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Application Management Services 2025 Market Insights™
This report identifies key demand-side trends in the application management services space, helping enterprises fine-tune their application management strategies. It provides an overview of top implementation challenges, industry-specific adoption, diverse use cases driving implementation, and the integration of agentic AI across key stages of application management based on Avasant’s assessment.
June, 2025
The Essential AI Skills for Procurement Professionals in 2025: Staying Relevant in a Transformative Era
As AI becomes deeply integrated into procurement processes, the skillset required for success now includes technical competencies that complement traditional procurement expertise. The procurement landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. For decades, procurement professionals relied on sourcing acumen, negotiation skills, and supplier management expertise to navigate their roles. To lead in 2025 and beyond, procurement professionals must master three AI-powered capabilities: data fluency, prompt engineering, and model validation. These aren’t just technical skills — they’re the new core competencies of a modern, AI-augmented procurement leader.
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
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
Vietnam Leads the AI Revolution: How Hitachi Digital Services is Shaping the Future of Agentic AI
From Southeast Asia’s rising tech hub to global innovation powerhouse, Vietnam is redefining the way industries adopt AI — and Hitachi Digital Services (Hitachi DS) is leading the charge.
September, 2025
Digital CX Services 2025 RadarView™
The Digital CX Services 2025 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for digital CX services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key digital CX service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right digital CX services partner. The 71-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the digital CX services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
October, 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
Digital Talent Capability 2025 RadarView™
The Digital Talent Capability 2025 RadarView™ helps enterprises identify strategic partners that bring the right digital talent expertise to accelerate digital transformation by providing detailed capabilities and experience analyses of service providers. It offers a 360-degree view of key service providers across digital strategy and talent capabilities, talent transformation, and talent investments and innovation. The 69-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the digital talent space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
December, 2025
Multisourcing Service Integration 2022–2023 Market Insights™
The Multisourcing Service Integration 2022–2023 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact in the future for any MSI projects. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
April, 2023
Life and Annuities Insurance Digital Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
This report identifies key demand-side trends in the life and annuities (L&A) insurance space that can help enterprises fine-tune their digital strategies. It also provides an overview of enterprise challenges in this space based on Avasant’s assessment.
July, 2023
Risk and Compliance Services 2023 Market Insights™
The Risk and Compliance Services 2023 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any risk and compliance projects. The report also highlights key implementation challenges that enterprises face today.
October, 2023
Nordics Digital Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Nordics Digital Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ can help Nordic 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 90-page report also highlights top market trends in the Nordic region and Avasant’s viewpoint.
December, 2023
Oracle Cloud ERP Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Oracle Cloud ERP Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for adopting Oracle Cloud ERP by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key Oracle Cloud ERP service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation to help enterprises identify the appropriate service partner. The 75-page report also highlights the top supply-side trends in the Oracle Cloud ERP services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
February, 2024
Retail Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Retail Services 2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital project in the retail industry. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today in this space.
March, 2024
Business Process Services Pricing and Solution Trends: H2 2023
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.
January, 2024