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Best Practices in Adopting a Shared Services Model
In their endeavors to become high performing organizations, businesses are pushing all innovation frontiers to do more with less and achieve excellence even in these times of curtailed budgets. Shared services is one such definitive innovative model that many organizations have adopted to beat the ever growing challenges of seamless service delivery, consolidation of distributed accountabilities, progressive efficiency improvements, and fiscal pressures.
August, 2013
Blockchain Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Blockchain Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that can help enterprises identify key application areas and use cases and develop a strategy around blockchain adoption. The report also highlights Avasant’s viewpoint on key technology and blockchain-related trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital transformation projects.
December, 2023
Blockchain Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
Avasant’s Blockchain Services 2023–2024 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 service providers who can help companies expedite business transformation by leveraging blockchain. It brings out detailed capability and experience analyses of leading providers to assist enterprises in identifying the right strategic partners. The 67-page report also highlights key industry trends in the blockchain space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
December, 2023
Blockchain Services: Charting the Path to New Opportunities in Blockchain
Over the past two years, enterprise adoption of blockchain services has increased gradually, with more projects moving to the production stage. Financial services lead this trend due to the increased traction for use cases such as cross-border payments and trade finance, P2P transactions, and asset tokenization; however, challenges persist, hindering mass adoption. In addition, the application of blockchain to drive sustainability initiatives has emerged as a new lever to enhance trust and transparency. To tap into emerging use cases and address the developments above, service providers emphasize inorganic expansion and asset development. Both demand- and supply-side trends are covered in Avasant’s Blockchain Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ and Blockchain Services 2023–2024 RadarView™, respectively.
December, 2023
Boosting Banking Through Digitally Enabled Operations
The volatile macroeconomic environment and rising interest rates have put pressure on banks, impacting their liquidity and raising the cost of funding. Rising competition due to neobanks and fintechs that offer personalized products and add-on services have upended customer expectations. Stringent regulatory requirements are driving banks to revamp their processes and operations. Banks seek support from service providers to transform their operations, drive higher margins and process efficiency, and enhance customer experience. This has led to a 23% growth in banking process transformation revenue for service providers in the past 12 months. Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in our Banking Process Transformation 2023 Market Insights™ and Banking Process Transformation 2023 RadarView™, respectively.
May, 2023
Breakthrough Innovation through Digitalization in the Life Sciences Domain
The Life Sciences Digital Services 2024 RadarView™ can help life sciences enterprises craft a robust strategy based on industry outlook, best practices, and digital transformation. The report can also aid them in identifying the right partners and service providers to accelerate their digital transformation in this space. The 86-page report also highlights top market trends in the life sciences industry and Avasant’s viewpoint.
February, 2024
Bring Your Own Device Best Practices 2024
When iOS and Android smartphones were widely available in the late 2000s, bringing your own device for work-related tasks became popular. Employees generally favored their devices over those issued by the company, because it was simpler not to carry two devices. This trend drove companies to develop rules and regulations to control the practice.
March, 2024
Business and Data Analytics Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2024
Enterprises may be entering a new paradigm when it comes to business and data analytics. This may be characterized as the third phase of data usage inside the IT department. First came the use of retrospective data, where data was collected and used to analyze and understand previous performance. Second came predictive analytics, where past data was used to predict the future and make enterprise decisions. Most organizations are still mastering this phase.
December, 2023
Business Continuity Fears Favor Growth in Data Center Outsourcing
As IT organizations try to “get out of the data center business,” companies are turning to service providers to make up the difference. However, the amount of the data center workload that companies are outsourcing has been volatile, with rather large swings over the past few years. Why is this so? The COVID-19 pandemic led to an inflection in data center outsourcing. However, those swings should lessen over the next couple of years with the growth of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and the cloud. In 2023, it is likely that areas where businesses increased their outsourcing in the last three years will return to pre-pandemic levels. This Research Byte discusses the changes in data center outsourcing over the last five years.
July, 2023
Business Continuity Planning Best Practices 2024
In today’s business landscape, virtually every organization relies heavily on information technology. Therefore, restoring information systems in the event of a disaster is an essential element of risk management, not just IT. At the same time, having IT systems recovered without restoring business operations is of little value. As such, a thorough business continuity plan goes beyond IT recovery, ensuring the overall survival of the business amid disruptions and re-establishing key business functions. Effective continuity planning should also address the potential loss of key individuals, disruption of customer or supplier operations, and failure of logistics providers.
March, 2024
Business Continuity Planning Skipping Crucial Steps
Restoring information systems in the event of a disaster is an essential element of risk management, not just IT. But, having IT systems recovered without restoring business operations is of little value. It is equally important to restore key business processes, maintain communication with key stakeholders, and ensure the ability of personnel to work. Business leaders have begun to recognize the importance of business continuity to the enterprise, but consistent implementation appears to be a challenge. This Research Byte summarizes our full report on business continuity planning as a best practice.
March, 2024
Business Process Services – Provider Trends CQ4 2023 and CY 2023
In this quarterly report (calendar quarter 4, 2023) and annual report (calendar year, 2023), Avasant provides key information on trends in the business process services (BPS) space. It covers facts and figures about service providers (including revenue and resource trends), macro trends, and executive sentiment from the service provider community. The geographic coverage is global, with a larger share of data points from North America. The report builds on insights gathered through ongoing market research, data collection, and proprietary databases. It includes market data from providers accessed through multiple sources, such as public disclosures, market interactions, and sourcing data.
April, 2024
Business Process Services — Provider Trends Q3 2023
In this quarterly report (calendar quarter 3, 2023), Avasant provides key information on trends in the business process services (BPS) space. It covers facts and figures about service providers (including revenue and resource trends), macro trends, and executive sentiment from the service provider community. The geographic coverage is global, with a larger share of data points from North America. The report builds on insights gathered through ongoing market research, data collection, and proprietary databases. It includes market data from providers accessed through multiple sources, such as public disclosures, market interactions, and sourcing data.
December, 2023
Business Process Services Pricing and Solution Trends: H1 2023
In this report, Avasant provides key information on pricing and solution trends for the Business Process Services industry from the past 12 months. The report covers various aspects, including market demand and provider solution trends, commercial engagement trends, emerging location trends, and pricing and staffing trends in the space. The geographic coverage is global, with a large share of data points from North America. The report builds on insights gathered through our enterprise interactions, ongoing market research, data collection, and the AvaMark™ Price Benchmarking database.
June, 2023
BYOD Adoption Stagnates But Security Threats Grow
Bring your own device (BYOD) policies are a sensible approach for many organizations to leverage the convenience and familiarity of personal devices for their employees. These policies proved to be effective when employees worked from home during the pandemic. But BYOD adoption appears to have reached its peak, plateauing over the past five years. This Research Byte is a brief overview of our report on this subject, BYOD Best Practices.
March, 2024
Can Amazon Q Be to Business Users and Developers What Q Is to Bond?
Amazon Q, introduced during AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas, is a corporate chatbot designed to automate content search and creation and provide summaries. It aids in handling enterprise knowledge bases and repositories while automating tasks such as ticket filing and case creation using generative AI and natural language processing, among others. This touches a variety of business user personas, including knowledge workers, data and analytics personnel, and call center managers and employees. It helps developers in debugging and enhancing code for improved performance. By automating alterations to source code, it significantly reduces the workload for developers. Although a late entrant, Amazon Q seems up for the challenge.
December, 2023