Latest Reports
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Startups In India are Addressing Key Issues Using Blockchain Technology across Different Industries infographic
A comprehensive analysis of India's Blockchain adoption across states and industries has noted key trends in startups. Learn more from the full report. This report provides the better understanding of what the roadmap for blockchain looks like and what different industry participants, such as enterprises, governments, regulators, service providers and startups, are doing to leverage the global and Indian blockchain related opportunities.
March, 2019
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Robotic Process Automation Showing Early Encouraging Success
Early adopters of robotic process automation (RPA) are finding positive return on investment and cost certainty, according to the Computer Economics Technology Trends 2019 study. RPA, along with IT security technology and enterprise asset management, is the newest technology to be added to the study, and it appears that despite current low adoption and investment rates, RPA will have a growing role in business in the years to come. This Research Byte provides an overview of RPA adoption trends and economic experience in the context of our full study.
March, 2019
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How Does IT Spending Vary by Industry and Company Size?
Some IT benchmarking metrics are more influenced by the size of the company than by the industry sector. On the other hand, there are some IT spending ratios that are more dependent on the industry sector than the size of the company. This Research Byte aids in understanding the differences in IT budget metrics and how they correlate to industry sector and organization size. We review these factors for IT spending metrics, IT budget ratios, and IT staffing ratios.
January, 2019
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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