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Property and Casualty Insurance Digital Services 2025 RadarView™
The Property and Casualty Insurance Digital Services 2025 RadarView™ can help 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. The 98-page report also highlights top supply-side trends in the P&C insurance digital services space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
June, 2025
Payroll Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 Market Insights™
The Payroll Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 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 the emerging priorities of payroll professionals.
December, 2025
SAP S/4HANA Services 2022–2023 RadarView™
The SAP S/4HANA Services 2022–2023 RadarView™ helps organizations in defining their approach for SAP S/4HANA adoption and identifying the right implementation partner to support them in their journey. It assesses SAP S/4HANA service providers based on their ability to offer implementation and managed services with limited disruption. The 73-page report also provides our point of view on how SAP S/4HANA service providers cater to enterprises’ changing needs through a wide portfolio of accelerators and preconfigured solutions, thus, delivering a general ranking based on key dimensions of practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation.
February, 2023
Payroll Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Payroll Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for payroll business process transformation by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key payroll business process transformation service providers across practice maturity, domain ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right services partner. The 62-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the payroll space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
November, 2023
The Importance of Demand Management for Expanding Managed Services Scope
Managed service contracts are agreements between a service provider and a client that define the scope, quality, and cost of the services delivered. They are often used to outsource non-core functions, such as IT, to external vendors who can provide more efficiency, expertise, and innovation. However, not all organizations are able to leverage the benefits of managed service contracts to their full potential, especially when they lack proper demand management practices. This article will explore the case of a US-based utility that is attempting to expand the scope of work included in their managed service contracts, but faces challenges due to its funding model and demand management practices.
March, 2025
Navigating Network Transformation with the Convergence of SD-WAN and Security
The adoption of managed SD-WAN services has steadily increased in the past couple of years across geographies and industries, driven by a rise in remote work. SD-WAN managed services outsourcing grew by about 40% from 2021 to 2022. Additionally, the enterprise need for network security, effective application, and user and policy optimization is driving joint SD-WAN and SASE implementations. However, businesses still face challenges, such as migration from existing legacy networks, vendor management, and lack of skilled resources, while implementing SD-WAN. These trends, and others, are covered in Avasant’s SD-WAN Managed Services 2022–2023 RadarView™.
March, 2023
Manufacturing Smart Industry Services: Empowering ER&D Through Digitalization
Engineering and manufacturing enterprises have always had complex IT and OT environments and faced integration challenges. Concerns about security, connectivity, and customization hindered their digitalization efforts. However, due to cost pressures, changing customer demands, and rising product complexity, companies are now actively transforming their processes. This requires digitalizing IT and OT operations and investing in product and software engineering skills. To accelerate their digital transformation, enterprises are engaging with digital engineering service providers, leading to a 15% growth in manufacturing smart industry deals between December 2021 and December 2022. Both demand- and supply-side trends are covered in Avasant’s Manufacturing Smart Industry Services 2023 Market Insights™ and Manufacturing Smart Industry Services 2023 RadarView™, respectively.
May, 2023
How Low Can They Go? IT Capital Budgets Still Declining
It is not a surprise that capital budgets are falling as a percentage of total IT budgets. Cloud and SaaS have been diverting capital spending for quite some time. But what is a surprise is that capital spending continues to fall even though it only makes up 12% of the total IT budgets. IT capital spending will never disappear completely, but just where is the floor? This research byte is a brief description of some of the findings in our IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2023/2024 study.
July, 2023
Oracle Racing to Catch Up with Focus on Generative AI
As Oracle's CloudWorld conference returned to Las Vegas this month, the question on many lips was: Since Oracle appeared to be a bit late to the generative AI party, will its aggressive focus allow it to catch up? It appears to be something of a theme for Oracle, which was famously late to the cloud (see below). Though, to be fair, the software and database giant is responding much more quickly and very aggressively to this scorching hot trend.
September, 2023
Intelligent ITOps Services: Service Providers Elevate ITOps with Generative AI Infusion
Over the past year, growing enterprise focus on unified IT observability, poly-cloud management, and workplace automation has driven increased demand for embedded site reliability engineering, generative AI digital assistants, FinOps-enabled cloud monitoring, and advanced workforce analytics. Consequently, service providers are enhancing their ITOps capabilities with centralized AIOps platforms and dedicated generative AI initiatives. Both demand- and supply-side trends are covered in Avasant’s Intelligent ITOps Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ and Intelligent ITOps Services 2023–2024 RadarView™, respectively.
November, 2023
Rightsizing ERP Support Staffing
Rightsizing the support staff for an ERP system can be difficult. This is because many factors affect the support staffing ratio. These include the type of ERP system, its age, the extent of modification, and the industry sector. Nevertheless, understanding support requirements for ERP systems is vital for IT leaders. This research byte summarizes our full report on ERP support staffing ratios.
January, 2024
Oracle Cloud ERP Services: Accelerating the Adoption of Oracle Cloud ERP Using Automation and AI
Enterprises are migrating to Oracle Cloud ERP to consolidate their business processes, especially following mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures. This facilitates the streamlining of operations across the restructured entity, leading to improved accuracy in financial reporting, enhanced governance capabilities, and increased scalability. The adoption of Oracle Cloud ERP also empowers organizations to attain deeper insights into their customers and operations, enhance operational efficiency, and expedite financial management. In response to the growing demand for the Oracle Cloud ERP system, service providers are actively channeling investments into AI-driven automation solutions, aiming to expedite implementation, optimize service costs, and automate support activities.
February, 2024
BYOD Adoption Stagnates But Security Threats Grow
Bring your own device (BYOD) policies are a sensible approach for many organizations to leverage the convenience and familiarity of personal devices for their employees. These policies proved to be effective when employees worked from home during the pandemic. But BYOD adoption appears to have reached its peak, plateauing over the past five years. This Research Byte is a brief overview of our report on this subject, BYOD Best Practices.
March, 2024
Maximizing Value in Multisourcing Environments with Streamlined Governance
Multisourcing is a strategy that involves outsourcing different services to multiple vendors. However, around 85% of organizations face significant challenges such as ineffective communication and lack of cross-supplier collaboration while executing multisourcing service integration (MSI) services. Service providers take this narrative forward by implementing a comprehensive set of MSI capabilities such as effective risk mitigation strategies, centralized governance, and consistent service level agreements. Additionally, service providers also leverage generative AI for MSI services to streamline workflows, offer data-driven insights, and accelerate process execution.
April, 2024
TiE Board of Trustees Sets Ambitious Agenda for 2024 and Beyond
At the recent TiEcon 2024 conference, the TiE Board of Trustees discussed its ambitious short- and long-term goals, including how TiE — the world’s largest nonprofit focused on fostering entrepreneurship through mentorship, networking, education and funding access — can continue to be the North Star for entrepreneurs.
June, 2024