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Invest Kerala Global Summit 2025: Key Insights and Strategic Opportunities
The Invest Kerala Global Summit 2025 highlighted Kerala's strategic advantages as an investment destination. Key insights include Kerala's robust infrastructure, thriving IT and startup ecosystem, and strong focus on emerging technologies like AI and robotics. The state boasts significant investment in IT parks such as Technopark, Infopark, and Cyberpark, and has a highly skilled workforce supported by government-backed skill development programs. Kerala's business-friendly policies, high literacy rate, and quality of life make it an attractive location for global enterprises. Recommendations for further growth include expanding technology hubs, developing industry-specific strategies, and enhancing leadership and workforce skills.
March, 2025
European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025/2026: Chapter 21: Food and Beverage
Chapter 21 provides benchmarks for food and beverage manufacturers. The 26 respondents in the sample range in size from about €95 million to €20 billion in annual revenue. Food and beverage companies produce beverages, snack foods, meat products, seafood products, dairy products, dietary supplements, and other consumable food products. Some are suppliers to other food manufacturers or to the food service industry, while many also distribute consumer products to retailers or directly to consumers. This subsector does not include retailers of food and beverages, such as restaurants, unless they also manufacture their own food and beverage products.
September, 2025
Cash Generation Through Divestiture: A Strategic Enabler
Imagine a company shedding its skin not in retreat, but in renewal. From global giants like Procter & Gamble to tech titans like Hewlett-Packard, companies are increasingly turning to divestitures not as a last resort, but as a deliberate strategy to unlock capital, sharpen focus, and fuel transformation. Divestiture is a powerful financial lever—one that generates immediate cash inflows, improves liquidity, and enables reinvestment into high-growth areas. Whether through asset sales, spin-offs, or equity carve-outs, divestitures are helping enterprises streamline operations and strengthen their financial health.
July, 2025
Orchestrating Synergies: How IT Procurement Delivers Strategic Value in M&A Integration
Enterprise IT resources are consumed by integration and maintenance, an operational burden largely inherited from M&A-driven expansion, where fragmented systems and overlapping platforms divert focus from innovation. In this environment, the true value of a merger is unlocked not at the deal table but in the speed, precision, and strategy of post-merger integration. IT procurement sits at the nexus of strategy and execution, where converging systems, platforms, and vendors offer immediate, measurable impact. Beyond headline-grabbing cost savings, its real power lies in simplifying decision-making, reducing digital complexity, and speeding up enterprise integration.
October, 2025
IT and Apps Managed Services Pricing and Solution Trends: H1 2025
In this report, Avasant provides key information on solutions and pricing trends for the IT and apps managed services industry within the past 6–12 months. The report covers several aspects, including market trends, pricing model trends, and pricing and staffing trends in the space. The geographical scope of the report is global, although there is an emphasis on data points from North America. The report leverages valuable insights from our enterprise interactions, ongoing market research, data collection through primary research, and the AvaMark™ Price Benchmarking database.
September, 2025
Unlocking Efficiencies for AI Implementation in Procurement Optimization
By the end 2025, over 60% of procurement decisions will be influenced by AI, yet most organizations still struggle to implement it effectively. Procurement leaders face a paradox: Artificial Intelligence promises transformation, but only when implemented with surgical precision. The hype is over—AI is now a board-level mandate actively reshaping how procurement functions, but turning promise into performance demands more than interest; it requires executive clarity. In our last article, we explored how AI creates value. This time, we’re focused on how to unlock it. From fragmented data and compliance constraints to change resistance and misaligned processes, the road to AI success is lined with pitfalls. What separates the leaders is a practical, people-first approach—one that aligns technology with business goals, ensures stakeholder trust, and delivers measurable impact.
October, 2025
Nordics Digital Services 2025–2026 Market Insights™
The Nordics Digital Services 2025–2026 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 Nordics. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
December, 2025
Media and Entertainment Digital Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Media and Entertainment Digital Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact in the future for any digital projects in the media and entertainment space. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
June, 2023
Financial Services Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Financial Services Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact in the future for any digital projects in the financial services space. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
October, 2024
Media and Entertainment Digital Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Media and Entertainment Digital Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ helps media and entertainment 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 77-page report also highlights top market trends in the media and entertainment space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
June, 2023
End-user Computing Services 2023 Market Insights™
The End-user Computing Services 2023 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any end-user computing projects. The report also highlights key end-user computing challenges that enterprises face today.
September, 2023
Can Gemini Be Google’s Beacon of Salvation, like Batman in Gotham?
On December 6, 2023, Google launched the Gemini series, a collection of large language models (LLMs) excelling in multimodal inputs (text, image, audio, and video). Emphasizing responsible AI design, enhanced flexibility across multiple form factors ranging from data centers to devices, and superior computational capabilities, Gemini aims to outperform other LLMS in multiple industry benchmarks. While OpenAI has traditionally led in the generative AI space, Gemini poses a formidable challenge, potentially positioning itself as Google’s generative AI savior, akin to Gotham’s champion, Batman.
December, 2023
Data Management and Analytics Staffing Ratios 2023
The amount of data that IT organizations need to manage is growing with no end in sight. Whether it be sensor data from IoT devices, social networking data, online advertising and e-commerce transactions, or multimedia files, the complexity of the data to be analyzed also is increasing. With the continued growth of data and its importance in the day-to-day activities of organizations, it is surprising that the data management and analytics function has decreased this year. After significant growth over previous years, this staffing ratio has declined to 5.5% in 2023 from 5.9% in 2022.
July, 2023
Banking Digital Services 2024 RadarView™
The Banking Digital Services 2024 RadarView™ helps banking 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 106-page report also highlights top market trends in the banking space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
June, 2024
Network Support Staffing Ratios 2025
Following a sharp decline in 2022, the demand for network support personnel has increased and they now make up a larger portion of the IT staff than they have since 2021. Network staffing has been highly volatile in recent years due to economic and technological factors, ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic to the growth of AI.
June, 2025