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Latest Reports
European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2021/2022: Chapter 9: Energy and Utilities
Chapter 9 provides benchmarks for public utilities, oil and gas producers, service companies, and midstream distributors across all organization sizes. The 14 respondents in this sector include public utilities (water, gas, and electric), integrated energy companies, upstream exploration and production companies, natural gas companies, pipeline operators, and other energy and utilities companies. The companies in our sample range in size from a minimum of about €100 million to about €14 billion in annual revenue.
European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2021/2022: Chapter 10: Professional and Technical Services
Chapter 10 provides benchmarks for professional and technical services organizations. The 35 respondents in the sample range in size from a minimum of about €50 million to about €70 billion in annual revenue. The sector includes firms that provide professional and technical services, including engineering, legal, accounting, financial advice, consulting, marketing, research, IT, and other services.
European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2021/2022: Chapter 11: IT Services and Solutions
Chapter 11 provides IT spending and staffing statistics for the IT services and solutions sector. The category includes software companies, software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, systems integrators, IT solution providers, business process outsourcing firms, and other providers of technology services and solutions. There are 19 organizations in the sample, ranging in size from around €50 million to about €10 billion in annual revenue.
European IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2021/2022: Chapter 12: Food and Beverage
Chapter 12 provides benchmarks for food and beverage manufacturers. The 17 respondents in the sample range in size from about €100 million to about €22 billion in annual revenue. Food and beverage companies produce beverages, snack foods, meat products, seafood products, vegetables, dairy products, dietary supplements, pet food, and other consumable food products. Some are suppliers to other food manufacturers or to the food service industry, while many also distribute consumer products to retailers or directly to consumers.
Digital talent to drive new wave of business transformation
Enterprises and IT service providers need to revisit their talent strategy and prioritize digital skills. The accelerated pace of digital transformation and a hybrid working environment have put a new emphasis on reskilling and upskilling the existing workforce. IT service providers are seeing 30% growth in deals involving digital technology like cloud and cybersecurity, and they have made significant investments in recruiting new talent, particularly in nearshore environments, closer to where the work originates. All of this pressure on an already thin talent pool requires planning, and perhaps a good partner. These emerging trends are covered in Avasant’s Digital Talent Capability 2021 RadarViewTM.
Digital Talent Capability 2021 RadarView™
The Digital Talent Capability 2021 RadarView™ report provides information to assist enterprises in building a digital talent strategy and helps chart out an action plan for filling the digital talent gap. It identifies key global service providers and system integrators that can expedite an organization’s digital transformation journey by leveraging their digital talent capabilities. It also brings out detailed analyses of leading providers to support enterprises in identifying the right strategic partners. The 80-page report also highlights Avasant’s viewpoint on key technology and outsourcing trends reshaping the market.
Best Practices to Architect an Effective Investment Promotion Agency
Investment promotion agencies (IPAs) are the catalysts that play a crucial role in attracting foreign investors into their home countries. Their objectives are aligned with their national priorities that primarily include job creation, industry development, trade development, and promoting sustainable growth. IPAs must be well-structured, well connected, streamlined, and appropriately staffed to ensure efficient service delivery. This white paper provides an overview of how an effective IPA must be designed and developed. We also look at some leading IPAs across the world and how they operate.
Extracting value from cloud through digital convergence
The enterprise shift to the cloud was already well underway before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the pandemic increased the pace of the transformation. The dramatic increase in both remote work and a new digital economy increased the need for business applications, analytics, and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) deployed in the cloud. Even in the post-COVID economy, companies continual to accelerate their cloud transition. Due to this fast pace, finding the right cloud provider is key.
Cloud Platforms 2021 RadarView™
The Cloud Platforms 2021 RadarView™ report addresses the need for enterprises to leverage cloud platforms to accelerate their digital journeys, embrace the cloud, and identify the right cloud platform providers to partner with. The 50-page report also provides our point of view on how cloud platform providers are catering to the changing needs of enterprises through a wide portfolio of products and services, thus delivering a general ranking based on key dimensions of product maturity, enterprise adaptability, and innovation road map.
Residual Value Forecast September 2021
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.
