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Enabling an Ecosystem of Innovation for the Intelligent Enterprise
Avasant, in partnership with Capgemini and Amazon Web Services, hosted a virtual roundtable for a group of senior-level executives to discuss practical ideas and high impact strategies for transforming into an Intelligent Enterprise. What resulted was an powerful knowledge exchange around enterprises’ accelerated shift to Cloud and platform-based services, and the emergence of an AI-First enterprise that leverages data driven insights and hyper personalization to forge digital experiences.
March, 2021
Thriving in the New Normal: Enabling Hyper-Scale and Agile Business Through Hybrid Cloud
Avasant, in partnership with HCL Technologies, NetApp, and Cisco, hosted a digital forum that brought together a unique partnership of technology leaders who have pioneered a standardized model that can drive rapid deployment, migration and scaling of hybrid cloud. What resulted was the convergence of thought leadership and practical strategies around enabling hybrid cloud for business agility and sustainable innovation.
March, 2021
Remote Learning—a Strategic Priority for Educational Institutions
Digital content is growing exponentially as a result of the proliferation of smart devices and evolving customer preferences. With more than 3.8B people accessing digital content on a regular basis, media & entertainment companies are upgrading the quality and quantity of content to increase customer engagement. Moreover, the use of digital technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics is playing a critical role in providing personalized services to include special recommendations, globalized content, experiential entertainment, and customized communications to customers. These trends are covered in Avasant’s new Media & Entertainment Digital Services 2021-2022 RadarView™ report .
August, 2021
Deploying Low-Latency Applications in the Cloud
Conventional wisdom is that some systems that require low latency and a high degree of system availability, such as warehouse management systems (WMS) or manufacturing execution systems (MES), are best deployed on-premises. Nevertheless, cloud systems are invading even this category of software. This research byte highlights one example.
March, 2021
The Mandate for Growing IT Spending in the Insurance Industry
Insurance providers are at a crossroads. Many have large, complex legacy systems deeply embedded in back-end processes. These require legions of IT personnel to keep them responsive to changing market needs. Now, these established players face new competitive threats from upstarts, unencumbered by legacy systems, able to rethink how insurance services can be delivered to customers in new ways. At the same time, the coronavirus pandemic has thrown a monkey wrench into strategic planning in the insurance industry.
October, 2021
IT Outlook for 2021 Depends on Where You Stand
Last year did not go according to plan. Two months after we published our Worldwide IT Spending and Staffing Outlook for 2020, the world’s economies began to shut down. Businesses transformed overnight. Our prediction of “positive, but some hints of trouble brewing” in 2020 turned out to be a bit of an understatement. Because 2020 was not the easiest year to predict, do not expect easy answers when it comes to 2021. But in this, our annual study of the IT spending and staffing outlook for the new year, we find that IT leaders worldwide have a surprisingly positive outlook on the year ahead. This research byte summarizes the full study.
February, 2021
IT in PJs Here to Stay, Post-Pandemic
Regardless of how long the pandemic lasts, one thing that appears to be here to stay for IT personnel is working from home, although the percentage will drop. Our annual IT salary study finds that about a quarter of IT workers will ply their trade from home, full-time, after the pandemic subsides. This Research Byte summarizes our findings on the WFH reality.
December, 2020
Cloud Migration Leads to IT Staffing Decline
Way back in 2007, IT personnel represented more than half of all IT operational spending. Fast forward to 2017, that number declined to 42%. That is one major finding of a new report, in which Computer Economics analyzed long-term IT spending and the effects of the cloud. And based on our analysis of IT organizations that are already well down the road in their cloud transformation, we could see spending on IT personnel comprise less than one third of the total IT budget within the next 10 years
March, 2018
SD-WAN Leads the Way in ROI
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the network is at the front and center of resiliency discussions, now so more than ever. Network services have further gained importance, especially for improving business agility and flexibility—which we’ve known for a while. And yet we are mildly surprised that SD-WAN finished first on the risk-reward analysis this year in our annual study. This Research Byte provides a look at the risk/reward profile for the technologies in our full study, Technology Trends 2021.
March, 2021
IoT Shows Only an Iota of Growth
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a maturing technology, and for many years it has promised benefits such as lower labor costs and better tracking of assets. But our data is showing a trend that is common with other technologies as they mature. The adoption of IoT projects and investment in them have remained at a fairly low clip. This research byte provides a summary of our full report on IoT Adoption Trends and Customer Experience.
March, 2021
COVID-19 Driving Growth of Digital Operations
The COVID-19 crisis led to severe disruptions in the global socio-economic structure and adversely impacted enterprises. Enterprises were forced to explore all possible avenues to sustain business operations. While cost optimization was one objective, the focus shifted enabling digital operations. Enterprises that had already outsourced could mitigate the COVID-19 impact better than those keeping operations in-house. BPO service providers reacted quickly, leveraged technology, and developed tailored solutions for seamless business operations. This led the enterprises follow the suite driving double-digit growth in BPO engagements in 2020. These trends are covered in Avasant’s new Business Process Transformation Horizons report.
March, 2021
Communications Staffing Still on Mute
Corporate communications systems have become more complex, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic, as companies struggle to make it possible for large chunks of the workforce to work remotely. Nevertheless, despite the growing complexity, the number of IT specialists who support communications systems has stabilized in the past few years. This Research Byte provides a summary of our full report on communications support staffing ratios.
January, 2021