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Cybersecurity Services 2023 RadarView™
The Cybersecurity Services 2023 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.
June, 2023
Cybersecurity Services: Shifting from Horizontal to Industry Vertical-Specific Approach
As cyber threats rise, organizations continue to secure their hybrid environments by refreshing, enabling, and standardizing security controls deployment to address trends emerging around cloudification, Industry 4.0, the convergence of 5G, and software-defined networking. This has fundamentally shifted how cybersecurity services are viewed from a general-use horizontal solution to industry vertical-specific offerings. Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in our Cybersecurity Services 2023 Market Insights™ and Cybersecurity Services 2023 RadarView™, respectively.
June, 2023
Dare to Compare: Getting Value from IT Spending Benchmarks
Benchmarking is the key to measuring an organization’s IT budget against industry peers. Whether the goal is to compare the organization’s IT spending levels, defend current spending levels, justify new spending requests, or find opportunities for cost reduction, benchmarking is an effective way for IT executives to optimize their IT budgets and better focus their efforts to achieve a state of continuous improvement. This Research Byte summarizes the full report, Best Practices for Benchmarking Your IT Budget Ratios.
December, 2023
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
Data Center Managed Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Data Center Managed Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any data center management projects. The report also highlights key data center management challenges that enterprises face today.
November, 2023
Data Center Managed Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Data Center Managed Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for data center managed services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key data center managed service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right services partner. The 68-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the data center managed services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
November, 2023
Data Center Managed Services: Revolutionizing Data Center Operations with Generative AI
Managing a data center involves a complex interplay of hardware, software, security, and scalability considerations, presenting challenges that organizations may struggle to address internally. Service providers harness AI and predictive algorithms to anticipate potential issues, enabling proactive maintenance and minimizing downtime. Generative AI takes this narrative forward and empowers organizations in resource optimization and allocation by predicting workloads and dynamically adjusting the resource provisioning on demand, enabling efficient data center management. Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in Avasant’s Data Center Managed Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ and Data Center Managed Services 2023–2024 RadarView™, respectively.
November, 2023
Data Center Operations Outsourcing Trends and Customer Experience 2023
As data centers become larger, more automated, virtualized, and complex, service providers can leverage expertise and economies of scale to provide attractive alternatives to on-premises data centers. On the other hand, turning over data center operations to a service provider or moving applications to a hosting site can entail risk. Making the choice to outsource data center operations can reduce the infrastructure budget, but when managed incorrectly the outcome can be adverse.
July, 2023
Data Management and Advanced Analytics Services 2023 Market Insights™
The Data Management and Advanced Analytics Services 2023 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any data management and advanced analytics projects. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
October, 2023
Data Management and Advanced Analytics Services 2023 RadarView™
The Data Management and Advanced Analytics Services 2023 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for data management and advanced analytics by offering detailed capability and experience analyses of service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key data management and advanced analytics service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right data management and advanced analytics services partner. The 58-page report also highlights top market trends in the data management and advanced analytics space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
October, 2023
Data Management and Advanced Analytics Services: Providers Pivot toward Data Visualization and Monetization
While not a new field, data transformation projects have experienced significant growth over the past 12 to 18 months. This surge is in response to evolving business needs influenced by the proliferation of data and technological advancements, including streaming analytics and edge computing. These initiatives aim to achieve hyper-personalization, enhance internal data accessibility, increase customer engagement, and extract valuable insights from unstructured datasets. In turn, these efforts drive growth and innovation within organizations. Both demand- and supply-side trends are covered in Avasant’s Data Management and Advanced Analytics Services 2023 Market Insights™ and Data Management and Advanced Analytics Services 2023 RadarView™, respectively.
October, 2023
Data Management and Analytics Spike Likely Unsustainable
With the amount of data that IT organizations need to manage growing with no end in sight, it is surprising that the data management and analytics function has decreased this year. This Research Byte examines the reasons for the declining trend and provides a summary of our full report on data management staffing ratios.
July, 2023
Data Management and Analytics Staffing Ratios 2023
The amount of data that IT organizations need to manage is growing with no end in sight. Whether it be sensor data from IoT devices, social networking data, online advertising and e-commerce transactions, or multimedia files, the complexity of the data to be analyzed also is increasing. With the continued growth of data and its importance in the day-to-day activities of organizations, it is surprising that the data management and analytics function has decreased this year. After significant growth over previous years, this staffing ratio has declined to 5.5% in 2023 from 5.9% in 2022.
July, 2023
DeFi Asset Tokenization – Tokenization Drives Efficiency to Influence the Role of Regulated Markets
The whitepaper explores how multiple forces, including macroeconomic factors and technological shifts, are shaping the future of financial services and how DeFi asset tokenization helps address the current challenges. It covers aspects such as disruptive forces shaping the future of financial services, the need for cost transformation, tokenization’s role in addressing the current challenges in regulated financial markets, tokenization’s benefits across the capital markets value chain, and the role of service providers. It offers insights into what can be defined as a potential digital asset class and the unique advantages offered through DeFi asset tokenization for those asset classes.
September, 2023
Desktop Support Staffing Is a Balancing Act
The desktop support function has gone through significant disruption in recent years. Digital workplace technologies and the need to secure employee-owned equipment have put a strain on this function. At the same time, automation and other influences have made desktop support more efficient, and staff less necessary. This Research Byte explores some reasons for this trend.
February, 2024
Desktop Support Staffing Ratios 2024
The desktop support function has gone through significant disruption in recent years. The COVID-19 lockdowns and the sudden shift to remote work, combined with the recent return to the office has seismically shifted the location and value of the desktop. Digital workplace technologies and the need to secure employee-owned equipment has put a strain on this function. At the same time, however, automation and other influences have made desktop support more efficient. It is always hard to right-size any IT staff function, but desktop support may be harder than normal at this time.
February, 2024