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Latest Reports
Residual Value Forecast February 2024
Our quarterly Residual Value Forecast (RVF) report provides forecasts for the following categories of IT equipment: desktop computers, laptops, network equipment, printers, servers, storage devices, and other IT equipment. It also includes residual values for other non-IT equipment in the following categories: copiers, material handling equipment (forklifts), mail equipment, medical equipment, test equipment, and miscellaneous equipment such as manufacturing machinery and NC machines. Residual Value Forecasts are provided for five years for end-user, wholesale, and orderly liquidation values (OLV) prices.
Oracle Cloud ERP Services: Accelerating the Adoption of Oracle Cloud ERP Using Automation and AI
Enterprises are migrating to Oracle Cloud ERP to consolidate their business processes, especially following mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures. This facilitates the streamlining of operations across the restructured entity, leading to improved accuracy in financial reporting, enhanced governance capabilities, and increased scalability. The adoption of Oracle Cloud ERP also empowers organizations to attain deeper insights into their customers and operations, enhance operational efficiency, and expedite financial management. In response to the growing demand for the Oracle Cloud ERP system, service providers are actively channeling investments into AI-driven automation solutions, aiming to expedite implementation, optimize service costs, and automate support activities.
Oracle Cloud ERP Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™
The Oracle Cloud ERP Services 2023–2024 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any Oracle Cloud ERP implementation or maintenance project. The report also highlights key challenges that enterprises face today in this space.
Oracle Cloud ERP Services 2023–2024 RadarView™
The Oracle Cloud ERP Services 2023–2024 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for adopting Oracle Cloud ERP by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key Oracle Cloud ERP service providers across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovation to help enterprises identify the appropriate service partner. The 75-page report also highlights the top supply-side trends in the Oracle Cloud ERP services space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
Acumatica Builds Success with Growing Construction Edition
The construction industry faces many challenges—tight margins, complex projects, stressed supply chains, and labor shortages. Furthermore, the construction industry is made up of thousands of small and midsize subcontractors, which have historically been underserved by technology solutions and have historically found it challenging to share data in an effective way. Into that breach have stepped cloud-based ERP vendors, and one of the leaders is Acumatica. The company touted recent enhancements to its solutions at its annual customer conference in Las Vegas last month.
Empowering Connectivity: Why Switching to Private LTE Networks Is the Smart Move?
The demand for private wireless solutions is increasing in response to the expanding IoT landscape and the scaling of industrial operations. Manufacturing enterprises are acknowledging the imperative to transition to private wireless networks, recognizing their distinct advantages. This research byte outlines how private wireless differs from traditional Wi-Fi, highlighting key benefits and essential factors for consideration. Additionally, it sheds light on the pivotal stakeholders driving the implementation across the private LTE ecosystem, with a focus on the role of service providers. It emphasizes the necessity of private wireless for sectors prioritizing digital transformation.
AWS Bets on Model Flexibility and Hardware Efficiency for a Distinctive Generative AI Advantage
Major hyperscalers, including Microsoft, Google, and AWS, have embraced generative AI, offering foundation models and proprietary software and hardware accelerators. However, as the generative AI landscape continues to evolve, establishing a unique selling proposition has become challenging. Customers, too, are facing a dilemma in choosing generative AI vendors. AWS stands out strategically in this landscape where differentiation is becoming increasingly elusive, offering Amazon Bedrock’s extensive flexibility in model selection and making substantial investments in purpose-specific AI hardware such as AWS Trainium and AWS Graviton.
Generative AI: The Vigilant Watchtower for Data Centers
Managing data centers strategically is essential to effectively navigate market hurdles in today’s dynamic economy. For an organization, taking advantage of possibilities in spite of economic obstacles is just as important as maintaining security and smooth operation. Nowadays, businesses are dealing with resource constraints, adapting to new regulations and technology, conserving energy, and scaling up or down as necessary. To overcome these hurdles, leading service providers harness generative AI to help organizations manage data centers effectively, especially in monitoring and support services. It greatly benefits customers by automating operations, improving security, and quickly resolving issues, all while supporting data-driven decision-making.
Hard-to-Find Skills Keep IT Security Staffing Stagnant
High-profile security attacks have increased the importance of security amongst enterprises over recent years. With the transformation of the workspace to remote and hybrid work, more pressure has been placed on IT security staffing personnel. Despite these increased burdens, this staffing ratio has remained relatively stable over the past three years.
IT Security Staffing Ratios 2024
The constant beating drum of new security vectors and the recent impact of remote and hybrid work have placed pressure on IT security staffing levels. Enterprises have been steadily increasing IT security budgets and personnel for years. However, IT security personnel as a percentage of the total IT staff has decreased slightly from 4.3% in 2022 to 4.2% in 2023. For three years, security personnel as a percentage has been flat, ranging between 4.2% and 4.3%. Has the supply of IT security personnel finally reached its cap?
