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Torc Brings a Targeted, Cloud-Native Approach to Tech Talent Acquisition
Torc is a software development talent marketplace that leverages an AI-driven engine to match developers and companies worldwide. It’s a Tech Innovator to watch, the first in a new Avasant series on Tech Innovators.
March, 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
Fortifying Generative AI: Microsoft’s Vigilance on Security, Trust, and Governance
As businesses increasingly experiment with generative AI solutions to streamline their processes, it becomes clear that the risk environment is growing. Since threats change constantly, CIOs and CISOs are realizing more and more that AI and generative AI models need to be trusted with some decision-making to stay up with new threats. In line with this, cloud service providers and managed security service providers have made major investments in large language models for security applications during the past year. In this article, we highlight the efforts of Microsoft, focusing on the Microsoft AI Tour Mumbai event held in January.
February, 2024
Cloud Governance Best Practices 2022
Cloud governance is a set of policies and practices governing an organization’s use of cloud computing to enable new capabilities and optimize cloud cost, scalability, security, compliance, and interoperability. Cloud governance should be top of mind for several organizations because it provides a complete overview of an organization’s cloud resources and how they should be managed. It is not surprising that many organizations see the vital role cloud governance plays in their daily operations, and practice rates are high compared with most best practices in our annual study.
November, 2022
Cloud Platforms 2022 RadarView™
The Cloud Platforms 2022 RadarView™ addresses the need for enterprises to leverage cloud platforms to accelerate their digital journeys, embrace the cloud, and identify the right cloud platform providers to partner with. The 42-page report also provides our point of view on how cloud platform providers cater to enterprises’ changing needs through a wide portfolio of products and services, thus delivering a general ranking based on key dimensions of product maturity, enterprise adaptability, and innovation road map.
October, 2022
Cloud Platform Providers Moving up the Technology Stack
Continuing the trend from recent years, the cloud remains the top spending priority for enterprises, led by cloud applications and cloud infrastructure. The major drivers include cost optimization, the need to provide a reliable infrastructure, and using hybrid models to best handle data storage and compliance. To meet this continued growth, cloud platform providers are enhancing their capabilities to speed the migration of cloud applications and provide value higher up the technology stack. These emerging trends are covered in Avasant’s Cloud Platforms 2022 RadarView™.
October, 2022
From Optimization to Automation: Achieving Greater Business Value in the Cloud
IT has undergone a fundamental and permanent change over the past two years. While enterprises had already embarked on their digital journey, the rapid shift to remote working during the pandemic, and the need for digital channels for customer engagement further propelled the demand for cloud services. For many IT organizations today, any new financial investment is prioritized toward cloud spending. The two main uses of these funds are: investing in cloud infrastructure to leverage advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and the Internet of Things (IoT); and migrating legacy workloads to cloud native or (creating) modernized workloads to enhance digital engagement with customers, accommodate a remote workforce and bring agility into their operations.
September, 2022
Network and Digital Services were Never More Vital
As organizations emerge from the pandemic and adopt flexible hybrid operating models, the reliance on digital technologies has only increased, with mobility at its center point. The cloud, cybersecurity, and network form the foundational pillars to enable organizations to achieve digital transformation, as it requires unfettered access to data across the entire infrastructure. This Research Byte outlines what organizations must rapidly do to manage networks and infrastructure as they make the changes enacted during the pandemic permanent. It builds on findings from the Orange Business Services Analyst Event, held on July 6–7, 2022, and Avasant Research.
September, 2022
AI and Cloud Infrastructure Show Greatest Jump in Investment Priorities in 2022
After a relatively slow burn in recent years, more companies are now embracing artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and projects, as shown in our annual Technology Trends survey. In the survey, AI showed impressive gains in both adoption and investment rates, compared to our survey in 2021. This Research Byte provides a look at the AI adoption and customer experience profile, as well as an overview of our full study, Technology Trends 2022.
April, 2022
Cloud Platforms 2021 RadarView™
The Cloud Platforms 2021 RadarView™ report addresses the need for enterprises to leverage cloud platforms to accelerate their digital journeys, embrace the cloud, and identify the right cloud platform providers to partner with. The 50-page report also provides our point of view on how cloud platform providers are catering to the changing needs of enterprises through a wide portfolio of products and services, thus delivering a general ranking based on key dimensions of product maturity, enterprise adaptability, and innovation road map.
September, 2021
Avasant Digital Forum: Accelerating the Journey to Digital Business Transformation Through SAP
The business world is evolving faster than ever, and companies need to transform to keep pace with their competitors. They need to become intelligent enterprises characterized by agile processes, elastic IT infrastructure and digital technologies.
December, 2021
Long-Term Trends in IT Spending and the Impact of the Cloud
Corporate IT spending varies from year to year as the economy expands and contracts: these are the cyclical trends. But over longer periods, IT spending also changes based on shifts in technology: these are secular trends. What are the secular trends that are currently affecting IT spending, especially those brought about by greatest recent shift in technology: cloud computing? This report examines the 11-year trend in spending for application software, IT personnel, data centers, networking, and other categories, and how cloud computing is changing that mix.
March, 2018
Big Blue bets big on Cloud-First Enterprise
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna’s announcement about a strategic move to spin off their managed infrastructure services business on October 8, 2020 is reverberating across the business and technology landscape. However, keeping the magnitude of the announcement aside, this is in line with IBM’s time-tested modus operandi of divesting slower growth and maturing businesses, such as their exit from the PC business. While this strategic shift is considerably late compared to other players, it is the right move that leverages their Red Hat acquisition to target the fast growing multi-cloud market.
October, 2020
Drawing the Line Between Cloud ERP and Hosted ERP
Traditional ERP vendors are responding to the threat of cloud ERP by offering hosted deployment options for their on-premises systems. How does hosted ERP differ from cloud ERP, and how can a buyer choose between them? This Research Byte is a summary of our full report, The Differences Between Cloud and Hosted ERP and Why They Matter.
January, 2019
Cloud Security in the Post Pandemic World: Securing the Extended Enterprise
The Post-COVID enterprise data management strategies must include a Cloud-centric security envelope that spans across extended work environment in this growing hybrid/multi-cloud world. Securing your Data in this Extended Enterprise is now one of the most critical priorities.
August, 2020