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Orange Cyberdefense Reports Changing Trends in Cyber Extortion and Ransomware
Ransomware and cyber extortion are not only becoming more common but more damaging to enterprises. As cyberattacks become more sophisticated, often supported by nation-states, they are leading to high-profile and embarrassing releases of customer data. Orange Cyberdefense, which held an analyst event in Antwerp, Belgium, followed a few days later by a customer and partner event in London, England at the end of November 2022, is countering these threats by providing new managed security services offerings, including increased threat intelligence, and supporting secure access service edge (SASE).
March, 2023
IT Spending Rising Despite Recession Fears
Despite most of our survey respondents agreeing that the economy will be worse in 2023 than in 2022, they also report IT spending increases that are broad and strong. How can this be? It is because business leaders no longer see IT as a cost center but as a strategic driver of growth. As a result, they are giving their IT departments greater resources to help plan for a possible coming recession rather than asking them to tighten their belts. This Research Byte summarizes the full study.
February, 2023
Strategies for Enterprises in Response to Tech Industry Layoffs
The recent spate of layoffs in the technology industry should raise questions in the mind of customers who have these vendors as essential elements of their IT landscape. These concerns also extend to service providers, who are also seeing a pullback in business and undergoing staff reductions. This Research Byte explores these issues and how business leaders should mitigate risks and take advantage of opportunities during such uncertain times.
March, 2023
Simplifying the Adoption of SAP S/4HANA
Transitioning to SAP S/4HANA is a challenging process involving multiple business processes, complex data structures, and numerous customizations. Existing SAP customers transitioning to SAP S/4HANA and new customers considering SAP S/4HANA adoption need to evaluate the business case and define a road map for this transition with minimum risk and disruption. Service providers can help enterprises see a quicker ROI through industry-specific solutions and specialized processes. This RadarView provides an analysis of the service providers who assess enterprise landscape and business requirements and recommend a suitable approach for SAP S/4HANA adoption.
February, 2023
E-commerce Staffing Flat Despite Growth of Omnichannel
Social media, mobile devices, multimedia, and even the prospects of the metaverse, are increasing the ways customers and suppliers interact. The omnichannel experience will pressure organizations to build larger web and e-commerce footprints. With that increasing pressure, we expect web/e-commerce staffing to also increase. This Research Byte summarizes the five-year trend in web/e-commerce staffing ratios.
February, 2023
Digital Commerce: Enabling Personalization at Scale
Digital commerce remains attractive to consumers due in a large part to the growth of digital channels and improvements in payment and service delivery. Enterprises would like to expand that success to B2B. For both B2C and B2B customers, personalization has become a major differentiator, and service providers are helping enterprises deploy integrated digital commerce solutions. This resulted in an increase of 31% in service providers’ revenue for digital commerce services in 2021–2022. These emerging trends are covered in Avasant’s Digital Commerce Services 2022–2023 RadarView™.
February, 2023
Acumatica Gains from Citizen Developers but Challenges Remain
ERP vendors are increasingly allowing their customers to create applications or make changes to a wide variety of applications and workflows with just a few steps. These low-code/no-code platforms allow regular ERP users to become power users. This citizen-development trend is a big factor in the growth of Acumatica, the Seattle-based cloud ERP vendor.
February, 2023
New Home for Business Analysts
The business analyst staffing ratio appears to be declining, but the role is not falling in importance. Therefore, as business users become more IT-savvy, it is only natural that business analysts would increasingly be rising up within the business rather than in the IT organization. This Research Byte summarizes our full report on business analyst staffing ratios.
February, 2023
GCC Region Digital Services: Creating a Sustainable, Technology-Enabled Economy
A substantive transformation program driven by digital-age technologies is underway in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. This program of change is founded on three overarching goals: diversifying from an oil-based economy, delivering best-in-class citizen services, and becoming a global technology hub. In response to GCC ambitions, service providers are enhancing their regional leadership, developing their local talent pools in AI, ML, and cybersecurity, and establishing regional partnerships. These emerging trends are covered in Avasant’s GCC Region Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™.
February, 2023
Leveraging Technology to Overcome Challenges in the CPG Sector
CPG manufacturers have recently enjoyed boom times resulting from the increase in consumer spending since the start of the pandemic. However, they now anticipate shrinking profit margins due to higher inflation and supply chain disruptions. In response, they are investing in digital technologies to meet these challenges, collaborating with service providers for digital transformation to take advantage of their strong domain and technical experience. These emerging trends are covered in Avasant’s CPG Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™.
February, 2023
State and local governments expediting their digital transformation
Aging infrastructure and demand for better citizen experience have put state and local governments under pressure to deliver. In addition, public safety and health support delivery issues are straining government resources, along with the increased focus on sustainability. By expediting digital transformation initiatives, governments are focusing on modernizing existing infrastructure and automating core processes to enhance service delivery. They are also investing in solutions to promote citizen experience and improve outreach to them via multiple digital channels. To maintain the right balance between controlling costs, improving government operations, and enhancing citizen services, governments are partnering with service providers to accelerate digital adoption. These trends are covered in Avasant’s new State and Local Government Digital Services 2023-2024 RadarView™ .
February, 2023
Managing Complexity in Engineering and Construction through Digital Technologies
While the demand for new infrastructure and real estate projects is rising, engineering and construction firms are facing skilled worker shortages, project overruns, supply chain disruptions, and increasing regulations. To address these challenges, businesses are accelerating their digital transformation journeys by leveraging connected construction platforms, project management solutions, automated tools for modular construction, and remote project inspections. Additionally, engineering and construction companies are using digital technologies for improved productivity, process efficiency, and increasing profitability, investing heavily in virtual reality and product life cycle management tools. These emerging trends are covered in Avasant’s Engineering and Construction Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™.
February, 2023