Scope of the Report
The report covers the adoption of AI & Advanced Analytics, key drivers, benefits and objectives, developments in AI projects, use cases by types and industries, maturity by industries, the evolution of AI ecosystem, enterprise recommendations & digital acceleration roadmap, hiring and new roles around data science, the convergence of AI with other digital levers, M&A trends, and partnership programs.
It also provides a fact-based detailed assessment of leading 24 service providers enabling AI-led digital transformation for enterprises. The profiles for each of these 24 providers capture their practice (or business unit) overview, flagship assets and IP, key clients, partnerships, capabilities across industries, case studies, and analyst insights on their practice maturity, investments & innovations, and partner ecosystem, thus providing a 360-degree view of service providers.
Why read this RadarView™ ?
The adoption of Applied AI and Advanced Analytics technology is growing across industry value chains to enhance customer engagement and improve operations. Most enterprises are already past the experimentation phase and are actively leveraging AI in specific pockets of their business environments. Avasant’s ongoing interactions with enterprise digital leaders indicate that while there is broad acceptance of implementing AI in specific use cases, enterprises are struggling with scaling it across the organization value chain. There is an enterprise need to identify mature service providers that will partner in their AI journey.
The Applied AI & Advanced Analytics RadarView 2019 report highlights the key market trends and Avasant’s view on the road ahead for enterprises leveraging Applied AI and Advanced Analytics over the next 12 to 18 months. It addresses the need to understand the evolution of AI, the roadmap ahead, and to identify global service providers that best suit their current and future AI needs and plans.
Featured Providers
Accenture, Atos/Syntel, Capgemini, Cognizant, CssCorp, Dxc.technology, EXL, Genpact, Happiestminds, HCL, IBM, Infosys, ITC Infotech, LTI, Mindtree, Mphasis, NTT, Persistent, TCS, TechMahindra, Virtusa, Wipro, WNS, and Zensar.
Methodology
The industry insights and recommendations are based on Avasant’s ongoing interactions with enterprise CXOs and other key executives, targetted discussions with service providers’ practice leads, subject matter experts, and fellows within Avasant, learnings from consulting engagements, and round the year tracking of this space by Avasant analysts.
Evaluation of service providers is based on primary inputs from providers, focussed briefings, their public disclosures, Avasant’s ongoing market interactions, and validations from enterprises (clients). The assessment is carried through a rigorous methodology across key dimensions of Practice Maturity, Partner Ecosystem, and Investments and Innovation to finally recognize the service providers that brought the most value to the market over the last 12 months.
