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Media and Entertainment Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Media and Entertainment Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital project in the media and entertainment industry. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
October, 2024
Media and Entertainment Digital Services 2024 RadarView™
The Media and Entertainment Digital Services 2024 RadarView™ helps media and entertainment 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 830-page report also highlights top market trends in the media and entertainment space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
October, 2024
Media and Entertainment Digital Services: Leveraging Digital Technology to Drive Innovation and Bolster Customer Experience
To adapt to evolving customer demands, media and entertainment (M&E) firms are investing in digital technologies to provide personalized and immersive content to users and enhance the customer experience. In addition, regulatory requirements and customer preference for climate-conscious firms are compelling M&E enterprises to embrace ESG as a fundamental way of doing business. As a result, M&E companies are utilizing emerging technologies to offer low-latency immersive content and enhance customer experience while mitigating churn. Both demand- and supply-side trends are covered in Avasant’s Media and Entertainment Digital Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ and Media and Entertainment Digital Services 2023–2024 RadarView™, respectively.
June, 2023
Mergers and Acquisitions in the Caribbean: Unlocking Growth Through Strategic Integration
Caribbean enterprises cannot afford to view M&A as optional today as it is a strategic imperative for resilience and competitiveness. Global competition, digital disruption, and climate-related vulnerabilities are reshaping industries. For business leaders, relying solely on organic growth is no longer sustainable. Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become one of the most powerful tools to achieve scale, accelerate digital adoption, and build resilience in economies traditionally dependent on tourism, natural resources, and financial services.
October, 2025
Meta’s Mixed Reality Play: Consumerization Paves Way for Enterprise Use Cases
Ray-Ban Stories, a collaboration between Meta (formerly Facebook) and Ray-Ban, represents a blend of classic eyewear design and cutting-edge technology. These smart glasses allow users to capture photos and videos, listen to music, take calls, send messages, and interact with social media, all while maintaining a stylish appearance.
November, 2024
Mexico Region Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™
The Mexico Region Digital Services 2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any digital project in the Mexico region. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
November, 2024
Mexico Region Digital Services 2024 RadarView™
The Mexico Region Digital Services 2024 RadarView™ can help Mexican 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 55-page report also highlights top market trends in the Mexico region and Avasant’s viewpoint.
November, 2024
Microsoft Ignite 2025: Accelerating AI Integration to Transform Operations
This paper analyzes the major announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2025 and their implications for enterprise AI adoption. It examines how Microsoft’s expanded intelligence stack—spanning multi-model orchestration, Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, Copilot integration, and Agent 365—provides a practical blueprint for building AI-first, “frontier” enterprises. Drawing on real-world examples from Mercedes-Benz, Epic, UBS, and Adobe, this paper highlights how leading organizations are operationalizing AI across workflows while navigating challenges in data quality, governance, and scalable value creation. Avasant’s perspective grounds these developments in broader industry trends and enterprise priorities.
November, 2025
Microsoft Revs Up Copilot in Dynamics 365: Will it Fly with Customers?
To capitalize on the generative AI frenzy sweeping the business world, Microsoft has been rapidly launching versions of its Copilot solutions throughout its various products. The software giant has also announced many new use cases for Copilots in individual Dynamics 365 modules. But are customers ready and willing to let Gen AI play such an important role in their core ERP processes? And are they willing to pay for it? We examine the Copilot state of play.
February, 2024
Microsoft’s Elimination of Volume-Based Price Levels: A New Era in Enterprise Licensing Economics
Microsoft’s elimination of volume-based pricing tiers across its EA, MPSA, and OSPA programs marks a major shift in enterprise software economics. Effective November 1, 2025, all online services will default to Level A list pricing that will end scale-based discounts for large customers. This paper examines the implications of Microsoft’s policy change, the resulting budget and negotiation challenges for enterprises, and how Avasant assists clients in responding through immediate optimization, strategic contracting, and sustainable governance—transforming cost pressure into commercial control.
October, 2025
Middle East Cybersecurity 2024 Market Insights™
The Middle East Cybersecurity 2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any cybersecurity-related digital projects in the Middle East. The report also highlights key challenges that the region’s enterprises face today.
July, 2024
Modeling Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Virtualized CRM Platforms with Dynamic Usage Pricing
As enterprises accelerate digital transformation, the cost structures of CRM platforms have become less predictable, challenging procurement leaders to rethink how Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is modeled. In particular, the variable costs related to AI-enhancements are still in early stages as providers test market acceptance. These platforms not only enhance customer engagement but also enable scalable growth and operational agility. However, the shift toward dynamic, usage-based pricing, where costs fluctuate based on real-time consumption, has disrupted traditional procurement models and introduced new forecasting complexities for CIOs and CFOs.
October, 2025
Molecular Innovation with AI: The Future of Drug Discovery
AI is transforming drug discovery by boosting early-stage clinical trial success rates to 80%–90%, compared to the traditional 40%–65%, and contributing to nearly half of preclinical drug development output. Leveraging big data and advanced deep learning models, AI accelerates target identification, molecular design, and clinical trial optimization, saving millions in costs and months in timelines. Notable breakthroughs include AI-designed antibodies and drug repositioning successes. This article explores how, despite challenges such as data quality and transparency, combining AI with ethical oversight and collaboration promises faster, more precise, and patient-focused pharmaceutical innovation.
July, 2025
Monetizing Service Provider Platforms: Holy Grail or a Case of Chasing a Chimera
It has been nearly two decades since I first started observing the technology industry as a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed young analyst. The one thing that has stayed constant in these years has been the service providers’ quest to bring nonlinearity to their revenues. Providers understand that hiring young engineers and staffing them on repeatable client projects quickly can be profitable, but costs are increasing and margins are shrinking. At that time, nonlinear revenue streams, which keep the costs stable even as revenue grows rapidly, will protect the operating margin of the provider and enable it to move to a new trajectory, as highlighted three years ago in our research byte - Leading with Products: The Next Stage in the Evolution of IT Service Providers. The holy grail for this nonlinearity has always been having a set of licensed software products. Leaders in service provider firms have looked on wistfully as product companies deliver stellar results quarter over quarter with exceptional margins. They then go on the quest to see how they can also build some product/platform revenue streams.
August, 2024
Monitoring Software Licenses Best Practices 2024
The art of monitoring software licenses is crucial in today’s software-driven world. Enterprises that depend on software must engage in effective license management for cost optimization, compliance assurance, and gaining a competitive edge. It is no longer just a box that needs to be checked.
March, 2024
Monitoring Software Licenses to Optimize Costs and Mitigate Risks
Application software is becoming increasingly important to all organizations. Therefore, they must engage in effective license management for cost optimization and compliance. License management is no longer just a box that needs to be checked. This Research Byte summarizes our full report on monitoring software licenses.
March, 2024