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Latest Reports
ServiceNow’s Veza and Armis Acquisitions Solidify Foundations for Enterprise AI Security
This paper analyzes ServiceNow’s acquisitions of Veza and Armis through the lens of enterprise AI risk, governance, and security readiness. As organizations scale generative AI and agentic AI, gaps in identity governance and exposure management are emerging as structural constraints rather than tactical security issues. By integrating Veza’s identity access intelligence and Armis’ predictive exposure management into its platform, ServiceNow is positioning itself to address these constraints holistically. The paper assesses the strategic implications of this convergence and its potential to reshape how enterprises govern, secure, and operationalize AI at scale.
Residual Value Forecast January 2026
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.
Data Center Managed Services 2025–2026 Market Insights™
The Data Center Managed Services 2025–2026 Market Insights™ assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any data center management project. The report also highlights key implementation challenges that enterprises face today
Reimagining Data Centers to be AI-Ready, Sovereign, and Sustainable
AI is reshaping how data centers operate by driving automation and improving operational efficiency, and at the same time, it is encouraging businesses to build facilities that can accommodate AI’s high compute demands with liquid cooling and modular power. Sustainability is now central, with enterprises adopting advanced energy monitoring, carbon emissions reduction practices, and circular IT models to meet ESG goals. Service providers are responding through generative AI, agentic AI, and AIOps-driven solutions to deliver resilience, efficiency, and accelerated modernization. Both demand-side and supply-side trends are covered in our Data Center Managed Services 2025–2026 Market Insights™ and Data Center Managed Services 2025–2026 RadarView™, respectively.
Data Center Managed Services 2025–2026 RadarView™
The Data Center Managed Services 2025–2026 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for data center managed services by offering detailed capability and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key data center managed services providers across practice maturity and future proofing, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right data center managed services partner. The 76 -page report highlights top supply-side trends in the data center space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
Finance and Accounting Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 Market Insights™
The Finance and Accounting Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 Market Insights assists organizations in identifying important demand-side trends that are expected to have a long-term impact on any F&A business process services project. The report also highlights the evolution of F&A functions with the integration of emerging technologies such as Gen AI.
Evolving from Cost Efficiency to Strategic Value Creation
The finance and accounting (F&A) outsourcing industry is now in a phase defined by the widespread operational deployment of advanced technologies, with providers moving beyond early-stage pilots to embed AI, Gen AI, ML, and intelligent automation into live delivery environments, driving measurable impact in efficiency, accuracy, and insights. This shift toward AI-native automation and analytics is reducing manual effort, accelerating reporting, and supporting more informed and strategic decision-making. Talent shortages and skills gaps are prompting organizations to partner with service providers for access to both technology and specialized finance expertise, while nearshoring and diversified delivery models are gaining traction, enabling enterprises to balance cost, agility, and collaboration. Both state of the market and supply-side trends are covered in Avasant’s Finance and Accounting Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 Market Insights™ and Finance and Accounting Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 RadarView™, respectively.
Finance and Accounting Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 RadarView™
The Finance and Accounting Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 RadarView™ assists organizations in identifying strategic partners for F&A business process transformation by offering detailed capabilities and experience analyses for service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key F&A service providers across practice maturity, domain ecosystem, and investments and innovation, thereby supporting enterprises in identifying the right service partner. The 70-page report highlights top supply-side trends in the F&A business process transformation space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
From Process to Experience: When Payroll Transformation Meets Humanity
Payroll is undergoing a fundamental shift from an invisible administrative function to a core pillar of employee experience and organizational trust. This article examines how earned wage access, real-time pay, automation, and AI are redefining payroll in a “pay-as-you-live” workforce. Drawing on enterprise examples and Avasant research, it highlights the growing role of personalization, governance, and human oversight in payroll transformation. It also highlights the need for payroll systems to strike a balance between automation and human judgment, ensuring accurate pay while also fostering employee trust and a sense of fairness.
IT Security, Cybersecurity, and Compliance Spending Benchmarks 2025
Over the last decade, cybersecurity has increased from approximately 2% of the IT budget to around 7%. And there is no sign that spending on cybersecurity will slow anytime soon. Just as enterprises get a handle on one attack vector, another one appears. Now, AI and quantum computing both promise new methods of defense and new methods of attack. Enterprises will continue to need to accelerate their cybersecurity spend to meet these new threats. Still, there is such a thing as throwing too much money at a problem. These cybersecurity benchmarks are designed to help organizations understand their IT security spend in relation to that of their peers to make informed executive decisions around security investments.
