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CPG Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
o The CPG 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 project in the consumer packaged goods industry. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
December, 2024
Payroll Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Payroll Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 Market Insights assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any payroll transformation project. The report also highlights the evolution of the payroll function and emerging priorities of payroll professionals.
November, 2023
Conversational AI Platforms 2024 RadarView™
The Conversational AI Platforms 2024 RadarView™ assists enterprises in evaluating key vendors providing conversational AI platforms. It provides a 360-degree view of key conversational AI platform providers across the dimensions of product maturity, enterprise adaptability, and future readiness, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right platform partners. The 31-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the conversational AI space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
June, 2024
Intelligent Document Processing Platforms 2024–2025 Market Insights™
The Intelligent Document Processing Platforms 2024–2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends for navigating the document processing landscape and achieving operational efficiency. The report also highlights the key challenges enterprises face today in this space.
December, 2024
Multisourcing Service Integration 2022–2023 RadarView™
The Multisourcing Service Integration 2022–2023 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 61-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the MSI space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
April, 2023
IT Spending Trends in Transportation and Logistics 2024
This report analyzes the IT characteristics of the transportation and logistics sector, along with the competitive threats posed by digital disruption. Based on our latest benchmarking survey, it provides key metrics for the sector organizations. We conclude with the outlook for increased IT spending and staffing in the sector in the coming years.
August, 2024
Artificial Intelligence a Major Focus of Empowering Beyond Summit
Generative AI has caught everyone’s imagination as ChatGPT became the fastest adopted technology in history. In light of this, artificial intelligence will be one of the focuses of Avasant’s Empowering Beyond Summit 2023 (EBS23), which will feature inspiring keynotes, interactive panels, innovative demos, and more.
April, 2023
Communications Staffing Ratio Falls Despite Growing Complexity
Hybrid work is making corporate communications systems more complicated as cloud-based communications solutions and the advancing presence of AI reshape the role of communications support staff members. Nevertheless, IT organizations have been able to manage this growing complexity without adding to communications systems support staffing. This Research Byte provides a summary of our full report on communications support staffing ratios.
June, 2023
Empowering Canada’s Innovation Nexus Through Digital Transformation
Canadian enterprises are embracing digital technologies to cater to the surging consumer demand in leisure, retail, and recreational industries while improving operational efficiency to achieve sustainability targets. They are increasingly integrating AI, automation, and cloud technologies to develop new solution offerings and have accelerated their digital transformation programs. The pandemic further pushed the integration of digital technologies. Additionally, there is a concerted effort to establish Canada as the upcoming hub for digital talent by fostering investments and strategic partnerships with technology companies and government entities. Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in our Canada Digital and IT Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ and Canada Digital and IT Services 2023–2024 RadarView™, respectively.
August, 2023
RPA Adoption Increases as Robots Get Smarter
Two years of inflation and rising labor costs have increased enterprise interest in automation. As technology has advanced and corporate stakeholders have successfully delegated tasks to robots, trust in RPA has grown over time. This Research Byte provides a summary of our full report on RPA Adoption Trends and Customer Experience.
October, 2023
Fostering Resilience in the Aerospace and Defense Sector through Digital Transformation
Aerospace and defense (A&D) enterprises are facing challenges arising from supply chain risks, regulatory compliance, increasing operational costs, heightened security measures, and pressure to meet sustainability goals. To address these critical issues, companies are actively harnessing the power of digital technologies to revolutionize their manufacturing processes, maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) activities, and supply chain operations. Exploring advanced technologies, including generative AI, AR/VR, and digital twins, these organizations aim to enhance productivity and refine operational workflows. As this requires strong technological expertise and delivery capabilities, A&D enterprises are collaborating with service providers for digital transformation. Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in our Aerospace and Defense Digital Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ and Aerospace and Defense Digital Services 2023–2024 RadarView™, respectively.
December, 2023
Reinventing Digital Commerce through Infrastructure Upgrade and Next-Gen Commerce
Enterprises are increasingly shifting their focus from traditional e-commerce models like B2B and B2C to D2C, B2B2C, and online marketplaces to increase market reach and drive business agility and growth. To enable this, they are adopting new order fulfillment strategies that help reshape digital commerce operations, boost delivery speeds, and reduce costs. They are also upgrading their legacy digital commerce infrastructure and uplifting customer engagement through next-generation commerce to drive scalability and flexibility. Further, personalization boundaries are being pushed by digital commerce platform vendors who integrate generative AI capabilities in their current solutions. Aligned with these trends, service providers’ priorities are underscored by investments in next-generation commerce, expanding partner ecosystems, and practice growth. Both demand- and supply-side trends are covered in Avasant’s Digital Commerce Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ and Digital Commerce Services 2023–2024 RadarView™, respectively.
January, 2024
Desktop Support Staffing Is a Balancing Act
The desktop support function has gone through significant disruption in recent years. Digital workplace technologies and the need to secure employee-owned equipment have put a strain on this function. At the same time, automation and other influences have made desktop support more efficient, and staff less necessary. This Research Byte explores some reasons for this trend.
February, 2024
The Pace of Change is Accelerating But Change Management is Not Keeping Up
The pace of change in many companies is increasing as new technologies allow businesses to serve customers faster, better, and cost-effectively. In most industries, therefore, new systems are essential to compete in today’s global economy. However, it is not always as simple as buying a new system and expecting users to adopt it seamlessly. Many new projects fail without the effective use of change management. And some companies still fall behind in formal and consistent practice of change management best practices. This Research Byte provides a summary of our full report on organizational change management best practices.
March, 2024
Integrating Generative AI with SAP SuccessFactors to Elevate Employee Experience
Banking upon generative AI’s content summarization and contextual response generation capabilities, organizations are keen on integrating generative AI (Gen AI) solutions with SAP SuccessFactors to drive efficient HR processes and elevate employee experience. These solutions help tailor employee communications, resolve HR and employee benefits-related queries, and automate key recruitment activities. Moreover, service providers are expediting implementation and enabling precise project scheduling through preconfigured solutions that offer standardized HR and payroll processes, industry-specific configurations, and structured data migration from legacy HR systems.
April, 2024