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If Disaster Recovery More Critical than Ever, Why Did DR Outsourcing Decline?
In today’s economy, where businesses increasingly rely on the IT department for day-to-day operations, being able to recover from a disaster or system failure is more important than ever. Because of that reality, many IT organizations find value in disaster recovery outsourcing, where a service provider is responsible for off-site data storage, recovery data centers, or redundant systems. Nevertheless, the outsourcing of DR services has still not recovered since its decline in 2016. This Research Byte analyzes the five-year trend in DR outsourcing and explores some possible reasons for the decline.
October, 2019
How Digital Transformation Will Drive IT Organizations in the Post-Pandemic World
What do IT organizations need to do as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic? The bottom line is that if you are operating consistent with an integrated digital operating model, the post-COVID world should not be much different from the pre-COVID world—except any further digital transformation should be accelerated.
June, 2020
DBA Outsourcing All Over the Place
Database administration outsourcing often leads to satisfied customers who save money. But despite that track record, the use of DBA service providers is not widely practiced. Even in the face of outsourcing success, many companies are choosing to keep their database administration in-house. Perhaps this is because, as companies becoming increasingly data-driven, databases become the crown jewels for the organization. This Research Byte provides a look at the outsourcing frequency in context of our full report, Database Administration Outsourcing Trends and Customer Experience.
May, 2020
Patient Needs Driving Increased Adoption of Digital Technologies in Healthcare
The healthcare industry is becoming more patient-centric. The shift to value-based care and consumerism is gaining momentum with the growth of personalized services and digitally enabled, low-cost care delivery models that improve the patient experience. Healthcare providers must expedite their adoption of digital technologies to align with these emerging industry trends. Digital service providers can aid in this task. This Research Byte provides a look at Avasant’s Healthcare Digital Services 2019-2020 RadarView™ report.
May, 2020
Desktop Support Outsourcing Not as Popular as it Once Was
The question of whether to turn over the desktop support function to a service provider is a critical and surprisingly complicated one. Our research shows there is a moderate cost advantage to outsourcing desktop support tasks, but other factors, including giving up control, can lead to problems.
December, 2019
The Convergence of Business and Technology Teams-The Evolving Roles of Business and Technology Teams in Building the Digital Enterprise
IT has typically been a constrained resource and as enterprises move away from coding towards configuration. Progressive enterprises are adopting “cloud-first” and “no coding, just configuration” strategies to build new business capabilities.
April, 2020
The New Role of the CIO-Opportunities for Disruptive Transformation
The pace at which digital transformation is impacting enterprise has positioned CIO's in a more strategic role while driving leadership and innovation. contributing to business strategy while driving leadership and innovation.
April, 2020
What IT Organizations and Service Providers Can Expect in a COVID-19 Recovery
As the COVID-19 global pandemic continues, IT leaders are asking how long this will continue, what actions they should take, and what they can expect in terms of a recovery. In other words, what is the life cycle of a pandemic for IT organizations? And how should organizations plan to tackle the challenges coming their way? Newly updated for April 2020, this Research Byte outlines the stages of a pandemic recovery life cycle and the impact on IT service delivery.
April, 2020
Coronavirus Impact Index by Industry A RadarView Assessment
COVID-19 fears continue to grip the world, with a growing number of people infected and dying. In addition to the human tragedy, there is also a massive impact on business. But these effects vary by industry. To truly understand the impact of the Coronavirus on the world's economy, it is important to view its effects by industry.
March, 2020
Blunting the Impact of Pandemic-Induced Travel Restrictions on Offshore Service Delivery
As global enterprises brace for the uncertain impact of the coronavirus pandemic, travel bans and visa restrictions have complicated the landscape for companies that manage a global workforce and have partners in different countries. This Research Byte provides recommendations to prevent negative impacts on business operability and customer satisfaction.
March, 2020
Intelligent Automation Tools – Taking a Holistic Approach Towards Automation
Intelligent Automation (IA) Tools have become a key enabler for enterprises to traverse digital transformation journey, expanding automation scope beyond IT and enterprise-centric to industry-specific automation. This excerpt showcases the IA tools vendor landscape, their evolution path and key differentiating capabilities.
January, 2020
Impressions from ANTENNA 2020 AntWorks Annual Analyst Retreat
At Avasant, we continue to be intrigued by the developments presented by AntWorks at ANTENNA 2020. At the just-concluded AntWorks analyst retreat, ANTENNA 2020, this data challenge was the focal theme and was introduced immediately after the business update.
January, 2020