMOps Platform
Generative AI is now vital in enterprise operations, yet many companies struggle to move projects from proof of concept to production due to the lack of robust model management and orchestration. Large language model operations (LLMOps) offers the tools and practices needed to develop, deploy, and maintain LLMs, providing essential infrastructure for managing their life cycle. Portkey excels in this space, offering a comprehensive LLMOps platform with observability, analytics, prompt management, and more. It positions itself as the only full-stack LLM orchestration platform covering the entire LLMOps value chain, including evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and remediation.
July, 2024
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Avasant SAP S/4HANA Services 2024–2025 Market Insights™
The SAP S/4HANA Services 2024–2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any SAP S/4HANA migration projects. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face.
December, 2024
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Reimagining Enterprise Applications: Powered by Gen AI, Aligned with Industry, and Driven by Sustainability
This paper explores the radical transformation of enterprise applications, highlighting how generative AI (Gen AI), industry alignment, and sustainability are reshaping modern software landscapes. Once rigid and monolithic, enterprise systems are now intelligent, composable, and context-aware—driving strategic agility and innovation. Showcasing TCS’s vision and platforms including TCS Crystallus™ and Net Zero Carbon Platform, the paper illustrates how enterprises are embedding Gen AI, industry-specific solutions, and ESG principles into core operations. With real-world examples from Vantage Towers and Tata Power, it presents a compelling blueprint for building intelligent, future-ready, and sustainable enterprises.
May, 2025
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IT and Apps Managed Services Provider Trends: Quarterly Report for CQ1 2025
In this quarterly report (calendar quarter 1, 2025), 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.
July, 2025
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The $100B Quarter: What It Means for Your Next AI Contract
AI infrastructure sourcing is undergoing a seismic shift as enterprises face volatile compute availability, energy costs, and rapid hardware refresh cycles. Traditional cloud-based pricing models are being replaced by dynamic contracts that secure throughput, align with energy indices, and guarantee upgrade paths. This new economic landscape demands strategic negotiation moves, including capacity reservations, energy-indexed pricing, and portability safeguards. By adopting these practices, organizations can protect their AI investments, ensure scalability, and avoid vendor lock-in as use cases expand.
August, 2025
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IEEE Quantum Week 2025: Key Takeaways
The IEEE Quantum Week 2025 marked a turning point, where bold public investments, global road maps, and early enterprise pilots converged to push quantum from lab curiosity to economic and security imperative. New Mexico’s $315M commitment and DARPA’s Quantum Frontier Project underscore a shift toward ecosystem-scale bets. Yet, the real challenge is not just technical—it’s trust and alignment among scientists, investors, and policymakers. This whitepaper explores how distributed architectures, accessible quantum OS layers, and realistic workforce strategies will shape the road to a “ChatGPT moment” for quantum, emphasizing that enterprises must act now or risk being left behind.
September, 2025
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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
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