Latest Reports
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Cybersecurity Revenue Distribution Across Industries
Avasant's comprehensive analysis of Cybersecurity adoption and revenue distribution across industries has revealed key insights. Learn more in the full report.
January, 2019
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Desktop Support Outsourcing Continues Slow Rise
The question of whether to turn over the desktop support function to a service provider is a critical and surprisingly complicated one. Although there is a moderate cost-and-service advantage to outsourcing desktop support, other factors, including giving up control, can lead to problems. That may be one reason why today only 22% of IT organizations are outsourcing at least some of their desktop support function, making this one of the least popular functions to outsource. This Research Byte provides a summary of our full report.
October, 2018
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IT Security Policies: A Necessary Foundation
Nearly every IT organization has IT security policies to some extent, but too often they are not formally established, comprehensive in their scope, or followed consistently. This Research Byte provides a summary of our full report on IT security policies adoption and best practices.
October, 2018
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The Center for Innovation and Hub for Engineering Talent
Avasant's Chirag Rawat sat down with Luxoft Financial Services' Patrick Corcoran and Vadym Pankin to discuss Ukraine and how it is fast becoming a center of innovation, possesses a population that’s focused on entrepreneurship, and where even the government dares to adopt new technologies such as Blockchain.
May, 2018
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Adopting an Agile Methodology
When a client doesn't know what exactly they're looking for, an agile methodology resolves this problem. Avasant's Chirag Rawat (Associate Director) sat down with Luxoft Financial Services to discuss agile methodology.
May, 2018
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The Impact of Disruption on Financial Services
Avasant's Chirag Rawat sat down with Luxoft Financial Services' Patrick Corcoran (Global Director, Luxoft External Relations) and Vadym Pankin (Program Manager) to discuss views on distribution across the sourcing industry and how it’s becoming largely location agnostic.
May, 2018
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Too Few Companies Formally Plan for Disaster Recovery
The range of disasters, natural and otherwise, that can cripple a company are staggeringly wide. At the extreme, a flood of Biblical proportions takes out scores of Houston-area businesses. Or mission-critical IT systems fail at Delta Airlines, resulting in thousands of canceled flights and $100 million in lost business. But, sadly, not enough companies are taking disaster recovery planning seriously.
February, 2018
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A Rapid Implementation of ERP Financials at BLD Brands
The implementation of any complex, enterprise-wide system can be fraught with difficulties. Installations can take more than a year and, in some cases, never work as advertised. So it was encouraging to hear about BLD Brands, a company of 3,700 workers and 134 locations, implementing a suite of financial modules in less than three months.
February, 2018
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Driving Disruption in Legacy Organizations- Innovating through Digital Transformation
For companies that were fundamentally founded on traditional models, the move toward digital is critical. However, these companies typically face more challenges than their digital native counterparts. Some are even digital skeptics that still view IT as a supporting and back office function, even as data shows that companies farthest along the on the digital maturity curve are 8 times more likely to have gained share than the 15% of companies that are least mature.
January, 2018
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DBA Outsourcing Rebounds But Demand in Question
This year, database administration (DBA) outsourcing increased but has not rebounded to recent historic levels. Demand for database administration – whether delivered through internal resources, or outsourced – has fallen for several years running and that may be capping DBA outsourcing growth, despite good service and cost success.
January, 2018
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Solving Cross Functional RPA Scaling Issues with an Automation Center of Excellence Webinar
This webinar was about solving Cross Functional RPA Scaling Issues with an Automation Center of Excellence, to learn how CoEs provide a foundation for scaling RPA. Viewers of Solving Cross Functional RPA Scaling Issues with an Automation Center of Excellence will learn: How workforces are leveraging RPA as part of their digital transformation ways a center of excellence can help lay the foundation for RPA scalability key components of an automation center of excellence including the people and process components.
January, 2018
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IT Steering Committees Are Vital for IT Governance
IT decisions have become too important to be left solely to the IT department. IT is one of the few functions within a business that touches virtually all other areas of the business. Because decisions that an IT organization makes can vastly enable or hinder other business functions, and because of budget constraints, there are often tradeoffs among competing business demands placed on the IT organization. Therefore, IT priorities should be set in partnership with business leaders, and the means to do that is the IT steering committee.
November, 2017