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Latest Reports
Finance and Accounting Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 Market Insights™
The Finance and Accounting Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 Market Insights assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any F&A business process services project. The report also highlights the evolution of F&A functions with the integration of emerging technologies such as Gen AI.
Evolving from Cost Efficiency to Strategic Value Creation
The finance and accounting (F&A) outsourcing industry is now in a phase defined by the widespread operational deployment of advanced technologies, with providers moving beyond early-stage pilots to embed AI, Gen AI, ML, and intelligent automation into live delivery environments, driving measurable impact in efficiency, accuracy, and insights. This shift toward AI-native automation and analytics is reducing manual effort, accelerating reporting, and supporting more informed and strategic decision-making. Talent shortages and skills gaps are prompting organizations to partner with service providers for access to both technology and specialized finance expertise, while nearshoring and diversified delivery models are gaining traction, enabling enterprises to balance cost, agility, and collaboration. Both state of the market and supply-side trends are covered in Avasant’s Finance and Accounting Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 Market Insights™ and Finance and Accounting Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 RadarView™, respectively.
Finance and Accounting Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 RadarView™
The Finance and Accounting Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for F&A business process transformation by offering detailed capabilities and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key F&A service providers across practice maturity, domain ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right service partner. The 70-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the F&A business process transformation space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
From Process to Experience: When Payroll Transformation Meets Humanity
Payroll is undergoing a fundamental shift from an invisible administrative function to a core pillar of employee experience and organizational trust. This article examines how earned wage access, real-time pay, automation, and AI are redefining payroll in a “pay-as-you-live” workforce. Drawing on enterprise examples and Avasant research, it highlights the growing role of personalization, governance, and human oversight in payroll transformation. It also highlights the need for payroll systems to strike a balance between automation and human judgment, ensuring accurate pay while also fostering employee trust and a sense of fairness.
IT Security, Cybersecurity, and Compliance Spending Benchmarks 2025
Over the last decade, cybersecurity has increased from approximately 2% of the IT budget to around 7%. And there is no sign that spending on cybersecurity will slow anytime soon. Just as enterprises get a handle on one attack vector, another one appears. Now, AI and quantum computing both promise new methods of defense and new methods of attack. Enterprises will continue to need to accelerate their cybersecurity spend to meet these new threats. Still, there is such a thing as throwing too much money at a problem. These cybersecurity benchmarks are designed to help organizations understand their IT security spend in relation to that of their peers to make informed executive decisions around security investments.
IT Security Making Up More of the IT Budget With No End in Sight
Over the last decade, cybersecurity has increased from approximately 2% of the IT budget to around 7%. And there is no sign that spending on cybersecurity will slow anytime soon. Just as enterprises get a handle on one attack vector, another one appears. It is crucial to right-size the IT budget to protect the organization, while also avoiding throwing good money at the wrong problems. To provide metrics that help answer these questions, we have now updated our annual report, IT Security, Cybersecurity, and Compliance Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2025.
Aerospace and Defense Digital Services 2025–2026 Market Insights™
The Aerospace and Defense Digital Services 2025–2026 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 Aerospace and Defense industry. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today.
Aerospace and Defense Digital Services 2025–2026 RadarView™
The Aerospace and Defense Digital Services 2025–2026 RadarView™ helps Aerospace and Defense 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 81-page report also highlights top market trends in the Aerospace and Defense space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
Intelligent Automation Services 2025–2026 Market Insights™
The Intelligent Automation Services 2025–2026 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on their intelligent automation projects. The report also highlights the key challenges enterprises face today in this space.
Intelligent Automation Services: Enabling Next-generation Automation Leveraging Agentic AI
Advancements in agentic AI are redefining the intelligent automation landscape, enabling autonomous processes with minimal human touchpoints. Enterprises are increasingly demanding outcome-driven intelligent automation initiatives that go beyond task-level efficiency to deliver measurable business impact. In response, service providers are developing frameworks and platforms that support the seamless orchestration of RPA bots, AI agents, and humans across end-to-end workflows. This shift is accelerating the adoption of intelligent automation programs across enterprises. Both demand- and supply-side trends are covered in Avasant’s Intelligent Automation Services 2025–2026 Market Insights™ and Intelligent Automation Services 2025–2026 RadarView™, respectively.
