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AI and Cloud Infrastructure Show Greatest Jump in Investment Priorities in 2022
After a relatively slow burn in recent years, more companies are now embracing artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and projects, as shown in our annual Technology Trends survey. In the survey, AI showed impressive gains in both adoption and investment rates, compared to our survey in 2021. This Research Byte provides a look at the AI adoption and customer experience profile, as well as an overview of our full study, Technology Trends 2022.
April, 2022
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Worldwide Technology Trends 2022
This major study provides insight into the customer experience and adoption rates for 14 technologies that are top-of-mind for IT leaders worldwide. The study also delves into the satisfaction level of the customer experience and the specific types of solutions under consideration. With this information business leaders are in a better position to assess the potential risks and rewards of each of these technologies. They also can gain insight into just how aggressively competitors and peers are making these investments. Looking forward, we also explore 19 future and early adopter technologies (146 pp., 105 figs.).
April, 2022
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IT Security Staffing Ratios 2022
High-profile security attacks and the impact of remote work continue to put pressure on IT security personnel. This report presents the five-year trend in IT security staffing and provides benchmarks for understanding the IT security staff head count. We analyze IT security staffing in terms of the number of applications, users, and network devices. Our analysis also includes the influence of organization size and sector on staffing requirements. We conclude with recommendations for optimizing IT security staffing. (21 pp., 9 fig.)
April, 2022
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Organizations Hire More In-House Staff to Mitigate Security Risks
High-profile security attacks and the impact of remote work continue to put pressure on IT security staff. Although the use of IT security services remains a popular strategy, our research shows that over the past two years there has also been an increasing demand for in-house security personnel. This Research Byte looks at the factors behind this trend.
April, 2022
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Digital Reinvention for Next-generation Banking Business Models
Macroeconomic factors such as volatile interest rates, financial and geopolitical crises, and lower GDP growth forecasts among advanced economies are putting significant pressure on banks . With the growth of fintech and digital-only banks, traditional banks are being challenged to reinvent themselves. Banks need to invest in artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics in order to look at new business models and hyperpersonalized customer experience. These emerging trends are covered in Avasant’s Banking Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™.
April, 2022
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Banking Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™
The Banking Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView addresses banks’ needs and helps them identify and adopt the right technologies combined with appropriate implementation strategies. The 112-page report also identifies key service providers and system integrators to help banks in their digital transformation.
April, 2022
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Factors Affecting DevOps Engineer Staffing Levels
DevOps is a natural extension of agile development into the deployment and operational phases of the system life cycle. It has been a way of life among modern, cloud-native software developers, and it is starting to become popular within enterprise IT organizations as well, especially those that invest in custom software development. Yet, even among such enterprises, DevOps engineers are a small percentage of the total IT staff. This Research Byte outlines the reasons for this.
April, 2022
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DevOps Engineer Staffing Ratios 2022
DevOps is a natural extension of agile development into the deployment and operational phases of the system life cycle. It has been a way of life among modern, cloud-native software developers, and it is starting to become popular within enterprise IT organizations as well. This report provides metrics for benchmarking DevOps engineer staffing levels in the current environment. We provide four benchmarks by organization size and sector: DevOps engineering staff as a percentage of the IT staff, users per DevOps engineer, and applications per DevOps engineer. We conclude with recommendations on optimizing DevOps engineer staffing levels. (23 pp., 9 fig.)
April, 2022
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Exponential Data Growth Finally Spurs Demand for Data Management Staff
The data explosion continues to drive an increase in data management staffing. This Research Byte examines the reasons for the growing trend and provides a summary of our full report on data management staffing ratios.
April, 2022
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Data Management Staffing Ratios
has increased significantly. In this study, we use four benchmarks to assess data management staffing levels: data management staff as a percentage of the IT staff, data management staff as a percentage of the Application Group, users per data management staff member, and applications per data management staff member.
April, 2022
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Current Fair Market Values April 2022
Our Fair Market Value (FMV) report provides data for the following categories of equipment: (1) IBM mainframe and midrange hardware and IBM peripherals; (2) Workstations, PCs, and servers from Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM/Lenovo, Lexmark, Okidata, Silicon Graphics, Sony, Sun, and Toshiba; (3) Network Communication gear from Cisco, Bay/Nortel, IBM, Intel, Lucent, and others. Fair Market Values are provided for end-user, wholesale, and orderly liquidation values (OLV) prices.
April, 2022