Latest Reports

• E-Commerce Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2020

  For many organizations, e-commerce systems are not a nice-to-have but an essential element of their business model. Nevertheless, while the overall ROI and TCO experience of e-commerce systems are positive, these systems can be complex and difficult to deploy. This report provides an overview of e-commerce adoption and investment trends, providing data on how many organizations have the technology in place, how many are in the process of implementing it, and how many are expanding implementations.

  January, 2020

• Cloud Security in the Post Pandemic World: Securing the Extended Enterprise

  The Post-COVID enterprise data management strategies must include a Cloud-centric security envelope that spans across extended work environment in this growing hybrid/multi-cloud world. Securing your Data in this Extended Enterprise is now one of the most critical priorities.

  August, 2020

• IaaS Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2020

  IT organizations are growing their use of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for a variety of purposes, including internal production systems, systems development and testing, and disaster recovery. We expect that growth to continue, though some companies are reticent to adopt IaaS. This report quantifies the current adoption and investment trends for IaaS, as well as the benefits driving adoption and the buyer concerns holding it back.

  July, 2020

• Recovering from Social Distancing in the Post-COVID Economy

  The current coronavirus pandemic has disrupted business operations worldwide. In response, most organizations have taken steps to mitigate risks in order to maintain some level of production. In cases where workers must by physically present, one of the key measures is social distancing, that is, keeping some level of distance between workers, so as to lessen the spread of the virus. This Research Byte outlines the problem and provides an example for one industry in particular.

  August, 2020

• Digital Innovation in Healthcare: Solutions for the New Normal

  The COVID pandemic is disrupting the Healthcare industry and accelerating Innovation across the value chain. During Avasant’s recent Digital Forum, leading Healthcare CIOs/Executives shared their experience and insights on Key trends re-shaping the healthcare industry.

  August, 2020

• Reality Check: AI Finding Less Traction than Hype Would Suggest

  Despite the buzz, artificial intelligence (AI) appears to be not finding as much traction in businesses as we would expect. On the surface, it seems most companies do not yet understand the use cases that would lead them to invest heavily in AI. But the story is more complicated than it first appears. This Research Byte explains why.

  August, 2020

• Webinar Replay–Pandemic Impact on IT Budgets in 2020

  Since 1990, Computer Economics has conducted an annual survey of IT spending and staffing metrics. This year, however, there was a complication: The COVID-19 pandemic hit right in the middle of our survey period. As a result, we conducted extra research and issued the supplemental report Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on IT Budgets in 2020. In addition, Frank Scavo, Avasant partner and president of Computer Economics, and Dave Wagner, senior research director at Computer Economics, conducted a free webinar to present a summary of the results both surveys.

  August, 2020

• Cloud platform providers are enhancing capabilities for enterprise workforce collaboration

  As the enterprise demand for collaboration tools, AI/ML apps, and secure remote access to critical workloads rises during pandemic, cloud providers have realigned their priorities and hinged their GTM strategy around three key areas: collaboration, security and automation. This portfolio augmentation is achieved either through partnering with specialized solution providers or acquiring external capabilities to accelerate time to market.

  August, 2020

• Re-inventing IT: The Playbook for Hybrid Cloud Transformation

  Avasant’s digital forum, “Re-Inventing IT: The Playbook for Hybrid Cloud Transformation” addressed the key themes around the future of Hybrid Cloud, how IT can re-invent itself to keep pace with the fast-changing business needs and how executives can accelerate their Cloud journey without exposing their organization to undue risks.

  July, 2020

• Are TELCOS Ready To Go Head-to-Head With System Integrators?

  Businesses have realized the importance of technology in differentiating themselves from competition. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought this importance to the centerstage as business sustainability becomes intrinsically intertwined with the digital maturity of the organization. The next wave of technology investment will come from businesses that are preparing for the future. And they will require service providers with a business-to-business mindset.

  August, 2020

• Computer Economics: Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on IT Budgets in 2020

  Computer Economics: Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on IT Budgets in 2020 At the beginning of 2020, IT organizations were poised for another year of strong IT operational budget growth—and then the global coronavirus pandemic struck. IT leaders are changing their priorities for new projects as a result of COVID-19. Based on the results of the 31st annual Computer Economics IT spending survey just completed, Avasant’s digital forum “Computer Economics: Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on IT Budgets in 2020” discussed how companies are responding to the crisis.

  July, 2020

• IT Salary Report 2020

  Our IT Salary Report 2020 provides total compensation for 77 IT job functions for more than 400 U.S. metro areas and 20 industry sectors. The executive summary also provides our forecast for pay raises and hiring in 2020 and includes job descriptions for each job function. The salary tables are provided as a downloadable Microsoft Excel workbook, with total salaries reported at the 10th, 25th, 50th (median), 75th, and 90th percentiles. (37 pp., 8 figs., plus salary tables)

  December, 2019