Latest Reports

• Ranks of IT Security Professionals Rise Again

  In the wake of high-profile cyberattacks, the number of IT security staff members as a percentage of the total IT staff has risen for the second year running. In this Research Byte we look at this trend over the past five years.

  August, 2017

• Desktop Virtualization Adoption Trends and Customer Experience

  Desktop virtualization is a mature business technology that is facing challenges from related technologies, which has caused the adoption rate to fluctuate in the past few years. This report provides an overview of key concepts and vendors in this space. We then examine desktop virtualization 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. We also look at the return on investment experience, total cost of ownership experience, and which virtual desktop solutions are the most popular. (18 pp., 9 fig.)[Research Byte]

  August, 2017

• IT Outsourcing Percentage Highest in Five Years

  IT organizations are committing to outsourcing this year at the highest rate since the Great Recession. The new IT Outsourcing Statistics 2017/2018 study from Computer Economics finds that while organizations aren’t broadly increasing the number of functions they choose to outsource, they are increasing the amount of work they send to outside service providers. In this Research Byte, we analyze the trend and summarize 10 key findings from the full report.

  August, 2017

• IaaS Adoption Exploding with Plenty of Room to Grow

  Adoption of public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) has more than doubled over the past two years, but it still has plenty of room to grow even further. As IT organizations get comfortable with cloud-provider security measures and are willing to give up control of the infrastructure, we expect more companies to jump into the IaaS deep end during the next few years.

  July, 2017

• Empowering Beyond Summit: Washington, DC 2017 Video Recap

  Over 50 senior executives from major financial institutions, NGOs, and donor firms like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Howard University and Freddie Mac attended Avasant's invitation-only Washington, DC Empowering Beyond Summit. The summit’s theme “Shaping the Future of the Digital Economy” focused on how the next generation of digital services will drive new economic value and job growth in emerging economies.

  July, 2017

• Managing Collaborative Supply Chains for the Digital Enterprise

  Adrian Quayle, Fellow Partner, Avasant Collaboration Lunched Forum keynote session titled "Managing Collaborative Supply Chains for the Digital Enterprise"

  July, 2017

• The New Economic Development Model for the Digital World – EBS DC 2017 Thought Leadership Panel

  Empowering Beyond Summit Washington, DC 2017 Thought Leadership Panel titled "The New Economic Development Model for the Digital World"included guest speakers:- Fabrizio Opertti, Chief of Trade & Investment, Inter-American Development Bank- Nilkanth Avhad, Counsellor (Economic), Embassy of India- Samia Melhem, Global Lead of Digital Development, World Bank.

  June, 2017

• Harnessing Digital Innovation to Drive Organizational and Societal Change – EBS DC 2017, Nuria Simo

  Empowering Beyond Summit Washington, DC 2017 keynote speaker, Nuria Simo, CIO at IDB shared a presentation "Harnessing Digital Innovation to Drive Organizational and Societal Change". IDB operates in over 26 country offices offering loans, grants, technical corporations and knowledge creation and dissemination. Their strengths include understanding of the region, technical expertise and knowledge and flexibility.

  June, 2017

• To H1B or Not to H1B? Webinar

  Three primary areas impacted by the immigration changes include., changes to work visa programs (especially the H1-B visa), the freedom to travel to the US, and a changing climate towards foreigner workers. Ravi Mahalingam, Partner and General Counsel, Avasant and Dev Batta, Associate General Counsel, Avasant, discussed the Regulatory and Legislative changes, Travel Bans and Restrictions and the Impact on Tech Companies.

  May, 2017

• Zero Cost Tranformation for Airport Reinvention

  Innovations in technology have the potential to reinvent airports across critical dimensions of passenger experience, operations efficiency and revenue growth, and support the transformation of airports. Historically, the potential for technology innovation to disrupt business operations and drive business value has been hampered by a legacy of wasteful, expensive, failed, and obsolete technology and service delivery models. Zero Cost Transformation is a business model which reduces/eliminates initial investments and links risk and benefit-sharing directly to business outcomes.

  May, 2017

• To H1B or Not to H1B? Presentation Slides

  The recent deluge of rhetoric, EOs and potential regulatory changes to the US Immigration policies and enforcement have put the whole IT Sourcing industry in a turmoil. Three primary areas impacted by these immigration changes include (1) changes to work visa programs (especially the H1-B visa), (2) the freedom to travel to the US, and (3) a changing climate towards foreigner workers.

  May, 2017

• Website/E-Commerce Outsourcing Declines

  Website and e-commerce outsourcing is one of the most ubiquitous forms of outsourcing, and the shift toward web-enabled business processes and e-commerce has prompted organizations to reassess their online strategies. Those that outsource the function are turning to outsourcing partners that can provide the needed expertise and a flexible, scalable infrastructure to provide highly available and reliable website and e-commerce systems.

  April, 2017