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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
Integration Platform as a Service 2022 RadarView™ Scan
Avasant’s Integration Platform as a Service RadarView Scan helps enterprises in evaluating key vendors supporting enterprise adoption of integration platforms. It compares the capabilities of these vendors by conducting an in-depth analysis of the solutions developed, enterprise use cases addressed, and developments made. The 17-page report also highlights key business challenges and how iPaaS vendors mitigate these challenges with their offerings.
July, 2023
IT and Apps Managed Services Provider Trends: Quarterly Report for Q4 2023
In this quarterly report (calendar quarter 4, 2023), 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), macro 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.
February, 2024
GPT-4o: The Next Frontier of Generative AI
Since its inception in 2015, OpenAI has led the innovation in large language models, setting new AI standards with its GPT series. However, recent competition from Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Mistral introduced Gen AI models surpassing OpenAI in response speed, multilingual understanding, and multimodal processing. While OpenAI had these capabilities individually, they were scattered across multiple models. The launch of GPT-4o finally unified these features, delivering a comprehensive solution that harnesses the full spectrum of Gen AI capabilities.
May, 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
From Oil to Hyperintelligence: The Strategic Pivot of GCC Countries
The GCC’s AI pivot marks a decisive break from hydrocarbon dependency, turning sovereign data, public capital, and enterprise scale into levers for AI-powered economic reinvention. Unlike fragmented efforts in other regions, the Gulf’s approach is both top-down and execution-focused, grounded in national AI visions, strategic sectoral priorities, and commercialization frameworks. What distinguishes the GCC is its intent to not only deploy AI but also build monetizable IP and regional platforms, especially in Arabic-first use cases. This transformation is not speculative; it is tightly aligned with fiscal rebalancing, industrial policy, and long-term digital sovereignty goals.
May, 2025
Breaking the Mold: AI-Driven Change in Finance and Insurance
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept—it is the cornerstone of transformation in the finance and insurance sectors. As digital capabilities become baseline expectations, AI is emerging as the strategic lever that empowers organizations to not only optimize operations, but to fundamentally rearchitect them. Why this change, as AI has evolved from being a competitive advantage to foundational expectations in the finance and insurance industry as it is now deeply embedded in core processes and customer interactions, impacting everything from risk management to personalized service delivery. AI is reshaping how institutions operate, make decisions, and serve customers.
July, 2025
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
Streamlining Supplier Qualification Processes During M&A Integration: A Unified Qualification Model
Supplier qualifications are a cornerstone of supply chain management, especially during M&A integration. It ensures that suppliers align with the organization's strategic goals, regulatory requirements, and operational standards. Failure to establish a robust qualification process can lead to supply chain disruptions, compliance violations, and reputational damage.
September, 2025
Why Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Contracts Must Be Rewritten for the AI Era
Enterprise CRM platforms are evolving fast. The risk landscape has shifted dramatically with embedded AI capabilities now driving everything from customer insights to automated communications. Legacy contracts, built for static systems, are no longer fit for purpose. The integration of AI into CRM systems transforms how data is collected, processed, and utilized, creating new challenges related to data privacy, security, intellectual property, and vendor accountability.
October, 2025
Higher Education Digital Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Higher Education Digital Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital projects in the higher education space. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
July, 2023
Retail E-Commerce Platforms 2023–2024 RadarView Scan™
Avasant’s Retail E-Commerce Platforms 2023–2024 RadarView Scan™ helps enterprises in evaluating key vendors providing retail e-commerce platforms. The 29-page report also highlights how vendors leverage their capabilities to provide a retail e-commerce platform to address these challenges.
March, 2024
Beyond Apple’s Vision Pro: Charting a New Course with Spatial Computing
One of the primary challenges enterprises face when leveraging AR/VR is providing realistic visuals and seamless interaction between virtual and real-world objects. High visual quality traditionally required high-power computing, which further hindered enterprise adoption. In such a scenario, spatial computing has emerged as a solution, enabling superior immersive experiences suitable for enterprise use. The introduction of Apple’s Vision Pro has accelerated this development, with numerous real-world implementations across several industries being introduced shortly after its release.
June, 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
From Complexity to Clarity: Divestitures Reshaping the Future of Retail and CPG
The retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry is facing mounting pressure to adapt to rapidly evolving market dynamics with global uncertainties, geopolitical tensions, and restrictive trade policies leading to challenging environments for business. As the business landscape is evolving fast, enterprises are dynamically reshaping their portfolios to maintain a competitive edge, and divestitures have emerged as a strategic lever to unlock value and sharpen focus. The transformative power of digital technology and continued advancement in AI, shifting consumer behaviors, complying with sustainability and ESG regulatory requirements, strategic realignment, and reducing overall risk are forcing legacy retail and CPG companies to rethink their business models. This allows organizations to refocus on core brands, shed underperforming or non-aligned assets, and unlock value in businesses that may thrive better outside the parent company’s structure.
June, 2025