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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
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
Atos SE’s Bailout Decision: A Strategic Analysis
Atos, a French IT company, has chosen a consortium led by Onepoint, along with Butler Industries and Econocom, for its financial rescue plan. The consortium will inject EUR 250M in equity, provide EUR 1.5B in debt instruments, and convert EUR 2.9B of existing debt into equity. This decision aims to uphold Atos’s existing business lines while leveraging capabilities from Eviden and Tech Foundations. Founder David Layani will become CEO. The alternative proposal by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, focused on aggressive debt reduction, was not chosen. Atos now faces the challenge of executing this plan and managing its debt. In this article, we share our analytical perspectives, assessing the deal’s impact on clients and the road ahead.
June, 2024
Business Process Services – Provider Trends CQ1 2024
In this quarterly report for CQ1 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.
June, 2024
Procurement Business Process Transformation 2024 Market Insights™
This report identifies key demand-side trends in the procurement business process transformation services space, helping enterprises fine-tune their procurement operations. It provides an overview of key observations and enterprise challenges that Avasant considers important to highlight in the procurement outsourcing space.
September, 2024
Canada Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Canada Digital Services 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 Canada. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
November, 2024
Hybrid Enterprise Cloud Services 2024–2025 Market Insights™
The Hybrid Enterprise Cloud Services 2024–2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any of their hybrid enterprise cloud projects. The report also highlights key hybrid enterprise cloud implementation challenges that enterprises face today.
December, 2024
Strategies for Enterprises in Response to Tech Industry Layoffs
The recent spate of layoffs in the technology industry should raise questions in the mind of customers who have these vendors as essential elements of their IT landscape. These concerns also extend to service providers, who are also seeing a pullback in business and undergoing staff reductions. This Research Byte explores these issues and how business leaders should mitigate risks and take advantage of opportunities during such uncertain times.
March, 2023
AR/VR/XR Services 2023 Market Insights™
The AR/VR/XR Services 2023 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any AR/VR/XR project. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
June, 2023
Digital Masters 2023 RadarView™
The Digital Masters 2023 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for their digital transformation initiatives by offering detailed profiles for each service provider. It provides a 360-degree view of the provider’s capabilities and market standings in individual technology prerequisites, hyperconvergence of technologies, and readiness for the future, along with a list of representative clients and brief client case studies. The 60-page report also provides our business forecasts for each Digital Master and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
August, 2023
Tech-enabled Sustainability Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Tech-enabled Sustainability Services 2023 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any tech-enabled sustainability projects. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
November, 2023
Generative AI Strategy, Spending, and Adoption Metrics 2024: Chapter 3: Manufacturing Sector Benchmarks
This chapter concentrates on the manufacturing sector. It features a sample of 32 manufacturers including both process and discrete manufacturing.This chapter provides generative AI metrics for the manufacturing sector. It features a sample of 32 manufacturers including both process and discrete manufacturing. Among the sample are those that manufacture food and beverages, life sciences and pharmaceuticals, cars and car parts, industrial equipment, chemicals, and consumer goods. It includes metrics on how much enterprises are spending on generative AI, where they are spending it, and how they are governing it.
December, 2023
Intelligent Automation Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Intelligent Automation Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for IA services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key IA service providers across the dimensions of practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right services partner. The 70-page report highlights top supply-side trends in IA space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
February, 2024
Multisourcing Service Integration 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Multisourcing Service Integration 2023–2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for 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 66-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the MSI space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
April, 2024
Cloud Platforms 2024 RadarView™
The Cloud Platforms 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for cloud adoption by providing a detailed analysis of key cloud platform providers across product maturity, enterprise adaptability, and innovation road map. The 34-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the cloud platforms space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
June, 2024