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Optimizing Power Consumption in Data Centers in the age of AI
As companies increasingly repatriate their data centers, optimizing power consumption has become a crucial priority for enterprise buyers. This shift offers opportunities for improved operational efficiency while also presenting challenges related to energy management, sustainability, and resource utilization. The demand for power in data centers, is further augmented by the rising energy needs of high-performance chips. This exponential data growth and increased compute power requirements are further stressing the existing power infrastructure. As the use of large data becomes more widespread, optimizing power within datacenters will become crucial to the enterprise spend and operational efficiency.
October, 2024
Beyond Automation: AI as the Catalyst for Connected Travel and Transport
The travel and transportation industry is at a pivotal moment. As global supply chains grow more complex and customer expectations rise, organizations must evolve beyond traditional models to remain competitive. Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and real-time analytics are no longer emerging technologies—they are essential tools for driving integration across customer experience, operations, and supply chains.
August, 2025
Canada Digital Services 2025–2026 Market Insights™
The Canada Digital Services 2025–2026 Market Insights™ helps organizations identify key demand-side trends that are expected to have a lasting impact on digital projects in Canada. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
November, 2025
Business Process Services Pricing and Solution Trends: H1 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 and 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.
June, 2023
F&A Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 RadarView™
The F&A Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for F&A outsourcing services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses of service providers in this space. It provides a 360-degree view of the service providers across practice maturity, domain ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right F&A outsourcing partner. The 67-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the F&A outsourcing space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
February, 2024
Manufacturing Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Manufacturing 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 manufacturing industry. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
April, 2024
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
The New Role of Data Analysts in an AI-Driven Procurement Landscape
Will AI make procurement data analysts obsolete—or empower them to shape the future? Far from replacing analysts, artificial intelligence (AI) is redefining their role. Today’s analysts are evolving from report generators into AI model orchestrators, data quality stewards, and strategic procurement partners. More than ever, AI is transforming the analyst’s role in procurement. It highlights how automation reshapes workflows, outlines must-have skills for the future, and shows how analysts can drive strategic impact. The key takeaway: AI is a tool that amplifies, not eliminates, the analyst’s value.
August, 2025
Business Process Services – Provider Trends Q3 2025
In this quarterly report for CQ3 2025, Avasant provides key information on trends in the business process services (BPS) space. It covers facts and figures about service providers (including revenue and resource trends), macro trends, and executive sentiment from the service provider community. The geographic coverage is global, with a larger share of data points from North America. The report 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 and market interactions.
December, 2025
Life and Annuities Insurance Digital Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Life and Annuities Insurance Digital Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ can help L&A insurance 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 92-page report also highlights top market trends in the L&A insurance space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
July, 2023
F&A Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The F&A 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 F&A outsourcing project. The report also highlights key challenges enterprises face today while outsourcing F&A processes.
February, 2024
Manufacturing Digital Services 2024 RadarView™
The Manufacturing Digital Services 2024 RadarView™ can help manufacturing 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 102-page report also highlights top market trends in the manufacturing industry and Avasant’s viewpoint.
April, 2024
Digital Commerce Services 2024–2025 Market Insights™
The Digital Commerce Services 2024–2025 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital commerce services project.
December, 2024
Innovation at the Speed of Flight: Pioneering Digital Transformation in Aerospace and Defense
Digital transformation is a critical focus for the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) sector as organizations seek to improve operational efficiency, enhance system integration, and maintain competitiveness in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. With increasing reliance on data-driven systems, automation, and advanced analytics, A&D firms are exploring new ways to modernize processes while ensuring security, compliance, and reliability.
August, 2025
Life and Annuities Insurance Digital Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
This report identifies key demand-side trends in the life and annuities (L&A) insurance space that can help enterprises fine-tune their digital strategies. It also provides an overview of enterprise challenges in this space based on Avasant’s assessment.
July, 2023