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Human Capital Management Suite Adoption Surges Under COVID-19
COVID-19 has brought focus back on collaboration, automation, and security, however this time it centers around employee engagement and customer experience. Owing to the pandemic, there is sudden change in people’s habits and preferences, specifically the way they operate and interact as they embrace work-from-home culture. Progressive enterprises are adopting a “cloud-first” strategy and looking for newer digital ways of working and serving their customers. Zensar, being cognizant of this trend, has already identified and laid out a digital enterprise priority, hinged around enabling experience, business agility, and automation.
October, 2020
Employee Centricity and Customer Experience Takes The Forefront
COVID-19 has brought focus back on collaboration, automation, and security, however this time it centers around employee engagement and customer experience. Owing to the pandemic, there is sudden change in people’s habits and preferences, specifically the way they operate and interact as they embrace work-from-home culture. Progressive enterprises are adopting a “cloud-first” strategy and looking for newer digital ways of working and serving their customers. Zensar, being cognizant of this trend, has already identified and laid out a digital enterprise priority, hinged around enabling experience, business agility, and automation.
October, 2020
Business Continuity under a Pandemic Scenario
Pandemics are fundamentally different from the disasters commonly envisioned in disaster recovery and business continuity plans. The most recent threat of the Wuhan coronavirus highlights the fact that most organizations are not prepared for a pandemic scenario. This updated report outlines the specific ways in which pandemics are different from other types of disasters. It suggests three planning scenarios, and it outlines specific actions that IT risk managers should consider to prepare for them. If adequately prepared, the IT group will be able to continue to support critical business functions, and it can provide solutions to help the organization get through a pandemic.
February, 2020
How to Evaluate IT Procurement Contracts
This report serves as a primer on IT procurement contracts. Our focus is primarily on contracts for IT services, though the principles apply to any type of IT procurement. We explain the typical elements of an IT procurement contract and the major types of contracts, including various types of fixed-price and cost-reimbursable agreements.
November, 2008
Two-Factor Authentication Adoption and Best Practices 2020
Two-factor authentication is an IT security best practice that provides an extra layer of protection for system access. It is a highly advisable security measure, but our annual survey of IT management best practices shows that not enough companies use it formally and consistently. This report begins with a brief explanation of two-factor authentication.
February, 2020
Human Capital Management Suites 2020 RadarView™
The Human Capital Management Suite 2020 RadarView™ report addresses the need of enterprises to identify the right solution to enhance their HR function. It also brings out detailed capability and experience analyses of leading vendors to assist enterprises in identifying strategic partners for their HR transformation journeys. The 48-page report also highlights the key adoption and product evolution trends in the HCM suites space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
October, 2020
Enterprise Security Orchestration Platforms – Gravitating Towards AI-Enabled Tools and Contextual Indicators
The traditional enterprise security platform is evolving.They now incorporate more capabilities into a single enterprise SOAR (security orchestration, automation, and response) platform. The SOAR value proposition has become more evident during the COVID-19 pandemic, because organizations require multi-functional capabilities to secure themselves against new threats.These tools help solve security challenges resulting from a distributed workforce, more BYOD devices, and cloud solutions. This Research Byte summarizes our full RadarView report on the subject.
October, 2020
Manufacturers Accelerating Digital Adoption
Historically, manufacturing has been highly dependent on the human workforce and a little conservative in adopting advanced digital technologies such as robots, immersive reality, and IIoT to replace the human intervention. However, this changed drastically when manufacturing companies reported losses due to workforce shortages during pandemic, as they started relying on AR/ VR based solutions for remote assistance and training, bots for technical assistance on shop floor, IoT for reducing onboarding time and simplifying reskilling, and AI-based visual inspection to detect defects. The investments on real-time monitoring and AR/VR-based remote assistance could help manufacturers realize 11% productivity gains through reduction of human intervention. These trends are covered in Avasant’s new Manufacturing Digital Services 2020-2021 RadarView™ report.
December, 2020
Organizational Change Management Adoption and Best Practices 2019
New system projects often fail, not because of problems with the technology but because the new systems are not fully embraced by the workforce. Fortunately, there are formal methodologies that business and IT leaders can apply to establish and carry out an organizational change management program. In this report, we look at adoption trends and maturity of organizational change management by organization size and sector.
March, 2019