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Latest Reports
Healthcare Payor Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™
The Healthcare Payor Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™ can help payors craft a robust strategy based on industry outlook, best practices, and digital transformation. The report can also aid in identifying the right partners and service providers to accelerate digital adoption. The 96-page report also identifies key service providers and system integrators that can help enterprises in their digital transformation.
Residual Value Forecast February 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.
Avasant Digital Forum: Leveraging Enterprise AI: Real Business Value at Scale
Business leaders know that there is a wealth of insights locked up in their data. But data analysts are often overwhelmed with the burden of gathering, cleansing, and transforming that data, leaving little time to gain the insights that drive business value. This is where AI can help. AI can reveal hidden patterns and insights in your data, unlocking new opportunities for revenue growth or cost savings. But scaling AI so that it becomes a part of business operations can be a challenge. AI needs to be maintained so that models do not grow stale, and it needs to be tuned to specific industries in order to get the most value.
Leading with a Unified and Integrated Approach to the Cloud – The New Way to Stay Ahead in the Cloud Services Market
The change in customer behavior brought on by the pandemic became the perfect platform for service providers to offer integrated cloud solutions by bringing together their consulting and advisory services, domain expertise, and deep engineering capabilities. Over the past 12 to 18 months, several leading service providers stepped up to enable enterprises to redesign their infrastructure from the core. This report discusses how Wipro followed this trend by introducing Wipro FullStride Services for its customers. As part of its cloud strategy, in July 2021, Wipro introduced Wipro FullStride Cloud Services to strengthen its position as a full-stack service provider that looks at personas, processes, data, apps, and infrastructure. The company has been advancing its cloud initiatives and plans to invest USD 1 billion over the next three years in technology, acquisitions, people, and partnerships.
Slow and Steady Decline in Desktop Support Staffing
Although desktop and laptop computers are not the hot commodity they were 30 years, they still require a great deal of support. The good news, however, is that when viewed as a percentage of the total IT staff, desktop support personnel are becoming steadily more productive. This Research Byte explores some reasons for this trend.
Desktop Support Staffing Ratios 2022
When viewed as a percentage of the total IT staff, the percentage of desktop support personnel remains essentially unchanged. In this study, we use four metrics for benchmarking: desktop support staff as a percentage of the IT staff, PCs per desktop support staff member, applications per desktop support staff member, and users per support staff member. We also assess these ratios by organization size and sector. In addition, we provide benchmarks for the end-user support group, comprised of desktop support, help desk support, and IT training/documentation staff. We conclude with strategies for improving the efficiency of desktop support staff.
Digital Commerce: Paving the Way for the Next Phase of Growth
Rapidly changing consumer behavior and supply chain disruptions have forced companies to pivot to new business and delivery models and to deploy new modes of customer engagement. Direct-to-consumer (D2C) commerce, omnichannel commerce, and adoption of digital channels for sales and payments have grown rapidly during and after pandemic shutdowns. This led to a growing demand for digital commerce services across industry verticals with service providers expanding their revenues by nearly 30% between 2020 and 2021. These emerging trends are covered in Avasant’s Digital Commerce Services 2021–2022 RadarView™.
Digital Commerce Services 2021–2022 RadarView™
The Digital Commerce Services 2021–2022 RadarView™ provides information to assist enterprises in building an integrated digital commerce strategy and charting out an action plan for digital commerce transformation. It identifies key global service providers and system integrators that can help expedite a customer’s commerce transformation journey. It also brings out detailed capability and experience analyses of leading providers to assist enterprises in identifying the right strategic partners. The 67-page report also highlights key industry trends in the digital commerce space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
Intelligent Automation Cuts Through Complex Workflows
Intelligent automation (IA) is becoming a central component of larger transformation engagements. However, some automation projects suffer due to siloed, single-point solutions and a lack of agility. To solve this problem, enterprises are seeking new ways to leverage predictive and semantic automation, and new enterprise platforms are integrating automation to streamline business functions. IA service providers are also simplifying enterprise automation engagements through the implementation of digital personas and low-code/no-code (LCNC). As a result, IA is becoming more intuitive and showing a stronger return on investment. These trends, and others, are covered in our Intelligent Automation Services 2021–2022 RadarView™.
Current Fair Market Values January 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.
