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Latest Reports
Transforming the Utilities Industry Through Digital Technologies
Electric, gas, and water utilities are facing regulatory pressures. For example, governments expect gas and electric utilities to support global sustainability and energy transition goals. They also require water utilities to ensure water quality and availability. While an increasing number of electrical customers also become energy producers, their expectations have changed. Furthermore, utilities are facing growing challenges in terms of skilled worker shortages, high investment and maintenance costs, and heavy asset losses due to the rising number of natural disasters. To address these issues, utilities globally are investing in digital technologies to transform their day-to-day operations, enable predictive maintenance, reduce human dependency, automate repetitive and tedious tasks, and reduce costs. These emerging trends are covered in Avasant’s Utilities Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™.
Utilities Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™
The Utilities Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™ can help enterprises craft a robust strategy based on industry outlook, best practices, and digital transformation. The report can also aid them in identifying the right partners and service providers to accelerate their digital transformation. The 85-page report also highlights top market trends in the utilities digital services space and Avasant’s viewpoint.
Hitachi Vantara Addresses the Data Elephant in the Room
Hitachi Vantara CEO Gajen Kandiah will be the first to admit it. Hitachi Vantara has struggled to get its identity across to the market. He compared the problem to the old proverb about blind men coming across an elephant. As one man grasps the trunk, he decides it is a snake. Another feels the elephant’s sides and decides he is touching a wall. Each of the men touch a different part of the elephant, and none see the big picture. If you want to know what the whole Hitachi Vantara elephant looks like, data is what holds together all of its parts.
Global Disruptions Show Value of Cloud Infrastructure
The need for agility continues to drive investment in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). And the global pandemic and subsequent supply chain disruptions have only increased this trend. Cloud infrastructure makes it easier for companies to respond to fluctuations in demand, changes in business requirements, and the need to optimize costs over time. This Research Byte provides a summary of our full report on IaaS adoption trends and customer experience.
IaaS Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2022
The need for agility continues to drive investment in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). And the global pandemic and subsequent supply chain disruptions have only increased this trend. Cloud infrastructure makes it easier for companies to respond to fluctuations in demand, changes in business requirements, and the need to optimize costs over time. This Research Byte provides a summary of our full report on IaaS adoption trends and customer experience.
Remote Work Presents New Challenges for Project Management Staffing
The role of the IT project manager is critical in this dynamic, changing IT environment. The rise in the remote/hybrid work model puts project managers in the middle of recreating business and project management processes to reflect a more dispersed workforce. This Research Byte provides a summary of our full report on IT project management staffing ratios.
IT Project Management Staffing Ratios 2022
The role of the IT project manager is critical in this dynamic, changing IT environment. The rise in the remote/hybrid work model puts project managers in the middle of recreating business and project management processes to reflect a more dispersed workforce. This Research Byte provides a summary of our full report on IT project management staffing ratios.
Residual Value Forecast December 2022
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.
Current Fair Market Values December 2022
Our Fair Market Value (FMV) report provides data for the following categories of equipment: (1) IBM mainframe and midrange hardware and IBM peripherals; (2) Workstations, PCs, and servers from Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM/Lenovo, Lexmark, Okidata, Silicon Graphics, Sony, Sun, and Toshiba; (3) Network Communication gear from Cisco, Bay/Nortel, IBM, Intel, Lucent, and others. Fair Market Values are provided for end-user, wholesale, and orderly liquidation values (OLV) prices.
Claims Processing Business Process Transformation: Enabling a Digital Claims Experience
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the insurance industry, which has traditionally been slow to adopt digital technologies, saw an acceleration in the digital transformation of the claims processing function. Insurers had to manage a large volume of claims, which pushed them to leverage new technologies through partnerships, acquisitions, and outsourcing. Outsourcing, in particular, became an attractive option for insurers, with approximately 17% growth in the number of insurers turning to claims processing service providers. Claims management, payment integrity, and complaints and appeals segments continued to remain in focus. These trends, and others, are covered in Avasant’s Claims Processing Business Process Transformation 2022–2023 RadarView™.
