Latest Reports

• Navigating SAP S/4HANA Modernization: Evaluating RISE with SAP versus Private Cloud

  As SAP phases out mainstream support for SAP ERP 6.0 by 2027, enterprises are confronted with a strategic decision with regard to modernizing to SAP S/4HANA. This article compares two key transformation paths: RISE with SAP, a bundled, SAP-managed offering, and self-managed deployments on hyperscaler clouds. It explores trade-offs in control, complexity, cost transparency, and customization, supported by real-world examples such as embecta’s rapid ERP separation. While RISE with SAP simplifies operations and accelerates time to value, private cloud offers greater flexibility. The analysis helps CIOs assess which model aligns best with their digital maturity, operational priorities, and long-term transformation goals.

  June, 2025

• SAP Sapphire 2025: A Turning Point for AI-driven Enterprise Operations

  At SAP Sapphire 2025, SAP unveiled a cohesive strategy to transform enterprise operations through embedded AI and unified data infrastructure. Central to this is the SAP Flywheel model, which allows applications, data, and AI to reinforce each other, enabling context-aware automation via Joule, SAP’s AI copilot. Joule extends across SAP and non-SAP systems, improving decision-making in users’ daily workflows. Supporting this is the Business Data Cloud, a unified, open data platform designed to eliminate fragmentation and fuel intelligent applications. With partnerships including Palantir and Adobe, SAP is aligning its architecture for the AI era, turning siloed data into real-time, cross-functional intelligence.

  June, 2025

• The Illusion of AI Sovereignty: Washington and Beijing Still Pull the Strings

  A new wave of digital nationalism is sweeping through public policy and enterprise boardrooms. Countries including France, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Singapore, and India are doubling down on sovereign AI. They are investing in localized data ecosystems, region-specific LLMs, national AI clouds, and stricter compliance regimes. No nation today enjoys absolute, full-stack AI sovereignty. Rather than chasing total independence, the trend is toward layered sovereignty: choosing which parts of the stack to control, influence, outsource, or codevelop. The sovereign AI game is not binary; it is composable. In the coming decade, national AI strategies will be defined not by what a country builds alone but by what it chooses to own, protect, and shape on its own terms.

  June, 2025

• Application Management Services 2025 Market Insights™

  This report identifies key demand-side trends in the application management services space, helping enterprises fine-tune their application management strategies. It provides an overview of top implementation challenges, industry-specific adoption, diverse use cases driving implementation, and the integration of agentic AI across key stages of application management based on Avasant’s assessment.

  June, 2025

• Application Management Services: Streamlining Application Modernization and Support with Agentic AI

  Organizations are facing significant challenges in their application management journeys, including legacy systems, decentralized strategies, resistance to change, skills shortage, workflow automation, and integration barriers. To address these complexities, enterprises are increasingly collaborating with application management service providers to modernize legacy systems, integrate disparate systems, develop cloud-native applications, enhance performance monitoring, and facilitate change management. Additionally, they are integrating agentic AI solutions to accelerate legacy modernization, enhance DevOps efficiency, and optimize IT operations. Meanwhile, service providers are leveraging agentic AI for application portfolio assessment, modernization, deployment, and support services. Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in our Application Management Services 2025 Market Insights™ and Application Management Services 2025 RadarView™, respectively

  June, 2025

• Application Management Services 2025 RadarView™

  The Application Management Services 2025 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for application management services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key application management service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right application management services partner. The 72-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the application management services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.

  June, 2025

• Retail Digital Services 2025 Market Insights™

  The Retail Services 2025 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 retail industry. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today in this space.

  June, 2025

• Retail Digital Services: Embedding Intelligent Solutions That Autonomously Optimize Business Intelligence

  Retail enterprises are reimagining operational intelligence by integrating generative and agentic AI that can autonomously generate insights, make context-aware decisions, and take adaptive actions across the retail value chain. They are using geofencing, embracing avatars and immersive technologies to deliver hyper-personalized engagement, and modernizing physical stores into intelligent, experience-led environments. As consumer expectations shift toward more relevant and personalized advertising, retailers are scaling retail media networks (RMNs) to harness first-party data, enabling brands to deliver targeted campaigns that maximize ROI and drive deeper shopper engagement.

  June, 2025

• Retail Digital Services 2025 RadarView™

  The Retail Digital Services 2025 RadarView™ helps retail 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 89-page report also highlights top market trends in the retail space and Avasant’s viewpoint.

  June, 2025

• Navigating Rising Costs and Member Expectations: The Business Process Imperative for Health Payers

  The U.S. health insurance industry finds itself at a critical inflection point as financial pressures mount alongside escalating member demands for digital-first experiences. According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), health insurers reported a stark 14.1% decline in net income to approximately $16 billion during the first half of 2024, compared to the same period in the prior year. Even more concerning, underwriting gains plummeted 31.3% to roughly $12 billion, signaling fundamental challenges in the industry's core operational model. 

  June, 2025

• Clinical and Care Management Business Process Transformation 2025 Market Insights™

  The Clinical and Care Management Business Process Transformation 2025 Market Insights™ assists enterprises in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any clinical and care management services transformation engagement. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.

  June, 2025

• The Evolving Future of Clinical and Care Management: From Utilization to Intelligence-driven Care

  Clinical and care management has undergone a fundamental shift in recent years, moving from reactive, utilization-focused models to proactive, patient-centered approaches that prioritize prevention, personalization, and care continuity. The integration of technologies such as generative AI, automation, analytics, and digital triage tools has enabled more precise risk stratification, faster prior authorizations, and smarter care coordination. Organizations are embedding clinical decision support tools and virtual care capabilities across the care continuum, improving both outcomes and operational efficiency. Looking ahead, the future of clinical and care management lies in building intelligent, scalable ecosystems where data flows seamlessly across providers, payors, and patients. This will be driven by AI-powered population health tools, adaptive care pathways, and real-time clinical insights that enable early interventions and reduce unnecessary utilization, ultimately reshaping how care is delivered and managed.

  June, 2025