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Embracing the Hybrid Workplace with a Cloud-first Strategy
During the pandemic, organizations quickly transitioned to remote work. But now, as we emerge from the pandemic, organizations need to transition to a more flexible, hybrid work model driven by cloud-enabled digital transformation. The employee experience must be at the center of defining a digital workplace. This Research Byte outlines the things that organizations should do to embrace the digital workplace models of tomorrow and how service providers are helping to facilitate this transformation. We highlight the efforts of one such service provider, Unisys, based on its recent analyst and advisor event.
July, 2022
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Kyndryl’s New Strategy for Security and Cloud Services
Kyndryl has been reorganizing its practice areas after its spin-off from IBM’s managed infrastructure services business unit, formerly known as IBM’s Global Technology Services group. This research byte focuses specifically on Kyndryl’s Cloud and Security and Resiliency practices. Through Kyndryl’s webinar about its cloud and security services, we heard from Kris Lovejoy and Harish Grama, the global practice leaders for Security and Resiliency and Cloud, respectively. One common theme that emerged was a shift from an IBM-focused approach to an ecosystem approach involving partners in addition to IBM.
June, 2022
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Risk and Compliance Services 2022 RadarView™
The Risk and Compliance Services 2022 RadarView™ provides information to assist enterprises in charting out their action plan for developing a robust governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) program. It identifies key global service providers and system integrators that can help organizations expedite their GRC tool adoption journey. It also brings out detailed capability and experience analyses of leading providers to assist enterprises in identifying strategic partners for adopting a robust GRC framework. The 64-page report also highlights key industry trends in the risk and compliance space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
June, 2022
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Salesforce Services 2022 RadarView™
The Salesforce Services 2022 RadarView™ helps enterprises define their approach for Salesforce adoption and identify the right implementation partner to support them in their journey. It assesses implementation services providers based on their ability to offer services with limited disruption. The 70-page report also provides Avasant’s point of view on how Salesforce implementation service providers are catering to the changing needs of enterprises through a wide portfolio of accelerators and preconfigured solutions. We do so by evaluating service providers against a general ranking based on key dimensions of practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation.
June, 2022
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Retail Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™
The Retail Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™ can help retailers craft a robust strategy for digital transformation based on industry outlook and best practices. The report can aid businesses in identifying the right partners and service providers to accelerate digital adoption. The 95-page report also identifies key service providers and system integrators that can help enterprises in their digital transformation journeys.
May, 2022
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Applied AI and Advanced Analytics Services 2022 RadarView™
The Applied AI and Advanced Analytics Services 2022 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for AI and analytics by offering detailed capability and experience analyses of service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key AI and analytics service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right AI and analytics services partner. The 76-page report also highlights top market trends in the AI and analytics space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
April, 2022
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Internet of Things Services 2022 RadarView™
The Internet of Things Services 2022 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for Internet of Things (IoT) platforms and services implementation by featuring detailed capability and experience analyses for leading service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key service providers for IoT services across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovations, thus supporting enterprises in identifying the right transformation partner. The 84-page report also highlights top market trends in the IoT space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
April, 2022
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Multisourcing Service Integration 2021–2022 RadarView™
The Multisourcing Service Integration 2021–2022 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for multisourcing service integration (MSI) by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key MSI service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right MSI services partner. The 69-page report also highlights top market trends in the MSI space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
April, 2022
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Google’s Latest Move in Building Out its Security Platform Offering
The rising threat landscape has led cloud service providers to expand the scope of their cybersecurity offerings to multiple data sources and automate the triage process and incident response. This includes the use of artificial intelligence/machine learning to model the behavior of attackers and identify threats in advance. By acquiring Mandiant and Siemplify, Google is taking a big step in its vision of “invisible security” with automated threat hunting, detecting, and response. This will allow CISOs to capitalize on the SIEM-to-SOAR maturity trend for streamlining their threat response procedures.
March, 2022
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Wipro’s Edgile Acquisition: Another Step in the Right Direction for Wipro’s Cybersecurity Aspirations
IT service providers are looking to own the end-to-end cybersecurity adoption cycle and be part of the executive decision-making. This implies going beyond regular implementation and managed security services and offering consultancy and advisory services. Through Edgile, Wipro aims to achieve the following two goals: move up the value chain by playing an influential role in the initial stages of deals, which involve decision-making at the board or CXO leveland position itself as an end-to-end service provider by augmenting its cybersecurity consulting capabilities and covering the entire value chain.
February, 2022
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Leading with a Unified and Integrated Approach to the Cloud – The New Way to Stay Ahead in the Cloud Services Market
The change in customer behavior brought on by the pandemic became the perfect platform for service providers to offer integrated cloud solutions by bringing together their consulting and advisory services, domain expertise, and deep engineering capabilities. Over the past 12 to 18 months, several leading service providers stepped up to enable enterprises to redesign their infrastructure from the core. This report discusses how Wipro followed this trend by introducing Wipro FullStride Services for its customers. As part of its cloud strategy, in July 2021, Wipro introduced Wipro FullStride Cloud Services to strengthen its position as a full-stack service provider that looks at personas, processes, data, apps, and infrastructure. The company has been advancing its cloud initiatives and plans to invest USD 1 billion over the next three years in technology, acquisitions, people, and partnerships.
January, 2022
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Digital Commerce Services 2021–2022 RadarView™
The Digital Commerce Services 2021–2022 RadarView™ provides information to assist enterprises in building an integrated digital commerce strategy and charting out an action plan for digital commerce transformation. It identifies key global service providers and system integrators that can help expedite a customer’s commerce transformation journey. It also 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 digital commerce space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
January, 2022
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Global Hire-to-Retire Business Process Transformation 2021-2022 RadarView™
The Global Hire-to-Retire Business Process Transformation 2021-22 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for digital HR transformation by featuring detailed capability and experience analyses of leading service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key HR service providers across practice maturity, domain ecosystem, and investments and innovations, thus helping enterprises in evaluating leading players in the HR space. The 70-page report also highlights top market trends in the HR outsourcing arena and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
December, 2021
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Blockchain Services 2021–2022 RadarView™
The Blockchain Services 2021– 2022 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 blockchain service providers who can help companies expedite business transformation leveraging blockchain. It brings out detailed capability and experience analyses of leading providers to assist enterprises in identifying the right strategic partners. The 73-page report also highlights key industry trends in the blockchain space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
December, 2021