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Growth of Internet of Things Ties to Sustainability
Global instability brought on by supply chain disruptions, global pandemics, and international conflict have been a catalyst for enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) adoption, with a 24% year-over-year (YOY) increase in number of IoT projects. Integration of IoT and 5G accelerated use cases including smart cities, smart buildings, intelligent workplaces, and other sustainability projects. However, despite the growth in adoption, security gaps in IoT environments have left many organizations vulnerable to new cybersecurity threats. These trends, and others, are covered in our Internet of Things Services 2022 RadarView™.
April, 2022
The New Technology Imperative: ESG Takes Center Stage
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) represents three critical aspects for analyzing a business’s performance in terms of its environmental sustainability and societal impact. Avasant has put forward its point of view (POV) on why it is imperative for enterprises to incorporate sustainability in their business operations and how technological implementations will empower them. Avasant’s ESG calendar covers ongoing trends in the ESG space and investigates ESG solutions and offerings afforded by service and technology providers. Our POV also offers a benchmarking index to evaluate the performance of service providers in meeting their ESG goals.
February, 2022
SD-WAN a Pillar for Business and Digital Transformation
The network serves as the backbone for the success of any digital transformation strategy. Incorporating SD-WAN as part of an organization’s digital strategy will improve the agility and flexibility of the network. But despite these benefits, adoption and investment levels for SD-WAN are low. On the other hand, early adopters are experiencing high ROI and TCO success rates. This Research Byte summarizes our full report, SD-WAN Adoption Trends and Customer Experience.
February, 2022
HR Outsourcing Service Providers Rising to Meet New Demands for Digital Transformation
The HR function is evolving to meet the challenges of the labor market, which is increasingly being disrupted by labor shortages, pressure on wages, and the changing expectation of employees working from home. To address these challenges, enterprises are increasingly relying on service providers for flexible HR operations and digital transformation. This has led to a seven percent growth in HR outsourcing adoption between June 2020 and June 2021. Additionally, platform adoption continues to be at the core of HR transformation as enterprises extend their HCM systems or implement new ones. These trends, and others, are covered in our new Global Hire-to-Retire Business Process Transformation 2021-22 RadarView™.
December, 2021
Blockchain Services 2021–2022 RadarView™
The Blockchain Services 2021– 2022 RadarView™ provides information to assist enterprises in identifying key application areas and use cases and developing a strategy around blockchain adoption. It helps organizations in charting out an action plan to drive blockchain initiatives. The report identifies key blockchain service providers who can help companies expedite business transformation leveraging blockchain. It brings out detailed capability and experience analyses of leading providers to assist enterprises in identifying the right strategic partners. The 73-page report also highlights key industry trends in the blockchain space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
December, 2021
Workday HCM Services 2021–2022 RadarView™
The Workday HCM Services 2021–2022 RadarView™ helps enterprises define their approach for Workday HCM adoption and identify the right implementation partner to support them in their journey. It assesses Workday service providers based on their ability to offer implementation and managed services with limited disruption. The 58-page report also provides our point of view on how Workday service providers are catering to the changing needs of enterprises through a wide portfolio of accelerators and preconfigured solutions, thus delivering a general ranking based on key dimensions of practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investment and innovation.
December, 2021
Workday Increasingly Relying on Partners to Provide HCM Implementation and Managed Services
Over the past decade, Workday has shown strong growth in its cloud-based suite for human capital management (HCM), especially among large enterprises. Now to continue its pace of growth, Workday expands its focus to include midsized organizations and also customers outside North America. To execute this strategy, it is increasingly relying on implementation and managed services providers to reach these prospective buyers. This RadarView provides an analysis of the service providers that are working in partnership with Workday to carry out this strategy.
December, 2021
Oracle Cloud ERP Services 2021–2022 RadarView™
The Oracle Cloud ERP Services 2021–2022 RadarView™ helps enterprises define their approach for Oracle Cloud ERP adoption and identify the right implementation partner to support them in their journey. It assesses implementation services providers based on their ability to offer services with limited disruption. The 75-page report also provides our point of view on how Oracle Cloud ERP implementation service providers are catering to the changing needs of enterprises through a multitude of customized frameworks, proprietary tools, and platforms, thus delivering a general ranking based on key dimensions of practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investment and innovation.
December, 2021
Service Providers Facilitating the Jump from Legacy Systems to Oracle Cloud ERP
Over the past two years, enterprises have accelerated their adoption of Oracle Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), in many cases to replace older, highly customized ERP systems. The unified platform provided by Oracle Cloud ERP is an integrated environment that helps optimize business processes, improves process visibility, and is better able to handle increasing customer demand.
December, 2021
Beefed-Up HCM Systems Helping Companies Address HR Talent Gap
Business leaders recognize that success depends on recruiting and retaining the best people. But, this puts increasing pressure on HR personnel, who are already stretched with the day-to-day demands of routine HR processes and compliance activities. One solution is cloud-based and AI-enabled HCM systems to help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of HR personnel. This Research Byte summarizes the full report, HCM Adoption Trends and Customer Experience.
November, 2021
HCM Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2021
Human capital management (HCM) systems are becoming increasingly essential as business leaders recognize that success depends on recruiting and retaining the best people. But while the adoption rate for HCM systems is high, there are challenges in deploying them. This report quantifies the current adoption and investment trends for HCM technology as well as the benefits driving companies to expand their HCM implementations. We assess these trends by organization size, sector, and geography as well as the ROI and TCO experiences of adopters. We conclude with practical advice for planning new investments in HCM systems.
November, 2021
Compliance Requirements Driving the Move to Government Clouds
The dramatic shift towards smart cities and a new digital economy is increasing the need for governments to upgrade their IT infrastructure. Cloud environments are the best way to ensure government systems are highly available and data is securely accessible. But until recently, cloud was not always an option for government entities due to strict compliance requirements. Now providers are catering to this need by setting up government clouds—sovereign data centers to employ local workers in the countries they intend to serve.
November, 2021
Government Cloud Platforms 2021–2022 RadarView™
The Government Cloud Platforms 2021–2022 RadarView™ addresses the need for government departments and agencies to leverage cloud platforms to accelerate their digital journeys, embrace the cloud, and identify the right cloud platform providers to partner with. The 33-page report also provides our point of view on how government cloud platform providers are catering to the changing needs of public sector agencies through a wide portfolio of products and services. Avasant delivers a general ranking for these providers based on the key dimensions of product maturity, enterprise adaptability, and future readiness.
November, 2021
CRM Necessary but Messy
Customer relationship management systems are one of the most widely adopted categories of enterprise applications. But investing in a new CRM can be a messy business. As a core system, a CRM needs to interact with data across the entire business. Business processes should change to match the new capabilities. Hidden or unexpected costs can quickly add up, and missteps can result in a major setback, or worse, project failure. This Research Byte summarizes our full report on CRM Adoption Trends and Customer Experience.
September, 2021
Digital CX and CRM Services 2021-2022 RadarView™
The Digital CX and CRM Services 2021-2022 RadarView™ provides information to assist enterprises in building digital customer experience (CX) and customer relationship management (CRM) strategies, charting out an action plan for CX transformation. It identifies key global service providers and system integrators that can help expedite a customer’s CX transformation journey. It also brings out detailed capability and experience analyses of leading providers to assist enterprises in identifying the right strategic partners. The 80-page report also highlights key industry trends in the digital CX and CRM space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
October, 2021