Latest Reports

• Avasant Digital Forum: Office Of The Future: Driving Business Agility Through Digital Workplace

  As COVID compelled companies to shift to Work from Home, they implicitly extended the boundaries of their enterprise and enabled a borderless work environment. This rapid adoption of Digital Workplace will disrupt the traditional mode of deploying and managing workstations while opening new avenues to improve workforce flexibility and productivity. But it has become challenging for enterprises to weave together a seamless Cloud office solution that addresses personal productivity, collaboration and unified communication, while protecting their data and devices. Smart enterprises are increasing relying on innovative partners to implement their Digital Workplace strategy.

  December, 2020

• IT Budgets Show K-Shaped Recovery

  A new special survey by Computer Economics in August through September, 2020 shows a K-shaped recovery from the pandemic has begun. Nearly an equal number of companies have increased their IT budgets in response to the pandemic as those that decreased them, with slightly more actually increasing them. This research byte is a summary of the full report Revisiting the Impact of COVID-19 on IT Organizations in 2020.

  October, 2020

• IAOP GOV20: Governance Reimagined: Enabling Business Agility in the Digital Enterprise

  IAOP GOV20: Governance Reimagined: Enabling Business Agility in the Digital Enterprise

  October, 2020

• Avasant Digital Forum: Thriving In The Post-covid World: Enabling Digital Innovation And Cost Optimization

  In the Post-COVID world organizations have to rapidly adopt cost optimization and digital transformation strategies. As global markets remain unpredictable, companies have to streamline their IT and Operational costs while enabling more business agility. More and more GCC companies are now taking advantage of technology outsourcing partners to advance their innovation agenda while keeping costs low. They are leveraging Digital technologies such as Automation, AI, Cloud, IoT and Analytics to stay ahead of the competition. But implementing digital transformation is a complex undertaking that requires a strategic roadmap, mature execution capabilities and a cultural alignment.

  November, 2020

• Avasant Digital Forum: Thriving in the New Normal: Enabling Hyper-Scale and Agile Business through Hybrid Cloud

  Businesses have to rapidly re-claim market leadership in the post-COVID economy. Studies show that digital and hybrid cloud investments are accelerating and will be a big enabler for thriving in the new normal. Hybrid cloud environments have become the platform for agility, innovation and business resiliency. The low Capex and high Elasticity advantage of a Hybrid cloud environment is ideal for a business that want to respond quickly to market shifts. However, the journey to cloud requires a carefully orchestrated roadmap and an ecosystem of technology partners. The technology choices while architecting the Hybrid Cloud blueprint is crucial in determining a successful outcome.  

  November, 2020

• One Fifth of Organizations at Risk of Technical Bankruptcy

  In recent years, it has become popular to describe organizations with an enterprise system that has become out of date because of accrued unapplied updates as being in “technical debt.” If organizations ignore this debt too long, it can lead to what we refer to as “technical bankruptcy.” An enterprise system in technical bankruptcy is one where the organization cannot, or finds it exceedingly difficult to, pay off the technical debt. At this stage, the system becomes a true legacy system, frozen in the past and extremely difficult to upgrade.

  March, 2017

• Avoiding Technical Bankruptcy in Legacy Systems

  Technical debt is a term that describes the consequences of a system that has become out of date because of accrued unapplied updates. But if an organization continues to take on technical debt, the system becomes a true legacy system, falling into a state we describe as “technical bankruptcy.” In this report, we identify the symptoms of technical bankruptcy and the devastating effects that it has on the organization.

  March, 2017

• Future of Governance: Driving Business Agility and Resilience

  The business and vendor landscape is changing due to market uncertainties and complex technologies. Avasant leaders provided insights on how to address these challenges and define the future of governance in a digital ecosystem

  September, 2020

• Business Process Transformation: Next Gen Sourcing and Digital Business Models

  As digital technologies and automation re-shape the BPM landscape, it’s important to focus on business outcomes and strategic alignment

  September, 2020

• The Differences Between Cloud and Hosted ERP, and Why They Matter

  Cloud ERP has been rapidly gaining ground, and many traditional ERP vendors have responded with hosted versions of their on-premises systems. This report explores the defining differences between cloud and hosted ERP and why these differences matter in terms of the benefits that customers can expect to receive from each.

  January, 2019

• Drawing the Line Between Cloud ERP and Hosted ERP

  Traditional ERP vendors are responding to the threat of cloud ERP by offering hosted deployment options for their on-premises systems. How does hosted ERP differ from cloud ERP, and how can a buyer choose between them? This Research Byte is a summary of our full report, The Differences Between Cloud and Hosted ERP and Why They Matter.

  January, 2019

• The Economic and Strategic Benefits of Cloud Computing

  Does SaaS save money? Based on our latest survey, we find organizations that have largely migrated to the cloud spend less on IT as a percentage of revenue and on a per-user basis. Savings come not only from a reduction in data center spending, but also from lower IT personnel costs.

  April, 2016