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  • MoneyShot ME2021 2022 - Remote Learning—a Strategic Priority for Educational Institutions

    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

  • healthcare claims image - Avasant Digital Forum: Digital First Healthcare: Re-Imagining the Customer Value Chain

    Avasant Digital Forum: Digital First Healthcare: Re-Imagining the Customer Value Chain

    The Healthcare business teams need the correct data in-hand to serve customers faster and more efficiently. Today, they are dependent on vastly distributed and complex systems which do not provide real-time views with business context. Without business context it’s impossible to derive meaningful actionable insights in order to improve customer experience or fuel business growth. Rising cost complexities, interconnected systems and mounting regulatory pressures makes it imperative to know not just what went wrong, but why it went wrong in real-time. Simply looking at IT observability provides limited value to business operations teams.

    March, 2021

  • ISS2020 21Fullstudy - IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2020-2021: Full Study

    IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2020-2021: Full Study

    Our IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks study for 2020/2021 provides a comprehensive view of the current state of IT budgeting and staffing levels for business and governmental organizations in the U.S. and Canada, based on our 31st annual survey. Detailed metrics are provided by organization size and by industry sector.

    July, 2020

  • Deploying Low-Latency Applications in the Cloud

    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

  • ows21 featured - Avasant Key Sponsor of IAOP OWS21

    Avasant Key Sponsor of IAOP OWS21

    The COVID-19 pandemic caused major disruption for service providers and customers alike. Many customers found that their provider contracts did not include clauses to address things like work-from-home, unavailability of key resources, etc. This presentation will outline lessons learned during the recent pandemic in contract negotiation and how future contracts should be revised based on these lessons learned.

    February, 2021

  • InsFig1 - The Mandate for Growing IT Spending in the Insurance Industry

    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

  • featured - Computer Economics: Worldwide IT Spending and Staffing Outlook for 2021

    Computer Economics: Worldwide IT Spending and Staffing Outlook for 2021

    Despite the chaos of 2020, the outlook for 2021 is surprisingly positive. IT organizations are expecting budget growth and to consolidate the changes made in the past turbulent year. This year, our report assesses IT operational and capital spending plans, executive priorities for IT investment, and plans for hiring and outsourcing for IT organizations worldwide.

    March, 2021

  • Expectations for Change in IT Operational Budgets, Worldwide

    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

  • Fig4RB2ITsalary2021 - IT in PJs Here to Stay, Post-Pandemic

    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

  • FigLongtermITspenidngRB - Cloud Migration Leads to IT Staffing Decline

    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

  • featured image gcc - Avasant Digital Forum: Future Proofing your Enterprise: Enabling Digital Transformation in the New GCC Economy

    Avasant Digital Forum: Future Proofing your Enterprise: Enabling Digital Transformation in the New GCC Economy

    As the GCC region recovers from the global pandemic it is emerging as the world’s foremost digital economy. Rapid Digitalization is enabling regional businesses and governments to transform and thrive in the post-COVID world. Digital transformation is a catalyst for this recovery and adopting a combination of AI, Automation, Analytics, Cloud and Mobility will enable the regional firms to stay ahead of the competition.

    March, 2021

  • Technology Risk-Reward Analysis

    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