HFS Hot Vendor: Working Solutions

Working Solutions profile

  • Lead Author: Melissa O’Brien
  • Product/Service/Hybrid: Product
  • Primary Emerging Tech: Workflow
  • Secondary Emerging Tech: Domain & Industry expertise
  • Functional Focus Business: Employee Experience
  • Functional Focus IT: Not applicable
  • Industry: Not applicable
  • Next Gen Delivery Models: Work from Anywhere
  • HQ Based: NA
  • Published: 2022 Q2
Working Solutions

While the pandemic accelerated work-from-home and crowdsourcing trends, these models have been maturing for decades. One early mover from long before lockdowns forced remote contact centers is Working Solutions, an onshore, completely “virtual” contact center BPO provider. The private company’s remote workforce includes sales, customer care, and technical experts providing multichannel customer experience (CX) services, analytics, and back-office support.

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IBM Consulting acquires Dialexa, strengthening digital product design services

IBM Consulting acquires Dialexa to enhance digital design services.

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Begin the low code journey by getting your teams working together from the start

In conjunction with KPMG, HFS looks at the drivers of low code in Europe and how daring leaders can succeed.

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HCLTech delivers lessons in OneOffice transformation

Lessons learned that could help make your transformation faster and more effective.

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Marketplace update means more specific UiPath solutions

UiPath enterprise users can expect a proliferation in custom and industry-specific solutions with changes to its “Marketplace”.

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MuleSoft aims to drive RPA discussions back to an end-to-end process

MuleSoft RPA is now integrated and available as part of the wider Salesforce platform.

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How to tell if your metaverse provider is just wearing new clothes

Metaverse mania is leading service providers to re-label established capabilities in the name of the latest fashion.

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What we can infer from UiPath’s purchase of Re:infer

UiPath’s acquisition of Re:infer broadens immediate access to communications mining and automation for customer teams.

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Low code isn’t a silver bullet, but it will change how you deliver value

Low code is changing how companies are planning to develop, modernize, and transform. But be wary of false steps.

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BlackLine walks the path with a global beverage company

This report discusses the business case of the CFO office of a leading global beverage company.

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NEVA Discover helps clients take a data-driven approach to redesigning processes

We discuss NICE’s latest offering and how NICE believes enterprises must take a data-driven approach to their processes.

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Point of View

The great GBS pivot: From process excellence to digital value at scale

The future of global business services is data-driven.

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Point of View

The Seven Pillars of Cloud Native Operations

Operationalizing cloud native transformation must become a boardroom priority. We explain why.

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Your cloud transformation will fail if it is not grounded in business objectives

To help envision and articulate the outcomes for cloud native transformation, we have identified six vectors.

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Skills shortage demands friendly digital help for stretched teams

Enterprises need industry-savvy digital help that their teams can direct with ease, and that pressured people see as friends.

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Data is the key to unlock a refreshed vision for managed services

A look at EY's angle on the managed services market opportunity.

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To drive value for companies, you must build collaborative ways of working

CIOs must build collaborative ecosystems to tackle today’s complexity, according to Tui Airline CIO Isabelle Droll.

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Framing sustainability: defining the global context and aligning ecosystems

We need focused collaboration. Everyone must be involved. The major ecosystem players must use their positions to lead.

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PwC brings distinctive domain expertise to overcome SAP migration challenges

PwC outlines its SAP services differentiator and approaches for a successful S/4HANA migration.

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“Unstoppable companies” need to adopt a new automation mindset

Market shocks highlight the value of designing to be “anti-fragile” — built not to shatter, but to benefit from shocks.

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Wipro ringfences its SAP consulting prowess with Rizing’s acquisition

Wipro’s Rizing acquisition complements its SAP services offering while cementing Wipro’s competitive position in the SAP market.

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Unisys shifts to delivering business outcomes as a nimble, unified company

Unisys leadership outlines how its structuring itself for success in 2022 and beyond.

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RCPG ecosystem strategies for the hybrid world

EY’s holistic approach to the future of retail.

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HCL delves deep into Avaloq with the Confinale acquisition

HCL goes deep on Avaloq - first an enhanced partnership and now its acquisition of Confinale.

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Point of View

Financial services firms can align entire ecosystems with sustainability

Financial services firms must collaborate throughout their ecosystems to fix the global sustainability context.

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Point of View

Web3 will go mainstream—when to expect it and how to prepare

What it will take to make Web3 real, what could derail it, and what is the near-term impact on your business?

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You must invest in your existing enterprise talent to remain viable

Enterprises find themselves with a dilemma: invest in upskilling and training existing talent or roll the dice with the open market.

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Tech Mahindra bets blockchain reputation on Web3 and metaverse

Tech Mahindra is organizing its blockchain competency to encompass metaverse, Web3, and NFTs, as well as blockchain solutions.

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Learn from the SaaS choices of OneOffice™ leaders. Part five—AI or automation tools

What SaaS do OneOffice leaders use? Part 5: Artificial intelligence (AI) or automation tools.

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Point of View

Web3 can finally deliver the internet’s promise of democratized experiences

Web3 brings the technological muscle, finally, to make the radical promise of the web an HFS OneEcosystem reality.

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Learn from the SaaS choices of OneOffice™ leaders. Part four—productivity or collaboration tools

Learn the choices of OneOffice enterprise leaders vs. those made by tactical laggards. Part 4—productivity/collaboration SaaS.

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Point of View

The right questions helped Novuna close its digital capabilities gap, with Workato

How Novuna saved millions and revolutionized how it works, with an automation and integration platform with Workato at its heart.

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Camunda rolls out a cloud-native platform for orchestration-powered automation

Workflow and decision-automation platform Camunda is updating with the intent to become your enterprise-wide process orchestrator.

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Point of View

Avoid the buffering wheel—heed experiences from cloud native transformation

Organizations must adapt their operational strategies to become cloud native.

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Learn from the SaaS choices of OneOffice™ leaders: Part three—software development tools

As part SaaS XXV, we identified choices made by OneOffice enterprise leaders. The focus this time is on software development.

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UiPath eyes integration prize, but customers still search for automation value

UiPath is dominant in RPA, but with its share price falling fast, it is desperate to carve itself a bigger role in the enterprise.

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Learn from the SaaS choices of OneOffice™ leaders: Part one—cloud partners

In this first in a series on the SaaS choices of OneOffice leaders, we focus on cloud partners.

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Stop fiddling with your old IT services architecture to be cloud native

HFS' research agenda for IT services is all about operationalizing the OneOffice.

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Celonis and IBM partner to deliver answers, not software, to enterprise clients

We connected with Celonis and IBM to understand their flagship partnership and how they help clients transform business execution.

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Start small with quick wins to scale automation in the enterprise

Learn from the experience of a senior manager leading the “digital workforce” at a US consumer products business.

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OneOffice™ and digital transformation in action: Energy trading

The trading team of a major global energy firm is paving the way for industry-wide digital transformations.

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Four imperatives prepare you for the next generation of finance and accounting

We cover four imperatives that the future finance leaders should consider to stay relevant.

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EXL and Skeps help lenders tackle the buy-now-pay-later market

EXL developed an end-to-end point-of-sale financing solution in partnership with Skeps to address the latest market demand.

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Market Analysis

IT Services/BPO merger and acquisition activities monthly snapshot—January 2022

A monthly rollup of merger and acquisition activity.

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PwC seeks to drive an innovation culture with their ProEdge upskilling offering

There is no topic more important than talent - how to attract it, cultivate it, and keep it.

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Skan wants to “x-ray” your organization to present the telemetry of work

Skan believes their approach to collecting data sets them apart from their peers.

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Simplicity and empathy are rewriting CX for the virtual economy

Key takeaways from a global roundtable that explored what firms are doing to re-imagine their CX-related processes.

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Data Viewpoint

Data is essential to success. Making sure you can integrate where data resides is critical

SaaS vendors must be able to show how customers can deploy integrate data with SaaS at scale to meet business and customer needs.

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WNS launches FINSIBLE to support high-growth fintechs seeking disruptor success

Growing fintechs need more than a good idea and investors with deep pockets. Operational excellence is essential to succeed.

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SME SAP S/4HANA clients risk migration delays if they wait on help from Tier-1 systems integrators

SME’s can consider mid-tier and niche services providers for their ERP migration; We discussed briefly on this.

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Point of View

The Great Resignation: Can our industry survive the great talent dearth?

Demand for talent at scale continues strongly, but where will we find the talent to deliver as The Great Resignation rages on?

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Point of View

Move beyond tactical RPA and embrace native automation

Take advantage of emerging technology and services to scale the value of collaboration into every process across every function.

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Data Viewpoint

IT/BPO industry is very much in the midst of a talent crisis due to higher attrition

IT/BPO industry is very much in the midst of talent crisis. Data shows greater resignation and higher attrition seen in Q3 2021.

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Kyndryl must convince enterprise customers of its relevance post IBM

Can the elephant in the room please be addressed, what will Kyndryl become after its separation from IBM?

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Point of View

CFO Vision 2025: Driving growth now and in the future

HFS F&A roundtable finds that finance cannot survive as a back-office function without focusing on driving strategic objectives.

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Making procurement’s vision a reality with smart technology investments

HFS roundtable finds that procurement must use technology to transform processes and find new sources to drive growth.

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M&A-fueled Nintex targets IT and Ops pros with a low-code fast-track to process outcomes

Bring together and enable IT and Ops pros if you want to deliver end-to-end process automation at pace and scale.

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Infosys claims it’s a European heavyweight now—as close to regional customers as any rival

Infosys argues it is as local as any rival in Europe, thanks to investment in capacity, boots on the ground, and innovation.

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HCL’s process observability can bring IT and biz ops together - if it gets over tech-centricity

HCL is making solid progress with its DRYiCE portfolio of AI and Automation solutions.

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With TQS buy, Cognizant bolsters its life sciences smart manufacturing capability

The highlight describes the rationale for Cognizant's acquisition of TQS

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WorkFusion and SS&C combine industry chops to tackle insurers’ straight-through processing challenge

WorkFusion is linking up with SS&C to replace document-heavy, labor-intensive insurance processes with data-led automation

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Point of View

You must rewire your customer experience for the virtual economy

Digital-first and human-centered design is the foundation of differentiated CX

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Insurers must make data-driven digital transformation the top priority

We organized a digital roundtable bringing together industry titans to understand how insurers are driving “straight to digital.”

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Cloud-hungry BFS enterprises need to navigate public cloud capabilities by value, not brand

As BFS firms push more strategic workloads to the public cloud, it's time to navigate your cloud partner by more than brand name.

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Data Viewpoint

Healthcare delivery models are going through a renaissance

Healthcare delivery models are going through a renaissance, reversing their current delivery paradigm and outsourcing more.

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Point of View

After 20 years, it is time to retire Agile

Agile promised accelerated software development and innovation for the business, but 20 years later it has failed to deliver.

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Data Viewpoint

Service providers vie to become software ecosystem orchestrators to transform BFS

BFS enterprises need to add “ecosystem orchestrator” to their shortlist of key capabilities for IT and business services partners.

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Point of View

Put smart decisioning at the heart of AI strategy to help cultivate your OneOffice future

How XpertRule's clients are improving CX and EX in tandem.

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Point of View

C-suite Power of One panel—change, cloud, climate, and culture

The HFS OneOffice™ Digital Symposium hosted an executive panel discussing the challenges and opportunities in 2021.

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Point of View

Unlock your business value with flawless operational processes

How Celonis is helping clients get past legacy silos and meaningfully embed the Triple-A Trifecta.

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Accenture acquires HRC Retail Advisory to expand retail strategy capability

Helping retailers accelerate their digitalization amid disruption.

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B2B leaders must get on track with Engagement AI or miss out on sales gold

The interface between humans and AI is getting more and more important thanks to applications with specific deliverables.

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Point of View

Digital leaders must build in rapid adaptability to win in today’s business ecosystems

How freight business TFG Transfracht built in the adaptability and interoperability to succeed in digital ecosystems.

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Leaders: Is diversity really on your agenda?

We outline the Diversity discussion of HFS Chief Marketing Officer Nischala Murthy Kaushik at the HFS Digital Symposium.

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Point of View

Cloud native seekers can still expect innovation @ scale from AWS

HFS looks at Amazon's AWS and how it blends innovation with a strong partner program to continue to be a market leader.

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Point of View

The Global Live Industry Roundtable: Shaping the 2025 Vision for Our Industry

Panel discussion to discuss some of the key future aspects of the outsourcing industry.

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TCS to launch Cognitive Plant Operations Adviser platform for process industries

TCS plans to launch manufacturing and process plant operations solution in September 2021 on a joint GTM with Microsoft.

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Point of View

Set structure and get business-wide buy-in to achieve value at scale with automation

Health services company Cigna is setting the pace for automation use at a strategic scale.

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When it comes to property & casualty insurance, Digital is Data

Perspectives from HFS, EXL, and a selection of its P&C clients on the data-driven future of the industry.

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As Public Cloud adoption heats up Services Providers jump on the Azure train to growth

Microsoft's pushing Azure with services providers building partnerships and talent to win the cloud war.

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With its NxT Digital acquisition, Mindtree aims to orchestrate connected enterprises

Enterprises want to work with partners who can bring in holistic solutions, along with the consulting expertise in IoT services.

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Xceptor drives industry-specific automation for BFSI firms fresh out of low-hanging fruit

One vendor embracing an industry-specific approach is Xceptor, a no-code data automation provider specializing in BFSI.

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Precisely acquires Winshuttle for process automation and data management

Data Integrity specialists Precisely add Process Automation and Master Data Management with the acquisition of Winshuttle.

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HGS’s Future of Smart CX is a quadruple-win proposition

HGS is doubling up on "win-win" with its cognitive cloud contact center.

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Atos launches COEs, converges decarbonization technology and services

Atos makes it clear: it wants to be the leading provider when it comes to decarbonization solutions.

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Point of View

Stop seeing 5G as a future technology in the industrial sector - it's here today!

This point of view explores the impact of 5G on the industrial sector along with leading use cases.

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Laiye eyes expansion with recent funding and new leadership

Discusses future roadmap of Laiye post its recent $50M Series C+ funding and appointment of International CEO.

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EY keeps it simple with its EdgeVerve alliance

Are your partnerships full of hot air? EY is keeping it simple with its latest alliance.

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Data Viewpoint

Supply chain will benefit from digital initiatives

Digital initiatives will drive positive impact on financial KPIs for supply chain, operations and procurement organizations.

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Camunda got to Mars. With $100m they can go further

Mars-mission business process automation firm lands $100m to go further.

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Point of View

Target segments and value chain activities to expand IoT services

As IoT-based projects in enterprises have begun expediting projects from the pilot phase to achieve their digital transformation goals, HFS believes now is the

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Sustainability services: HFS Research will map and define the ecosystem

Our mapping study will provide definition, understanding, and recommendations, for the sustainability services ecosystem

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Basware puts procurement pros on data-driven diversity fast-track

Basware has added diversity data to give enterprises a view of who's in control of companies they may plan to do business with.

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Point of View

Adopting Low Code or No Code solutions can help business and technology users adapt workloads and data to

We briefly discussed LCNC solutions on how it pivots enterprise's internal team collaboration and helps reach business requirements faster and in an agile

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HFS Highlight: KPMG Climate Accounting Infrastructure expands the sustainability proposition

KPMG is moving one step closer to a holistic sustainability services offering with it’s Climate Accounting Infrastructure.

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HFS Highlight: Optum’s IT Performance Services seek to address health plan and provider’s need to and

A review of Optum's new managed services offering exclusively for the healthcare industry.

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HFS Highlight: Appian bets on simplified pricing to scale enterprise impact

Cloud-native, low-code automation platform Appian announces a new ‘all-you-can-eat’ licensing model.

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HFS Highlight: Workato doubles down on Europe after surge in customers and use

Workato’s integration-led automation capabilities have made it a hit in Europe with a 289% increase in data use on its platform in the EMEA region in the last

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Point of View

To win trust, business leaders must take control of AI

Business leaders must understand how and why their machines make decisions so they can maximize their data strategies.

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Point of View

A Cloud Native mindset avoids swapping one technical debt for another

IT leaders can side-step costly challenges in cloud adoption if they maintain a OneOffice Mindset within a structured, innovation-focused journey to cloud - and

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HFS Highlight: Thirdera aims to create a global ServiceNow pure-play

Going against the usual approach of larger IT providers acquiring smaller, innovative players, private equity firm Sunstone Partners acquired three ServiceNow a

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Point of View

BFSI firms need to refine their FinTech programs to focus on outcomes rather than partner identification

HFS, with support from Capgemini, investigate how BFSI firms are approaching partnerships with emerging partners, particularly fintech start-ups and scale-ups

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HFS Highlight: Atos builds a Nest in Life and Pensions BPO

Nest is a platform for Atos to become a global force in L&P BPO

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Point of View

Automation Anywhere lobs a Hail Mary pass to Google, hoping to make its cloud-native automation dreams

The need to automate processes in the cloud to deliver the data clients simply “have-to-have” has never been so nagging as today, could a successful deliver

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HFS Highlight: WorkFusion’s Series F $220M war chest – a lot of money – not a lot of surprises

WorkFusion is becoming a vertical champion, scaling through depth rather than breadth with industry-specific solutions and a use-case-driven approach to GTM.

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Market Analysis

Merger and Acquisition Activities Monthly Snapshot – February 2021

A monthly rollup of merger and acquisition activity

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Point of View

Embrace a production mindset to drive AI at scale, utilizing a CoE

Wipro supports National Health Service Scotland to progress toward the institutionalization and large-scale application of AI

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Point of View

If the Cap fits, wear it: This is the new, reinvigorated Wipro

Wipro goes big and bold with its BFSI and consulting-driven acquisition of Capco

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HFS Highlight: IBM acquires Salesforce Platinum partner, 7Summits to bolster user-centric design

IBM acquires 7Summits to strengthen its position as a Salesforce transformation services partner

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HFS Highlight: EXL takes on the mission of crushing data silos in insurance

We recently connected with management from EXL’s L&A and P&C businesses to understand how they are helping their clients improve their dataflows.

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HFS Highlight: HCL launched cloud PLM solution to accelerate transformation for manufacturing clients.

HCL recently launched the 1PLMCloud solution to help manufacturing firms transform their computer-aided design (CAD) and product lifecycle management (PLM) into

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Point of View

Bust these process automation myths for success in 2021

The low down on process debt, digital natives, and automation in the cloud!

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HFS Highlight: Mphasis eyes an early-mover advantage with quantum computing

Mphasis has a vision for providing quantum solutions—but it needs to rapidly educate potential clients if it wants to get an early-mover advantage.

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HFS Highlight: Birlasoft is unlocking the power of digital through its eight pillars of growth

In December 2020, we attended the Birlasoft analyst and advisor day to know more about its overall strategy, key capabilities, and flagship client engagements

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Point of View

Turbocharge your enterprise's cloudification to survive and thrive the pandemic shock

HFS assessed, the enterprise leader’s investment preferences, the state of hyper-scalers, and the service providers who made the first move on the cloud, are

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Point of View

The rise of attended automation: how to get it right

As the OneOffice vision evolves beyond breaking down silos for better CX, the importance of EX and attended automation’s role are clear.

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HFS Highlight: WNS could finally make its mark on the crowded BFS space with its FinTech strategy

We spoke with WNS and some of their growing roster of disruptive clients to find out more about the provider’s unique move into the FinTech market.

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HFS Highlight: Benefitfocus’ Health Insights provide unique guidance to demonstrate ROI on health

Benefitfocus, a US-based benefits admin platform company has enhanced its platform with investments in AI and analytics driven Health Insights.

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HFS Highlight: Accenture continue to strengthen their Industry X with the acquisition of industrial firm

Accenture is constantly deepening its expertise in supply chain and digital manufacturing capabilities by making pivotal acquisitions into Accenture Industry X.

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Point of View

Explore seismic shifts in sustainability services for your green recovery

Our previous calls for enterprise leaders and service providers to get ahead of the sustainability services game is now a call to catch up.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: HCL’s innovative and business-impact oriented solutions are driving engineering services

Explores engineering capability and key client engagements of HCL in different segments of engineering services across industries.

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Point of View

Learn how Infosys helped Conagra deploy a Minimum Lovable Product (MLP)

Learn how Infosys is driving ServiceNow beyond the sweet spot in ITSM

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HFS Highlight: Five things you’ve always wanted to know about Accenture SynOps for Finance but were too

Five key aspects of Accenture SynOps for Finance to help you further understand and evaluate this comprehensive, yet complex solution

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HFS Highlight: WNS’ new Quote to Sustain and FIAB solutions aim to drive the Finance OneOffice

The “have-to-have” business environment has been well recognized by WNS, leading to its launch of two finance solutions that get to the heart of the Digital

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HFS Highlight: KPMG’s New Performance On Demand Solution Brings The OneOffice To The Mid-Market, With

KPMG referenced the HFS Digital OneOffice framework as the inspiration behind how it designed and envisioned its new solution, Performance On Demand (POD)

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HFS Highlight: Concentrix is investing in global WAH at scale for the long term

Concentrix aims to endure as a WAH leader

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HFS Highlight: HCL's DRYiCE software progresses toward the OneOffice

HFS assess the progress of HCL DRYiCE, a set of proprietary AI and Automation solutions

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HFS Highlight: Another Monday, another RPA acquisition, another ISV – Hyland shows it’s moving from

In Another Monday, Hyland has found the opportunity to break out from the content management mold.

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HFS Highlight: The Infosys pandemic pivot – how they transformed from media obsession to the safe pair

HFS shares its key take aways from Infosys’ September 2020 Virtual Analyst and Advisors Event

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Bosch launches GuardMe – a comprehensive, innovative, and compliant lone worker solution

This highlight discusses about Bosch GuardMe, a lone worker protection solution.

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HFS Highlight: Persistent Systems and IBM expand Cloud Pak collaboration

Persistent Systems and IBM forge a closer partnership to help enterprise clients meet their cloud ambitions.

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Point of View

Balance cost and quality for agile apps market success

The agile services market is punishingly competitive - we examine how buyers are scrutinising the value providers bring to their engagements.

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Point of View

CISO’s must carefully assess Accenture’s cyber spending spree

With cybersecurity pegged to sit high on C-Level agendas over the next 24 months, providers are working hard to buy in the capability they need to deliver new

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Point of View

Get inspiration on data monetization from Ellie Mae and Persistent’s innovative and client-focused

Business, data, and analytics leaders will find great value in Ellie Mae’s example of data modernization with the help of partner, Persistent.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Infosys positions BCP planning as a competitive differentiator for manufacturing clients

This report explains how Infosys is enabling BCP planning for its manufacturing clients.

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HFS Highlight: Atos scoops up AI-Driven Detection and Response firm Paladion

Atos recently announced intentions to acquire Paladion - helping the firm move into the competitive detection and response market.

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Point of View

Consider a big bang approach for your cloud and application transformation

Harmonic, a high-tech manufacturer, shared its journey from its complex and heavily customized legacy environment to a new and nimble cloud-based environment.

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HFS Highlight: Capgemini leverages emerging technologies and ecosystem to enable “Open and Portable“

This report explores how Capgemini is leveraging emerging technologies for client business transformation

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HFS Highlight: Capgemini prioritizes APAC region as the next growth engine

This report explores Capgemini's focus on APAC region

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Point of View

Poorly configured cloud: IT experts must plug vulnerabilities

In this report, we examine how configuration errors are at the root of many of the major cyber breaches.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Accenture and Singapore Changi Airport partner to launch world-class Digital Factory

In this PoV we discuss about Accenture Digital Factory that is helping the Changi Airport team to imagine, experiment and co-create digital products and

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HFS Highlight: HCL and Google team up to win the e-commerce market

In this report, we dive into how the recent partnership between HCL and Google is set to shake up ecommerce.

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HFS Highlight: Infosys BPM joins the three-comma club, crossing $1B in revenues

The business process services line at Infosys has officially crossed over a billion dollars in revenue, an important milestone with implications on the future a

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Point of View

Price cuts and flexible pricing models; it’s time to strike a deal with your provider

Current economic uncertainty has created an opportunity for enterprises to partner with leading service providers with more flexible pricing models.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Process automation enters a deeper dimension with Pega’s X-ray Vision

With technical debt and system complexity contributing to cumbersome processes, organizations need connective tissue across the disconnected systems that

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Point of View

Select a trustworthy blockchain service provider for a successful POC

Trust is the key ingredient for a successful partnership with a service provider when looking to move blockchain projects beyond the POC stage.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Accenture augments digital engineering capability with its acquisition of PLM Systems

This report explores how PLM Systems augments Accenture's Industry 4.0 capabilities

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HFS Highlight: One to watch: SD Worx steadily builds an HR-solutions powerhouse for the mid-market

After a 29% revenue increase in 2019, SD Worx has continued its growth and innovation strategy in 2020 to leverage a full suite of cloud, outsourcing, and data

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Point of View

Propel your business operations "Straight to Digital" with Digital Associates

How five companies are using digital associates to create better experiences for stakeholders

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HFS Highlight: Accenture’s getting people back to work through Covid-19 by powering the People + Work

This report takes a look at how Accenture is working with an alliance of CHRO's to help people get back to work.

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HFS Highlight: Cognizant enters Workday services market by acquiring Collaborative Solutions

Cognizant continues to make significant investments in 2020 – with a bold move to gain stronger talent base

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HFS Highlight: CSS Corp moves 100% of staff to work from home

In this report, we examine how CSS Corp managed to move 100% of its workforce to work-from-home at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic

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HFS Highlight: Luxoft’s Agility and DXC’s reach and infrastructure is paying dividends for clients

Find out how Luxoft and DXC have managed to support their clients change their working patterns in response to the conditions that the Covid-19 pandemic has

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Highlight Report

HFS HIGHLIGHT: Hexaware invests in cloud solutions to help clients through the post COVID-19 era

Recent HFS Research anticipates a spike in cloud investments as enterprises try to handle accessibility challenges with core systems.This article focuses on

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Point of View

Follow an integrated technology approach for a 5G-enabled supply chain

In this POV, we will discuss the benefits of a 5G-enabled supply chain and offer some examples from this space.

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Point of View

SBA and RPA: Could the real badly-behaved bot creators please stand up? Everyone is saying “It wasn’t

The SBA prohibited lenders from using RPA. And there is one big lesson for practitioners to learn from this, namely that automation cannot live in a vacuum.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Zensar introduces ZenTrust and ZenCare to help clients through Covid-19

As clients wrestle with the uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, Zensar comes to the market with two new solutions to lend a helping hand.

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Point of View

Healthcare ecosystems must rally around proven partners during COVID-19 to prepare for the aftermath, and

Providers are positioning themselves as central points for the COVID-19 response; collaborating now will prepare your ecosystems for future challenges

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Point of View

Enterprises should get used to constant process evaluation and WFH practices to survive not just the but

Taking a look at some of the best practices for process evaluations that enterprises should be taking during COVID-19 and beyond.

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Enterprises look to the cloud and cybersecurity to get them through COVID-19—smart providers will prep

Executives are planning to spend big on cloud to get them the accessibility they need in a widespread remote environment

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Providers must look to blockchain to fix the lack of supply chain transparency exposed by COVID-19

Providers must invest in and refine their blockchain solutions to win over clients looking towards transparent supply chains in the midst of COVID-19.

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Salesforce services providers must understand that client satisfaction, results from collaborative and

This POV presents the voice of the customer from the recent Salesforce Services Top 10 report, 2020.

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Accenture has added an arrow to its quiver with its Revolutionary Security acquisition; CISOs must take

COVID-19 means that now more than ever, it is important to invest in security as demand increases to support the growing number of work-from-home employees and

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Make security spending a priority during COVID-19: Enlist security service providers to secure your area

COVID-19 has caused chaos for enterprises, creating unprecedented challenges with the increase in employees working from home. These challenges have raised and

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Even if IT is from Mars and business is from Venus, they must work together to enable success with RPA

Old Mutual prioritizes IT and business collaboration to drive RPA success.

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COVID-19 will stall IoT, 5G, and edge spending: Telcos are the exception, and providers must get their in

Providers must prepare for a post-COVID-19 boom in IoT, 5G, and edge—telcos are a good place to double-down now as they expand their networks

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Front-office service providers must leverage smart investments to weather the COVID-19 storm

Front office services are set to be hardest hit, but providers are leveraging previous investments to rise to the challenge

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Building collaborative partnerships is key to success in the automotive industry

The automotive industry is one of the most competitive markets, this report examines how forming collaborative partnerships are helping some firm's emerge as

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Develop 3D printing services for continuity planning in manufacturing and healthcare supply chains

For BCP in manufacturing, healthcare, and any industry at risk of supply chain disruption, providers must arm themselves with 3D printing capability.

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Some vendors are stepping up to the mark by providing free access to home learning tools. Other vendors

IBM/Cisco and TCS are leading the way with free access to their remote access platforms to assist schools with remote learning as families are stuck at home due

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The retail and logistics industries must look to AI to prepare their supply chains for the impacts of

The COVID-19 crisis has shocked the retail and logistics sectors, who have been fighting around the clock to ensure that it did not impact day-to-day business

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Service providers should understand the changing business dynamics of the IoT and Industry 4.0 to stay of

Discuss the capabilities that enterprises look for before outsourcing a project related to IoT and Industry 4.0 and how this differs from service provider for

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Agile project managers must find partners with the brains and brawn to deliver—Cognizant acquiring its

Cognizant brings in more brains and brawn with the recent acquisition of Contino.

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COVID-19: Technology providers must support government and healthcare professionals in this time of - how

In this report, we have discussed how ServiceNow has come forward with new applications and offered continuous support to their community in various ways to the

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Enterprises must get creative with experience strategy to survive COVID-19

With quarantines and “social distancing” practices becoming commonplace, enterprise leaders need to adapt to this new way of life as well, re-thinking many

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Don’t you wish you’d done more? The digital workforce that wasn’t finally has a real chance to

As we all adjust to the new abnormal, this is the time for the digital workforce to shine.

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COVID-19: CIOs must balance the need for immediate remote access and chaotic cloud environments

In this report, we tackle the issue CIO's are facing today as they rush to accommodate remote working in the Covid-19 crisis.

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Organizations must learn how to work in this new paradigm of enforced home- working fast, or sink even

Decentralized teams from the tech giants have developed approaches and technology stacks that every enterprise should consider to help them to move more teams

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CX Providers must shift to digital integrated business services - Teleperformance’s TAP framework them

In this PoV, we highlight some of the key initiatives and client engagement details of Teleperformance and recommend pathways that other service providers must

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Service providers should maintain a cautious approach to deploying a non-linear pricing model in IoT

We analyze the present pricing landscape of IoT engagements and how service providers can prepare themselves for non-linear pricing models.

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Industrial IT projects must plan for providing and maintaining operational technology (OT) expertise

Providers can meet the OT requirements of industrial IT projects in several ways; just make sure your strategy covers and maintains all bases.

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COP26 will bring greater scrutiny on businesses’ sustainability; executives must partner with the now

Smart executives are already building out their ecosystem of sustainability experts and partners in preparation for COP26.

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When you think of Redwood software, don’t think “RPA”; think “finance automation” instead

Recently, HFS talked with Redwood Software about its decision to move away from “RPA” as its preferred focus area and move forward with “finance Redwood

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Finance leaders must adopt these five key AI transformation levers

In this report, we examine how the BFSI industry can adopt five transformation levers to get the most out of AI investments.

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Leverage engineering support services to drive digital engineering transformation initiatives

In this PoV, we discuss how the client leaders can make the digital switch happen in their organizations by using engineering support services as key and with

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Execute a focused acquisition strategy for capability augmentation to deliver Industry 4.0 services

The PoV analyzes the rationale behind the acquisitions in this space and provide pointers that service providers should keep in mind for Industry 4.0 focused

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GOAL! Enterprise AI leaders must use design thinking to make IT and business play AI as Total Football

Enterprise leaders must run all strategic AI and integrated automation scaling initiatives like Total Football, with IT and business playing on the same side

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Supply chain managers must embrace traceability; IBM’s double-down proves the tech and knowhow are

Supply chain managers now have more options on the table to meet the traceability and transparency that their customers and regulators demand.

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Drive business operations transformation in your organization with RPA by augmenting your workforce—not

HFS, with support from Capgemini, explores the power of the digitally augmented workforce

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Microsoft is saying “Game on!” to RPA vendors with Power Automate in its Power Platform–get ready

Microsoft recently announced the extension of Power Platform with robotic process automation (RPA) capabilities in Power Automate.

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Calling SIs, MSPs, and IT consultants: Google needs your domain expertise. Ramp up, engage, and build

HFS examines what Google is doing to increase its chances of success with Google Cloud platform and some recent developments in its services partner ecosystem.

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Unisys’ investment in security, automation and cloud capabilities moves the firm to stable growth, and

At a recent analyst event, we discovered how Unisys' strategy is paying off and helping the firm move back to stable growth.

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Enterprise leaders must rethink how they source talent. Wipro and Topcoder can show them how.

Sourcing talent is getting harder for enterprises and service providers alike. We examine how Wipro Topcoder clients are benefiting from it's unique

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Cybersecurity is everyone’s problem: Leaders, build up your ecosystems and cover all bases.

Security leaders must bridge the gap between policy, academia, vendors, service providers, and society... and do it quickly.

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HCL is going toe-to-toe with major IT services firms and winning: Enterprises must consider their to to

At a recent event, HCL brought two major clients in to talk us through their digital journey.

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Hexaware’s Mobiquity acquisition should change your digital design partner shortlist—here’s why.

This report examines the new capabilities and potential Hexaware's acquisition of Mobiquity and what this means for current and future clients.

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Change the game with verticalized AI: NIIT Technologies’ unique play as a post-digital firm

Enterprise AI leaders must leverage AI solutions at the intersection point of horizontal technical AI capabilities and vertical-specific depth.

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Learn these key differentiators that Alight gains from its acquisition of NGA Human Resources

Alight has announced its acquisition of HR and payroll expert NGA Human Resources (NGA HR). Here we outline some of the key benefits for clients.

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Enterprise AI Leaders Must Take a Consulting Driven Approach: Best Practices from Infosys

A key reason that many AI early adopters are not too happy with AI’s business value is that in several cases, the journey map had technology-first direction.

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SuccessFactors services providers and users: Get these five things right for success

In this POV we provide advice to clients and service providers in the SAP SuccessFactors market.

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Enterprise leaders must learn from the key priorities of Cognizant: Collaborate and co-create Solutions

HFS Research attended Cognizant's APAC Advisory Summit in Singapore. We believe Cognizant is focusing on building proprietary products by partnering with tech

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“Straight to digital” is not doomsday for smart service providers. Genpact just had its best quarter

Part one of two: HFS CEO Phil Fersht talks with Genpact's CEO and Chief Strategy Officer about their best Q in six years and strategic acquisitions.

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“Solv-e” your workforce models, or miss out on untapped talent

Can Concentrix disrupt the traditional CX services model with its Solv Crowdsourcing solution?

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Enterprise Leaders must take a "Show me the Money" approach while Buying AI solutions

Enterprises are struggling to go beyond POCs and pilots to make progress on this journey to enterprise-wide digitization using AI, analytics and automation- the

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Partnerships fuel the hyperconnected economy; service providers must be the brokers

Partnerships are all the rage these days: Service providers must be the ones to fuel collaboration between business, policy, academia, and society.

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IT Leaders must find the right partner to migrate to the cloud and tear down legacy data centers. Do DXC

As enterprises push more workloads and services into cloud environments, what happens to their empty data centers? We speak to two providers catering to the for

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BPO Service Providers: you’re facing Hobson’s Choice. Embrace Automation, or Prepare for Oblivion

BPO quality can be delivered in so many ways, but if you can’t leverage automation to do this at scale with significant cost reduction, you will be out of the

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Enterprise leaders must find providers actively investing in innovation across the ecosystem

Innovation is a top priority for enterprise leaders so its vital they learn to identify service providers who genuinely offer an innovation ecosystem.

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Disruption picks up pace in financial services—drive innovation or risk irrelevance

The explosion in fintech and other emerging technologies creates opportunities to radically overhaul business models and business practices.

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You must integrate Automation to achieve Genuine Scale: How arago HIRO’s approach is helping clients

The Triple-A Trifecta of automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and smart analytics has compelled the C-suites to address their business objectives. Goals

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Telcos should specialize IoT offerings for customer segment to succeed

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), billions of consumer and industrial devices are connected across the globe. Because connectivity is a critical

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Pharma firms must look to Cognizant’s growing capabilities as it invests in IOT and life sciences

Cognizant's recent acquisition of Zenith Technologies boosts it's capabilities in Pharma, but also in IoT.

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EMBRACE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND DATA-DRIVEN CULTURE TO DRIVE SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSFORMATION

Explains the characteristics and enabling technologies of the digital supply chain and guides an enterprise’s journey into this space.

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Minimize the "soul-crushing" work in Tax Management using AI at scale

HFS interviews KPMG’s Steve Rainey, Chief Innovation Officer, Tax, KPMG LLP. Steve has been a strong advocate for continually improving the company’s with

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Existing Genpact clients should engage smarter with the firm to digitize their operations

Genpact is evolving its digital offerings - this report examines how the firm's current BPO clients can leverage the firms growing offerings.

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Why you need an integrated automation focus to drive growth

This voice of the customer (VOC) report spotlights Indecomm Global Services, a provider of SaaS-based technology and services to the mortgage industry, and its

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Security Leaders: You Must Share Corporate Mindshare Across the Virtual and the Physical, or Risk

Enterprise leaders and the growing population of chief information security officers must act now to ensure their cybersecurity policy stretches to physical are

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Biometric Security Isn’t Just a Fad; Security Executives Must Look at Evolving Solutions to Secure

Biometric security solutions are evolving, and in many cases, they are becoming commonplace—security executives must examine the growing market for solutions

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How a smart combination of Blockchain and IoT can improve your workplace safety and lower insurance costs

Improve worker safety, eliminate compensation payouts, and slash insurance costs through a combination IoT & Blockchain.

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Leverage the power of “and” to deliver your integrated digital business strategy

This voice of the customer report showcases two enterprise examples of businesses that are embracing integrated automation to digitally transform their

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Enterprises can’t afford to be (totally) cynical when it comes to academia

Very few enterprises are actively taking steps to address their talent shortages. Capture the value on offer in academia by taking a proactive step.

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WNS makes an eye-opening shift from outsourcer to operations partner

WNS and its clients describe “co-creating” on the path to transformation.

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10 imperative actions to get ahead of People, Power, and Politics in AI

The 3P challenges - People, Power distance and Politics - can eat the best of AI algorithms and solutions for breakfast, lunch and dinner. These softer than the

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Solve your AI talent challenges with crowdsourcing and gamification: Five practices to follow

Enterprise AI leaders and their HR or talent practice partners will have to fundamentally shift their thinking from “hiring” AI talent to dynamically the to

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Differentiate innovations in technology and pricing to thrive in telecom engineering services

The challenges telecommunication players face and how service providers can use technology innovation to overcome these challenges.

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Sourcing executives must warm up to shoring in Mexico

This report examines the future of Mexico as a major sourcing destination.

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Preparing for AI at scale: How an enterprise is using LTI’s Mosaic to raise its ML game

Deploying machine learning at a global scale is a growing challenge for AI adoption. This POV details the challenges, and an enterprise's approach to ML with

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Enterprises must focus equally on physical and cyber security threats, or else risk embarrassing security

Enterprises must focus equally on physical and cyber security threats, or else risk embarrassing information security blunders.

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Cut Through Innovation Center Hype to Maximize Value

How to make the most of your innovation center visit.

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Don’t assume your analytics partners will still be effective as you embrace smart analytics

A deep-dive into the key demand-side perspectives that emerged from client interviews from our recent smart analytics research.

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Memory Networks Part I: Fix your AI’s goldfish memory by putting memory networks on your radar

Deep learning networks are the apex of AI sophistication, but don't have the equivalent of a memory. Without some type of memory, DL networks are incapable of

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Kofax Makes the Most Serious Investment Yet in Intelligent Automation with NDI and TIS, but Does the

Earlier this month, Kofax closed its acquisition of Nuance Document Imaging (NDI) at a price tag of $400 million. It also entered a definitive agreement to Top

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Competitive Intelligence

OneOffice Vendor Assessment - DXC Technology

An enterprise-focused analysis of DXC Technology that highlights it’s business strategy, financials, contracts, clients and strengths & weaknesses.

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NRF’s Big Show: Put experiences at the heart of retail strategy

HFS' coverage of Retail's BIG show, where retailers come together to gear up for the hyper-connected economy

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No-deal Brexit will Paralyze Data Initiatives for Multi-nationals

With no-deal Brexit increasing in likelihood, we examine the potential data crisis that a lack of GDPR compliance could bring

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Avoid Garbage in, Garbage out: AI Leaders Must Focus on Business Outcomes, not Algos

With a third of enterprises pushing for increased adoption of AI we examine why you must make sure your AI initiatives have adequate bias mitigation.

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Learning from the Birds and the Bees: Start Looking at Swarm AI to Harness the Power of Human Insights

Swarm AI is helping organizations make complex decisions that require tapping into the collective opinion of large groups of people.

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Medopad and Babylon Health: Start-ups Help Patients Become Smarter and More Forward-Looking with Their

We look at two start-ups transforming how healthcare is approached to boost outcomes and support providers’ operational and delivery models.

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Why your firm must embrace Explainable AI to get ahead of the hype and understand the business logic of

The growing sophistication and complexity of AI systems is making the need for "explainable", or transparent, AI models ever-more pressing.

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Solutions Portfolio and Close Client Relationships Are Priorities for Software Product Engineering

Voice of the Customer: Software Product Engineering Services. We spoke with more than 30 clients to understand their experiences working with service providers

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Enterprise Leaders Must Look to Cognitive Assistant Services as a Critical Building Block for the Digital

Cognitive assistants have become a crucial element of the digital business operations ecosystem.

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Visual Data Labeling Is Crucial To Your Computer Vision Project

As visual data labeling advances, computer vision will be thrown open to every business looking for AI-driven competitive advantages.

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Making Blockchains Real with EY’s Paul Brody

The promise, the hype, and the reality around Enterprise Blockchain adoption in an unadulterated conversation with Paul Brody, the Global Innovation Leader for

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HfS Industry Blueprint: Utility Operations 2018

The report examines the state of the utility industry and investigates how the service provider landscape is supporting and enabling the digital transformation

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A reality check on who is winning the IoT platform battle

This PoV focuses on the top 5 most used IoT platforms who are the current "winners" in the IoT platform space

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It’s time to drive much more strategic value from ServiceNow engagements: Here’s how

Capturing the dulcet voice of the buyer to help the ServiceNow ecosystem drive better results

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You’ll never be a Digital Enterprise until...

you’ve Integrated your Digital and Traditional Customer Channels.

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Salesforce acquiring MuleSoft issues a death threat to service providers

Salesforce has made its largest-ever acquisition, as is takes aim to become the defacto one-stop-shop customer enterprise management suite.

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Services expertise and industry knowledge are top priorities for Automotive Customers

Voice of the Customer: Automotive Engineering Services

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Retailers: you must embrace digital in your physical environments too

…or fall behind your competitors’ digital capabilities for boosting customer experience and driving in-store sales.

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How to survive when your IT skills become irrelevant

How will IT professionals and leaders survive in the new digital world that's making all of their traditional IT Skills irrelevant?

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Is the Infrastructure Services Market Doomed?

A report examining what dynamics are really at play in the infrastructure services space, and whether the doom and gloom narrative is deserved.

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Telcos: Co-Innovate to Create and Replenish Evaporating Revenue

This Point of View provides a view of major telecommunication industry and global services market trends with an eye toward encouraging co-innovation.

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Introducing F&A 3.0: Emerging Technologies to Change the Face of F&A Forever

As one generation of services grinds to a halt, another is quickly ramping up to drive what we at HfS are calling F&A 3.0.

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Who’s Winning the Battle of Enterprise Blockchain Platforms?

The foundation for any blockchain solution is its underlying platform or framework, which sets the rules of the game. This PoV focuses on the top 5.

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The Impact of Digital on IT Consulting. Has it reached Terminal Velocity?

How is the cost of consulting being impacted by the growing demand for digital consulting services and the corresponding talent crunch.

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Services and Pricing are Top Priorities for Aerospace Engineering Services Customers

This report outlines client buying behavior and preferences in the aerospace engineering services market.

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Generali Case Study: Every Insurer Needs a Solid Foundation for Digital

How building a digital foundation is essential to the success of the modern insurance company.

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Allianz Takes an Ecosystem Approach to Intelligent Automation

The diversity of customers now trialing and adopting Intelligent Automation exposes the complexity and challenges of doing it right.

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Cyber Security Services: What's in Store for 2018?

A number of the main predictions of drivers for investment in cyber security services in 2018.

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Radical Operating Model Transformation in Oil and Gas

A multitude of forces is reshaping the oil and gas industry that push the industry to re-imagine the way it operates.

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Mergers and Acquisitions: Clients Deserve Better

Based on qualitative feedback from clients, this report examines the impact of the recent spike in M&A activity for a range of client engagements

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The Blockchain Reality Check: Where Are We and What Can We Expect in 2018?

This PoV assesses the challenges that pioneering enterprises face in adopting blockchain and highlights several initiatives underway to manage these

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Can Genpact Pivot from Operations Execution to Digital Innovation?

Genpact's brand refresh includes investments in AI and design-- now it will have to bring the story together for clients.

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Taking the Robots out of Humans – A New Liberation in the Anvil

A write up of our recent conversation with Malcolm Frank and Dr. Mary Lacity on Automation, Blockchain and much more

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Navigating the AI Hype with a Clearer Segmentation

As buyers remain confused about AI, narratives need to leverage clearer segmentations

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The Power Of A Generative Ecosystem in Health and Human Services

Examples of how ecosystems are delivering impact in CA, KY, NC, and Ontario for citizens through health and human services.

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Growth Beats Cost-Cutting As Insurance Stares at Disintermediation

"Voice of the customer" trends coming out of the Insurance As-a-Service Blueprint 2017, based on interviews with 24 insurance services executives

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Concentrix’s Tigerspike Acquisition Adds Digital Design

Tigerspike adds enterprise mobility design and engineering capability for crafting user experiences with Concentrix and clients.

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Pushing the CX Envelope Supported by SaaS and Mobile

This report dives into the trends impacting the application services market uncovered during the Application Development and Management Blueprint.

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Cultivating Business Outcomes In BFSI: The EXL Evolution

HfS sees a thoughtful front presented by EXL at its BFSI analyst day, rooted in its analytics strength and industry process expertise.

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SuccessFactors Services: A Growth Market That Requires Strategic Thinking

This report outlines client buying behavior and preferences in the SAP SuccessFactors services market.

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F&A Services is a Buyer’s Market – Choose Your Destination Wisely

Is F&A outsourcing a commodity or is it being reimagined? It’s really the buyer’s choice.

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Growth Depends On A Company's Ability to Reinvent Culture

Recreating the employee experience to enable change and growth.

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Collaborative Partnership Drives Digital Transport Firm Forward

This report examines the collaborative partnership formed between a global technology provider and a digital transport firm.

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An interview with Sanjay Srivastava, Chief Digital Officer at Genpact

A unique business process management provider can raise the bar when it comes to Digital Operations

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Consulting Never Dies: The Key to Successful Post-Digital IT Services

This report dives into the trends impacting the digital consulting market uncovered during the Digital Technology Strategy and Consulting Blueprint.

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Competitive Intelligence

A Buyers' Guide to Genpact (2017)

A buyer focused view of services capabilities of Genpact

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Client Investments in CX and Security Are Likely to Keep Consultants Busy

A report analysing the quantitative and qualitative data gathered in the recently published Digital Technology Strategy and Consultancy Blueprint.

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The need for end-to-end solution partners in Engineering services

This report outlines client buying behavior and preferences in the embedded and semiconductor engineering services market.

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The Human Side of RPA: the Prudential Story of Change Management

An interview with Adrienne Peseller who leads change management at Prudential, where the digital workforce is in the employee directory.

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Infrastructure and Cloud Services

A report looking at the quantitative and qualitative client data gathered in the recently published infrastructure and enterprise cloud Blueprint.

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How Illinois is designing citizen-centric operations for better service

Hardik Bhatt, CIO, Illinois, shared the on-going journey for change in serving and creating better outcomes for the foster children, families, and caseworkers

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The Thirteen Smart Technologies Shaping Industry 4.0

This PoV discusses thirteen smart technologies shaping Industry 4.0 based on a study of 500+ engagements across 12 service providers.

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HfS Blueprint: Energy Operations 2017

The Energy Operations Blueprint covers IT, BPO and Engineering Services in the oil and gas industry, trends, market activity and 13 service providers.

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Moving beyond the numbers in healthcare to drive and measure change

While metrics are important, outcomes can’t just be measured in numbers if you want to effect real change.

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Why Don't IoT PoCs Scale Up?

While many enterprises we talk to are interested in IoT, many of the specific projects fail to move beyond Proof of Concept (PoC)

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Top 10 Report

HfS Blueprint Report: Design Thinking In The As-a-Service Economy 2017

An analysis of how Design Thinking principles and methods are being integrated into Operations and Outsourcing.

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Point of View

How Will NIIT Technologies Move from Survive to Thrive?

NIIT's Five Tenets and Digital E3 create a credible but yet unproven approach for transformation from tactical to consumer-centricity.

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Point of View

Can Capgemini’s ODIGO Shed New Light on Customer Experience?

Capgemini begins to emphasize integrating the ODIGO interaction platform with business process services.

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Infosys Confluence Spotlights Delights that Need Cohesion

The San Francisco Infosys Confluence Summit has taken on a cultish culture, vaguely reminiscent of Salesforce’s Dreamforce.

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IBM Culls the Pack of Salesforce Partners by Buying Bluewolf

The pool of Salesforce services partners is a little smaller after IBM acquires pure-play Bluewolf. We examine the logic for the deal and what it needs to

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Loop AI Advances Intelligent Automation Continuum Toward Deep Learning

Loop AI’s main product provides fully unsupervised deep learning. Requiring no human supervision, the platform automatically interprets natural language and a

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Point of View

Digital Natives: Rethinking Trusted Consumer Engagements

In this session of the #CXforum, HfS sat down with Dennis DeGregor of HPE to discuss the rise of digital natives and the impact this is having on managing

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Point of View

Accenture Prepares To Ingest Boomerang Pharmaceutical Communications

Boomerang moves into Accenture Consulting because of its strong connections and depth in the Life Sciences industry.

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Delivering MRO in the As-a-Service Economy

In the last in our series on MRO, we focus on opportunities the As-a-Service Economy will create for MRO to become an agile enterprise capability.

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Can Dell IPO to Cyber Security Dominance?

Dell’s pending acquisition of RSA (via EMC) and the IPO of SecureWorks could position it as a market leader in both security and digital trust.

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HPE BPS Still Needs a Clear Differentiator in Move to As-a-Service Economy

HPE's BPS unit is making important investments to prepare for the As-a-Service Economy.

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Can Utilities Energize Their Operations with More Customer Centricity?

Services buyers are making progress toward modernizing their utilities operations and collaborating with service providers to make the shift.

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Fostering a Design Thinking Culture

An initial assessment of our research that we will share through a forthcoming study unveils that a number of sourcing service providers are on the path to how

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Will Partnerships and Mergers Breathe Life into Consumer Health Engagement?

Sourcing providers increasingly tap into the specialty expertise of consumer health engagement players to gain more insight and connection with consumers and of

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What Matters to HfS at Dreamforce '15

Dreamforce '15 promises to be a bigger extravaganza than ever before, so HfS has decided to focus our time there researching 4 key trends that are important to

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Salesforce.com Providers: Time to Thrive or Die in the As-a-Service Economy

Research for our forthcoming Salesforce Services Blueprint has identified what service providers need to do in order to meet new emerging customer demands.

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Oracle Acquires Maxymiser: Is this 'Max' Personalization at Scale?

Oracle’s recent acquisition of personalization and behavioral targeting firm Maxymiser is in line with our vision of the emerging “end-to-end” ecosystem,

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Expertise & Ecosystems: A Conversation with Jennifer Barry McGrath of Concentrix

A conversation with Jennifer Barry McGrath, Global Industry and Influencer Engagement for Concentrix, on the value of vertical expertise and ecosystems to in

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Loyalty & Ecosystems: A Conversation with Dan McCue of Sutherland Global

Dan McCue, SVP of F&A BPO, Sutherland Global Services, shares his thoughts on what it takes to be nimble, agile, and a true partner that enables enterprise in

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Personalization and Transformation: A Conversation with Jesus Mantas of IBM Global Process Services

A conversation with Jesus Mantas, General Manager of IBM Global Process Services, recorded at our As-a-Service Working Summit, on the impact of personalization

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Can BPO Providers Make “Business Cloud” More than a Dream in Healthcare?

HfS Research shows that 67% of healthcare & pharma executives will use "business cloud" if the solution that gives them speed to value. A number of service are

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Can Today’s Providers Deliver the Elements of Digital Trust?

BPO and IT managed security providers (MSPs) must offer security solutions that enable enterprise and brand outcomes, directly reinforcing and improving the and

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The Costs of Automation

The journey into the As-­a-­Service Economy is a risky one with many bumps to be hit on the road ahead. Organizations not only run the risk of being disrupted

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Deconstructing The Rapidly Maturing RPA Conversation

The discussions around RPA are rapidly advancing, reflecting an increased market maturity as concepts quickly evolve into actual solutions.

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Three Factors That Will Catalyze KPMG’s Data & Analytics Growth

KPMG has recognized that at the breakneck pace of the analytics market, it needs to place its bets carefully and play in its sweet spots. Its asset-led growth

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The Rise of Design Thinking

HfS believes Design Thinking will become an integral capability for service providers in the As-a-Service Economy who are looking to make fundamental changes to

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Recasting the Patient Billing Experience with Design Thinking

Sutherland is using a design thinking approach to recast the patient’s billing experience for a client: to increase patient satisfaction & loyalty; engage in

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IPsoft Acquires ab1 Group Recognizing the Transformational Character of Process Automation

HfS believes that the discussion of RPA and autonomics needs to recognize the transformational opportunities of and requirements for these technologies.

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How To Bring Partner Logo Slides To Life

For service providers working with start-ups isn’t about finding the coolest things first, it’s about knowing the real needs of their clients and finding

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Net Gain for SaaS Buyers: New Partnership Promises Sustained Integrations

No one single software can run all operations so a commitment by Ultimate Software and NetSuite to maintain all existing and future integrations including at no

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Digital Opportunity In Asia-Pacific

Digital appears to be a significant opportunity in Asia-Pacific but surprisingly it is not on the radar screens of many regional service providers.

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Workforce Support Services Demand Diversity

Beyond attractive locations HR service centers must support diversity in all forms from language and culture to SaaS and managed services. A clear human capital

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EXL Acquires RPM Direct For Insurance Marketing Secret Sauce

EXL just announced its intention to acquire RPM Direct, a specialized provider of marketing analytics to property & casualty, life, and health insurance

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Doing Less with More: New Research Shows that Simplifying Workforce Support Services Drives Better

The worker and what motivates her has not been adequately acknowledged nor addressed in much of the modern workplace. HfS employee experience research offers to

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Power to the People: Practical Perspectives on the Workplace

To help bust on-going economic and workplace malaise, HfS conducted survey research of nearly 5,000 people working worldwide to help businesses understand what

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Mastering the Digital Media Challenge: How Centro Helped an Ad Agency Unlock Growth

By working with Centro, a mid-size ad agency was able to master digital media operations and offer comprehensive solutions to their clients, gaining >50% and -

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