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Generative AI Idea to Action: Execution Strategies for Enterprises and Service Providers
This report examines the recent developments in the generative AI field following the introduction of ChatGPT, outlining essential strategies for businesses and service providers to optimize their gains. It delves into the tangible benefits generative AI offers to enterprises and providers, highlighting its transformative impact on outsourcing agreements. This includes novel pricing models and productivity enhancements in IT and BPO services. Furthermore, the report identifies potential opportunities for service providers tailored to the specific needs of enterprises.
September, 2023
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Contact Center Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Contact Center 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 contact center services project. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
January, 2024
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Cybersecurity Services 2024 RadarView™
The Cybersecurity Services 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for cybersecurity services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key cybersecurity services providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right cybersecurity services partner. The 83-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the cybersecurity space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
May, 2024
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Generative AI Gold Rush: Mitigating the Risks
While generative AI has captured widespread attention, its uptake has been relatively sluggish due to the pressing concerns surrounding intellectual property rights, data privacy, ethical biases, hallucinations, and environmental vulnerabilities. This whitepaper delves into the imperative enterprise strategy of deploying generative AI with comprehensive safeguards. It also highlights the endeavors of technology companies and governments to establish robust guardrails for generative AI, thus enabling responsible and secure integration. By proactively addressing these critical challenges, organizations can effectively harness the power of generative AI while mitigating its potential risks.
September, 2023
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Finding the Synergy Between AI Capabilities and Human Agents to Enhance Customer Experience
Enterprises are strategically aligning their priorities to emphasize customer experience while concurrently optimizing costs. This approach has fueled the surge in nearshore outsourcing, underpinned by considerations such as data security, cultural alignment, and the imperative for swifter response times. The increased usage of digital channels, coupled with the integration of generative AI and cloud-based solutions, signifies a paradigm shift in the contact center outsourcing landscape. This technology integration is poised to drive the growth of contact center services as organizations increasingly seek tailored solutions by leveraging data-driven insights to navigate the intricate dynamics of the contemporary business environment. Demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in our Contact Center Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 Market Insights™ and Contact Center Business Process Transformation 2023–2024 RadarView™, respectively.
January, 2024
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Generative AI Platforms Q2 2024 RadarView™
The Generative AI Platforms Q2 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for Gen AI platforms by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for platform providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key Gen AI platform providers across the dimensions of product maturity and market adaptability, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right platform partners. The 34-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the Gen AI space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
June, 2024
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Generative AI: A Catalyst for Transforming the Manufacturing Industry
Generative AI is reshaping the future of AI and gaining momentum across various industries, including manufacturing. This whitepaper explores the use cases and enterprise applications of generative AI to utilize previously unexplored data sets and address industry challenges. It also highlights five key areas where generative AI is gaining traction within the manufacturing sector, such as accelerating product design, optimizing production processes, and so on. Finally, it discusses implementation challenges that hinder manufacturing enterprises from adopting generative AI at scale. By proactively investing in the right resources and addressing challenges, manufacturers can accelerate generative AI adoption while mitigating its potential risks.
September, 2023
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Responsible AI Platforms 2024 RadarView™
The Responsible AI Platforms 2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for responsible AI platforms by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key applied AI service providers across the dimensions of product maturity, enterprise adaptability, and future readiness, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right service partners. The 30-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the applied AI space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
June, 2024
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Intelligent Automation Services: Intuitive Automation for Real-Time Decision-Making
Enterprises face challenges in extracting, organizing, and processing high volumes of unstructured data. However, the advancements in AI have significantly expanded the scope of automation by providing new capabilities such as deep learning and generative AI to automate complex, data-driven tasks with high accuracy. Cognitive bots can now process unstructured data, recognize patterns, and make more informed decisions regarding workflows previously considered too complex for automation. By leveraging automation technologies such as RPA, ML, process mining, and AI, organizations can unlock new levels of productivity, innovation, and growth for increasing customer satisfaction and revenue, and gaining a competitive advantage. These trends, and others, are covered in Avasant’s Intelligent Automation Services 2022–2023 RadarView™.
March, 2023
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Data and Cloud: The Silent Soldiers of the Gen AI Revolution
Generative AI is the talk of the town and there is a lot of hyperbole about its capabilities and use cases. However, the true value will be derived by organizations that are able to build the right data and cloud environments that can enable Gen AI applications. In this research byte, we explore the actual maturity of generative AI and what its foundational elements are. We also discuss how service providers need to focus on building services and offerings for helping their customers build the data and cloud environments required to derive Gen AI value. We highlight the efforts of one such service provider, Infosys, based on its recent annual conference, Americas Confluence 2023, held in September.
October, 2023
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AWS Bets on Model Flexibility and Hardware Efficiency for a Distinctive Generative AI Advantage
Major hyperscalers, including Microsoft, Google, and AWS, have embraced generative AI, offering foundation models and proprietary software and hardware accelerators. However, as the generative AI landscape continues to evolve, establishing a unique selling proposition has become challenging. Customers, too, are facing a dilemma in choosing generative AI vendors. AWS stands out strategically in this landscape where differentiation is becoming increasingly elusive, offering Amazon Bedrock’s extensive flexibility in model selection and making substantial investments in purpose-specific AI hardware such as AWS Trainium and AWS Graviton.
February, 2024
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Artificial Intelligence a Major Focus of Empowering Beyond Summit
Generative AI has caught everyone’s imagination as ChatGPT became the fastest adopted technology in history. In light of this, artificial intelligence will be one of the focuses of Avasant’s Empowering Beyond Summit 2023 (EBS23), which will feature inspiring keynotes, interactive panels, innovative demos, and more.
April, 2023