Latest Reports

• Digital Engineering Services: Driving Future Engineering Growth through Digital Technology

  In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital engineering, enterprises are navigating economic, technological, and consumer-driven forces that are reshaping their priorities. Macroeconomic uncertainty is driving innovation and R&D to maintain competitiveness. There is a growing demand for connected products and new revenue streams, focusing on operational efficiency and evolving business models. Sustainability and regulatory compliance are crucial, especially for asset-heavy industries, which are reevaluating product engineering approaches. Evolving customer preferences are steering companies toward hyperpersonalization and sustainable products, reflecting a shift toward customized and eco-friendly solutions.

  September, 2024

• Digital Engineering Services 2024 RadarView™

  The Digital Engineering Services 2024 RadarView™ can help enterprises identify the right partners and service providers to implement their digital engineering strategy by providing detailed capability and experience analysis for leading service providers. The report provides a 360-degree view of key providers for digital engineering services across practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investments and innovations. The 66-page report also highlights top supply-side trends in the digital engineering space and Avasant’s viewpoint.

  September, 2024

• Navigating the Future of Healthcare: The Transformative Power and Challenges of AI Integration

  Artificial intelligence’s integration into healthcare is poised to redefine care delivery, management, and patient experiences. With the sector’s immense impact on individual lives and the global economy, the stakes for deploying AI are incredibly high, requiring careful navigation of healthcare’s unique complexities—such as stringent data privacy regulations, ethical considerations, and the need to build trust among providers and patients.

  September, 2024

• Navigating the Digital Frontier: Strategic Insights for Tech-Enabled Business Growth

  In today’s dynamic business landscape, technology has emerged as a powerful catalyst for innovation and an enabler for new strategic directions. Tech-enabled services are the lifeblood of modern enterprises, driving customer engagement and streamlining operations with unprecedented efficiency. The key to future business success hinges on agility and innovation, empowering companies to not only thrive in the current environment, but to build the resilience needed to weather the next wave of technological disruption.

  September, 2024

• Cyber-Proofing the Enterprise: Protecting from Core to Edge

  Cybersecurity has emerged as a linchpin of enterprise continuity, transforming from a technical safeguard into a strategic cornerstone that underpins the very survival of business. The complex defense against the dark arts of cyberthreats creates high stakes and ever-evolving challenges.

• Cybersecurity in the Era of Robotics

  Recent advances in AI have led to the development of specialized robots that can perform tasks previously thought to be exclusive to humans, including visual perception, speech recognition, and decision-making. However, as the world prepares for a deluge of humanoids, the wide adoption of robots presents unique cybersecurity threats, from data interception to device hijacking. Many are due to a lack of native cybersecurity features in robotic equipment and related technologies, such as the IoT. Hence, to fully capitalize on the potential of robotics, government, industry, and academia are collaborating to strengthen security in every robotic development and deployment area.

  September, 2024

• IT Budgets and Hiring on the Rise Despite High-Profile Layoffs

  It is easy to look at layoffs from major tech companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google as a sign that IT departments everywhere might be struggling. In fact, this is not the case. When it comes to end-user companies, both IT budgets and hiring are strong. CIOs have a major role in the strategic transformation of their enterprises, and they have no shortage of new investment priorities. Despite recent turmoil, or perhaps because of it, CIOs are pushing on. This Research Byte is a brief description of some of the findings in our IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025 study.

  September, 2024

• IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 7: Insurance

  Chapter 6 provides benchmarks for banking and financial services companies. The firms in this sector include commercial banks, investment banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders, consumer finance lenders, and other types of lenders and financial services providers. The 48 respondents in this sector range in size from a minimum of about $50 million to over $75 billion in annual sales.

  September, 2024

• IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 5: Discrete Manufacturing

  Chapter 5 provides benchmarks for discrete manufacturing organizations. Discrete manufacturers are defined as those where the production process adds value by fabricating or assembling individual (discrete) unit production. This category includes manufacturers of consumer products, athletic equipment, industrial equipment, telecommunications equipment, aerospace products, furniture, auto parts, electrical parts, medical devices, and electronic devices, among other products. The 79 respondents in this sample range in size from a minimum of about $50 million to over $300 billion in annual revenue.

  September, 2024

• IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2024/2025: Chapter 4: Process Manufacturing

  Chapter 4 provides benchmarks for process manufacturers. Process manufacturers are defined as those where the production process adds value by mixing, separating, forming, or chemical reaction. This sector includes manufacturers of chemicals, petrochemicals, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements, food and beverage products, cosmetics, building materials, packaging materials, steel, glass, paper products, and other process-manufactured goods. The 96 respondents in the sample range in size from a minimum of about $50 million to a maximum of around $70 billion in annual revenue

  September, 2024

• Insurance Business Process Transformation 2024 Market Insights™

  The Insurance Business Process Transformation 2024 Market Insights™ assists enterprises in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any insurance business process transformation engagement. The report also highlights key challenges that insurance entities face today.

• Insurance Business Process Transformation 2024 RadarView™

  The Insurance Business Process Transformation 2024 RadarView™ provides information to assist enterprises in building an insurance service strategy and charting an action plan for insurance business process service transformation. It identifies key global insurance service providers that can help expedite this transformation. It also brings out detailed capability and experience analyses of leading providers to assist businesses in identifying the right strategic partners. The 68-page report highlights key industry trends in the insurance business process transformation space and Avasant’s viewpoint.

  September, 2024