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Life Sciences Digital Services 2024 RadarView™
The Life Sciences Digital Services 2024 RadarView™ can help life sciences 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 86-page report also highlights top market trends in the life sciences industry and Avasant’s viewpoint.
February, 2024
Leveraging Generative AI to Enhance Developer Productivity
This research byte sheds light on how service providers and enterprises can leverage generative AI to enhance developer productivity. By harnessing the power of generative AI, developers can accelerate software development, convert between coding languages, improve code quality and documentation, build innovative solutions, and streamline workflows, thus enhancing their productivity.
October, 2023
Nividous: Unlocking the Potential of Intelligent Automation
Traditional RPA systems are at a crossroads. They are too often siloed and difficult to manage. Nividous Software Solutions is an example of a company that is unlocking the potential of RPA with its comprehensive, integrated, and scalable business automation platform—a practical approach to implementing intelligent automation.
October, 2023
Empowering Beyond Preview: The Virtuous Cycle of Sustainability and Innovation
Although the Industrial Revolution brought economic growth and lifted people out of poverty, it also came with a price to the environment. Pollution and climate change are creating challenges for enterprises. But with a bit of imagination and leadership, today’s digital technologies can solve this problem. This topic and many more will be discussed at the Empowering Beyond Summit.
April, 2023
IoT Shows Little Growth in Adoption Despite High ROI
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a maturing technology, and for many years it has promised benefits such as reduced labor costs and improved business processes. However, our data is showing a trend that is common with other technologies as they mature. The adoption and investment of IoT projects have remained low. In fact, IoT appears to lag most technologies. This Research Byte examines the potential causes.
June, 2023
Application Modernization Services: Gaining competitive advantage by modernizing applications
Enterprises are compelled to modernize applications due to the evolving digital landscape’s demands for enhanced agility, user experiences, and competitiveness. Legacy systems often hinder innovation and lack the ability to harness data-driven insights. Service providers are pivotal in aiding businesses to achieve their application modernization goals. They offer expert assessments, strategy formulation, and technology selection, ensuring seamless migration, integration, security, and compliance. Service providers also facilitate thorough testing, training, and ongoing support, enabling enterprises to transition smoothly to modernized applications while aligning with business needs and driving transformative digital shifts. Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in Avasant’s Application Modernization Services 2023 Market Insights™ and Application Modernization Services 2023 RadarView™, respectively.
August, 2023
Hybrid Approaches to Cloud Infrastructure More Desirable
The need for agility continues to drive investment in IaaS, and the global pandemic and subsequent supply chain disruptions have only increased this trend. Cloud infrastructure makes it easier for companies to respond to fluctuations in demand, changes in business requirements, and the need to optimize costs over time. However, as companies embrace more cloud, it can lead to complexity and a need to pay closer attention to total costs. This has led companies to reevaluate their hybrid and multicloud deployments to focus on efficiency and lower operational costs while still pursuing growth.
October, 2023
Maneuvering Turbulent Times with AI-driven IT Services and Operations
In the current challenging economic environment, leading IT services providers are focusing on innovation, adaptation, and AI to ensure their future success. With the advent of generative AI, global IT services companies are investing in upskilling and reskilling the workforce and sharpening their focus by leveraging cloud and AI solutions to enhance service efficiencies. Some providers are investing heavily in AI research and development and focusing on platform-based operations to help enterprises reduce costs, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation. We highlight the efforts of one such service provider, TCS, focusing on the TCS Analyst Day 2023 event held in October.
December, 2023
Transforming Legacy Construction Processes Using Digital Technology
In the face of challenges such as cost pressures, climate compliance needs, labor shortages, and supply chain disruptions, the engineering and construction industry is aggressively pouring digital investments and adopting cutting-edge technologies — generative AI, advanced analytics, digital twin, and virtual reality — to address these challenges. Leveraging connected construction platforms, project management solutions, drone-based inspections, and modular construction, they aim to enhance project efficiency, reduce costs, and prioritize worker safety and technology usability. As this requires strong technological expertise and delivery capabilities, engineering and construction enterprises are collaborating with service providers for digital transformation. Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in our Engineering and Construction Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™ and Engineering and Construction Digital Services 2024 RadarView™, respectively.
January, 2024
Changing Nature of QA Role Makes Right-Sizing Difficult
The traditional IT position dedicated exclusively to quality assurance and testing (QA) is most likely a dying breed. With waterfall software development being replaced by iterative approaches such as agile, QA is getting rolled into other job positions. This Research Byte examines the reasons for the trend and provides a summary of our full report on IT Quality Assurance and Testing Staffing Ratios.
February, 2024
Inadequate Encryption Might Be a Recipe for Disaster
Each year, hundreds of millions of sensitive personal records are exposed by hackers and cybercriminals. Encryption is an essential security control and part of a company’s security policies and procedures. Yet, despite high practice rates, few IT leaders encrypt their data consistently. This Research Byte summarizes our full report, Encryption Best Practices.
March, 2024
IT Security Outsourcing Trends and Customer Experience 2023
IT security is a major focus for IT leaders that continues to grow in importance. The threat landscape is evolving with increased reliance on the cloud, greater diversity in the IT service portfolio, more employees working from home, and a more burdensome regulatory environment.
November, 2023
Virtual and Augmented Reality Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2024
Businesses are currently in the early stages of adopting virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/AR) solutions. While widespread adoption of VR/AR has not yet fully materialized, businesses are actively experimenting with these technologies.
February, 2024
Website Accessibility Best Practices 2024
Website accessibility means building and maintaining websites that anyone can use comfortably and effectively.
February, 2024
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2023/2024: Chapter 12: Professional and Technical Services Sector Benchmarks
Chapter 12 provides benchmarks for professional and technical services organizations. The 48 respondents in the sample range in size from a minimum of about $50 million to about $40 billion in annual revenue. The sector includes firms that provide professional and technical services, including engineering, legal, accounting, financial advice, consulting, marketing, research, and other services.
July, 2023