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Higher Education Digital Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Higher Education Digital Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ helps higher education institutes craft a robust business 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 the higher education space. In addition, the 49-page report highlights top market trends in the higher education space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
July, 2023
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Trust and Safety Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Trust and Safety 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 trust and safety services project. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
November, 2023
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Intelligent Automation Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Intelligent Automation Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for IA services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key IA service providers across the dimensions of practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right services partner. The 70-page report highlights top supply-side trends in IA space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
February, 2024
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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
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Automation to Autonomy: How Synchronous AI Agents are Shaping the Future of Business Operations
Over the last three decades, automation has evolved from back-office to middle-office and now front-office tasks, with each step driven by advancements in AI. We now stand on the threshold of a new era: synchronous AI agents. These specialized agents can independently manage end-to-end execution of complex processes, limiting human involvement to governance and key approvals. The automation fabrics of the future will likely combine RPA, AI copilots, and synchronous AI agents, coexisting and complementing each other. This research byte explores the industry’s shift toward synchronous AI agents, the changing market landscape, and key enterprise considerations for adopting this transformative technology.
November, 2024
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Content Trust and Safety Business Process Transformation 2024–2025 Market Insights™
The Content Trust and Safety Business Process Transformation 2024–2025 Market Insights assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any content moderation project. The report also highlights the evolution of content trust and safety functions with the integration of emerging technologies such as AI.
January, 2025
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Higher Education Digital Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Higher Education Digital Services 2023–2024 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 higher education space. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
July, 2023
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AI for Profit: How Generative AI is Reshaping Revenue Strategies
Most enterprises are leveraging generative AI for its exponential productivity gains across departments such as marketing, operations, and IT and for better alignment with user expectations. However, some innovative enterprises have initiated the use of generative AI to unlock new monetization prospects, allowing companies to strategically boost revenue streams and profitability. Enterprises across sectors such as high-tech, telecom, banking, and healthcare are leading the charge by introducing generative AI-powered solutions and services or adding new features as a service with a focus on policy, people, and partnerships. This, in turn, is driving other organizations to seek similar monetization opportunities.
December, 2023
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Intelligent Automation Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Intelligent Automation Services 2023–2024 Market Insights assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on their IA projects. The report also highlights the key challenges enterprises face today in this space.
February, 2024
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GPT-4o: The Next Frontier of Generative AI
Since its inception in 2015, OpenAI has led the innovation in large language models, setting new AI standards with its GPT series. However, recent competition from Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Mistral introduced Gen AI models surpassing OpenAI in response speed, multilingual understanding, and multimodal processing. While OpenAI had these capabilities individually, they were scattered across multiple models. The launch of GPT-4o finally unified these features, delivering a comprehensive solution that harnesses the full spectrum of Gen AI capabilities.
May, 2024
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Multicloud and AI: Enabling Intelligent Workflows across Diverse Cloud Environments
Enterprises are adopting multicloud environments and AI-driven automation to enhance operational efficiency and flexibility. As multicloud adoption grows, challenges such as cost inefficiencies, migration complexities, and integration issues persist. Addressing these challenges, Oracle announced at Oracle CloudWorld 2024 the integration of its Exadata database with AWS, enabling seamless multicloud connectivity, improved latency, and optimized costs. Oracle also introduced over 50 role-based AI agents in its Fusion Cloud Applications Suite to automate repetitive tasks using AI capabilities that adapt to changes and improve over time. These initiatives align with industry efforts by SAP, Microsoft, and Workday in leveraging generative AI to streamline sales, service, finance, and supply chain management functions.
November, 2024
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The Open-Source Gambit: Did DeepSeek Ignite an AI Arms Race?
On January 20, 2025, DeepSeek stunned the industry with the release of DeepSeek-R1, an open-source, cost-efficient AI model that rivaled OpenAI’s GPT-4 on multiple benchmarks. DeepSeek did not just disrupt the AI industry; it sparked a geopolitical AI arms race. The battle for AI sovereignty has begun. While multiple governments have banned DeepSeek over data security concerns, its impact on AI’s trajectory is definite. Just as Sputnik’s launch in 1957 ignited the space race, DeepSeek has triggered a reckoning in AI strategy, forcing the world to reconsider the balance between accessibility, security, and sovereignty.
February, 2025
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Rethinking Customer Experience in Uncertain Times
Over the past 12–18 months, customer-facing functions, enterprise applications, and processes have changed tremendously. There has been an uptake in digital channels, direct-to-consumer commerce, omnichannel digital communications, and SaaS-based application services. The period has also witnessed a rise in preference for data and AI-driven, personalized, and automated experiences. This Research Byte showcases how customers’ quest for enhanced personalization and seamless experiences has increased the demand for SaaS-based solutions for addressing industry-specific business needs and how service providers are facilitating this transformation in North America. We highlight the efforts of one such service provider, TCS, based on its recent analyst day in June 2023.
July, 2023
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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
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IT and Apps Managed Services Provider Trends: Quarterly Report for Q4 2023
In this quarterly report (calendar quarter 4, 2023), Avasant provides key information on IT and apps managed services provider trends. The report covers key information on the IT services industry and the provider ecosystem. It covers the service provider facts and figures (including revenue and resource trends), macro trends, and executive sentiment from the service provider community. The report covers trends across a gamut of IT services, including but not limited to IT infrastructure, application, and end-user services. The geographic coverage for the report is global. It 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, market interactions, and deals data.
February, 2024
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