HFS Hot Vendor: Ema

Ema profile

  • Lead Author: Suhas A R
  • Product/Service/Hybrid: Product
  • Primary Emerging Tech: Agentic AI
  • Secondary Emerging Tech: GenAI
  • Functional Focus Business: Cross-functional (customer operations, employee experience, sales, finance)
  • Functional Focus IT: Not applicable
  • Industry: Not applicable
  • Next Gen Delivery Models: Services-as-Software
  • HQ Based: Mountain View, California
  • Published: 2026 Q2
Ema

Ema earns the HFS Hot Tech status for AI employees that execute multi-step workflows across enterprise systems.

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Highlight Report

Rackspace-Palantir partnership offers CIOs a rapid route to AI at scale

Rackspace and Palantir partner with the promise of scaled productionized AI with hard ROI attached.

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Highlight Report

Treat infrastructure as the AI control plane or watch transformation stall

Infrastructure must become the AI control plane - governing cost, trust, and performance across the enterprise.

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Point of View

AI is not the end of work, but the start of a new chapter

We are already so invested in AI that there is no turning back. The impact on our personal lives is no longer up for debate.

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Point of View

How wide is your firm’s AI Velocity Gap?

Agentic AI will revolutionize individual productivity within 18 months, but your enterprise transformation is about to hit a wall.

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Innovation Case Study

US lender rewires collections, cost, and compliance with Firstsource UnBPO

Firstsource helped a leading US non-prime lender to build an AI-ready recoveries model without touching core systems.

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Highlight Report

CTOs, make blockchain your core infrastructure with proven production partners

This piece delves into the findings of our Blockchain Horizon and discusses the trends that the study uncovered.

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Enterprise Asset

Operational Playbook: Health plans have no purpose in owning CAPS anymore; outsource for outcomes now

Health plans have no reason to continue to maintain multiple CAPS; leverage Services-as-Software to source for outcomes.

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Point of View

EU enterprise leaders must use the new trade deal to scale GCCs in India

European Union (EU) enterprises will find India-based GCC decisions easier to approve, faster to staff, and simpler to run.

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Highlight Report

Stop siloed rollouts and mandate operating model change to scale Blue Yonder

EY has reframed the Blue Yonder adoption journey as a business-led transformation, not an IT-led implementation.

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Point of View

CPOs must unite enterprise processes, platforms, and people for AI-enabled outcomes

This S2P Horizon POV explaining the enterprise CPO challenges, how the service providers resolving with AI-driven solutions.

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Take 5 Report

Vibe coding in UK&I firms: Success hinges on embracing new ways of working and open governance

A survey of 100 UK&I leaders finds most firms lack the culture and talent to scale vibe coding without open governance.

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Highlight Report

Sonata’s Agentbridge turns process blueprints into multi-agent automation

Sonata's Agentbridge responds to the multi-stakeholder enterprise challenges of accelerating agentic AI.

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Point of View

Fleet COOs should invest in truck autonomy before the driver shortage impact

Fleet operators must collaborate with truck manufacturers and roll out autonomous trucks to address labor shortage, safety issues.

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Highlight Report

CxOs: Force Hitachi to prove GlobalLogic and HDS actually work as one partner

Hitachi has to prove that the merger of GlobalLogic and HDS can be executed without destroying what makes them valuable.

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Challengers' Code

Tear up your Tier-1 playbook: How Quinnox is rewiring enterprise service delivery

CIOs learn how Quinnox's Services-as-Software model rewires AMS delivery for faster resolution and measurable throughput gains.

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Point of View

Why the US is currently ceding the AI arms race to China

We lay out why the balance is tipping in China’s favor, and what the US must urgently rethink if it wants to regain the initiative.

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Point of View

CIOs must adopt the AI-ready governance RUNWAY to make growth fly

Unlock the bounty of the AI era with HFS ‘RUNWAY'- a governance framework for unbounded ideation paired with bounded execution.

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Take 5 Report

Recast BPO as AI stewardship: The new mandate for enterprise reinvention

A survey of 101 US enterprise leaders reveals that only 15% have AI at run-state, yet 60% expect 30%+ BPO productivity gains.

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Point of View

Legacy modernization is a competitiveness issue, and CIOs must own the fix

CIOs must accelerate modernization using platforms as AI won’t deliver exponential value if it’s layered on top of legacy.

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Challenger Series

HFS Challenger: Quantiphi

Quantiphi earns the HFS Challenger accolade for combining agentic AI platforms with outcome-based commercial models.

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Highlight Report

CTOs must leverage enterprise context to deliver always-on modernization

Make the challenge of agentic AI your cue to fast-track a new foundation for continuous change - ontologies as enterprise context.

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Highlight Report

Pair agentic AI with human context at the core to fix your insurance operations

Redesigning the operating model of insurers with digital labor at the core.

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Point of View

Don’t let GenAI take the “creative” out of your marketing

GenAI is a powerful amplifier for marketers, but humans must be at the helm to create drive differentiation through creativity.

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Highlight Report

Scale AI in BFS without perfect trust, and anchor on value

HFS Research and Infosys recently convened a closed-door banking roundtable to explore the friction with AI.

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Point of View

Stop waiting for budget: How enterprises are funding transformation from within

Self-funded transformation models have emerged as a pragmatic path toward funding modernization through existing savings.

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Take 5 Report

Business and process owners: Operationalize context for scalable, enterprise-grade AI

A survey of 122 Global 2000 leaders finds AI stalls in core operations because enterprises lack the industry context to scale it.

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Point of View

Services are starting to scale beyond headcount, signaling an early pivot to SaS

Early but meaningful signals of the IT and business services industry beginning its shift toward Services-as-Software economics.

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Highlight Report

HCLTech’s silicon stack investments show why ER&D must “shift left” to thrive

Products are becoming software-defined while ER&D is getting commoditized, pushing service providers to shift left toward silicon.

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Highlight Report

You won’t reap AI rewards until you fix your people problem

HFS recently hosted a Roundtable, in partnership with Cognizant, hosting almost 20 senior enterprise leaders.

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Point of View

CIOs must pay for outcomes, not hours, on modernization programs

Enterprises must shift from effort to outcome and value-based commercial models to stop overpaying for modernization programs.

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Point of View

AI is now the force behind legacy modernization; embrace it or stay stuck

Enterprises must embrace AI as the orchestrating layer of legacy modernization if they want to become an AI-driven enterprise.

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Point of View

AI alone won’t save your broken ops: Rebuild your operating model or miss the ROI

For AI to deliver enterprise-level outcomes, rebuild your operating model on a modern Services-as-Software™ (SaS) foundation.

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Highlight Report

EdgeVerve wants you to stop layering tools and start orchestrating outcomes

EdgeVerve wants to orchestrate fragmented estates to deliver business outcomes.

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Hot Tech

HFS Services-as-Software™ Hot Tech: Perpetuuiti

Perpetuuiti converts business continuity and disaster recovery from manual scripts into automated, AI-led software execution.

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Data Viewpoint

Semiconductor enterprises aren’t buying the hype

Enterprises trust SI execution but want proof of innovation impact and clearer, business-led go-to-market.

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Highlight Report

Stop waiting for perfect quantum hardware; the use cases are already here

Recent Quantum developments suggest that the shift from theory to enterprise value may be closer than many CIOs expect.

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Point of View

Fix legacy operating models before they block your AI ambitions

Enterprises buried in technical debt will be locked out of the next wave of AI-native value creation unless they repay it.

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Point of View

Control the chaos: An enterprise framework for safe, productive LLMs

Cut the chaos of supervising AI models, context, and autonomous decisions with our framework for safe and productive use of LLMs.

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Highlight Report

Process debt is AI’s silent killer, and Salesforce’s Apromore move just raised the stakes

Leaders must recognize process debt is an AI blocker rather than let it sabotage Agentforce deployments.

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Take 5 Report

Escape the code-heavy models inflating tech debt

A survey of 123 Global 2000 CIOs finds enterprises spend up to 7x more on services than software, compounding tech debt.

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Point of View

Industry must link sustainability, AI, talent or keep failing these transitions

Industrial enterprises are failing to connect the short-term and long-term—or find the talent to do so.

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Highlight Report

Asset-heavy firms, turn your infrastructure into revenue using physical AI

Physical AI is your best bet to turning infrastructure into a revenue engine.

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Market Vision Paper

Reinvent your ServiceNow service model with agentic AI

Enterprise leaders learn why outdated ServiceNow service models stall ROI and how agentic AI fixes the delivery model.

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Highlight Report

IBM just bought Confluent: Audit your streaming strategy before it’s too late

This deal creates a data fabric for CIOs and transformation leaders juggling hybrid cloud, AI roadmaps, and Kafka sprawl.

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Point of View

Firstsource rewired CX for a media giant; transform yours next

Firstsource helped a media giant transform CX with digital-first touchless journeys, cutting costs and boosting customer loyalty.

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Highlight Report

Stop scaling with people and demand services that act like software

AI platforms that convert legacy logic into reusable assets now fuel faster, lower-cost enterprise transformation.

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Point of View

Make finance the AI brain or risk running your business blind

A call for CFOs to redesign finance for AI-native speed, accuracy, and trust before legacy models turn it into a bottleneck.

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Point of View

Otera helps Allianz Partners use AI to target a €300M profit increase by 2027

HFS analysts connected with Tomas Kunzmann, Chief Executive Officer, and Pieter Viljoen, Chief Data Officer of Allianz Partners.

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Highlight Report

The next evolution of financial services is value movement

The future of payments lies in moving value, not just money, and orchestrating this ecosystem is where the success lies.

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Point of View

Health plans must anchor value in health to survive and thrive in the BBB era

Health plans not addressing health is the ultimate fraud perpetuated on the American public - but now is the chance to fix it.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Sourcing and Procurement Services, 2025

This report assesses the 14 global sourcing and procurement vendors capabilities for the enterprises to choose for the partner.

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Market Impact Report

The Human+Machine era will reward orchestrators, not integrators

Enterprises must rewire for Human+Machine delivery or risk falling behind in the Services-as-Software™ era.

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Hot Tech

HFS Services-as-Software™ Hot Tech: Autonomy.Computer

CTOs scaling AI agents will find out why actor-based architecture cuts multi-day runs to 15 minutes at a fraction of the cost.

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Highlight Report

COOs, restore your procurement speed and control by centralizing intelligence

Without codified knowledge and shared visibility, you can lose up to 10% of value annually due to fragmented data and decisions.

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Point of View

Run your cloud services as software to stop scaling technical debt

A guide for CIOs to shift from cloud projects to cloud products and build a continuously modernized, AI-ready cloud.

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Highlight Report

Stop tool shopping for AI, readiness isn’t a purchase

HCLTech’s Analyst Day, the company demonstrated transformation from a diverse portfolio into a unified Services-as-Software model.

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Highlight Report

With Agentforce ready, enterprises must step up to find a new breed of partner

Movate believe it has developed a roadmap that will drive enterprises towards production with Agentforce.

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Highlight Report

Build trust at scale by making quality predictive, not reactive

Quality today is about engineering trust at scale, not just finding defects.

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Point of View

Mosaic and WNS: Co-creating smarter and intelligent insurance operations

Co-created ops are insurers’ new edge. Mosaic and WNS show how smarter, scalable models beat legacy limits.

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Challengers' Code

Vertical AI is a real win as Veltris lifts growth for micro-industries

Veltris shows how Vertical AI embedded in micro-industry workflows drives real revenue outcomes, not just pilots.

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Point of View

Life sciences CXOs, stop burying GBS in the basement and let it drive revenue

GBS reflects the enterprise value chain and is unique in able to help life sciences address their unprecedented revenue headwinds.

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Point of View

Enterprise buyers must co-create India’s chip supply chain or lose control of their AI future

This POV describes how enterprises must take part in creating India's semiconductor supply chain.

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Point of View

CIOs must rethink GCCs beyond cost arbitrage to innovate, orchestrated by AI

Business leaders should redesign their GCC charters to reflect innovation and P&L outcomes, orchestrated by AI-enabled workflows.

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Point of View

No AI without PI: Celonis bids to be the context layer powering enterprise AI

Treat process intelligence as the AI context fabric. If you can’t trace a dollar to a process change, your AI isn’t intelligent.

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Highlight Report

Close your speed–trust gap or miss the AI innovation wave

WRITER’s AI Leaders Forum revealed a speed–trust gap holding back the business benefits of rapid technological innovation.

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Point of View

Don’t wait for 2030: Reinvent your workforce or lose the AI race

Recompose your IT workforce now as AI is ending headcount growth and redefining how humans and machines create value.

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Highlight Report

CIOs: Reclaim control of citizen development before it turns uncontrollable

Kissflow ringfences citizen development, allowing CIOs to scale innovation and control chaos

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Hot Tech

HFS Services-as-Software™ Hot Tech: CrewAI

CrewAI runs 400 million agents monthly across a claimed 60% of Fortune 500 companies, delivering 80-90% efficiency gains.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Intelligent Supply Chain Services, 2025

A comparison of 20 supply chain service providers across three horizons of AI-driven, resilient, interoperable supply networks.

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Data Viewpoint

Energy and utilities firms are burning time while peers accelerate into 2026

You’re either accelerating your transitions or becoming irrelevant.

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Point of View

Stop wasting your CSR budget—fund impact, not greenwashing offsets

Most enterprise attempts at offsetting fail.

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Data Viewpoint

Demand business outcomes, not just innovation stories

While life sciences providers have earned strong trust from enterprise and partners, they must now prove impact, not just intent.

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Highlight Report

Stop building blind agents; fix your context problem first

Agentic AI doesn't fail because models are weak or tech is unproven. It fails when you don't share the realities of your business.

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Market Vision Paper

Modernization has reached its tipping point: Choose architecture over arbitrage

How to escape the code-heavy models that perpetuate an outdated ecosystem and inflate tech debt.

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Data Viewpoint

Stop selling delivery and start proving innovation in life sciences services

Life sciences enterprises expect partners to co-own innovation, not just deliver services, by investing in IP and real outcomes.

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Point of View

Life sciences must find suppliers that can help fill the revenue black hole

The HFS Horizons: Life Sciences Service Providers, 2025 highlights the industry revenue headwinds and the limitations of suppliers.

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Point of View

Wake Up, AWS: Three AI moves Amazon must make now or watch rivals eat its lunch

AWS's October AWS outage was a wake-up call for every CIO betting their AI workloads on hyperscaler resilience.

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Point of View

Mid-market leaders face a simple choice: Modernize now or risk extinction

Mid-markets have endured disadvantages, smaller budgets and teams, and lower margins. But the AI era has shifted the landscape.

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Point of View

CSCOs face a choice: Interoperate with agentic AI, or risk evaporating

Agentic AI is collapsing enterprise silos, turning decades of supply chain interoperability dreams into operational reality.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Enterprise Blockchain Services, 2025

An assessment of the leading service providers delivering enterprise blockchain.

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Data Viewpoint

T&H buyers, stop paying for efficiency and start demanding growth

T&H service providers are performing well in delivering efficiency and cost impact.

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Data Viewpoint

T&H industry leaders must demand a close to the innovation gap, and fast

T&H industry has spent the last few years rebuilding operations and restoring traveler confidence.

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Point of View

Financial sector transition plans are weak—set red lines before you're forced

Senior BFSI industry leaders must set red lines or watch policymakers, markets, and public opinion impose them instead.

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Data Viewpoint

Mortgage lenders stuck on GenAI automation are missing the next wave of growth

Automation solves today’s problems but GenAI-driven reinvention defines tomorrow’s mortgage leaders.

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Data Viewpoint

The analytics-cloud-GenAI trio is the building foundation for today's supply chains

Data chart from “HFS Horizons: Intelligent Supply Chain Services, 2025” shows where the money is flowing.

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Data Viewpoint

Real‑time planning and supplier synergy determine the winners in today’s supply chain race

More than 70% enterprises are investing in planning and supplier management.

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Market Impact Report

Consulting that delivers, not just recommends

Consulting’s future is AI-powered, orchestrated, and outcome-based, not effort-driven.

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Point of View

Chip leaders, beat these six challenges to survive the next wave of disruption

Six challenges for semiconductor enterprise clients in 2025.

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Highlight Report

Transformation leaders, note IBM–Cognitus’ move to go on offense in SAP delivery

IBM’s acquisition of Cognitus signals a pivot from the old services-led model toward IP-first SAP transformations.

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Data Viewpoint

Don’t wait for CBDCs when you can capture the benefits of stablecoins today

This DVP mentions the advantages of stablecoins over CBDCs even with the respective challenges of both CBDCs and stablecoins.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Life Sciences Service Providers, 2025

HFS Horizons: Life Sciences Service Providers, 2025

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Point of View

CEOs, ready your battle plan—digital sovereignty is the data and AI battleground

Data is driving digital sovereignty, which is critical for a company's leadership to understand and manage global risks.

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Data Viewpoint

Power mortgage ops with the ADAA Quadfecta; don’t let legacy hold you back

Mortgage operations simply can’t scale on people alone; technology is the real lever to offset brutal margin pressure.

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Market Impact Report

From hype to reality: How procurement can PUT AI TO WORK

How procurement leaders can escape AI pilot purgatory and deliver faster, smarter, operational impact at scale.

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Highlight Report

Scale value by embedding agentic AI in core ops

Enterprises must scale AI value by busting out of test-and-learn trials. Embed agentic AI in core operations.

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Market Impact Report

Fix the baton pass: Transitions will make or break enterprise models

Transitions are the new foundation of enterprise agility where value, trust, and transformation are built or broken.

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Highlight Report

Stop feeding AI garbage—Antworks’ Insurants helps insurers trust their data

AntWorks’ Insurants offers insurers a practical path to high-quality, AI-ready data.

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Highlight Report

Stop chasing hype, start harnessing hope, and make real headway to succeed with AI

Enterprise leaders are debating whether agentic AI is hype, hope, or something they can scale across their firms.

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Market Impact Report

The future of BPO services is Services-as-Software, turning hours into outcomes

This thought leadership will explore the enterprise's willingness to move BPO services from FTEs to a service-as-software model.

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Point of View

Sustainability leaders: Sharpen your case or soon be cast as a follower

Even the most progressive companies face a frantic catch-up with the scale and speed required of the sustainability transition.

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Market Impact Report

Five bold ambitions of future-ready BFSI GCCs

GCCs have evolved from low-cost back offices to innovation-led, strategic hubs powering global enterprise transformation.

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Highlight Report

Hitachi Digital Services bets big on Vietnam’s capabilities to drive IT-OT-ET convergence

This is Hitachi Digital Services Vietnam delivery center capabilities, and strategy in IT-OT-ET convergence with client outcomes.

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Highlight Report

Don’t write off telcos; Orange Business is showing how to reinvent for real impact

Orange Business is mid-flight in a bold transformation programme to become the next-generation telco.

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Market Vision Paper

Your GBS model is outdated: Fix it, or risk falling behind in the AI economy

GBS must pivot to AI-first models - shifting from siloed, manual ops to unified, adaptive platforms that drive real-time outcomes.

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Point of View

GCCs are not your cost center anymore, demand AI-fueled value instead

This POV compares eight dimensions between the legacy GCC and the value operating models with industry examples.

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Highlight Report

Engineering depth alone won’t win, pair it with outcome-based partnerships

Co-innovation is no longer optional so build outcome based ecosystem or fall behind.

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Point of View

Swap your contact centers’ butts in seats for a new CX OS

The contact center is being redefined. Services-as-Software™ is breaking the old agent model and transforming the future of CX.

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Point of View

Bank CXOs, stop the enterprise-debt bleed and plug the drain now

Bank CXOs must measure enterprise debt rigorously.

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Highlight Report

Institutional complexity is killing your growth; here’s how to fight back

Xceedance helps insurers break the cost–complexity curve through digital intelligence and human expertise.

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Market Impact Report

Turn your collection risks into opportunities with digital precision and empathy

Lenders should connect smarter with digital precision and empathetic outreach for stronger recoveries and CX.

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Highlight Report

Stop designing chips the old way—use AI for on-time, quality delivery

Verification—the most labor-intensive, risk-prone, costly stage in chip development, should be AI-enabled for on-time launches.

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Point of View

Demand more Workday partners and see how they stack up on driving change

Enterprises need Workday partners that drive AI-led, experience-driven transformation tied to business outcomes.

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Highlight Report

Get ROI, not just code, with Ascendion’s one-stop product engineering shop

Enterprise tech leaders are stuck with bloated development cycle when what they need is speed, and a clear path to value.

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Highlight Report

TCS is steadying the ship, but the real battle is scaling AI-led non-linearity

TCS steadies performance and bets on AI-led non-linearity, focusing on stability, trust, and measurable client impact.

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Point of View

TWILTCH earnings prove that enterprises are spending, but only on what matters now

Enterprises are sending clear signals: investments are shifting to consolidation and efficiency-led transformation.

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Hot Tech

HFS Hot Tech: Lidd AI

Lidd AI helps Latin American enterprises escape AI pilot purgatory with a 90-minute discovery tool and iterative delivery sprints.

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Point of View

Mortgage leaders, escape the hire–fire trap and rebuild mortgage ops for AI now

Our Horizons evaluation encompassed 15 service providers, drawing insights from 40 lenders and partners that contract with them.

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Highlight Report

CAPS must adapt to the shifting market, with UST laying out the path

The payer market is toast and if you have investments like platforms in there, it is time to bail.

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Data Viewpoint

Mortgage lenders must tackle legacy tech debt to unlock growth and resilience

Mortgage lenders shows they are chasing profitability, loan growth, and CX, but legacy tech and data debt are major obstacles.

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Point of View

Stop waiting for proof: Services-as-Software™ is driving non-linear growth

Enterprise growth won’t scale with headcount—Services-as-Software is your path to non-linear, AI-led outcomes.

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Point of View

Life sciences must grab the agentic AI lifeline to survive and thrive

Agentic AI is key to life sciences to help manage their revenue decline realities of the future.

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Point of View

Rebuild your operating models as the $100K H-1B visa fee ends talent arbitrage

The expense of the new $100k H-1B visa fee slams the labor arbitrage door on employing US-based foreign talent.

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Highlight Report

CMOs, forget prompt engineering—adopt personality engineering

AI agents will be the emotional interface between brand and customers, an interface CMOs must own with 'personality engineering'.

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Market Impact Report

Go all-in on 6G to unlock AI’s full potential

Telco leaders are strategizing on 6G roll-outs but fear the challenges of 5G. 6G is about AI, don’t pass up the opportunity.

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Point of View

The fastest-five providers bagged large AI-led deals, signaling enterprise confidence

The fastest five service providers demonstrate organic and inorganic AI investments to help enterprises realize their AI ambitions.

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Point of View

Make agentic AI your next competitive edge to unlock new value in manufacturing

Manufacturers must leverage the agentic AI-led automation to create autonomous factories; otherwise, you will lag the competition.

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Point of View

Make cybersecurity a foundation for innovation, growth, and enterprise trust

The need to embed cybersecurity into strategic decision-making has never been more urgent.

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Horizons Report

HFS Semiconductor Horizons: The Best of Service Providers across the Value Chain, 2025

Rankings of 21 semiconductor service providers driving chip innovation across the value chain.

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Highlight Report

Insurers, stop asking ‘why AI’ and start proving ‘how’

To unpack the how, HFS Research, in partnership with IBM, brought 17 top insurers to a New York boardroom.

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Challenger Series

HFS Challenger: Enterprise Minds

Enterprise Minds (EM), Inc., is named an HFS Challenger for its innovation-led approach to legacy service models.

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Data Viewpoint

Data debt can cripple an enterprise, and Agentic AI is the solution

Agentic AI, with its ability to autonomously perceive, reason, and act, is a helpful tool for data modernization and governance.

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Highlight Report

Build your resilience as identity and sovereignty reshape cybersecurity

Accenture’s IAMConcepts deal signals that access and sovereignty now define enterprise cybersecurity.

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Market Impact Report

The Zero Office: Reinventing the banking back office as a growth engine

This report with Iron Mountain aims to understand whether BFSI organizations are ready to face disruption or become irrelevant.

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Market Impact Report

Reinvent L&A for the AI-digital era with the next-gen BPS model

HFS Research with DXC take a deeper look at how leading NA L&A insurers are navigating entrenched operational constraints.

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Point of View

Stop falling for ‘agentic-washing’ and demand proof before purchase

Most vendor offerings are mislabeled as ‘agentic AI’, creating unrealistic expectations and hype.

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Point of View

Life sciences must think survival by going direct to consumers or lose trillions

With trillions in revenues at risk, life sciences must adopt a radically different approach to protect and grow.

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Market Impact Report

Crack the AI scaling wall and redefine business success via Services-as-Software

The journey toward an AI-empowered, agile enterprise is challenging but underway in organizations across sectors.

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Point of View

Embed forward deployment engineers to stop shadow AI killing SDLC

AI is accelerating shadow IT as business users build concepts into apps. IT needs representation. FDE may be the answer.

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Point of View

Enterprises must prepare urgently as AI will flip the tax and audit models soon

AI will have a major impact on the way services are delivered. HFS researched the effect of AI on tax and audit services.

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Highlight Report

Modernize your TPA operations with a scalable, cloud-native blueprint for L&A

Discover how WNS embeds AI at the core of insurance operations, enabling agility, compliance, and enterprise scalability.

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Point of View

Retail CMOs: Turn screen space into profit with RMNs

Your screens could become a separate revenue generating engine through solutions like Wipro VisionEdge.

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Data Viewpoint

Lead the charge as the cybersecurity ecosystem evolves with business needs

This report sheds light on how client risks and demands drive innovation in the evolving cybersecurity landscape.

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Point of View

Indian enterprises, stop treating academia like a vendor and co-invent with them

Global firms link with universities to drive commercial tech. Indian leaders risk lagging in AI hardware and semiconductors.

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Highlight Report

Forget band-aid fixes-use AI as a catalyst to reimagine the business

Enterprises subscribe to the notion of "AI as a catalyst to reimagine the business" stall in experimentation instead of scaling.

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Hot Tech

HFS Hot Tech: KnowledgeLake

A successful pivot from traditional IDP to agentic-driven workflow automation.

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Highlight Report

ERP leaders must overcome transformation fatigue before chasing new solutions

Enterprises must reduce custom builds and focus on business outcomes and speed. TCS Crystallus helps with pre-built accelerators.

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Point of View

Make responsible and ethical AI non-negotiable in BFS

For BFS leaders, responsible AI must be the price of admission, not a bonus feature, when choosing a tech or services partner.

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Point of View

Turn AI compliance into your competitive advantage with the OneOffice data cycle

Compliance executives waiting on AI legislation to tell them how to behave are already falling behind customer and market needs.

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Highlight Report

Enterprises serious about AI need a partner to deliver the AI

Altimetrik helps enterprises cut through complexity and build the foundational capabilities.

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Point of View

Self-insured employers must remake healthcare as the BBB upends the market

BBB upending healthcare, shift in demographics, and out of control increases should motivate employers to embrace new models.

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Market Impact Report

Empowering the deskless workforce: From the edge to the enterprise

Empowering deskless workers with digital tools, culture, and AI by placing them at the center of enterprise transformation.

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Highlight Report

Activate perpetual KYC with agentic AI; Capgemini shows you how to get started

Financial crime is getting smarter, and frankly, the manual processes of conventional KYC simply can’t keep up.

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Highlight Report

From scale to ecosystems and resilience for ER&D leaders

A look into the implications of the Wipro-Harman deal for enterprises and the broader market.

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Data Viewpoint

Stop mortgaging your future with labor arbitrage and invest in digital ecosystems

Mortgage lenders are outsourcing for convenience and cost optimization, not resilience. This model must change.

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Highlight Report

Tame autonomous agents before they blow up your costs and controls

Hurtling toward an agents-everywhere free-for-all? WRITER's Action Agent promises a fix - with caveats.

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Point of View

US healthcare pivot will force traditional suppliers to pack up, unless…

The BBB will disrupt US healthcare and put supplier consolidation on steriods unless they can reinvent their value proposition.

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Point of View

CIOs must act on the back-office legacy before it costs banks more

This report serves as a critical call to action for CIOs in the banking sector.

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Point of View

Data as a product, AI as a catalyst: Winning requires a systemic, hands-on plan

The realities of winning in data and AI: Lessons from the front line.

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Point of View

The modern CFO must build the core before chasing the AI vision

Finance transformation won’t scale on vision alone. It needs resilient foundations and reimagined talent.

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Market Impact Report

Enterprises must embrace AI to reimagine their future, not tinker in the margins

AI is the new enterprise disruptor - those who reimagine purpose, models, and ecosystems will lead; others risk irrelevance.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Digital Marketing and Sales Services, 2025

Fourteen service providers ranked on how well they help enterprises modernize digital marketing and sales with AI and design.

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Point of View

Eliminate data debt to unlock the full power of Agentic AI

The biggest barrier to AI success is the weight of legacy systems and outdated processes.

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Point of View

For E&U, AI and the energy transition cannot scale without core cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is an enabler for E&U, not a constraint.

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Hot Tech

HFS Hot Tech: WRITER

WRITER provides a full-stack platform for enterprises to build, activate, and supervise custom AI agents.

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Point of View

PLM must evolve from storage to an innovation and compliance hub in petrochemicals

Petrochemical industry must be a digital command center that connects innovation with compliance and agility with accountability.

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Highlight Report

Bringing order to AI chaos: Airia aims to be the connective tissue for enterprise AI

Airia helps enterprises manage, govern, and scale AI agents by making orchestration core to operational AI success.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: The Best Service Providers for Mortgage Reinvention, 2025

An assessment of how mortgage service providers drive innovation and deliver value across three strategic horizons.

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Data Viewpoint

TTHL enterprises reset their investment focus from innovation to value creation

TTHL are shifting their focus toward operational efficiency and customer value, with innovation taking a slightly lower priority.

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Point of View

From supply chains to software, it is time for smartphone OEMs to hit reset

Smartphone OEMs must reset—diversify supply chains, embrace refurbs, target emerging markets, and reimagine the interface.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Cybersecurity Services, 2025

An assessment of the leading service providers in cybersecurity resilience and innovation.

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Highlight Report

UFC turns to IBM to punch through its data deadlock

The future of fan engagement is about activating the right insights in the right format at the right moment.

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Data Viewpoint

Powering the next wave of cybersecurity with advancements in technology

Cybersecurity is transforming as service providers adopt enabling technologies to combat an increasingly complex threat landscape.

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Data Viewpoint

THL leaders are playing it smart by betting on pragmatism over hype

THL leaders must continue focusing on pragmatic modernization while addressing the need to balance core with edge.

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Highlight Report

Mimica brings agentic AI to task mining as firms want value, not just visibility

Mimica links task-level intelligence with automation to close the visibility–execution gap for enterprises.

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Market Vision Paper

The enterprise guide to agentic business transformation

A practical guide to deploying AI employees and scaling agentic transformation for measurable impact across enterprise functions.

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Point of View

Now’s the time for insurers to rebuild, not just report, with IFRS 17

Insurers must move beyond compliance to turn IFRS 17 into a competitive advantage.

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Point of View

Part 3: Clinical agentic is the next-gen care delivery operating layer—execute it now

Clinical agentic is our only path to bridge the huge and growing divide between demand for care and shrinking supply of clinicians.

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Highlight Report

India’s agri future needs more than tech, and ITCMAARS shows the path to scale

ITCMAARS is a phygital platform designed by ITC to overhaul how Indian agriculture functions.

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Hot Tech

HFS Hot Tech: Eclypses

Eclypses secures enterprise data at the application layer using quantum-safe, token-based encryption.

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Point of View

Public sector procurement must spark the transition sustainability needs

That opportunity is going begging.

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Point of View

Fast-growing mid-tiers offer focused execution in uncertain markets

The fastest five service providers share common traits: AI-first, domain-deep, US-centric, and proprietary AI platforms.

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Market Impact Report

Tariffs lit the fuse for bold enterprises to automate

Tariffs exposed brittle delivery models, pushing bold enterprises to automate, adapt sourcing, and build resilience.

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Point of View

Enterprises can realize AI ambition with Camunda’s agentic orchestration

Decades of technical and process debt mean static and semi-flexible workflows deliver limited outcomes in today’s world.

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Point of View

Break out of data limbo with the OneOffice Data Cycle

Most are stuck in data limbo: unable to move forward and blaming data quality. To break out requires honesty about our problems.

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Point of View

Stop funding sickness and invest in prevention that pays off

Forget governance models. Focus on social determinants of health to drive real impact and better health outcomes.

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Point of View

Enterprises must break legacy contracts to unlock GenAI return on value

Enterprises' GenAI success will not be decided by who writes the best prompt; instead, it will be decided by how you buy.

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Highlight Report

Accenture bets big on ‘One Accenture’ with Reinvention Services, but challenges loom

HFS take on Accenture's bold announcement of Reinvention Services.

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Point of View

TWILTCH signals cautious growth, bets big on GenAI to counter global slowdown

In the current period of macroeconomic and policy unpredictability, enterprises should move beyond tactical cost savings.

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Point of View

Ten GenAI disruptions changing how enterprises create and capture value

With transformation costs falling, leaders must go beyond pilots, embed GenAI across workflows, and design new business models now.

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Point of View

Embrace empathy, not experience - it’s the only cure for healthcare’s broken economics

The experience of care has no impact to health outcomes or enterprises financials, yet billions are spent on it without merit.

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Market Impact Report

The 15% Club: How leading consumer goods firms turn AI Pilots into scaled success

A pragmatic deep dive into the AI endeavors of the North American consumer goods sector.

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Point of View

Listen up, telcos: Embrace GenAI to join the newco era

Telecom companies need to rethink their business models and leverage technologies like genAI to move from being telcos to newcos.

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Point of View

$1.5 trillion Services-as-Software market takes off—three swimlanes emerge

$1.5T SaS market accelerates as services and software converge—three models reshape enterprise buying and delivery.

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Point of View

The old playbook is dead: Now redefine non-bank lending with AI

How should the non-bank mortgage industry prepare for the inevitable transformation it will bring? A mortgage industry discussion.

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Highlight Report

Telecom companies must leverage service providers to shape their future

The telecom sector is undergoing an overhaul as the capex heavy industry seeks new revenue streams to drive growth and value.

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Point of View

Part 2: Accelerate multi-agentic AI adoption to give doctors their day jobs back

Doctor shortage combined with diluting their time by administrative process can be mitigated by multi-agentic AI.

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Highlight Report

Birlasoft helps Knorr-Bremse boost CX with e-commerce transformation

Birlasoft helps Knorr-Bremse modernize e-commerce, cut support calls 40%, and boost global digital sales.

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Highlight Report

Fix the process, then trust the AI: Celonis’ Bangalore pitch

You can’t scale AI on fragmented ops. Celonis puts process intelligence at the heart of enterprise transformation.

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Point of View

Flat-rate pricing isn’t rational but psychological—that’s why it wins

Flat-rate pricing wins because it offers peace of mind, not savings—buyers value certainty most.

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Point of View

Supply chains are cracking—HFS value chain for leaders putting out fires

Harness interoperability, resilience, and adaptability to outperform your competitors.

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Point of View

Mistaking agentic AI for an AI agent will break your cyber governance

Enterprises must govern Agentic AI differently from AI agents or risk invisible security, compliance, and control failures.

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Highlight Report

Health plans must rethink UM: WNS HealthHelp’s AI-driven approach is a path forward

UM and PA's are admin processes tend to delay care causing harm to patients, AI is the best approach to mitigate the dangers.

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Market Vision Paper

Navigating the future: Reimagine, reinvent, and earn relevance

AI is a catalyst; enterprises must reinvent their value proposition to remain relevant to customers.

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Hot Tech

HFS Hot Tech: Mindcorp.ai

Mindcorp.ai automates high-value knowledge work with 10,000+ AI agents, cutting a four-week Kearney analysis to one day.

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Point of View

Build your Human Premium to win in the age of LLMs

Today’s enterprise leaders must scale up where LLMs can’t mimic: imagination, intimacy, and integrity.

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Point of View

Rewire FP&A to drive enterprise performance with trusted data and strategic context

FP&A is evolving from reporting to real-time decisions driven by clean data, business context, and cross-functional talent.

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Data Viewpoint

BFS firms are all-in on AI, and it will reshape operations at scale

As large BFS institutions actively embed AI into businesses, new technical and soft skills must be adopted at scale for success.

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Point of View

Embrace partnerships to drive agentic AI and the E&U transition

The energy and utilities industry must leverage ecosystem partnerships to deploy Agentic AI and E&U transition.

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Point of View

Ditch same-old SaaS and differentiate with Services-as-Software

AI’s generative capabilities are making static software obsolete - opening a new path to true enterprise differentiation.

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Point of View

Half-baked modernization is no longer an option for commercial banks

Commercial banks risk losing clients, and market relevance without persistent modernization - overhauling CX and operations.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Employee Benefits Administrators, 2025

Assesses 24 benefits administrators on value, capability, GTM, and outcomes across the benefits value chain.

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Highlight Report

Genpact detonates the data problem with XponentL

Genpact bets on Business Data Services to operationalize AI and drive real enterprise outcomes.

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Data Viewpoint

Energy and utilities firms spend on services as the sector clarifies its goals

The E&U market for consulting, technology, and broad business services from IT to engineering is growing.

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Point of View

Services-as-Software and psychology biases break services pricing

AI is disrupting services pricing; success hinges on behavioral economics, outcome-based anchors, fairness, and risk-sharing.

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Data Viewpoint

GCC reality check: BFS firms strive for AI-readiness but face structural blind spots

If GCCs are to lead the AI charge, they must be treated as front-line innovation engines rather than back-office cost centers.

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Challenger Series

HFS Challenger: Infocepts

Infocepts earns the HFS Challenger title for driving real-world AI outcomes with a specialist, outcome-led data and AI model.

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Point of View

Enterprise ER&D must shift from centralized to regionally tuned

Automakers retrofit Western EVs globally, but today’s fragmented market needs regionally tailored, ecosystem-led ER&D.

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Point of View

Revol One Financial® and Genpact prove greenfield is a route to rapid innovation

Revol One Financial has joined forces with Genpact to rapidly rebuild itself from the ground up with a greenfield approach.

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Market Impact Report

The seven critical levers for scaling GenAI

A playbook for IT leaders: Generative AI (GenAI) has the power to revolutionize industries, but scaling it is no walk in the park.

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Point of View

Enterprises are wide awake on agentic AI—but need help navigating the chaos

Agentic is charging hard and fast at enterprise leaders – and they worry that support for its responsible adoption is lagging.

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Highlight Report

Sonata’s Harmoni.AI is embedding responsibility at the core of enterprise AI

Harmoni.AI brings together AI-powered service delivery platforms, technology accelerators, and industry frameworks.

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Challenger Series

HFS Challenger: Zeta

Zeta empowers marketers with AI-driven control, simplifying MarTech with modular tools for personalization, speed, and agility.

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Data Viewpoint

RCPG leaders are seeking innovation prowess from their execution providers

RCPG leaders must select partners based on their proof of future-ready innovation capabilities.

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Point of View

Sutherland calls on insurers to place AI-driven CX at the core of their transformation

Embedding CX at every stage of the transformation journey is essential for building lasting impact and competitive differentiation.

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Highlight Report

Writer’s trust architecture sets a new benchmark for enterprise AI security

Writer has built a robust trust foundation reflecting where enterprise AI is heading.

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Point of View

Culture and skills debt are hidden hindrances to enterprise transformation

Culture debt and skills debt are hidden liabilities that constrain growth, and leave enterprises unable to adapt at speed.

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Hot Tech

HFS Hot Tech: AidenAI

AidenAI helps enterprises cut digital transformation costs by 60% and time-to-market by 55% with its agentic AiDAP platform.

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Data Viewpoint

Data retention poses a lurking threat in healthcare

Most health systems retain data for 7–10+ yrs, yet 90% goes unused in care, raising risks from unused, over-retained patient data.

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Hot Tech

HFS OneOffice Hot Tech: Kognitos

Kognitos replaces black-box RPA and GenAI tools with plain English, deterministic automation that enterprises can trust and audit.

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Point of View

Don’t trade speed for stability as vibe coding emerges

Vibe coding is a glimpse into the future of software development, but one that demands careful oversight and proper planning.

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Point of View

Part 1: Stop waiting for a healthcare workforce miracle—embrace Agentic AI now

In the 1st of 4 parts, the task-based agentic AI is seen to address specific transactions.

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Point of View

Enterprises must lead the software-defined auto revolution to drive the future

This PoV explores how enterprise R&D must adapt for the SDVs era, digital innovation, and new mobility business models.

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Point of View

AI can’t scale until enterprises dismantle their legacy DNA

Despite AI hype and investment, enterprises are held back by legacy tech, rigid structures, and poor data—not the algorithms.

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Data Viewpoint

IT service providers in E&U are strong on delivery but struggle to scale innovation

This article talks about customer and partner experience of IT service providers in the E&U industry.

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Highlight Report

Plan your talent transition: Energy’s problem is coming for all your industries

No industry has figured out its talent transition, but energy’s turbulence offers a mirror to other sectors.

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Point of View

Salesforce’s $8b Informatica bet—fixing enterprises’ data plumbing to fuel AI

With 60% of enterprises citing data quality as a barrier to effective AI, this acquisition fills a glaring gap.

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Point of View

Procurement must break free from its transformation dilemma

Procurement won’t transform until enterprises fix the disconnects across sourcing, supplier visibility, and talent.

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Highlight Report

Tech Mahindra’s flywheel gains speed with big bets on AI, cloud, and talent

Tech Mahindra is doubling down on transformational bets across cloud, AI, large deals, and portfolio synergy.

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Point of View

In times of crisis, sports endure—tech must seize the opportunity

In an era where emotional equity is one of the rarest assets, the inability to amplify that connection is a missed opportunity.

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Point of View

Energy and utilities trends: Enterprises are now infrastructure-heavy AND technology-led

This article provides insights and market trends in Energy and Utility industry with the enterprise buyer and provider examples.

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Point of View

Apple's India move is a wake-up call for enterprises to de-risk supply chains

Apple’s India pivot highlights concentration risks—enterprises must diversify supply chains and act fast to secure resilience.

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Data Viewpoint

The future of insurance delivery hinges on ecosystem execution

Functional transformation is no longer enough. Insurers now seek connected, outcome-driven, enterprise-wide delivery.

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Data Viewpoint

Ecosystem partners are losing patience with legacy service delivery

The future of insurance delivery demands orchestration across people, platforms, and partner ecosystems.

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Point of View

Pharma growth depends on a reinvented CIO agenda—not just better IT or AI

Pharma's need a revolutionary CIO agenda to power their growth that is facing multi-factor pressures.

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Data Viewpoint

E&U buyers demand innovation, sharper go-to-market, and scalable execution

It provides the strengths and improvement areas of the IT service providers offering services to the Energy and Utility industry.

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Point of View

Innovate at the edges to rebuild commercial insurance for a riskier world

Only 21% of carriers are confident about their product innovation capabilities. It’s a confidence crisis.

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Point of View

Make interoperability your supply chain currency—Blue Yonder burnishes roadmap

An ambitious vision of a unified ‘supply chain operating system’ connecting planning, execution, and partners end-to-end.

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Highlight Report

HDS brings sector specificity and engineering depth to Azure offerings

HDS aligns Azure with sector needs, blending engineering depth across key industries.

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Point of View

Supply chains are drowning in process and data debt, killing profitability

Process and data debts remain supply chain and procurement’s most significant operational liabilities.

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Highlight Report

Hitachi Digital Services launches HARC to improve AI reliability and cost control

The highlight explores HDS' HARC for AI platform that offers real-time visibility, predictive insights, and cost management.

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Point of View

Choose your AI future before it chooses you

Enterprise leaders have cozily operated within a stable social contract for decades. AI is breaking it.

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Data Viewpoint

Commercial banks need innovation partners not execution machines

In our latest research, clients rated providers poorly on IP development, R&D investment, and effective fintech collaboration.

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Data Viewpoint

Gaps in talent, IP, and R&D are derailing commercial banking transformation

Service providers are falling short on commercial banking-specific IP and scalable talent.

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Point of View

Boards keep scapegoating CISOs instead of owning cyber failures

Clarifies what CISOs must deliver to boards, what they shouldn’t own, and how to align accountability with authority.

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Point of View

Business must prove AI can do more good than harm for the environment, society, and economy

Before regulation hampers AI’s positive potential due to a lack of corporate responsibility...

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Point of View

Now is when your responsibility and positive business impact must stand out

If that was ever an opportunity to differentiate, it’s now.

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Point of View

Legacy skill sets are slowing down CFOs aiming to lead real transformation

CFOs treating talent as infrastructure are turning transformation into business impact.

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Point of View

Cloud is no longer plumbing: Why your AI ambitions will fail without a new strategy

Cloud is now the operating system for AI transformation. Enterprises must rethink strategy, sourcing, and governance.

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Point of View

Reimagine GCCs as innovation powerhouses—not cost sinks

Reimagine GCCs as innovation powerhouses—not cost sinks.

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Point of View

SAP injects AI into its supply chain stack, but legacy ERP is still a drag

SAP emphasizes cloud, AI, and ecosystem-wide connectivity as the recipe for resilience.

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Point of View

Cybersecurity for AI starts now because models are the new attack surface

AI is the new attack surface—secure it with layered defenses, governance controls, and enterprise-wide accountability.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Insurance Services, 2025

A bold view of how insurers and service providers must align on innovation, experience, and ecosystems to lead in 2025.

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Point of View

Orchestrators win: Why tinkering with AI no longer cuts it for enterprises

Tinkerers stall. Orchestrators win by scaling agentic AI fast with secure platforms, real governance, and enterprise control.

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Highlight Report

CIOs must rearchitect observability to keep pace with AI

AI engineering pushes past the limits of traditional software development exposing an observability gap.

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Point of View

How to avoid agentic sticker shock

Don’t let cheap tokens fool you; true AI agent costs hide in compute, orchestration, APIs, security. Plan now or pay later.

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Point of View

Why software companies can add $1.5 trillion to their market by embracing Services-as-Software

Software firms can grab $1.5T by replacing services with AI agents that slash costs, automate ops, and transform enterprise value.

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Point of View

Agentic AI is redefining services—now, enterprises must redesign themselves

Across two days of unfiltered conversations, live data, and bold insights, HFS and its attendees uncovered the truth.

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Market Impact Report

Smash through tech debt: Why AI is the jackhammer

AI is your escape from technical debt—not because it makes legacy cheaper, but because it gives you the tools to tear it down.

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Point of View

Digital dinosaurs: Why chemical manufacturers are losing the e-commerce game

This article talks about the Chemical industry's e-commerce channel and its ecosystem challenges with the examples.

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Data Viewpoint

Generational shifts demand a fundamental rethink in our health-benefits strategy

By 2033 Millennials and GenZ will dominate the workforce prompting companies to redesign health & benefits for generational needs.

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Data Viewpoint

Healthcare coverage will continue to shift away from traditional payers

US healthcare shifts to self-insurance, consumer markets, Medicaid cuts risk undoing equity and coverage gains.

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Data Viewpoint

The self-insured market is beginning to realize ~$600 billion in opportunities

Self-insured healthcare is transforming fast, creating a $600B market across five cost–wellness employer archetypes.

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Point of View

Margins, metrics, and mindsets: Rewiring global services for purpose and impact

Global services must shift from scale to outcomes—rewiring models, mindsets, and metrics for purpose-led value.

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Point of View

Winning in modern commerce is a portfolio play—a 2×2 matrix for RCG investments

Retail and consumer goods leaders are facing a fragmented future—and must choose where to play.

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Highlight Report

Birlasoft—a challenger brand aspiring for strong growth in the Azure ecosystem

Birlasoft, a challenger in the Azure space, bets on growth with AI, industry-focused solutions, and enterprise modernization.

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Point of View

RCG tech priorities: Cloud still rules, but GenAI is re-drawing the map

Cloud and analytics remain indispensable—but they need to be wired into new AI-driven engines of value.

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Point of View

GenAI success demands employee training that goes beyond certifications

Leaders must revamp AI training to be adaptive that blends artistic and scientific talent.

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Hot Tech

HFS OneOffice Hot Tech: CerebrixOS

CerebrixOS enables enterprises and service providers to transition from traditional people-driven models to AI-driven, scalable, and secure data and agentic

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Point of View

Manufacturers must power their processes with emerging and innovative platforms

The PoV explains emerging technologies that manufacturers should not miss in this disruptive era.

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Point of View

Break the mortgage lending mold as Wipro has with its BPaaS model for Discover Home Loans

This report explores how DHL leveraged a technology-led BPaaS model alongside Wipro to accelerate transformation.

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Point of View

Human-only cyber defense is dead—AI is now the command layer

AI is transforming cyber defense—enabling faster detection, smarter response, and a shift from reactive to anticipatory security.

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Point of View

Cybersecurity can’t survive without AI—and AI can’t scale without security

AI and cybersecurity are no longer separate — their convergence defines the future of enterprise risk and resilience.

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Point of View

Cash in on the four collapsing costs of enterprise transformation

AI shifts the economics of enterprise operations through the collapsing costs of code, knowledge work, compute, and organization.

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Point of View

Automotive CIOs must drive business model reinvention—not just IT transformation

The PoV urges manufacturers to adopt emerging technologies for resilient supply chains and competitiveness amid global volatility.

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Point of View

Use C.O.D.E to manage your AI innovation firehose

There’s never been a better time for CIOs and CTOs to stay curious. And never a harder time to keep up with the results.

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Highlight Report

Retail and CPG leaders are doubling down—HFS value chain now guides 90% of spend

90% of outsourcing spend now aligns to HFS’ eight strategic domains, with just four accounting for over half.

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Point of View

Scotiabank’s eHome is a blueprint for scalable, tech-driven growth for lending

Scotiabank’s eHome shows how digital platforms can deliver fast, simple, transparent mortgage experiences.

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Highlight Report

Tariffs disrupt IT: Think local, agile, and AI-ready for the future

Tariffs are killing the offshore model, IT industry must reinvent or risk irrelevance.

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Point of View

Indian GCCs must step up as strategic shock absorbers for enterprise disruption

Enterprises must reset expectations, raise performance, and rewire GCCs as transformation hubs or risk falling behind.

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Market Impact Report

Reinventing non-bank mortgage lending journey in the age of AI

HFS Research, in partnership with Cognizant, set out to explore how non-bank lenders are evolving in the age of AI.

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Highlight Report

Sports organizations can’t build it themselves—partners like Sportian can help

Sportian was built by the sports sector, for the sports sector.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Energy and Utilities Service Providers, 2025

An assessment of the leading consulting, technology, and business services providers in the energy and utilities industry.

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Highlight Report

Canva’s enterprise gambit: From DIY design to content powerhouse

Canva is evolving from a DIY design tool into an enterprise platform aiming to unify content, creativity, and workflows at scale.

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Point of View

Rehab providers must leverage IoT to improve the quad aim of care

Healthcare is at a critical junction, with IoT improving outcomes, reducing costs, enhancing patient experience, and equity.

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Point of View

The public sector must take its chance to re-source outsourced capability

The public sector doesn’t need to eliminate outsourcing, but rather ensure it delivers clear, people-first outcomes.

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Point of View

Protect human expertise before machine imitation takes over

GenAI can mimic expertise, but only humans bring context, judgment, and relationships that drive real enterprise decisions.

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Point of View

Break your operating model before it breaks you

Traditional models aren’t failing at execution—they’re failing at logic. It’s time to build for complexity, speed, and autonomy.

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Highlight Report

We need to talk about accent bias—the hidden productivity killer

Biases related to accents in spoken English are a productivity barrier restricting your talent pool - AI can break it down.

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Highlight Report

GPT-4.1 is a warning: Own the blueprint, or engineering will get automated without you

As OpenAI’s latest release — GPT-4.1 — accelerates toward agentic engineering, CIOs must decide — take control or be sidelined.

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Point of View

TWILTCH providers must focus on resilience building, not just cost-savings

Uncertainty continues to impact TWILCTH revenue, but there are green shoots in North America that a slowing Europe offset.

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Highlight Report

Innova Solutions’ Orion empowers GCC leaders to articulate their strategic value

Orion by Innova Solutions helps GCCs scale innovation & align with parent goals through tailored support and ecosystem integration.

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Point of View

Relentless chaos will force enterprises into permanent contingency mode

Chronic instability demands more than tweaks—enterprise leaders must re-calibrate technology models for the new normal.

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Point of View

Tariff turbulence demands India's urgent shift to healthcare self-reliance

India’s healthcare is under pressure, tariffs and AI disruption demand urgent, proactive action.

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Point of View

Sustainability is not an obligation—it’s a business imperative

Akkodis leverages engineering expertise to embed sustainability with innovative solutions across industries.

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Highlight Report

Bridge the chasm between business and IT with Writer’s AI HQ

Writer's AI HQ fixes a critical disconnect in enterprise AI - between IT’s governance fears, and business's hunger for automation.

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Point of View

BFS tech spend faces uncertainty in a flip-flopping trade war

BFS firms must treat tariff turmoil like past crises—only a fast, focused, flexible response will safeguard tech and resilience.

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Point of View

Embrace the HFS Supply Chain Singularity framework amid tariff whiplash

HFS Supply Chain Singularity framework—a vision for transforming supply chains into intelligent, integrated, and autonomous systems.

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Point of View

Stop waiting for certainty—it’s time to rewrite the enterprise IT playbook

AI and protectionism are rewriting tech delivery—enterprises must rewire IT models for speed, resilience, and real outcomes.

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Point of View

New tariffs threaten to break health systems while health plans skate by untouched

Trump tariff's are going to make healthcare cost not just unaffordable but impossible to access.

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Data Viewpoint

Customer and partner-centric collaboration is a must for achieving ER&D success

Service providers are engaging more deeply with the clients and partners to navigate complexity and enhance efficiency.

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Point of View

Sustainability forces the financial sector toward technology: adapt and mitigate

BFSI must simultaneously adapt to and mitigate the climate and broader sustainability emergency.

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Point of View

Rewiring retail and CPG: 2025 CIO agenda for resilience, relevance, and reinvention

RCG faces price-sensitive yet principle-driven buyers—CIOs need bold, multifaceted agendas to stay ahead.

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Data Viewpoint

Strategic partnership and co-innovation leading the charge for engineering transformation

Strategic partnerships and integrated ecosystem are key to delivering value combining tech and domain expertise.

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Point of View

Make the case for agentic AI in your enterprise

Use our frameworks to decide on suitable use cases for agentic AI, and to map your route to widespread adoption.

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Highlight Report

Appian bets on process discipline to rescue enterprises drowning in process debt

Appian tackles process debt with a unified platform for scalable, governed automation and AI readiness.

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Point of View

Don’t let GenAI destroy the entertainment spectacle of sports

GenAI should enhance, not replace, the elements of sports media that create an emotional connection.

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Point of View

BFS is stuck in the AI productivity trap, and it’s time to build for growth

BFS firms are stuck in AI productivity. Our roundtable, in collaboration with Infosys, reveals how to unlock AI-first growth.

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Data Viewpoint

Strategic collaboration driving accelerated innovation across the ER&D value chain

Service providers are enabling clients navigate complexity, unlock growth, and deliver differentiated products.

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Point of View

AI is on the menu, but CPG brands need to change their recipe

The opportunity to create significant competitive differentiation through AI is available today but will diminish over time.

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Highlight Report

Five Sigma aims to disrupt insurance with smarter AI claims tech

Five Sigma offers insurers a low-disruption path to AI-powered, scalable claims modernization.

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Point of View

If you can’t move your people, then move code—Services-as-Software is the new trade route

Trade wars and protectionism are accelerating the shift from offshore talent to Services-as-Software (SaS), redefining enterprise service delivery.

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Point of View

HCLTech is supercharging BFSI with service-led platform outsourcing and AI

HCLTech is making bold moves in BFSI transformation, embedding AI and automation across banking, insurance, wealth, BPO, and FCC.

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Point of View

AI needs more than pilots—it requires structural change

Pilots aren’t enough. At a Coforge-HFS roundtable, execs called for real structural change to scale GenAI and agentic AI.

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Market Impact Report

Pharma GBS must act like a business executive, not a task operator, to stay relevant

The future of pharma GBS must address enterprise strategic priorities instead of a being a task level cost manager.

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Point of View

Attention sports businesses, see service providers as more than just sponsors

Sports organizations must shift their mindset to lean on service providers for what they’re actually good at—digital transformation.

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Time to connect the data dots: Databricks pushes AI-integrated platform for enterprises

A broader market shift is underway, with enterprises increasingly integrating AI directly into their core data platforms.

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Driving the future: How AI and Hitachi Digital Services keep Penske’s fleet on the road

Penske & Hitachi Digital integrate AI-powered Proactive Diagnostics & Guided Repair to transform fleet operations.

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Ascendion’s new era promises AI innovation at scale

Ascendion has fully integrated sister company Collabera Digital, in a move to compete in AI-led engineering outside North America.

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Point of View

Telecoms firms have a clear path to sustainability impact and value

The telecom industry must take its opportunity in decarbonization, supply chain responsibility, and social impact.

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The energy CIO agenda: New governance can maximize IT-OT innovation securely

The energy and utilities industry needs new clarity from its CIOs.

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Health system CIO agenda holds the keys to disrupting and rebuilding care delivery

The health system CIO agenda will be critical for business viability, future proofing, and transforming care delivery.

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Ops leaders must embrace DoubleO's agentic-by-default approach

Agentic AI is disrupting ops. If your next hire's job description doesn't include the need to manage agents, you're already behind.

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Insurers cannot continue to ignore decades of technical and process debt

Mounting technical and process debt—estimated at $200 billion by HFS Research—is no longer sustainable for the insurance industry.

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NVIDIA’s power play paves the way for firms to reshore into the machine

NVIDIA’s GTC25 laid foundations for compute power to trigger a new wave of digital reshoring. It’s time to reshore intelligence.

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With AI at the core, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan leans on Genpact to redesign operations

Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan wants to enhance uptime, optimize operational costs, and shift the equipment business to profit-making.

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Market Impact Report

Why, what, and how financial services firms can be AI-First

HFS Research, in partnership with Infosys, surveyed 505 BFS leaders across the globe to better understand why, what, and how BFS firms can be AI-First.

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Neo Tangent and the future of supply chain orchestration: Rethinking the mid-office

The mid-office has emerged as the battleground for building adaptable supply chains.

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Come to grips with MCPs to succeed with agentic AI

CTOs must come to grips with another new kid on the AI block—Model Context Protocols.

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Enterprises need AI-ready talent, but most workforces are not prepared

Enterprises are betting on AI, but 45% of employees resist it. AI adoption demands workforce readiness—tech alone won't solve the gap.

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Point of View

ServiceNow Move(work)s to ‘disrupt the enterprise’ and target agentic operations domination

ServiceNow's acquisition of Moveworks has raised the stakes in the AI-powered enterprise software race.

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Point of View

Championships start with player health—make advanced health tech your MVP

In the sports industry, the product is the player, and leaders must protect their athletes at all costs.

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Market Impact Report

The next era of commercial insurance: Faster, smarter, and embedded

Examines the transformation of commercial insurance amid evolving risks, legacy constraints, and a critical need for agility and digital integration.

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Energy enterprises call for transition planning across sectors

The long-term direction of the energy transition and broader sustainability has not changed.

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IBM adds DataStax to support your Generative Enterprise foundations

IBM’s move to acquire DataStax is a bold bet on the value of fixing a big enterprise AI bottle neck: unstructured data.

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Bridging the analytics-BPO divide: How WNS must integrate Kipi.ai for real impact

WNS now holds a powerful card, but its success will be measured by how well it enables enterprises to operationalize analytics.

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Market Vision Paper

Unlock enterprise AI value with persona-led solutions to meet the urgent needs of C-suite execs

Persona-led AI solutions that address urgent and specific needs of C-suite leaders promise to break through stalled adoption to inspire enterprise-wide AI

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Point of View

Traditional broadcasting is dying: Sports media is scrambling to meet consumer demands

Sports teams and leagues must meet fans where they are and match content distribution with demands.

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Platform orchestrators like Fictiv are shaping the collaborative supply chain vision

Fictiv illustrates how technology-led manufacturing platforms are reshaping the global supply chain landscape.

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Rethink your AI barriers and budgets—capability just got more affordable

Inflection AI's new 'mixture-of-experts' model offers a path to high-performing, cost effective, enterprise scale AI.

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Infosys’ AI and policy migration solutions target insurance technical and data debt

Infosys' XtractEdge and IPMS help insurers tackle legacy system debt, automate workflows, and accelerate AI-driven policy migration.

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Point of View

Don’t fall into the EU Omnibus trap: Sustainability’s direction hasn’t changed

The European Union recently released its anticipated “streamlining” of sustainability regulations.

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From compliance to competitive edge: TechM’s ESG differentiator in insurance

Tech Mahindra embeds AI-driven ESG into insurance, transforming compliance into a competitive advantage with automation and cloud solutions.

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National Sports Forum 2025: Sports leaders must reinvent fan engagement, media, and monetization—right

As consumption shifts, AI-driven media strategies, data-backed fan engagement, and new revenue models are redefining the industry.

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Point of View

Sustainability needs organizations to overcome the six "debts"

What applies to GenAI applies to any transformation effort, including sustainability.

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Point of View

Health plan CIOs: Stop fixing IT—focus on the business

The health plan CIO agenda must be aligned to the business of risk instead of playing with old technologies.

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KPMG’s AI adoption blueprint: Trust first, leadership next, technology later

Trust, leadership coaching, employee upskilling, and collaborative future-state envisioning form the foundation for sustainable AI development.

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Point of View

Healthcare and life sciences will be forced to adapt to sustainability—better the sector leads

Look at the UN Sustainable Development Goals: All 17 relate to health.

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Challenger Series

HFS Challenger: DataArt

DataArt, a provider of app development, data analytics, and cloud migration, has steadily gained recognition in the IT services industry.

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Highlight Report

The bold and the bot-iful: Genpact reinvents itself for the Services-as-Software era

Services-as-Software is a growing reality. Genpact is on a mission to reinvent itself to drive AI at scale for business operations.

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Point of View

Indian IT at crossroads: Navigating market shifts, AI disruption, and economic uncertainty

This POV covers macro-economic conditions and uncertainties that IT service providers must navigate.

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Point of View

The energy sector’s focus on efficiency gives hope to both AI and decarbonization

HFS Research, in partnership with Infosys, recently hosted a roundtable of senior energy industry decision-makers.

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Point of View

Master your proprietary data for AI to unleash new products and services

Artificial intelligence is reshaping product development by improving cost, quality, and sustainability.

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Point of View

Supply chain teams must bridge the divide with ESG to find circularity’s value

Integrate the wealth of data, analytics, and baselining that ESG reporting efforts generate.

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Highlight Report

Microsoft’s quantum breakthrough is considerable, but will enterprises bite?

Amid AI buzz, enterprise IT leaders must prepare for the quantum revolution, Microsoft's Majorana 1 chip is a breakthrough.

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Point of View

Publicis Sapient and Quicklizard partner to drive AI-driven dynamic pricing in retail

Retailers are leveraging AI-driven pricing to improve margin efficiency, demand forecasting, and omnichannel pricing.

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UST’s Retail GenAI Platform—bringing order to the AI chaos

UST’s Retail GenAI Platform provides a blueprint for expanding beyond isolated experiments to align AI with overarching business imperatives.

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Workday is stepping up to stop AI agent sprawl

Workday tackles AI agent sprawl with its Agent System of Record, ensuring governance, security, and lifecycle management for digital workers.

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Point of View

GCC leaders—you may have been superheroes, but now it’s time to assemble your Avengers!

Enterprises must maximize GCC potential by shifting from an 'us vs. them' mindset to collaboration and co-innovation with service providers.

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KPMG must continue delivering health outcomes, not just tech fixes

Combining tech capabilities and attitude to address health outcomes will yield positive results.

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Chemical Industry 2025: Adapt or die in the age of sustainability and digital disruption

AI-driven automation, regional supply chain resilience, and net-zero acceleration are survival mandates for chemical firms.

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A twin-engine formula for autonomous supply chains: Accenture, NVIDIA, and KION lead the way

Firms that fail to recognize the hardware-software interdependence in supply chains will remain stuck in a cycle of partial automation.

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India’s Karnataka state IT vision: The race to 500 GCCs and a $50 billion future

Karnataka thrives on ambition, leading in IT, GCCs & AI, but sustaining growth needs investment in infrastructure, talent, and policy.

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Market Impact Report

The low-code imperative is crucial to bring speed and agility to software-driven outcomes

Low-code was the precursor to prompt-based coding, and the lessons in this report are crucial for DevOps teams using both these solutions.

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Point of View

The Next Frontier: Evolving business services into a growth engine

GBS moves from efficiency driver to trusted growth enabler.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Telecom Service Providers, 2025

An assessment of telecom service providers, addressing the why, what, how, and so what.

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Hot Tech

HFS OneOffice Hot Tech: Lyzr

HFS OneOffice Hot Tech: Lyzr – Enabling scalable, governable AI agents for enterprises with built-in compliance, cost control, and flexibility.

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The margin-connectivity-churn framework for driving success in the telecom ecosystem

The HFS Framework for telecoms to navigate challenges and succeed.

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Point of View

The financial sector must take ESG initiative: Help clients transition plan

The long-term mission, opportunity, and risk hasn’t changed. BFSI knows that.

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TGL is more than golf—it’s a model for AI-driven business transformation

Tomorrow’s Golf League (TGL) is proving that AI and immersive technology can transform a sport and an entire industry.

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Akkodis powering A&D growth with engineering expertise

Leveraging engineering expertise Akkodis is empowering A&D enterprises to strengthen its capabilities.

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Databricks: Advancing data unification while combating persistent challenges

Further refinements are essential to realize Databricks' vision of a unified, Al-driven future.

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DeepSeek upends AI’s power structure, threatens Silicon Valley dominance

DeepSeek upends Silicon Valley's dominance. What does it mean for enterprises and the future development of AI models?

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Market Impact Report

Only 12% of enterprises have cracked the AI maturity code—it’s catch-up time for the rest

Only 12% of enterprises have mastered AI integration, while 88% struggle with tech/business alignment, data silos, and cultural barriers to AI adoption.

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Market Impact Report

A reimagined operating model will drive successful health system consolidation

The care delivery delivery landscape is rapidly consolidating and will have significant impact on consumer health.

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Market Impact Report

Break free from GenAI pilot purgatory

A guide for enterprise leaders on moving GenAI initiatives from endless pilots to successful organization-wide implementation and value creation.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Generative Enterprise Services, 2025

This report evaluates how service providers drive innovation and deliver value across three strategic Horizons.

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Point of View

GenAI is reshaping work—don’t let it dull human intelligence

GenAI threatens to cripple human intelligence as workers become addicted to AI shortcuts. Leaders must act now to prevent cognitive collapse.

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Highlight Report

Look beyond the DeepSeek hype—Writer has already blazed that AI trail

While Chinese AI entrant DeepSeek is grabbing headlines, the excitement underlines why US-based Writer’s focus on enterprise-ready AI demands your attention.

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The economic imperative of health equity can transcend the cocktail narrative

There is a win-win path to address health equity and power economic growth.

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Genpact's AI Gigafactory: Building the factory floor for enterprise AI

Genpact's AI Gigafactory is a new model for scaling enterprise AI, combining industry expertise and technical capabilities to move beyond pilot projects.

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TrueFoundry solves MLOps headaches with automated pipelines

TrueFoundry simplifies MLOps with a system to combat the issues keeping CTOs awake at night.

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Point of View

January musings on business operations: Trends, challenges, and opportunities from HFS’ analysts

Off the cuff analyst observations on market trends captured during an internal HFS discussion.

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Point of View

Trump's Stargate demands you accelerate your Services-as-Software plans

Trump’s $500 billion AI infrastructure project, designed to secure America’s technological supremacy, promises a transformative leap in AI.

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Point of View

Stay in control amid Microsoft and OpenAI’s agentic land grab

OpenAI and Microsoft make a land grab for your use of agentic AI with autonomous agents embedded in the enterprise stack.

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Highlight Report

Cognizant breaks through enterprise agentic orchestration barrier

Cognizant's Neuro® AI Multi-Agent Accelerator tackles enterprise AI silos, enabling seamless orchestration of autonomous agent networks.

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Point of View

Transform the finance close process by balancing process and tech

Harmonization technology and process are key to bring agility in the financial close process.

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Highlight Report

Snowflake's bold play: Betting on the future of data dominance

Snowflake is making audacious strides to cement itself as the undisputed titan of the cloud data platform arena.

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By 2026, CFOs will spend more time analyzing AI decisions than making their own

The question for CFOs is no longer whether to adopt AI—it’s how to manage the flood of AI-generated decisions coming their way.

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Point of View

Make 2025 ‘the year of CSRD… and much more’

2025 sees the first mandated wave of CSRD reports: the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.

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Point of View

Unlocking manufacturing potential: A framework for intelligent and agile operations

HFS sets forth a framework for manufacturers that unlocks ROI by leveraging agility, digital threads, and intelligent operations.

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Highlight Report

Quality and validation are non-negotiable when unlocking AI’s full potential for businesses

Enterprise digital teams should focus on quality engineering, innovative testing, and training to be efficient with high quality.

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Overcoming real-time financial reporting challenges: Turning barriers into breakthroughs

Finance leaders must rethink financial reporting by automating reconciliations, centralizing data, and embedding compliance to enable real-time insights.

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Challenger Series

HFS Challenger: SLK

Leveraging its strong engineering DNA to enable technology arbitrage with extreme customer intimacy.

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Point of View

‘Fastest five’ service providers reinforcing capabilities amid uncertain times

The fastest five blend domain and technology expertise with mid-tier agility, establishing themselves as a compelling choice.

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Point of View

The systems change we need: There’s still time to lead and futureproof on sustainability

The HFS Research Sustainability Framework.

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Point of View

Gumming up supply chains: US enterprises need to get their act together in 2025

The $19 billion supply chain sector is experiencing unprecedented challenges and opportunities.

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Data Viewpoint

THL leaders demand strategic depth and holistic value from technology and consulting partners

Customer experience has become a critical battleground and also a competitive advantage for THL leaders.

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Highlight Report

Microsoft consolidates ESG tech to widen businesses’ path of least resistance

Will business leaders go beyond the big names to maximize their sustainable impact and business value?

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Reimagining e-commerce with AI: the dawn of interactive commerce

The impending AI-powered paradigm will redefine how shoppers interact with e-commerce platforms.

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Data Viewpoint

Agentic AI era begins: GenAI will surpass traditional AI in most supply chains areas

Anticipated growth of generative AI (GenAI) adoption reflects enterprises’ strategic pivot to leveraging AI for smarter, faster, and more adaptive supply

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Salesforce Service Providers, 2025

This report assesses how well service providers are helping their Salesforce clients embrace innovation and realize value across three distinct.

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Point of View

Unify IoT platforms to capture the billion-dollar elderly care market

Global aging trend drives demand for innovative elderly care solutions.

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Point of View

Oracle must stop kicking the Cerner can down the road—it’s time to get decisive

Oracle and Cerner are not a fit, time and performance have validate its time to maybe call it quits.

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Point of View

Enabling ‘smarter’ enterprises with process intelligence and GenAI

Transform your enterprise with process intelligence and GenAI—redefining agility, driving innovation, and setting new benchmarks for excellence.

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Point of View

Harness IoT solutions to revolutionize autism care

ASD affects 1 in 36 US children, with costs projected to hit $461B by 2025.

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Point of View

ESG and tech sourcing teams must clarify: tech giants, specialists, or both?

Tech giants continue to consolidate ESG and sustainability capabilities.

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Data Viewpoint

Strategic focus and right approach: Keys to driving GenAI adoption in supply chains

Companies that align Gen AI projects with realistic expectations and incremental milestones report greater satisfaction levels.

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Highlight Report

Capgemini’s wind visualization technology sets a new benchmark for sports broadcasting

Empowering leaders to enhance fan engagements, strengthen connections, and create highly personalized, immersive experiences.

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Point of View

Insurance carriers must balance profit and progress with purpose to grow in 2025

HFS offers a framework to help carriers in navigating uncertainty, embracing innovation, and thriving in a dynamic market.

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Point of View

Superintelligence will rewrite the rules for enterprise ops, yet most firms are woefully unprepared

AI's leap to 'superintelligence' is inevitable. The tech will reach maturity, but are enterprises prepared to harness it?

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Point of View

Elevate finance by transforming transactional tasks into strategic wins

Transforming finance: shifting from routine transactions to strategic impact with technology, talent, and data-driven insights.

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Point of View

Set the standard with ISO 42001: Lessons from Cognizant’s trailblazing journey

ISO 42001, the new international standard for managing artificial intelligence (AI), is rapidly gaining traction as a benchmark for ethical and responsible AI

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Point of View

Stop complaining about AI emissions: Get renewables and think positive outcomes

The technology sector produces (only?) 2-3% of global emissions, including hardware and chip manufacturing.

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Highlight Report

IMC 2024 showcases India as a must-consider for TMT investments

India's digital boom, PLI push, and talent hub status make it a top global destination for TMT investments.

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Point of View

Private equity growth must not undermine patient care in Indian healthcare

PE firms consolidate for scale and efficiency, aiding healthcare but raising concerns about balancing profits and patient-centered care.

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Data Viewpoint

Payers need a bold strategy to address declining margins and systemic pressures

US health insurers face declining margins. Aging populations, rising costs, and workforce shortages demand a redefined approach to value.

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Point of View

Purpose-based Performance; innovation must drive purpose in banking and capital markets

HFS' Purpose-based Performance model helps BCM firms ensure their innovation and tech investments are aligned with purpose.

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Point of View

Embrace technology to address the looming healthcare delivery crisis

America is getting older and sicker with growing shortage of clinicians; technology will be the only salvation to manage this perfect storm.

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Highlight Report

Persistent's SDLC persona-focus reveals an affordable path to GenAI adoption across the enterprise

Persistent's SASVA offers enterprise solutions that cut through the noise of big tech's generic capabilities.

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Highlight Report

Chips, agentic AI, and partners take center stage at AWS re:Invent 2024

Chips, agentic AI, and partnerships redefine innovation at AWS re:Invent 2024

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Point of View

Manufacturers must have robust cybersecurity as IT-OT convergence gains prominence

Manufacturers need a tailored, multi-layered cybersecurity approach in OT, securing against APTs and evolving cyber threats.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: The Best Service Providers for Commercial Banks, 2025

This report assesses how well service providers are helping their commercial banking clients embrace innovation and realize value across three distinct

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Point of View

Sustainability will be a differentiator in 2025—but businesses must choose

Businesses can’t stop sustainability. But they can be a part of how that change happens.

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Point of View

Q3’24 TWILTCH earnings show improvement as vendor consolidation continues

Vendor consolidation continues to impact TWILTCH providers’ financial performance but overall, the industry is improving.

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Point of View

Understanding Project 2025’s implications for the telecommunications and technology industry

The sweeping impacts Project 2025 will have on the telecommunications industry.

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Point of View

The nearshore advantage in the age of technology arbitrage

Nearshoring brings advantages to IT services by offering experienced talent in local time zones to drive business outcomes.

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Highlight Report

Innovation success or failure always comes back to outcome-driven collaboration

Despite a dominant AI narrative in 2024, it’s collaboration that always stands out in positive outcomes.

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Point of View

Banks must shed their bad debts to win the modernization battle and achieve the OneOffice vision

Accumulating various forms of debt is a silent obstacle to deeper modernization and OneOffice goal.

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Point of View

Data ecosystems: Simplifying enterprise complexity and driving value in a converging market

The future isn’t simply competition—it’s convergence; the market is rapidly moving toward end-to-end data platforms.

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Highlight Report

Empowering CPOs through EY’s strategic solutions for procurement, tax, and sustainability

EY empowers CPOs with innovative procurement, tax, and sustainability solutions, driving efficiency and maximizing business value.

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Highlight Report

LTTS enhances product engineering capabilities with Intelliswift acquisition

L&T Technology Services’ acquisition of Intelliswift will enable enterprises to benefit from its enhanced capabilities.

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Point of View

Chemical industry's multi-pronged approach to mitigate supply chain risks

Chemical companies are combining strategic business decisions such as rethinking logistics networks and investing in technologies such as digital twins to the

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Data Viewpoint

THL leaders seek strategic enablers for a customer-centric, resilient, and sustainable future

Top priorities for THL firms include new business models, ESP and data.

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Point of View

Business services are shifting: From cost-cutting to AI-driven value

From savings to AI-driven value: Business services evolves with agentic AI solutions, reshaping automation and talent strategies.

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Point of View

Low business engagement with COP29 risks a lost year; sustainability needs positive lobbying

The world can’t wait until COP30. But many are, including in the private sector.

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Highlight Report

Understand your organization’s work labyrinth to become better leaders

Technology and organizational strategies are inexplicitly conjured under the technology of Soroco’s Scout.

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Challenger Series

HFS Challenger: Chazey Partners

Chazey Partners leverages a practitioner-led approach to deliver high-impact, cost-effective results to enterprises.

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Highlight Report

Writer's self-learning LLM highlights new emphasis on cutting the costs of enterprise AI

LLMs that learn and adapt could evolve dynamically alongside the businesses they support.

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Point of View

Breaking the F&A gridlock: Finance leaders confront automation challenges

CFOs should drive touchless finance by addressing gridlocks with system upgrades, silo integration, and IT collaboration.

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Point of View

The evolving US food retail complexion: Triggered by lifestyle and weight-loss drugs

Food Retailers must strategically adapt to remain relevant in an increasingly health-centric market.

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Highlight Report

The MIT discourse on GenAI: The world isn’t waiting for businesses to catch up

GenAI has hit escape velocity, with its influence cutting across industries.

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Point of View

The death of the dashboard: Prepare for a new era in enterprise intelligence

The future of decision-making lies in a shift from static dashboards to intelligent data conversations to drive workflows.

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Highlight Report

TCS approach suits firms seeking resilience in an evolving tech landscape

TCS wants you to embrace change—balanced with the need for enterprise resilience.

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Market Vision Paper

Lean into disruption to shape the generative customer experience

Firstsource is helping clients embrace the agentic AI opportunity.

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Point of View

Don’t let your customer data get away; make customer data platforms the new backbone of CX insights

GenAI plus customer data platforms highlight the potential power of “and”

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Healthcare Payer Service Providers, 2024

An assessment of healthcare payer service service providers, addressing the why, what, how, and so what.

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Highlight Report

Midmarket leaders are the new targets in tech services battle for growth

Avanade sets out to level-up thousands of midmarket firms with simplified Microsoft offerings for rapid adoption.

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Point of View

Resurrect pharmacies by adopting winning retail strategies to address community healthcare

Retail pharmacies must find ways not to succumb to the dog-eat-dog world of retail, rather emulate winning retailers to serve their local communities.

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Point of View

Energy innovation needs new clarity over the now, next, known, and unknown

Senior energy industry leaders must step up their collaboration with innovation teams.

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Highlight Report

Inflection AI bounces back to serve enterprise AI wish list

Rumors of the death of Inflection AI have been greatly exaggerated.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Sustainability Services, 2024

The report provides an in-depth assessment of sustainability service providers.

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Point of View

Focus retail and CPG GenAI investments on the core but leave room for innovation

A roundtable discussion of Retail and CPG enterprise executives.

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Market Impact Report

No more trickle-down digital! How to help mid-tier financial services firms grow in a post-SVB world

HFS Research, in partnership with Cognizant, surveyed 151 US mid-tier FS firms to understand their unique needs in a post-SVB world.

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Point of View

GenAI is reshaping sports industry advertising—adapt or get left behind

GenAI transformation isn’t only enhancing marketing—it’s redefining it.

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Highlight Report

Sutherland: The disruptor transforming legacy insurance by converging business and tech

Sutherland has been applying a business-first lens to tackle legacy issues and drive operational transformation in insurance.

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Point of View

Formal DEI programs may be dead—but diversity is more important than ever

As formal DEI programs fade, embedding inclusive practices into core business operations becomes crucial for sustainable growth.

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Point of View

Accelerate the ESG impact: Enterprise leaders, embrace supplier diversity now

Enterprise leaders must prioritize ESG in procurement to remain competitive and leverage diverse suppliers for sustainability.

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Highlight Report

Akkodis’ Octofecta strategy: Shaping the future with a bold tech stack

Akkodis drives transformation with its Octofecta strategy, integrating 8 technologies to accelerate global business innovation.

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Point of View

Assemble the tech you need to shift AI from tool to agent

Understand the tech behind agentic AI to help you understand how this new kid on the block can work for you.

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Point of View

Operational integrity is the key to flexible scaling with GenAI

GenAI transforms enterprise functions, enabling more agile workflows while thriving in well-established operational frameworks.

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Point of View

To futureproof skills, businesses must engage with the entire education system

Every business model should include engaging with schools and the entire education system as a core strategic initiative.

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Point of View

We know how to solve sustainability: Transition plan and find your critical mass

The near future for sustainability is uncertain, but the long term is not.

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Point of View

Generative Enterprise Services 2024: Our half-term report with lessons for every enterprise leader

Fresh trends and implications for every enterprise leader emerging from our ongoing research into Generative Enterprise services.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Azure Ecosystem™ Services Providers, 2024

The HFS Horizons: Azure Ecosystem Services, 2024 report examines service providers’ role in the evolving Azure landscape.

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Point of View

Quit tinkering with DIY GenAI pilots: Salesforce’s Agentforce showcases the future of software

The release of imbedded AI capabilities by software providers provides a potentially better path to deploy GenAI capabilities.

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Point of View

Procurement leaders must tackle operational hurdles to find new sources of value

Procurement faces operational issues, data challenges, and talent gaps, however, leaders can add value with ecosystem partners.

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Point of View

Transforming India’s GCCs: From cost optimizers to innovation powerhouses

GCCs shift from cost-cutting to innovation, driving growth through tech, skills, and AI. Challenges exist but are surmountable.

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Point of View

The Generative CFO: Leading finance into an AI-driven future

At a recent HFS roundtable with TCS in NYC, CFOs discussed their excitement over AI’s potential alongside adoption hurdles.

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Point of View

ISO 42001 is the silver bullet for your AI compliance nightmares

Understand ISO 42001 and how to leverage it to ensure your AI initiatives are innovative, responsible, and sustainable.

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Highlight Report

Amdocs taps into its telco heritage to drive growth in new industries

HFS attended Amdocs analyst event to learn how it is leveraging its solutions to address opportunities in new markets.

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Point of View

GenAI decision matrix for CPG: STOP experimenting and START implementing

HFS’ decision matrix for CPG based on analysis of leading GenAI use cases.

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Highlight Report

Genpact stakes its claim as the AI orchestrator

Genpact positions itself as the AI orchestrator, embedding AI into core business operations for real-world transformation.

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Highlight Report

IBM sign-posts more-with-less advantages of AI-led agentic services

IBM's agent-based system shows the industry is shifting from labor-based services to hybrid human-ai.

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Point of View

Building the ‘broker of the future’: Baldwin’s strategic GenAI deployment with Persistent

Insurance broker Baldwin Group is working with Persistent to fastcharge its GenAI adoption.

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Point of View

Value-based care is dead—focus on what makes an impact in one generation

Value-based care is a insurance construct being force fitted into care delivery that 60 years of experimentation has shown, it does not work. It is time to move

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Point of View

Prepare for agentic AI to shatter corporate workforces and global economies

Prepare for agentic AI to reshape workforces, flatten hierarchies, and disrupt global economies with vast social implications.

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No burning platform? That’s a poor excuse for continually mismanaging change

Don’t wait to find your business frantically reacting to catch up.

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Address your enterprise cultural debt first to have a fighting chance of overcoming the rest

Phil Fersht, CEO and Chief Analyst at HFS Research, talks to Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar.

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Don’t fall for the greenlash—sustainability is still a (literal) burning platform

The greenlash—perceived opposition to sustainability initiatives—is, at most, a greenhush.

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RPA supervisor to IA orchestrator—C TWO advances up the Generative Enterprise S-curve

The market is experiencing a significant shift toward the Generative Enterprise, reshaping the traditional S-curve of value creation.

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Explore the future of next-gen manufacturing innovations with TCS

TCS is focusing on digital innovation in manufacturing to create customer-centric solutions and make processes efficient and agile.

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AI will soon fix its long list of issues—you must be ready

Enterprises must trust in AI or get left behind by those who do – warns Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S.

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Hitachi Digital Services and OneThird are transforming produce supply chains

Hitachi Digital Services and One Third have jointly developed a solution that cuts produce wastage by 25%.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: IoT Service Providers, 2024

The evolution of IoT services in the age of the Generative Enterprise™.

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Tackling physician burnout requires reimagining healthcare

By rethinking burnout, healthcare can turn this challenge into a catalyst for innovative, systemic change.

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Fire your health plan to reduce costs and boost employee health

Health plans continue to escalate their costs while diluting the value proposition; employers must replace health plans and start a new alternate journey.

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With Agentforce, Salesforce brings new opportunities for clients and partners

At its annual Dreamforce event in California, Salesforce officially unveiled Agentforce, an allin-one agentics and Gen AI solution.

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TWILTCH providers must embrace tech arbitrage to improve financial performances

TWILTCH providers must convince clients to embrace technology arbitrage and jump to the new S-curve of value creation.

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India's semiconductor moment will catapult its capabilities in global supply chains

Accenture's 'Semicon 2024' highlighted the opportunity India's semiconductor ecosystem has and the challenges it must overcome.

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Infosys cements its stable culture but must deliver on Enterprise AI as its future vision

Infosys continues to move the needle on AI by targeting use cases beyond IT organizations.

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Infosys at the forefront of next-gen automotive tech with its in-tech acquisition

Infosys acquires in-tech to enhance its capabilities in the mobility space and localize operations in the European market.

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HDS CEO says the great GenAI experiment is over—it's time to get serious

The great enterprise experiment with GenAI is over. Firms are moving away from ad-hoc tests and back to proper planning.

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The US Fed’s rate cut is promising for the IT services industry, but headwinds continue to blow

The US Fed finally cuts rates. HFS Research evaluates what it means for the IT services industry.

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'Software will eat software' changes the economics of cutting your technical debt

Modernize legacy systems and update processes more affordably, thanks to a new approach in which 'software will eat software.'

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HFS Hot Tech star lands $22.2 million to target the $100 billion insurance data gap

HFS Hot Tech vendor Roots Automation has landed a $22.2 million boost to help insurers close their $100 billion data gap.

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It’s time to restructure the influence of the six largest US healthcare enterprises

The outcomes delivered by 6 of US’s largest healthcare companies are terrible and they need to account for it.

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From supply chains to networks, a disruptive mindset and data readiness are key to success

The term "supply chain" is a misnomer that no longer reflects the multi-tiered and interconnected reality of 2024 supply networks.

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Unleash the power of happy humans in your AI enterprise—learn from Cognizant’s balancing act

AI adoption risks employee discontent. Cognizant balances efficiency and experience using design, AI, and data.

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GenAI isn’t a threat to your job; agentic AI is

GenAI enhances jobs; agentic AI may replace them. Agentic AI autonomously handles complex tasks, threatening roles and software.

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If RPA is dead, how do we manage the inheritance?

Learn from the automation journey of C TWO client BNP Paribas.

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Market Impact Report

AI-led Generative Business Services: The future of Global Business Services (GBS)

Elevate GBS: Transition from cost-cutting to AI-driven KPOs. Foster growth, innovation, and strategic value for lasting impact.

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Hot Tech

HFS OneOffice Hot Tech: Fisent

Fisent specializes in automating complex, repetitive tasks within enterprises with applied generative AI (GenAI) process automation.

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Think small to release the targeted power of AI in enterprise operations

Discover the enterprise benefits of focused and specialized AI that gets things done - small action models.

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Market Impact Report

Don’t just “assure” quality after the fact; “engineer” quality into the software development

Quality assurance is at a crossroads as it must support the new complexities of cloud-native transformation and AI.

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Retail’s make-or-break moment: Embark on the HFS ‘Future of Retail’ framework now

The ‘Future of Retail’ framework professes a customer-oriented paradigm enabled by tech.

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Data Viewpoint

Modernize core banking to differentiate and future-proof beyond cost-cutting or UI polish

Banks must select their approach carefully to ensure continuously evolving systems.

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Market Impact Report

GenAI unplugged: Candid insights from GenAI trailblazers in their own words

Hard-earned insights from GenAI trailblazers reveal the real-world challenges, triumphs, and strategies to guide successful AI adoption.

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Point of View

Use our framework to win as a Generative Enterprise™

A new framework and three foundations that will help you deliver the goals of The Generative Enterprise™.

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Point of View

Balancing your dreaming and doing is key to enterprise GenAI success

HFS, with Tech Mahindra, recently hosted a roundtable session to discuss the importance of dreaming and doing for GenAI success.

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Virtusa seeks its mojo in the crowded GenAI market with Helio

Helio stands out for its structured approach, workforce upskilling initiatives, and strategic cloud partnerships.

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Highlight Report

Hitachi Digital Services brings multiple entry points to help clients with IT/OT convergence

HDS aims to integrate Gen AI in IT/OT integration to meet the demand for digital engineering and create new sources of value.

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Tailor a digital transformation, as this mid-tier bank did, for best results

Hitachi DS delivered small-scope digital transformations in the mid-tier bank’s business line with enterprise-level solutions.

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Energy and utilities leaders must adapt to convergence or risk obsolescence

E&U leaders must adapt to sector convergence, integrating renewables, smart grids, and IoT, or face obsolescence.

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Point of View

Invest in your people—or pay more than you need to for AI

Train your way out of AI skills debt or prepare for a war for talent only those with the deepest pockets can hope to win.

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Service providers must capitalize on India's medical tourism boom

Service providers should leverage infrastructure to offer better patient experiences and operational efficiencies.

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Data Viewpoint

No safety in being part of a herd moving slowly on AI

AI maturity is low and evenly distributed across industries. But leaders mustn't take comfort from being part of a slow-moving herd.

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a21.ai heralds the emergence of right-sized GenAI solutions for SMEs

a21.ai is using SLMs to create lower cost GenAI solutions to deliver quick ROIs.

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IBM collaborates with the City of Copenhagen to balance the energy system

IBM and Denmark's largest energy company partnered to develop a demand-side flexibility solution for Copenhagen to balance renewable energy sources.

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Point of View

Reducing care costs will not translate to lower prices

The idea that cost reductions related to operations, administration, drugs, etc. will decrease the overall cost of care is false.

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Operationalized innovation as a strategic lever to tackle the Digital Dichotomy

Infosys is progressing from internal trend scouting to externalizing innovation.

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Is the afterlife of RPA agentic, as UiPath suggests?

UiPath is evolving its narrative from RPA to integrated automatoin platform to agentic automation

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Data Viewpoint

Healthcare providers use third-party expertise to enhance cloud and cybersecurity

The HFS HCP Horizons study highlights the increasing reliance on service providers for cloud needs and cybersecurity.

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Point of View

New beginning for global business services value generation

How new-gen leaders in GBS are pulling away from the pack.

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Point of View

DEI is at a crossroads—facing death or revitalization

DEI is at a crossroads—organizations must either revitalize their efforts or risk abandoning these essential values entirely.

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Karnataka’s draft reservation bill—a threat to Bangalore’s tech hub status—is on hold

The new labor draft bill in the Indian state of Karnataka, currently on hold, could impact IT investments.

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Point of View

Enterprise voices: Make Responsible AI your foundation for GenAI growth

Responsible AI holds the key to GenAI growth. But only one in 10 firms has a Responsible AI policy in place.

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Enterprises focused on clearing their debts are poised to scale with GenAI

Enterprises looking to scale GenAI need to address their debts, utilise COEs and address sustainability and liability.

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Point of View

New tech is disrupting how enterprises consume services

New tech firms are applying AI and GenAI to rip up the way services get done.

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Market Impact Report

Don’t drown in data debt; champion your Data First culture

If data is so precious, why are we failing to make meaningful progress?

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The big themes facing the technology, media, and telecoms industry

The TMT landscape demands navigating new opportunities and challenges. Success hinges on two pillars: innovation and optimization.

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Data Viewpoint

Not even GenAI spend can drive growth for TWILTCH providers

TWILTCH continue to face another quarter of slowdown in growth in Q1 2024 due to uncertain macroeconomic environment.

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Hot Tech

HFS OneOffice Hot Tech: TrueFoundry

TrueFoundry offers a self-hosted cloud-agnostic platform that enables enterprises to build and scale their Gen AI use cases.

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BFSI's fast track to GenAI value hinges on resolving five crucial debts

BFSI's GenAI value hinges on resolving five key debts—technology, culture, skills, process, and data—to achieve sustainable value.

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Data Viewpoint

Revenue growth of ‘fastest five’ service providers slows, but investments show promise

The fastest five service providers revenue growth is slowing but they bet on emerging technologies to remain relevant.

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LLM leader shakes GenAI market with enterprise software licensing

Leading LLM firm responds to enterprise GenAI concerns with software licensing. But it won't suit those still dabbling with POCs.

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Insurers can win the digital battle by overcoming institutional complexities

Cognizant hosted an event in Hartford, to evaluate the industry’s preparedness, and served as a platform for 150 executives.

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Cognizant enables FCCI to propel its E&S specialty business

FCCI chooses Cognizant to bring its E&S program to life

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: The Best Service Providers for Core Banking Modernization, 2024

The report explores the myriad ways banks are driving core modernization with the help of their service provider partners.

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Point of View

CFOs must become sustainability savvy to meet the evolving regulatory landscape

ESG is expected to become an integral part of financial and accounting reporting requiring CFOs to prioritize the ESG agenda.

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ChatGPT-4o comes with a new focus on enterprise needs

A deep-dive on ChatGPT-4o's new focus on enterprise needs

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Hitachi Digital Services and Jacobs transform water management with AI

Hitachi and Jacobs Solutions Inc. are transforming water management practices with AIenabled solutions.

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Freedom within fences: Autonomous sourcing goes mainstream

The rise of autonomous procurement platforms is driving the transition towards Generative Enterprise.

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Point of View

The band-aid to hide a medical debt shame will not last long

Efforts to limit medical debt in credit reporting will not address people hurting and the greed intrinsic to our healthcare system.

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Point of View

Five ways GenAI disrupts the enterprise

Generative AI changes the enterprise in five significant ways - from how we use our data to how we organize and manage our teams.

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How enterprises can have their BPO cake and eat it, too

Many enterprise leaders are demanding more for the same from their service providers. But can we have our cake AND eat it?

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Procurement is plagued by convoluted internal processes

This report talks about the procurement orchestration and the role of ORO labs platform.

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NTT Research’s innovation can enable a new care delivery paradigm

A need-based intervention can help optimize dwindling clinical resources, improve health outcomes, and reduce costs.

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Point of View

Generative AI eats SaaS

Generative AI is allowing companies to rethink their dependence on SaaS. Building the future of software best tune and future proof for their business.

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rhino.ai brings genAI and BRDs to automated software development

Rethink how you modernize your applications to create long-term value through universal composability that can be used on any platform.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Industry Cloud Service Providers, 2024

Industry Cloud must be aligned to Cloud Native Transformation

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Market Impact Report

GenAI can turbocharge life sciences growth if choices are selective and deliberate

The possibilities of GenAI are immense and this practical playbook will help guide life sciences leaders realize its potential.

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Point of View

AADA Quadfecta can propel the retail singularity dream, but retailers must eliminate debts

The retail singularity enabler will be the quadfecta of analytics, AI, data platforms, and automation.

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How to choose the right LLM for your business challenge

Choose your LLM for its fit with your business goals and use cases and take control of your digital destiny. Business first - tech second.

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Market Impact Report

Unleashing the power of generative AI to build autonomous supply chains

GenAI could be a game-changer in building the autonomous supply chains of the future.

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Point of View

The big themes facing manufacturers in 2024

Manufacturers must prioritize integration of data and technology and focus on sustainability to get ahead.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: HCP Service Providers, 2024

An assessment of healthcare providers (HCP) service providers, addressing the why, what, how, and so what

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Point of View

The new consistent Cognizant looks to move clients from business as usual to AI as usual

HFS looks at how Cognizant is going 'all in' on aiding clients on their AI journeys.

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CX leaders find they are in the same GenAI boat—and it's not moving nearly fast enough

The customer experience function is not reaping the benefits of GenAI.

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How you can exploit LLMs to drive human-like cognition into your business processes

Understanding how your business can exploit human-like cognition with Generative AI is a new business fundamental

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Supply Chain Services, 2024

This report assesses how well service providers are helping their supply chain clients embrace innovation and realize value

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Market Impact Report

Pivoting toward the new frontier in travel & hospitality

Ecosystem development and collaboration will be key to unlocking new sources of value

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Highlight Report

AI-first, AI-everywhere at Google Cloud Next

At Google Cloud Next, Google showcased a host of capabilities integrating AI into its products, including chip investments, new agents, and LLM (large language

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Emerging regulations will change the global AI landscape

Companies building high- risk AI systems must act swiftly to meet new regulatory demands. The clock is ticking, and the hard work starts now.

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EY navigates new terrain after shelving Project Everest

EY adapts strategy after shelving Project Everest: integrates tech, prioritizes human-centric approach, and targets industry-specific solutions for market

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EY & Dell Technologies provide enterprises with a path to innovation with Edge Cloud

EY and Dell Technologies (Dell) are carving a new path by offering CIOs their Edge Lab initiative to address the growing need to optimize workloads across cloud

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The UK life and annuities market is running to stand still

It's time to cultivate demonstrated innovation from all geographies for UK insurers to complete their data and digital transformation.

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AWM firms bet on analytics, insights, and customer experience for GenAI impact

Explore the AWM industry's top GenAI case studies and use cases.

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Point of View

10 vertical specialists shaping the HFS Generative Enterprise™ ecosystem

How do you solve specific business problems with GenAI? Turn to vertical specialists. Here are 10 shaping the HFS Generative Enterprise™.

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Point of View

Enterprise service delivery preferences are moving towards managed services

Stark differences emerge between internally delivered services and third-party-delivered managed services.

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Point of View

GenAI breathes new life into IDP but will eventually replace it

Enterprises continue investing in intelligent document processing (IDP) as they dig deep to find productivity gains by reducing reliance on paper and improving

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Point of View

Future-proof finance: Nordic region finance leaders are at the helm of change for the AI revolution

Nordic F&A leaders must prioritize tech modernization and transformation with the right talent and partners.

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Market Analysis

HFS Pulse—The 2024 outlook for banking and financial services

HFS’ 2024 Pulse data and state-of-the-market summary for BFS are here—a year of AI-led technology arbitrage and lumpy spending rebound.

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Point of View

Service providers must seize the opportunity Indian hospitals are creating

The ABDM triggers healthcare mergers, boosting tech integration in India.

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Highlight Report

Infosys Topaz leads the charge for an AI-first future

Infosys Topaz spearheads the shift toward an AI-driven future, enhancing innovation and client solutions with its AI-first paradigm.

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Data Viewpoint

Health plans are transitioning away from health insurance to being service providers

Health plans are transitioning away from health insurance to being service providers.

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Highlight Report

EX Profile: EY’s data and AI-driven path to enhanced employee experience

EY employs AI for enhanced employee experience, fostering growth, and productivity.

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Point of View

Outcome-centric governance is the key to enterprise adoption of GenAI

When operationalizing GenAI, beware of the hype and stay focused on the fundamentals

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Infosys’ life sciences ecosystem powers its domain growth over the next two years

Ecosystems have increasingly become a force multiplier to help enterprises accelerate value creation.

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Point of View

How enterprises stand to gain from Wipro’s commitment to GenAI

When enterprise leaders face the kind of paradigm shift GenAI represents, they need suppliers that have tested the waters.

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Point of View

2023 acquisitions by IT service providers reveal growth through transformation

2023 acquisitions provide valuable insight into the technology and consulting sectors' current priorities and future directions.

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Point of View

GBS organizations of the future are growth enablers and resource wells for innovation

The pivotal shift from global to generative business services.

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Point of View

Ten companies shaping the Generative Enterprise™ Ecosystem

The HFS Generative Enterprise™ Ecosystem maps leading players across AI applications and infrastructure

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Point of View

Semiconductors—the next frontier of geopolitics

As the demand for semiconductors increase, geopolitics will play a crucial role in shaping the semiconductor supply chain.

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Point of View

A new beginning for managed services—an enterprise perspective

All the factors for market adoption are converging; it’s time for enterprises to include managed services in their delivery mix.

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Point of View

HCLTech unveils a bold vision for E&U to converge IT/OT/BT for digital transformation

HCLTech recognizes the need for transformation in the E&U industry and has rebuilt its focus to grab new opportunities.

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Point of View

For banks to drive the AI imperative, they must modernize core banking now

As we launch the 2024 Horizons report for core banking modernization service providers, we examine a modern core for integrating AI.

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Hot Tech Digest - Top Tech Firms to Watch

The monthly Hot Tech Digest curates and analyzes notable tech startups, highlighting companies shaping the future of the industry.

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Point of View

Celonis’ object-centric approach drives smarter decisions up and down the supply chain

Celonis’ object-centric platform enables real-time, data-backed decision-making.

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Point of View

Energizing consumer engagement and bridging the payer-provider divide with GenAI

GenAI can accelerate value realization from vertically integrated healthcare enterprises and help bridge the payer-provider disconnect.

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Data Viewpoint

The quality of service providers’ partners impacts AWM firms’ ability to create value

Service providers should curate a high-quality ecosystem providing the right expertise to deliver value and benefit to AWM firms.

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Point of View

RTO mandates reveal a widening cultural divide between employees and employers

RTO mandates expose a growing rift between employees and employers, underscoring control issues over genuine collaboration.

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Highlight Report

EY delivers data-driven well-being for Kean University

EY aids Kean University in data-driven well-being approach; reflects shift in prioritizing holistic wellness for institutions.

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Highlight Report

Sutherland and FORVIS: A collaborative leap into consult-to-operate finance transformation

Sutherland has formed a partnership with FORVIS to explore OneEcosystem™ propositions.

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Point of View

Regulations for AI in healthcare are near, and they need your attention now

In an uncertain regulatory landscape for AI, it is time to prepare an internal roadmap to operationalize compliance frameworks.

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Point of View

IT services firms mandate a return to office…Will it backfire?

IT firms mandate a return to office, but trust may help win the war for talent.

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Point of View

Don’t let your GenAI project fail before it begins

Enterprises must address their data foundation to enable successful GenAI deployments.

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Point of View

Navigating the operationalization of GenAI

To progress with GenAI, we have to address the integration and governance issues operations leaders face.

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Market Impact Report

Democratizing GenAI: A reality check for business transformation

Insights from leaders navigating the GenAI revolution reveal its transformative potential and the need for realistic expectations.

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Highlight Report

HCLTech helps Banco do Brasil re-invent customer-centricity in the cloud

Banco do Brasil embarked on a customer-experience-led digital transformation with HCLTech to meet customers’ increasing demands.

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Point of View

The HFS definition of enterprise AI

Our snackable AI glossary adds to your understanding of what stands behind the new tech shorthand you need to know.

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Challenger Series

HFS Challenger: SoftwareOne

Tackling the digital dichotomy through self-funded innovation.

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Highlight Report

Infosys’ Responsible AI cuts the fears holding the C-suite back

If you want a piece of the AI action, get some help to overcome the fears paralyzing C-suite decision making.

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Highlight Report

iconica adds a cooperative flavor to the ServiceNow ecosystem

Against the market trend of consolidation, iconica aims to scale out a collective of ServiceNow pure plays

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Market Impact Report

Re-energize health consumer engagement and bridge the payer-provider divide with GenAI

Healthcare can leverage GenAI to address the payer-provider disconnect and maximize the value of vertically integrated healthcare enterprises.

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Data Viewpoint

Efficacy of technology deployment is reflected in an often-missed financial metric: revenue per employee

Revenue per employee indicates the efficiency of resource deployment; in a high-tech world, it should be tracking higher.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Manufacturing Intelligent Operations Services, 2024

Digitalization and modernization have yet to deliver full value for the manufacturing industry.

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Point of View

It’s time to throw open the cloud’s exit doors

Angst with hyperscaler contracts is high; addressing vendor lock-in issues and making data transition exits seamless will help.

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Challenger Series

HFS Challenger: Innova Solutions

Bringing two decades of acquisitions under one roof with a new focus on digital transformation deals.

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Point of View

Unlocking healthcare productivity with AI is now a necessity

The AI continuum offers the opportunity to sustainably and positively impact the triple aim of care; leverage it optimally and boldly.

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Highlight Report

Mphasis initiatives offer the promise of a return to growth

Mphasis' initiatives in AI, BFSI, and digital transformation inspire signs of return to growth after a torrid 2023.

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Point of View

Unleash the superpower of neurodiversity: A strategic imperative for EX

Embrace neurodiversity for innovation and better employee experience. Companies like IBM, EY, and RRD lead the way.

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Highlight Report

Accenture invests in creative agency to strengthen its life sciences capabilities

Accenture's investment in ConcentricLife helps it take the pole position for agency services.

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Point of View

Three waves of GenAI "Hot Tech" power the future of work

HFS' focus on the Hot Tech shaping the future of work spots three waves of start-ups enterprise leaders must learn and embrace.

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Highlight Report

In a bid to stay relevant, NTT DATA consolidates its global footprint

NTT DATA is acting to radically overhaul its global go-to-market to make a $30 billion global IT services provider.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Assuring the Generative Enterprise™, 2024

Quality assurance is pivoting toward quality engineering to become an integral part of the software development life cycle.

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Challenger Series

HFS Challenger: MSRcosmos

Delivering Agile with a blend of products and services for midmarket clients.

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Data Viewpoint

Sustainability is critical for driving growth and innovation in RCPG—but more investment is required

A shift in consumer buying is reshaping the retail and consumer packaged goods (RCPG) business landscape.

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Highlight Report

A focus on the future helps IBM deliver growth across all segments

IBM’s Q4 results reveal progress across all segments, built on a commitment to innovation and meeting customers’ needs.

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Point of View

GenAI could destroy the value of proprietary data

Emerging generative AI (GenAI) capabilities threaten the value of proprietary data. What does this mean for your data strategy?

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Highlight Report

Infosys makes bold move acquiring InSemi to bring “chip design as a service” to customers

Infosys acquires InSemi to bring semiconductor design services to industry, IoT, and GenAI solutions that drive business outcomes.

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Highlight Report

Accenture builds on its SAP expertise and launches the supply chain nerve center

The nerve center integrates multiple SAP and third-party systems to connect end-to-end supply chains.

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Point of View

GenAI will require a strong cloud backbone, but chip shortages are proving to be a pain

Faced with a chip shortage and dependency on suppliers, hyperscalers have launched chips of their own.

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Point of View

Unlocking the transformative future of managed services

Managed services must move beyond legacy labor arbitrage and embrace innovative outcome-based models to unlock new sources of value.

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Data Viewpoint

New skill set emerges for successful GenAI use

Problem solving, adaptability, and critical thinking are the most essential skills that GenAI pioneers feel workers are lacking.

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Point of View

GenAI can put price transparency on steroids and make it actionable for all stakeholders

Healthcare enterprises can leverage GenAI and price data exposed by transparency rules to impact the triple aim of care.

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Point of View

AWS ReInvents cloud service offerings with natural language querying and GenAI

Using natural language queries in cloud applications will improve productivity and reduce response time for solving issues.

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Point of View

CFOs are breaking down silos to drive innovation

Our interview with Felix Langenbach, CFO of LVMH Japan, explains the significance of customer experience in the luxury goods industry.

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Point of View

GenAI for finance and accounting: Do we have the right data and use cases?

F&A will experience a significant impact from GenAI in the next few years, and the finance function will gradually adapt to it.

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Highlight Report

Tech Mahindra’s blueprint for growth leans on industry expansion and GenAI

Tech Mahindra's new CEO, Mohit Joshi, discusses his strategic vision with HFS CEO and Chief Analyst Phil Fersht.

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Point of View

These three topics will boost your understanding of the opportunities and perils of quantum computing

Understanding tunneling, entanglement, and superposition is vital for using quantum computing to solve problems and create value.

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Data Viewpoint

Q3 2023: TWILTCH revenue growth hits low single-digits, and some decline, but big deal flow drives

Q3 2023 quarterly results show a further slowdown in revenue growth, but large deals drive optimism for some IT service providers.

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Point of View

Understanding quantum computing is critical to preparing your firm for the next leap

Technology and business leaders must recognize quantum computing's key role in planning for future compute needs.

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Point of View

GenAI can fix the IT productivity paradox

Our cohort of experts suggests that GenAI may finally fix a productivity paradox.

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Point of View

Classics over coding? Skills to power success in the GenAI economy

We explore which skills organizations will demand more as they strive to capture value from GenAI.

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Point of View

AI will unlock value from every business function

Early innovators predict which functions will be impacted most by GenAI.

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Highlight Report

Wipro matches Mitie’s need for pragmatic transformation

Picking the right partner is as important as picking the right battles if you want to win with transformation.

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Market Vision Paper

Using AI to illuminate “the dark side of the moon”

The HFS take on how Soroco’s flagship product Scout uses AI to find and fix hidden pains impacting how enterprises get work done.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Low-Code Services, 2023

This HFS Horizons research dives into the why, what, how, and so what of the low-code capabilities of 12 services firms.

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Market Vision Paper

Tangible business value from cloud transformation remains elusive

Hybrid cloud is not just about leveraging a hybrid of public and private cloud; it must driven by a hybrid of IT and business stakeholders.

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Point of View

Professional services navigate the ethical seas of GenAI while discovering new opportunities

In a roundtable co-hosted by RRD, HFS brought together legal, business, and technology leaders to understand how these firms are embracing GenAI.

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Point of View

Points, waves, and fields: The new physics of work

We explore what early innovators have learned about how generative AI will reshape enterprise value.

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Point of View

How to win the race to become a Generative Enterprise™

Ascendion CEO Karthik Krishnamurthy shares the hard lessons that can help us all unlock value with GenAI.

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Point of View

GenAI is a long-term play, not an instant gratification project

Mphasis' CEO addresses GenAI's transformational promise amidst challenges in data privacy, talent, tech, and ethics.

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Point of View

Introducing your playbook for the GenAI future

How is this study different? Discover lessons learned that make this a must-read series.

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Highlight Report

Infosys serves a winner for the ATP Tour

Infosys delivers data-driven insights for players and fans of the ATP Tour to improve the quality of the sport.

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Genpact opens its first AI center to help enterprises rethink workflows

Genpact’s first AI innovation center opened in London, reinforcing the firm’s efforts to rethink workflows and unlock personalization.

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Point of View

Going all-in on GenAI brings promise (and peril)

We discuss balancing GenAI enthusiasm with delivery concerns.

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Point of View

Expect some turbulence as GenAI takes off

An exclusive cohort of early enterprise adopters identify the obstacles most likely to impact your GenAI deployment.

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Highlight Report

Verizon Business and HCLTech seal $2.1b megadeal to redefine managed network services

Verizon Business and HCLTech's $2.1B partnership transforms network services globally, emphasizing the value of partnerships in telecom.

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Akkodis’ consolidation accelerates its presence in the digital engineering market

Getting to know Akkodis is time well-spent for savvy buyers seeking skills at the intersection of digital, IT, engineering, and talent.

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Data Viewpoint

Cost savings is the number-one priority in F&A service providers’ selection criteria

Voice of the customer feedback in the HFS Horizons: F&A Service Providers, 2023 study shows clients still prioritize cost savings.

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Highlight Report

Confluence spotlights Infosys’ opportunities across GenAI, ecosystems, and change

HFS attends the Infosys Americas Confluence event and offers a spotlight on the opportunities and challenges facing Infosys.

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Point of View

Infosys delivers a trusted financial ecosystem with blockchain for SIDBI

SIDBI recognized blockchain's ability to drive trust throughout ecosystems and turned to Infosys to make it a reality.

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Highlight Report

Google responds to enterprise fears of hyperscaler GenAI control

Google Cloud is pushing the boat out to allay enterprise fears that GenAI represents another way for hyperscalers to exert control.

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From competitors to collaborators, IBM and Microsoft partner to unleash OneEcosystem™

IBM and Microsoft transition from rivals to partners, fostering innovation and addressing customer needs through a OneEcosystem™ approach.

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Amdocs acquires Helix Service Assurance to close the loop for 5G-era networks

With its strategic acquisition, Amdocs aims to become a dominant force in this booming industry.

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TechM targets GenAI-enabled MVPs for life sciences

TechM stays grounded as it experiments with GenAI to help its clients with real, impactful solutions.

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UST boosts telecom services growth with the acquisition of MobileComm

UST’s acquisition of MobileComm will boost its attractiveness to technology buyers in cloud and wireless telecommunications firms.

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Point of View

Salesforce and IBM partner to bring the OneEcosystem™ to life

Salesforce and IBM joined forces to unleash the OneEcosystem™ approach, emphasizing the importance of partnerships for innovation.

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Point of View

Using low-code in your SDLC can accelerate delivery by 85%

Low-code brings visual software development, allows co-creation and speed to market, and speeds software delivery by up to 85%.

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Point of View

Standing in line is for the supermarket, not for software development

Why do we still use software development methodologies that waste time delivering impact? New tools can deliver real outcomes.

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Highlight Report

Mphasis acquires and aggregates to meet CTOs’ AI needs

Mphasis’ AI offering could meet a range of CTO demands—if the team can train and retain.

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Point of View

After the hype: What happened to the metaverse?

The metaverse may still be stuck in the starting blocks, but post-hype may be the right time to revisit your strategy.

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Highlight Report

TCS uses open banking to help GenZ and students build credit

TCS is harnessing open banking effectively to help users of the Housemate app better manage their money.

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Genpact care management enables clinicians to practice at the top of their license

Administrative burdens constrain clinicians from practicing at the top of their license; technology can remediate the situation.

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Market Vision Paper

Navigating the cloud-native maze

Cloud is becoming a business discussion. Thus, organizations need to define and align their business and technology objectives rather than stay lost in

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Highlight Report

Wipro’s Medadvantage360 platform delivers impressive outcomes for Medicare

Wipro's Medadvantage360 meets the needs of our seniors through technology, ensuring they get the care they need when they need it.

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Point of View

Five steps to an autonomous, networked supply chain

Supply chains are recovering and becoming more networked and value-based.

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Market Vision Paper

Capgemini’s Connected Enterprise: Delivering continuous digital and sustainable business value

Capgemini’s Connected Enterprise creates an intelligent ecosystem to deliver enhanced business outcomes.

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Highlight Report

Cognizant’s healthcare counter-offensive with segmentation and GenAI a likely winner

Cognizant's recrafted strategy focusing on key segments and adopting GenAI provides a distinct edge to capture a greater wallet share.

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WNS boxes clever with a one-two punch of finance data and talent

WNS aims to solve finance leaders' data analysis struggle with its Financial Intelligence-in-a-Box suite.

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Data Viewpoint

Enterprises see talent as the key to establishing digital command centers for process insight

Skilled talent is important in bridging the enterprise data gap that decelerates the journey to digital command centers.

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Highlight Report

Capgemini makes digital currency work offline in Aussie banking pilot

Capgemini has cracked the problem of making digital currency work offline in a pilot with ANZ Bank in Australia.

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Hot Tech

HFS OneEcosystem Hot Vendor: DataSwitch

DataSwitch delivers an enterprise-grade, no-code, self-serviceable platform for data modernization and data engineering.

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Highlight Report

WNS applies GenAI to a global insurer’s end-to-end claims process

WNS' deep domain knowledge, process know-how, and GenAI-enhanced analytical engine deliver benefits for insurers.

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Data Viewpoint

Mid-tiers dominate the five fastest-growing service providers in Q2 ‘23 for revenue growth

Mid-tier IT companies are the fastest-growing service providers amid a continued economic slowdown.

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Data Viewpoint

Continued slowdown in revenue growth of TWILTCH impacts employee headcount

Service providers have faced talent shortages; however, as attrition moderated, hiring and headcount growth slowed.

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Data Viewpoint

From basic to predictive processes: The “insights” leap enterprises must make to fuel growth

Enterprises need to push to move from basic process insights to predictive insights.

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Point of View

HCLTech’s “supercharging progress” claim is more than marketing for BFSI firms battling the

HCLTech hosted its first BFSI analyst event. Here are HFS' top takeaways for enterprises in the year of the digital dichotomy.

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Point of View

If you aren’t using GenAI daily, get out of the way!

If you don’t understand GenAI’s capabilities, you risk basing business decisions on outdated knowledge.

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Market Analysis

Competitive Intelligence from August 2023

In this month’s CI report, we’ll cover technology, sustainability, banking and financial services, cybersecurity, and more.

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Highlight Report

Infosys strikes a megadeal with Liberty Global to cement its presence in the telecom industry

Infosys secures €1.5B deal with Liberty Global, highlighting AI capabilities, cost savings, and telecom expertise.

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Rightpoint’s Total Experience approach applies a fresh lens to experience strategy

Rightpoint’s Total Experience approach binds CX, EX, and PX, connecting experience dots across the customer lifecycle.

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IBM and Adobe partner to help CMOs get personal

IBM has expanded its partnership with Adobe to introduce an intelligent content supply chain.

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Point of View

GEODIS turns to Tech Mahindra to drive new efficiencies with process intelligence

HFS connected with Tech Mahindra and its client GEODIS to learn why enterprises should consider it for process intelligence.

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Highlight Report

Cognizant: A worthy end-to-end digital provider for the platform economy

Cognizant’s engagement with the platform economy encompasses engineering, IT services, and business operations.

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Point of View

Keep your options open when it comes to public or private LLMs

When it comes to large language models, leaders should avoid hitching their wagons to any one approach.

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Data Viewpoint

Win over the C-suite so they become the champions of enterprise modernization for BFS firms

40% of BFS firms say the funding and selection of full-services firms rests with the C-suite and senior business executives.

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Point of View

Health plans must stop prior authorizations and quit putting consumers at risk

Prior authorization is a dangerous business practice that does nothing but put people who need care at risk.

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Market Analysis

Competitive Intelligence from July 2023

In this month’s Competitive Intelligence report, we’ll cover technology, banking and financial services, healthcare and more.

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Highlight Report

Ascendion grabs Nitor Infotech to match boom in client demand for GenAI

Ascendion’s acquisition of India-based Nitor Infotech could offer engineering services customers more access to GenAI solutions.

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Highlight Report

EY fixes flaws in GenAI to deliver large-scale code migration for financial services client

GenAI does not have all the answers when converting code, as EY discovered in its work for a financial services client.

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HCLTech drives business ops and experience with live GenAI

HCLTech has remained a quiet early adopter of GenAI initiatives, delivering real case studies with tangible outcomes.

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Capgemini joins in GenAI’s me-too mire

Capgemini now has a GenAI portfolio. Enterprise leaders must ask if their partners are answering the right questions.

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NTT DATA dovetails its conversational AI eva with GenAI to reimagine CX for L’Oréal

eva is almost equivalent to a human associate in some dimensions with add-on benefits.

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Genpact hopes to tempt CFOs with a strengthened F&A proposition

Genpact is taking a data-driven approach enabling CFOs to balance growth and profitability.

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Point of View

Emerson cuts costs and scales complex automation with Python-powered Robocorp

When the demand for innovation arrives coupled with the demand to cut costs, a switch to open-source RPA solutions is likely to prove tempting.

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Highlight Report

Tech Mahindra bets big on integrated cloud offerings

Tech Mahindra made five big bets on its cloud offerings, hoping its proposal aligns well with enterprises’ shifting needs.

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Unit4 ERP helps Magnox through people-centric transformation

Magnox’s partners with Unit4 to expand its SaaS ERP to drive outcomes across finances, people, and reporting operations.

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Abacode targets firms’ ecosystem-wide cyber threat

Enterprises must not only eliminate security vulnerabilities in their organization, but also in their partners and suppliers.

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Point of View

Increase the success of healthcare vertical integration with industry cloud

Healthcare vertical integration must embrace the industry cloud to mitigate the risks of point solutions.

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Highlight Report

Wipro launches private 5G as-a-service to better serve data-hungry enterprises

Private 5G-as-a-service will suit enterprises that prefer to outsource both the capital risk and the need to recruit 5G experts.

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Highlight Report

Service providers invest billions and train thousands for the GenAI gold rush

Generative AI’s (GenAI) promise of a $7 trillion prize has prompted a gold rush among service providers as they hurry to organize and claim a piece of the a

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Data Viewpoint

Banks’ continued investment in cloud needs to deliver cost and income impact

HFS’ latest IT services investment data for banks is in! Check out what makes the cut and why.

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Highlight Report

Changing how work gets done can inspire improved healthcare outcomes

To transform the enterprise work paradigm, work must shift to better outcomes for health consumers and healthcare enterprises.

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Point of View

How business leaders can take control of the GenAI conversation

Generative AI is rocking the business world. It summarizes, answers questions, creates content, and creates code—but what is it?

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Point of View

The bots ARE coming for your job after all

Generative AI is coming and you need to rethink how to work at the higher end of the spectrum and find yourself a role in this new reality.

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Highlight Report

Clinion AI responds to growing demand to serve remote clinical trials

Clinion is keen to serve the growing demand for eClinical solutions that monitor and collect data in clinical trials.

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Point of View

Krista’s platform meets enterprises’ urgent need to integrate AI at speed and scale

In the GenAI frenzy, Krista’s AI iPaaS solution aims to orchestrate enterprise AI with security and governance at the forefront.

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Data Viewpoint

Surprisingly, the five fastest-growing service providers in Q1 2023 are some of the largest—not the

With investments in IT, many of the larger players maintained higher growth while mid-tier providers’ growth slowed in Q1 2023.

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Point of View

DEAS leverages GenAI to harvest 30% efficiency in operations and sourcing

With everyone discussing long-term effects, generative AI is already providing immediate benefits for low hanging use cases.

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Point of View

Healthcare ecosystem capabilities and experience can supercharge performance

Cognizant's Boehringer Ingelheim and Horizon wins reflects their performance, experience, and healthcare ecosystem capabilities.

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Highlight Report

Publicis Sapient adds sizable LATAM nearshore capabilities by Practia acquisition

Publicis Sapient is expanding geographic footprint through acquisitions, adding capabilities, & local capabilities along the way.

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Point of View

Generative AI offers personalization and loyalty across the enterprise—if you get it right

Generative AI will empower hyper-personalization efforts across the entire enterprise value chain.

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Highlight Report

WNS bets on revenue operations to lure platform enterprises

Outsource RevOps to providers that understand the nuances of the platform economy if you want to maximize your chances of success.

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Point of View

The dos and don'ts and potential costs of GenAI

Uncover what you should and shouldn’t do when determining how to integrate GenAI into your business—and what to expect to pay.

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Highlight Report

Krista makes security software deployment elementary with IBM Watson integration

Despite the hype, automating across the software development lifecycle takes more than a splash of generative AI.

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Market Impact Report

Digital differentiation for asset and wealth managers must focus on “better”—not just “more”

HFS surveyed 150 asset and wealth management leaders to understand the future of this changing sector.

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Point of View

Invest in the three HFS innovation Horizons to conquer consumer goods and retail disruption

RCPG firms should make strategic technology investments with a coherent focus on business outcomes.

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Data Viewpoint

Amid headwinds, banks prioritize investment in data and compliance business services

Here are business services investment priorities and recommendations for banks during the wait-and-see economy.

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Point of View

HFS’ “RPA is dead” prophecy comes true as UiPath ends its “bot for every user” narrative

To propel its next growth phase, UiPath must center its narrative around the demands of the Generative Enterprise™.

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Data Viewpoint

TWILTCH revenue growth remains sluggish in the first quarter of 2023

The latest quarterly (Q1 2023) results show a continued decline in revenue growth of TWILTCH service providers.

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Point of View

GBS rebranding: The starting point to help enterprises balance growth and cost priorities

GBS leaders need to focus on value-based outcomes and rebrand as a strategic partner to drive organizational strategic objectives.

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Data Viewpoint

IT budgets nosedive across industries as enterprises wait out macroeconomic headwinds

IT-related budgets have taken a massive nosedive in one year. HFS breaks down the impact and recommended actions.

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Market Vision Paper

UST is thriving in the age of talent wars

This mid-size service provider fosters a culture of connectivity and empathy to reshape business and work.

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Highlight Report

Enterprises must move to dynamic operations to survive the third trigger of change

Today’s unpredictable world will need leaders to create different plans and be flexible and relevant to customers and employees.

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Highlight Report

Bain invests in Ashling to meet the enterprise need for holistic automation expertise

Bain & Company is partnering with, and investing in, former HFS Hot Vendor Ashling Partners to help enterprises scale automation.

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Point of View

Don’t get flummoxed by data estate modernization. Get focused.

Learn how a leading US Bank worked with Capgemini and Google to modernize its data estate.

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Highlight Report

Coforge and InsurNode drive insurance innovation and CX with blockchain

Coforge recently partnered with InsurNode to develop an on-demand insurance platform that leverages blockchain.

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Highlight Report

Coforge breaks the billion barrier, offering intimacy at scale for needy customers

Coforge joins the growing gaggle of mid-tier IT and business services providers to cross the $1 billion annual revenue mark.

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Highlight Report

Infosys personalizes medicine powered by SAP

Infosys personalized medicine solution has all the components needed to help pharma scale personalized medicine.

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Point of View

In conversation with Ian Barkin: Dig deep to surface process truths

HFS interview with Ian Barkin on how he sees the process intelligence space evolving.

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Highlight Report

What did Cognizant do to strike a billion-dollar deal with CoreLogic?

Cognizant’s decade-long relationship did not secure the win—its end-to-end proven capabilities did.

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Highlight Report

Infosys is ready to disrupt enterprise use cases with its new 5G-as-a-service offering

5G provides faster speeds, lower latency, and tighter security, increasing device density and enhancing enterprise applications.

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Highlight Report

EY extends the blockchain-fueled infrastructure for ecosystems

EY is industrializing its blockchains, backing its bet that blockchains will do for ecosystems what ERP did for enterprises.

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Highlight Report

EY’s OpsChain ESG offers the trust enterprises need to unite on sustainability

Moving the needle on sustainability demands transparency, measurability, and traceability across global ecosystems.

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Highlight Report

UST acquires Advantasure to service surge in government health plans

UST HealthProof acquired a leading provider of technology-enabled solutions for government-sponsored health plans.

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Point of View

Modernize or risk disintermediation—A global payment services leader reinvents merchants

Our research is informed by a recent survey with 150 payment providers.

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Market Vision Paper

Xebia brings a passion for people, technology, and knowledge sharing

Xebia maintained its mission and values from its inception and continued its focus on mastering the art of software craftsmanship.

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Market Analysis

Competitive Intelligence from April 2023

In this month’s Competitive Intelligence report, we’ll cover technology, consumer products, healthcare, insurance and more.

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Data Viewpoint

The CIO mandate: Best practices today's CIO must follow to win

HFS' research agenda supporting the CIO Agenda.

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Highlight Report

The new relevance of GBS as a transformation agent

Enterprises need to take advantage of available technology, operating model, or service delivery levers to drive transformation.

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Point of View

Automate the mundane to focus human empathy on emotional touchpoints

Bots can't manage people through tough times. Use them to give yourself and your teams the time to be human.

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Highlight Report

Agility and market readiness are essential for CFOs to be strategic partners

TCS augmented its service portfolio, enabling CFOs to become change agents and transformation partners.

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Highlight Report

Hexaware maps out how payment providers can keep up with customers

Consumer expectations and emerging technologies are driving a rapid evolution in payments and demanding payment providers to modernize.

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Highlight Report

Enriching employee experience is crucial to sail through the talent crisis

Without purpose and empathy, old-school management will be left behind.

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Market Analysis

The 2023 BFSI research agenda

Here's what HFS has in store for BFSI industry coverage in 2023.

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Highlight Report

Infosys’ ties with ServiceNow offer confidence for firms in transformation

Large organizational transformations demand reliable partnerships between an enterprise's technology, and services providers.

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Highlight Report

Banks are quietly moving from Hitachi Vantara technology to services

Banks see value in Hitachi's services in helping with their digital transformation journey it just needs to market itself better.

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Highlight Report

Industrial clusters are a step toward the critical mass sustainability needs

Accenture has made industrial clusters a cornerstone of its sustainability and energy transition efforts.

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Market Impact Report

The payment providers’ playbook for practical, innovation-led transformation

HFS Research, in partnership with Infosys, surveyed 150 payment providers across North America and Europe.

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Highlight Report

Capgemini helps banks complement, componentize, and extend core banking capabilities

Core banking modernization no longer exclusively means rip and replace; it increasingly means componentize, complement, and extend.

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Data Viewpoint

When banks evaluate service providers, they should evaluate their ecosystem partners, too

Banks should consider the value service providers deliver via ecosystems to benefit from their execution & innovation capabilities.

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Highlight Report

BlackLine wants to be the financial controllers’ process orchestrator

BlackLine is charting a broader vision of operational financial management and starting to deliver on it with Accounting Studio.

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Highlight Report

HCLTech’s Metafinity combines tech with industry knowhow to speed metaverse outcomes

Here comes HCLTech with the launch of a customer-proven platform to help enterprises succeed in the new paradigm of the metaverse.

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Point of View

The seven hills of nearshoring: Lisbon might be Hitachi Vantara’s best-kept secret

Enterprises looking for a partner with a nearshore presence in Europe should take a close look at Lisbon and Hitachi Vantara.

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Highlight Report

Cognizant acquires AustinCSI to better serve client demand for cloud, AI, and analytics

Cognizant has bought the benefits of a product-centric mindset. Now it must work to scale that benefit within.

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Market Impact Report

From Surviving to Thriving in Hybrid Work

This report dives into how employee experience is defining the digital workplace.

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Highlight Report

Sustainability is not a nice-to-have; it’s existential to business and life

Integrating sustainability into organizational functions and activities will proliferate meaningful impacts.

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Highlight Report

Cognizant’s Mobica acquisition helps clients unlock their IoT potential

Cognizant has acquired Mobica, an IoT software engineering service, providing enterprises with end-to-end IoT solutions.

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Highlight Report

Digital dichotomy: Outcomes and innovation help budgets beat macroeconomics

Kalyan Kumar shares his view on what changed recently and leaders' expectations during the challenging macroeconomic situation.

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Highlight Report

Emulate State Farm’s HCLTech-built future-proof insurance infrastructure

State Farm reorganized its core IT infrastructure to keep up with digital shifts.

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Highlight Report

The autonomous enterprise: Everyone’s trying to get there; can we?

Creating an autonomous enterprise is a when-not an if. Clearly, leadership is trying to configure the right solutions to get there.

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Highlight Report

The future of technology services innovation hinges on re-imagining talent strategy

Ravi Kumar shares his vision for how services industry leaders can help shape the workforce of the future.

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Data Viewpoint

TWILTCH revenue growth slows across the board, some into single digits

TWILTCH companies are witnessing slowdown in revenue growth, indicating decrease in IT spending from the uptick during pandemic.

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Highlight Report

Brave marketers must lead with data to drive change

Building partnerships beyond the business with an experience-first focus is imperative for modern marketers.

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Competitive Intelligence

Competitive Intelligence from March 2023

In this month’s Competitive Intelligence report, we’ll cover technology, sustainability, BFSI, cybersecurity, healthcare and others.

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Highlight Report

Botminds adds “prompt automation” to accelerate document understanding

IDP vendor Botminds has wasted no time finding a real-world business use for generative AI.

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Highlight Report

Foundever rebrand makes life simpler for enterprise customers

Sitel Group’s 750-plus customers have a new name to get used to. Here's why, and the difference it is going to make.

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Highlight Report

Wipro re-purposes its retail portfolio to foster the OneOffice™ mindset

Wipro’s CIS offerings for retail now manifest a unified retail commerce vision.

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Point of View

Don’t let ChatGPT distract from the value of generative AI in healthcare

Leverage the excitement of ChatGPT to craft a practical roadmap of embedding GAI to drive disruptive innovation.

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Highlight Report

Cognizant responds to enterprise demand for an advisory-forward delivery model

There has been an inexorable move by all BPO and ITO service providers to ramp up their consulting and advisory arms.

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Highlight Report

Optum and LHC Group’s integration shows the power of vertical integration in healthcare

Optum and LHC Group’s integration shows the power of vertical integration in healthcare.

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Point of View

CPOs demystify the new value equation for procurement.

HFS and Infosys BPM co-hosted a digital roundtable with a diverse mix of 16 global procurement executives.

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Highlight Report

Genpact provides operations muscle to help banks scale BaaS

Banking as a Service (BaaS) is transforming how enterprises consume and deliver banking services.

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Point of View

SAP S/4HANA conversion is costly, and delaying it makes it even costlier

Enterprise leaders should be mindful that delaying S/4H migration will impact different organizational factors unfavorably.

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Highlight Report

HGS acquires TekLink to amp data-led BPO value for enterprises

HGS acquired TekLink to help amplify the data-led capabilities it offers to enterprises.

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Competitive Intelligence

Competitive Intelligence from February 2023

In this month’s Competitive Intelligence report, we’ll cover technology, sustainability and life sciences.

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Data Viewpoint

Key priorities that business leaders want BPO leaders to focus on

Enterprise leaders are hesitant to outsource their business processes because of constantly changing business environment.

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Point of View

Atos’ Airbus move would be a defensive strategy, not an answer to structural headwinds

What are Atos' strategic options after several unsolicited bids?

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Point of View

Strategies for developing the data-led enterprise: Q&A with EXL’s Ankor Rai & Gaurav Iyer

Q&A with Ankor Rai & Gaurav Iyer, senior executives at EXL on what “data-led solutions” mean and how the industry is shifting.

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Point of View

Evolving automation to spur business services for enterprise growth and innovation

How Xerox is leveraging Workato to realize its ambition to create autonomous processes.

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Highlight Report

‘Launch by NTT DATA’ tackles transformation disconnects

Launch by NTT Data promises to streamline software engineering by delivering digital, data-driven design & experience solutions.

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Highlight Report

Fujitsu’s Web3 platform can unleash OneEcosystem value for partners

Fujitsu is setting up a Web3 platform that can crack one of the toughest challenges of HFS’ new-value generating OneEcosystem™.

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Highlight Report

Mphasis addresses the lack of interoperability that is dangerous to our health

Interoperability is not a data problem, rather human health challenge as systems continue to resist sharing data meaningfully.

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Point of View

Redefine cloud strategy to maximize cloud-native transformation value

Enterprise leaders must address a few common challenges to capture full value from their cloud native transformation Investments.

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Data Viewpoint

Metaverse wins for enterprise services spend as caution tightens belts

100% of enterprises say they will up spend on metaverse services over the next two years. Low code also immune from cuts.

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Market Analysis

Leading the energy transition

Using positions of influence to align organizations and systems with the global sustainability context.

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Point of View

Follow investor money—it’s leading directly to the metaverse

Those suffering metaverse hesitancy should follow the money, prioritizing better EX and CX, and enhanced data with digital twins.

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Data Viewpoint

Enterprise leaders shifting BPO focus from cost savings to better business Outcomes.

Enterprise leaders now recognize the need to expand BPO services to include end-to-end processes and enterprise-wide data flows. 

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Data Viewpoint

Business leaders want BPOs to turn data into an asset and find hidden value

Enterprise leaders seek ways to maximize their data’s value to find new sources of value and create insights for decision-making

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Highlight Report

Rainbird makes complex privacy risk assessment a seamless experience

Complex processes need scalable decision engines that can easily cut through complexity, and Rainbird delivers on its promise.

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Point of View

Media holds a solution to the sustainability emergency. It must use it now

The media industry must treat the climate and sustainability emergency… like an emergency.

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Highlight Report

Wipro’s EMaaS smartly optimizes for modular Medicaid and commercial plans

Wipro’s EMaaS platform is a solution addressing state and commercial health plans’ current needs.

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Highlight Report

BUXOM Cosmetics plumps for Publicis Sapient to pay more than metaverse lip service

Publicis Sapient’s metaverse pipeline is bearing fruit, evidence that CMOs are increasingly ready to dive into the metaverse.

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Highlight Report

Unlock your automotive data to win—Accenture helps Renault shapeshift auto insurance.

CIOs and data officers must look beyond their organizations toward their wider ecosystem for new sources of value.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: The Best Service Providers for Retail Banks, 2023

This report assesses 21 service providers in terms of the value they provide to their retail banking clients.

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Market Impact Report

How India can rise to the challenge of developing a winning talent ecosystem

We surveyed 300 leaders from Global 2000 enterprises and 600 full-time India-based employees of leading service providers.

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Point of View

Pharma spin-offs need an ecosystem play to realize their targeted benefits

Pharma spin-offs must explore partnerships with suppliers to address opportunities for process reengineering and transformation.

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Highlight Report

TCS enables enterprise productivity optimization with its Agile BPO practice

TCS is one of few professional service providers adopting Agile practices within business process operations (BPO).

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Point of View

Transparency is the only way for oil and gas companies to regain trust

An ecosystem of partners could coalesce around one major oil and gas firm that discloses its imperfect transition plan.

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Highlight Report

Comprehensive data management enables decision-making for CIO and CFO functions

Syniti drives business outcomes through data quality solutions.

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Market Impact Report

Ericsson shows how to harness OneOffice foundations to build your Horizon 3 future

ICT giant Ericsson shows how to build on HFS One Office™ foundations to take the leap to an HFS Horizon 3 organization.

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Highlight Report

Reduce risk and build cloud-native program resilience with collaborative automation

A more effective collaboration between IT Operations teams and automation can reduce the risks of cloud-native transformations

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Data Viewpoint

Demand is soaring across the sustainability services value chain​

Sustainability is embedding itself throughout systems, organization, and the services sector

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Point of View

Medtronic automates lifecycle management to expand patient engagement

Automated lifecycle management will enhance patient engagement, enabling efficient operations and greater cost savings.

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Point of View

CX and EX an “infinite loop” for driving value as uncertainty looms

Enterprise leaders at a recent HFS roundtable supported by Uniphore shared insight on reimagining CX in an uncertain world.

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Data Viewpoint

A connected energy and utilities industry beckons—so connect up your technology plans

Investment in IoT technology tops the energy and utilities industry radars going into 2023

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Market Impact Report

Ukrainian agribusiness shows sustainability can win—even in a war

Kernel’s example is a stark reminder for leaders in all industries to not flinch on sustainability at the first inconvenience

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Highlight Report

Transformation-weary leaders need best-practice platforms to weather economic storms

Weary and worried enterprise leaders need help to overcome transformation fatigue as they tackle the economic headwinds of 2023.

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Point of View

Tech-enabled services are key to realizing healthcare vertical integration value

Healthcare vertical integration will require tech-enabled services to realize value and change the trajectory of the triple aim.

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Point of View

How C-suites can win the war for talent by building authentic futures

In a world of conflict, crisis and downturn, C-suites need to win the talent war by empowering staff to shape the future.

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Data Viewpoint

IT services deals must deliver value and lasting impact else fall under scrutiny

IT services deal renegotiation does not always mean concerns; it might be a preference.

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Highlight Report

Apromore deal offers Salesforce customers fast time-to-value

In December 2022, Salesforce led a Series B funding round, which totaled $10.3 million, in process mining specialist Apromore.

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Competitive Intelligence

Competitive Intelligence from December 2022

In this month’s Competitive Intelligence report, we’ll cover technology, sustainability, finance and accounting, healthcare and other.

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Point of View

Get quantum-ready today, or risk a smash-and-grab on your data

Deploying post-quantum cryptography will not be without risks. Enterprises must start developing well-thought-out roadmaps now.

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Data Viewpoint

The $600 billion self-insured market being ignored by service providers at their own peril

Service providers remain aligned with commercial insurance that is declining while not investing in growth segments.

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Highlight Report

Back-office automation should boost efficiency and insight for CFOs

Organizations can gain valuable insights from domain-specific finance automation over and above benefits of speed and efficiency.

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Data Viewpoint

The dearth of security talent is driving a bigger appetite for managed security services

Organizations are increasing their consumption of managed security services but they must take that exercise very seriously.

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Point of View

2023: Your metaverse honeymoon will fizzle out if you can’t demonstrate ROI

Metaverse enthusiasts must go beyond vanity projects to avoid indefinite postponement by recession-wary CFOs.

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Point of View

Harness data from finance to create sustainable business advantage

Finance leaders need to make a cultural shift and the HFS DRT highlights some of the key changes required to become data-driven.

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Highlight Report

Blockchain won’t die with TradeLens; write it off at your peril

Many are reporting the end of enterprise blockchain as early projects continue to wind down - but it's not...

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Data Viewpoint

Despite strong headwinds, enterprises leaders committed to IT spending

Enterprises' willing to spend on IT midst of tough macroeconomic conditions, what are the rationale behind and why it's crucial.

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Highlight Report

Skeptical sectors need confidence beyond a business case for transformation

It goes deeper into relationships between partners, collaboration throughout systems, and organizational culture.

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Highlight Report

Kyndryl levels up its advisory services with Consult practice

Kyndryl launches Consult to drive business value for its customers.

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Point of View

Employee benefits insurance provider gains “visibility at scale” through Skan

We connected with a Skan client to understand why firms with complex tech landscapes shouldn’t disregard process intelligence.

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Highlight Report

Dark side of the moon: The $10B visibility challenge facing F500 enterprises

Organizations need visibility into software systems as much as they need it into their supply chains.

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Market Impact Report

Escape the legacy of database costs by migrating to PostgreSQL and achieving data nirvana

Consider using automation tools to convert legacy Oracle DBMS to PostgreSQL on the cloud.

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Market Vision Paper

Digital transformation and interoperability are critical to health plan well-being

HFS Research and NTT DATA share lessons and opportunities for health plans’ digital transformation and interoperability efforts.

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Point of View

Are CHROs hiding a generational opportunity from the CFOs?

There is a generational opportunity to improve health & care for employees if CHRO's and CFO's can collaborate and innovate.

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Point of View

Is the singularity nigh? Deconstructing the ChatGPT hype

HFS is cutting through the market noise around ChatGPT by providing our initial views

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Data Viewpoint

Accenture's financial result emphasizes why staying relevant is critical

Service providers must pay attention to the enterprise's preferences to remain relevant.

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Highlight Report

EY puts ecosystems at the heart of its data and AI strategy

EY seems to firmly believe that collaborating with partners is necessary for helping its customers leverage the power of data.

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Point of View

Circular economy efforts must link across organizations and all sustainability

How a global chemicals company and EY built and implemented a circularity measurement process.

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Data Viewpoint

Data-driven finance is no longer a choice; it’s survival

Finance leaders are on different phases of the data-driven journey and this DVP throws light on the various stages.

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Data Viewpoint

Healthcare providers must put prevention at the centre of their ransomware defense

Healthcare providers must put “prevention” at the centre of their ransomware defense strategy.

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Data Viewpoint

The sustainability services market is approaching $200 billion

The sustainability services ecosystem is merging as demand soars.

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Point of View

Forget the hybrid hype — is “homeshore” the next CX destination?

Tech Mahindra doubles down on working from home as a distinct delivery strategy

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Data Viewpoint

Horizon 3 is no longer ‘five years away’ — it is unfolding right before our eyes

Our recent Pulse study of 602 leaders across Global 2000 enterprises underscored that digital is not an exotic future state.

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Highlight Report

Google reveals a fresh wave of cloud innovation at Cloud Next 2022

The Next event gives food for thought on adopting Google and how it fits into enterprises' hybrid and multi-cloud business needs.

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Highlight Report

Learn from the race to REAL ID to cut costs and boost customer experience

A US ID initiative is accelerating tech-driven customer and document-centric solutions, cutting costs and improving CX and EX.

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Point of View

Awareness, training, and governance are essential to creating low code value

Low code adoption is booming and has become a technology of high interest for businesses and software development teams.

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Data Viewpoint

North America and Europe still dominate sustainability demand

But soaring growth is global.

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Highlight Report

Collaborative Solutions and OneSource Virtual offer enriched services to Workday customers

OneSource Virtual sells its Workday professional and managed services business to Cognizant.

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Data Viewpoint

Enterprises remain committed to cloud investments but must focus on optimization

Enterprises leaders control IT spendings, but cloud remain crucial.

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Data Viewpoint

Enterprise blockchain investment continues to grow beyond BFS

BFS has historically led the pack for blockchain investment, but we're starting to see other industries ramp up their spend.

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Point of View

Services firms must embed sustainability in teams, engagements, and ecosystems

Services firms hold an immense opportunity and responsibility for sustainability.

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Point of View

The next automation frontier is unstructured data

Focusing its automation on AI and unstructured data differentiates Automation Hero from RPA.

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Highlight Report

Capgemini sounds more like a consulting firm – we think other service providers will follow

Service providers are rapidly changing the way they talk and position their capabilities to include management and technology consulting offering a one stop for

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Point of View

DevOps is an excellent example of a OneOffice mindset in action

DevOps is a living and breathing example of the OneOffice mindset. Why it is critical for modern businesses.

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Highlight Report

Data, technology, and people stimulate digital transformation and drive CX

CX leaders realized the importance of balance between data, technology, and people to drive successful CX transformation.

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Highlight Report

Hitachi Vantara doubles down on a data architecture that bridges OT and IT

Hitachi Vantara links OT and IT with Hybrid cloud to deliver data-driven opportunities.

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Market Vision Paper

CSS Corp becomes Movate to emphasize its culture for innovating with customers

The future of services is about unlocking new sources of value with outcomes-focused partnerships.

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Highlight Report

Accenture places Metaverse “core to success for enterprise”—yet investment lags

Accenture names the metaverse one of the five key forces of change every enterprise must harness, but enterprise investment lags.

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Point of View

COP27 was mediocre. That was the worst possible outcome

A disastrous UN summit would have been better.

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Data Viewpoint

Most digital investment in sustainability is “predictably” (sorry) in analytics

No technology has realized its full sustainability potential.

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Highlight Report

All eyes are on DXC while it attempts to make history with digital transformation at scale for the Lloyds

At-scale transformation is rare and what makes it even more uncommon is building digital platforms for legacy marketplace.

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Highlight Report

Manufacturing is the next $180 billion metaverse opportunity

The not-so-little secret of the metaverse is that manufacturing can and should be one of its earliest and most lucrative adopters.

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Market Impact Report

OneOffice™ experiences must drive how you scale digital workflows

How can frameworks for scaling digital workflows using ServiceNow deliver the experiences you want to deliver as outcomes?

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Data Viewpoint

New investment trend suggests potential change in the patient engagement paradigm

The results of HFS’ Pulse study for 1H 2022 tell us a lot about the technology trend across the healthcare provider segment.

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Point of View

Business must solve sustainability. Policy and the public cannot

Policymaking and the public will not move quickly enough to address climate change or any of the global sustainability context.

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Data Viewpoint

Retail and CPG firms are missing their sustainability potential

RCPG companies need a load more sustainability leadership for strategies to cascade throughout organizations and value chains.

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Highlight Report

Three ideation capabilities leaders must master to win

Maintaining agility, being open to alternative ideas, and staying curious are the difference between success and calamity.

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Point of View

The five fundamentals of digital transformation

Focus on the five fundamentals of one office organization to unlock new sources of value in a digital transformation.

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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Cloud Native Transformation, 2022

The inaugural HFS Horizons: Cloud Native Transformation, 2022 report examines the capabilities of 20 leading providers.

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Data Viewpoint

SaaS vendors must build ecosystem-driven security integration capabilities

SaaS vendors must build ecosystem-driven security integration capabilities.

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Data Viewpoint

Experience strategy for the hybrid world is CX leadership’s greatest challenge

Balance both the physical and virtual worlds for brand experience.

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Highlight Report

RPA at the crossroads—to ISV or not to ISV?

Is there life left in the RPA-centric automation market, or are customer requirements shifting toward the ISV ecosystems?

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Highlight Report

Publicis Sapient drives domain expertise and shared purpose for BFSI clients

Strategic transformation partnerships in financial services are evolving from effort to performance to shared purpose in real time.

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Highlight Report

Workday and partners tailor new solutions to enterprise demand for industry fit

Workday has launched its Industry Accelerator Program with four initial partners: Accenture. Deloitte, KPMG and PwC.

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Point of View

Service providers are missing a trick without a chief medical officer

Service providers with no chief medical officer in their leadership ranks put their growth at risk.

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Point of View

The leadership state of the union: Welcome to the tech-ade

This panel at the HFS Super Summit explored the talent war, how we may be entering a “tech-ade,” and the macroeconomic environment.

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Point of View

Metaverse can reinvent how we conduct meetings and accelerate decision making

Metaverse can re-invent the employee experience – including a radical challenge to the very existence of meetings as we know them.

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Highlight Report

FPT Software must back its tech capabilities with the domain expertise to win new markets

FPT Software has reimagined its position to expand to new markets with attractive tech capabilities and innovation.

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Data Viewpoint

Capital markets firms risk disappointment by prioritizing execution over innovation

Enterprises need to be much more intentional about their innovation needs.

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Point of View

Employees are the front line of operational transformation

Elena engages Accenture's Group Chief Executive, Operations Yusuf Tayob on why people are essential to operational change.

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Data Viewpoint

Service providers are the glue for ecosystem development in capital markets

As capital markets modernize their applications and technologies, the compounding power of AND is key.

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Point of View

India leaps into the home healthcare market

In this POV, we expand on India's home healthcare market and what it means for service providers.

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Data Viewpoint

Adopt DevSecOps across the enterprise if you want to embed security by design

Leaders know – adopt DevSecOps across the enterprise if you want to embed security by design.

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Data Viewpoint

Why are Global 2000 choosing SaaS?

SaaS brings speed, better UX, scale, and choice. However, less than 40% of Global 2000 get the value they expect. What gives?

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Point of View

Five well-being fails enterprise leaders must fix to win the talent war

Employers must consider the bigger mental health picture beyond wages, if they are to win the talent war.

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Point of View

Julie Sweet and Phil Fersht discuss the future of services and the evolution of work

The future of services must be built on shared purpose to maximize value and drive real change.

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Point of View

Make purpose your anchor in these uncertain times

Everything we knew as stable is under assault. Deeper purpose-led relationships hold the key to success in turbulent times.

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Highlight Report

Pega targets bot developers, but bottom-up must not be its only plan

Pega has reimagined its robotic automation developer experience for both professional and citizen developers.

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Point of View

Shift Your App Modernization Mindset to Unlock Value and Avoid Disillusionment

Adopting the cloud is vital to becoming a dynamic organization. Follow these steps to succeed.

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Data Viewpoint

It’s high time to decouple the CISO role from the wider IT organization

As the CISO evolves from a technical to a business leader, it’s high time to decouple the role from the wider IT organization.

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Highlight Report

Will EY be remembered as a trailblazer or a guinea pig

EY paves the way for splitting its audit and consulting businesses, but will it be remembered as a trailblazer or a guinea pig?

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Point of View

Demystifying the metaverse madness could be maddening

Metaverse, the new kid on the block is buzz with excitement. So we picked the brains of some experts at the HFS Super Summit 2022.

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Point of View

Get a grip on how your enterprise processes work—before rushing to automate

How we got in such a process mess that we no longer know how work gets done in our organizations.

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Point of View

Why Ethereum is the number-one blockchain platform for enterprises

Our data shows that enterprises are beginning to favor public blockchains – and we are keen to discovery why.

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Data Viewpoint

Machine learning is proving to be a game changer for cybersecurity operations

Machine learning is proving to be a game changer when it comes to boosting the effectiveness of cybersecurity operations.

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Point of View

Redesign CX and EX for Zen shopping experiences

Creating new digital experiences for employees and customers.

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Point of View

To manage the complexity of cloud-native transformation, simplify your strategy

Cloud transformation should be about agility and velocity—not cost.

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Data Viewpoint

Capital markets firms cite data needs and modernization as their top priorities

We interviewed capital markets firms about their top priorities - data and cloud came out on top.

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Point of View

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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Competitive Intelligence

HCL: Sustainability Services Capabilities, 2022

A look at how HCL performed in the HFS Top 10 for Sustainability Services, 2022.

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Point of View

HCLTech delivers lessons in OneOffice transformation

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

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Highlight Report

BP3 adds workload automation to its RPA-focused services

BP3 has landed its seventh acquisition, introducing workload automation to its customer offering.

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Point of View

Recessions can’t shake a stick at healthcare

Healthcare businesses based on historical performances will be immune to recessions and continue to be on a growth trajectory.

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Highlight Report

Get ahead of customer demand with “citizen” predictive process monitoring

Apromore has added predictive process monitoring to its platform with a “citizen”-friendly coding-and-data-scientist-free approach.

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Data Viewpoint

CIOs/CTOs need to catch up with CEOs’ intent to invest in Web3 building blocks

CEOs and CTOs/CIOs broadly agree on investment on Web3/metaverse, - but not on the building blocks to get them there.

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Point of View

The metaverse does not exist yet—here’s what you are being sold in its name

Beware expensive consultants wielding flashy new slideware touting “cutting-edge knowledge” on something called “metaverse”.

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Point of View

Behind every successful enterprise is data-driven finance

This report highlights the data-driven finance journey of enterprises and the role of 'finance' in this journey.

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Highlight Report

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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Point of View

Media ad blitz may drive an exodus to the Web3-based metaverse

Ad-happy media giants could trigger an exodus to the metaverse - forcing enterprises to rethink their relationship with data.

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Highlight Report

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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Point of View

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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Competitive Intelligence

Competitive Intelligence from July 2022

In this month’s Competitive Intelligence report, we’ll cover technology, sustainability, cybersecurity, financial services, healthcare, industry 4.0 and

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Point of View

The RPA Manifesto: 10 Laws of RPA to build on 10 years of experiences

RPA’s success and longevity over the next decade will hinge on it becoming part of the enterprise digital transformation agenda.

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Highlight Report

Quantum-ready security standards pave the way for Web3

The near-term arrival of Web3 relies on breakthroughs in quantum computing. But quantum is a double-edged sword.

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Point of View

Metaverse in healthcare is exciting — but not compelling enough to adopt

Metaverse is just a videogame for adults without meaningfully addressing healthcare challenges despite potential use cases.

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Highlight Report

AntWorks tunes IDP solution for Pega customers

AntWorks’ cognitive machine learning (ML) IDP solution, CMR+ is now available on the Pega Marketplace. Here we analyze the impact.

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Highlight Report

Great Hurry + Great Resignation provide conditions for Leapwork to scale

No code software test automation platform Leapwork doubled its headcount and customer count in the last year.

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Highlight Report

It’s the perfect time to invest in process intelligence

HFS analysts recently attended the London and New York stops of Celonis’ World Tour. There was one clear takeaway.

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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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Point of View

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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Data Viewpoint

Energy and utilities companies sprint to fix their supply chains

Single-source dependencies can be a nightmare – energy and utilities companies learn an important lesson from the pandemic.

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Point of View

AI holds the cards when everyone has the same access to Web3 data

In Web3, everyone has the same access to data. Advantage resides in the power of your AI.

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Highlight Report

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 Viewpoint

The struggle to protect identities is real but it's not the time to give up

Enterprises are facing considerable challenges that, if not addressed effectively, may negatively impact their security posture.

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Point of View

Network Rail applies an AI mindset to deal with the complexity of assets

Learn from the journey of Network Rail to apply an AI-mindset rather than just looking through the automation lens

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Highlight Report

Enterprise and big tech join forces to shape the metaverse

Big tech and enterprises are coming together to agree on standards for the metaverse.

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Data Viewpoint

The top 3 Industry 4.0 trends are rising use of AI, cobot, & digital twins

Emerging tech is helping increase the speed, reliability, and accuracy of information flow.

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Point of View

Energy leaders must finally come to the transition table

Major energy firms cannot be allowed to define the coming decades due to their absence.

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Point of View

Personalizing healthcare with cloud-enabled data and analytics driven ecosystem

Leaders from US health plans, health systems and life sciences discuss leveraging the healthcare ecosystem to personalize care.

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Point of View

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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Point of View

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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Data Viewpoint

Energy and Utilities companies are prioritizing cybersecurity to prevent potential data theft and attacks

While cybersecurity remains an irrefutable priority for energy and utilities companies, they must not ignore smart analytics.

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Point of View

Don’t be fooled – address the low-wage emergency to fuel growth

Everyone is focused on the double whammy of employee attrition, and wage inflation. But that misses the real low-wage emergency.

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Highlight Report

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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Point of View

Maximize your Salesforce investment with the latest customer-centric offerings

Learn how Salesforce's continued focus on customer-centricity can maximize your Salesforce investments.

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Highlight Report

PwC boosts BFS services by acquiring Applications Consulting Training Solutions

PwC acquires ACTS to address a gap in its banking and financial services and Microsoft Azure for Financial Services capabilities.

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Point of View

Big banks can level the innovation playing field

Regulations and legacy weigh heavily on innovation at big banks. Here's how to level the innovation playing field.

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Highlight Report

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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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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Data Viewpoint

Travel, Hospitality, and Logistics industry enterprises are increasing their IT budgets significantly in

Travel, Hospitality, and Logistics was drastically impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This has opened doors for a massive shift to Travel, Hospitality, and

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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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Point of View

Managed services are becoming more sophisticated and commercial models must follow suit

Managed services are becoming more sophisticated and commercial models must follow suit.

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Point of View

Overturning Roe v. Wade will grievously harm the triple aim of care

The implications of overturning of Roe v Wade will be most egregious against the triple aim of care.

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Point of View

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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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

QX’s acquisition of Chazey Partners —a credible threat to large F&A BPOs

Synergy delivered with QX acquisition of Chazey and the combine entity competitive position against larger services providers.

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Point of View

LTIMindtree’s investments in higher-value services could shuffle the TWILTCH deck

LTI's initial hostile takeover of Mindtree happened in 2019, but both entities were deliberately kept separate. Where do things stand now?

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Point of View

ChangeNOW 2022: sustainability needs aligned roadmaps across organizations and ecosystems

There’s still a sizable gap between the global sustainability context and the state of transition planning across ecosystems.

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Point of View

Price transparency gives health plans and self-insured employers a financial win

Price transparency is here but impacts will show up gradually across the healthcare ecosystem and affect stakeholders differently.

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Highlight Report

With ethical issues surrounding Pega, do you still want them in your ecosystem?

Pega has been ordered to pay damages for misappropriating Appian trade secrets. Will you still want them in your ecosystem?

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Highlight Report

SS&C Blue Prism intends expansion within its client base with its complementary suite of automation

SS&C has acquired Blue Prism. The newco brings Blue Prism tech to SS&C clients hungry for optimized operations.

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Data Viewpoint

Strengthening Zero Trust security posture is high on the 2022 agenda of CISOs

All significant cybersecurity investments in 2022 point towards strengthening Zero Trust security posture and visibility.

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Highlight Report

Acquiring ARSI, Firstsource adds legal collections to its debt recovery arsenal

Firstsource’s ARSI acquisition adds a timely and effective arrow to its quiver in the current debt collections market.

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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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Data Viewpoint

While SaaS vendors tout short-term sales, clients expect long-term benefits

Here we highlight the mismatch of SaaS expectations between SaaS software vendors and customers.

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Data Viewpoint

Ransom-driven attacks, cloud identity theft, 5G and IoT threats are top cyber concerns for enterprises

Our latest Cybersecurity Pulse study shows that the majority of enterprises are most concerned with three cyber threats.

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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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Highlight Report

Appian retires unlimited bot pricing and makes enterprise demand for combined tech easier to consume

Appian has binned its unlimited bots pricing offer in response to customer demand for automation beyond the bot.

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Data Viewpoint

Attrition soars even more as ~1 in 4 services employees face revolving doors

The average global attrition rate, now at 23.7%, saw a sharp rise vs. the same quarter in 2020 and 2019.

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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

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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Point of View

Culture can drive sustainability while you build a transition plan

An article on how Sainsbury's managed its sustainability initiatives, procurement, and used culture in its transition.

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Point of View

Learn from the SaaS choices of OneOffice™ leaders: Part two—business operations

Which business operations SaaS are OneOffice leaders more likely to be getting value from?

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Point of View

Focus on how SaaS can change your business

You must focus on how SaaS can change your business, rather than focus on the technical functionality of the SaaS solution.

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Data Viewpoint

Use service providers to help realise business value from your SaaS investments

Enterprises must work with service providers to receive long-term business value from their SaaS investments.

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Highlight Report

“BREAKTHROUGH with IBM” simplifies how SAP customers can migrate to S/4HANA

IBM packaged its SAP services offering to simplify enterprises' S/4HANA migration journey and meet the market demand.

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Point of View

How an ecosystem of service and technology partners can help you scale your automation program

How a telecommunication giant scaled an automation program to handle more than 1 million emails a year.

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Data Viewpoint

Legacy SAP customers must initiate S/4HANA migration faster to remain competitive

Being comfortable with the SAP legacy platform may limit revenue growth, and advantage over S/4HANA migrated organizations.

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Data Viewpoint

Cybersecurity, AI and process mining get the most investment in the TTL industry

TTL enterprises are planning to make huge investments in cybersecurity-, AI-, and process mining-related technology services in 2022.

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Data Viewpoint

In the near term, manufacturers plan to invest in AI and cybersecurity

Highlights the key emerging technologies in which industrial manufacturers plan to invest in the near-term.

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Data Viewpoint

Challenges that TTL enterprises must overcome to meet their strategic objectives

TTL executives face data security, fragmented landscape systems, and a lack of centralized data to meet their strategic objectives.

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Data Viewpoint

Five critical sustainability challenges to address in 2022

On the back of COP26 there’s a growing consensus of the why, what, and how of sustainability. But then come the next challenges.

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Point of View

HFS Research publications are now Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

Starting today, we are converting all our research deliverables to NFTs. We genuinely believe that writing research reports is an art form.

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Data Viewpoint

CX services for the next wave of customer experience requires deeper, more innovative partnerships

Enterprises are not only looking for vendor services but a better partnership with greater understanding of their requirements.

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Data Viewpoint

IT spending in Manufacturing makes a comeback in 2022

We take a look across geographies at how industrial manufacturers will change their expected IT budgets in 2022.

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Point of View

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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Point of View

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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Point of View

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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Highlight Report

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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Point of View

In conversation with Venkat Raghavan, Global Head of Enterprise Analytics, Tesco

The cross-functional needs of data science, and predictive modeling, are driving a revolution in data governance.

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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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Point of View

Find your place in the energy transition

To survive the next 30+ years where sustainability dominates agendas, organizations must align transition plans.

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Point of View

Prioritize your ecosystem and innovation for IoT service delivery

This PoV is a guide for enterprise leaders to evaluate and benchmark service providers’ performance in IoT engagements.

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Data Viewpoint

The pandemic shock pushes manufacturing servitization​

This Data Viewpoint looks at the major business strategies that industrial manufacturers are going to pursue in the near term.

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Data Viewpoint

IT & BPO contracts are getting shorter as enterprises strive for faster results

This Data Viewpoint examines a trend we’ve seen in the data over the past three years — the tenure of deals is getting shorter.

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Data Viewpoint

Enterprises must adopt the right framework to effectively quantify cyber risks

It is fair to say that enterprises are still not actively using FAIR to better help quantify and communicate cyber risks.

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Highlight Report

Salesforce and Accenture join forces to address shortage of Salesforce skills

The talent crisis threatens to derail growth. Accenture and Salesforce have come together to build a unique, specific solution.

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Point of View

Why 5G will turbo-boost your journey to cloud native

CTOs must engage their technical service partners and telecom providers prepare for 5G technology on their cloud strategies.

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Point of View

Banks must actively convince clients that ESG is proper and profitable

Coutts has integrated ESG and convinced clients—the bar is set for a BFS industry failing to see its responsibility and opportunity.

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AAI adds FortressIQ’s process intelligence. But will customers exploit this?

Automation Anywhere (AAI) intends to support more automation in the enterprise with process discovery embedded in its platform.

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Top 10 Report

HFS Top 10: SAP S/4HANA Services, 2022

A comprehensive assessment of the services providers delivering SAP S/4HANA services.

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Data Viewpoint

Focus of near-term outsourcing boom rings alarm bells for traditional revenues

Investment in outsourcing is focused on preparing the way for more work to be automated in processes running in the cloud.

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Point of View

Why cultivating a strong employee culture is critical to great customer experience

How Arbonne pivoted to working from home during an intense growth phase

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Point of View

Industry 4.0 advancements must sync with business transformation for success

In this PoV, we highlight the future roadmap of engineering services and its transition from OneEnterprise to OneEcosystem view.

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Point of View

Look for these six enablers in SaaS to support your OneEcosystem™ ambitions

Six enablers you should demand as you select the software to build out your OneEcosystem

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Data Viewpoint

A change in mindset will enable digital fluency and the outcomes of transformation

This DVP highlights the importance of a change mindset in the path to achieving the required digital fluency and transformation.

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Highlight Report

HFS coverage of SaaS just got even BETTER!

Insight into emerging players through our new Hot SaaS program and the Hot SaaS 100

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Highlight Report

Automation is about to explode into a new central role in the OneEcosystem™

The automation revolution has hardly begun. It will take center stage as we build out OneEcosystem

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Reassess ServiceNow through the lens of the OneOffice™ and OneEcosystem™

ServiceNow is expanding its platform capabilities with RPA and Process Intelligence to progress toward the OneOffice.

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Data Viewpoint

For IoT initiatives, enterprises need relationships, end-to-end portfolios, industry context

This Data Viewpoint explores the key selection criteria for IoT service providers.

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Top 10 Report

Application Modernization Services Formidable Challengers

An assessment of the formidable challengers providing application modernization services.

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HFS Top 10: Application Modernization Services, 2022

An assessment of the leading services providers providing application modernization services.

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Highlight Report

PwC & Microsoft further cloud-native digital banks with their ecosystem offering

2022 heralds the rise of the ecosystem orchestrator and a path forward to cloud-native digital banks.

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Top 10 Report

HFS Top 10: Retail and CPG Services, 2022

An assessment of the leading services providers to the retail and consumer packaged goods industries.

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Why providers must sure up their supply chain partnership and acquisition plans for 2022

Expect a scramble for supply chain capability across consulting, technology, and services firms.

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Data Viewpoint

80 percent of organizations don’t have the plan they need for sustainability

Organizations need to build roadmaps that align to the global context of sustainability: net-zero and the UN Goals.

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Data Viewpoint

Demand is soaring for utilities services—driven by sustainability, CX, and data

We asked providers in our Utilities Top 10, 2022 report to assess the change in demand for services across the utilities industry.

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Data Viewpoint

SaaS disrupts outsourcing, and delivers better EX, for more than 95% of global 2000

600 business leaders confirm SaaS is changing the way companies approach outsourcing needs and making better employee experiences.

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Data Viewpoint

Sustainability across E, S, and G keeps breaking into company mandates

The importance of sustainability across various ESG factors shot up in the second half of 2021.

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Point of View

Net-zero roadmaps: Sustainability in 2022 must center on transition planning

COP26 marked a shift from ambition to action. But less than 20% of organizations have the transition plan they need

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Highlight Report

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

Concentrix acquires PK, but will this be transformative to its CX capability, or yet another fringe

Concentrix recently announced its latest acquisition of global UX/CX design engineering company PK in a significant bid to break into the “design market.

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Point of View

Welcome to OneEcosystem™, where connected Customer, Employee, and Partner Experiences create new of

The OneEcosystem™ takes us beyond the walls of our organizations to collaborate with partners to anticipate customer needs.

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Data Viewpoint

Focus on balancing competing demands for a successful energy transition

Demand is increasing across the energy services value chain: It’s fastest across upstream, refining, and retail and marketing.

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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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Data Viewpoint

End-to-end management of privileged access is too critical to be left to manual processing

Technology leaders must be on guard as end-to-end management of privileged access is too critical to be left to manual processing

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Highlight Report

qBotica scales up its ecosystem approach to help enterprises build their own automation services

One million dollars doesn’t sound like it goes far amid the noise of the automation services sector. What is qBotica planning?

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Highlight Report

America’s got talent—but you must cast a wider net to crack the digital skills crisis

The battle for the already-skilled will get expensive fast. Explore a broader and more diverse talent pool.

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HCL launches MVision to help manufacturers adapt, protect, and digitize in the post-pandemic era

We examine how HCL MVision framework enables transformation for its manufacturing clients.

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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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Point of View

Enterprise leaders must demand broader transformation skills from their S/4HANA service providers

S/4H clients are demanding beyond implementation excellence. We brought out few core client expectations for SP consideration.

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Point of View

Rhode Island finds Real Value from Blockchain to Streamline Identity Validation

To understand blockchain adoption in the public sector, we connected with Infosys and The State of Rhode Island.

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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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Highlight Report

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

Stop underselling procurement and view it as an 'ecosystem builder'

Ambitious procurement organizations of the future will act as "ecosystem builders" for the enterprise.

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Highlight Report

Workato goes large on comprehensive connectivity to serve end-to-end enterprise automation

Recognizing and responding to the need to connect existing tech estates makes for a tempting proposition.

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Data Viewpoint

Health consumers behave very different than retail customers

Dispel the notion of healthcare retailization given health consumers behave very different than retail customers.

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Point of View

Political ideology has become a crucial indicator of population health outcomes

We map political affiliation of US states against their population’s activity levels, nutritional choices, obesity & Covid deaths.

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Point of View

Banks thinking about insourcing need to think again

Is the Great Resignation spurring a BFS insourcing trend? Read on to learn why HFS thinks not.

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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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Point of View

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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Highlight Report

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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As Blue Prism gets ever closer to AWS, RPA must be assessed as part of ISV ecosystems

The market for RPA requirements is shifting toward ISV ecosystems

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Data Viewpoint

Retailers should overcome data governance and security issues to improve the CX

Building/sourcing data management teams will help retailers overcome their data security and governance issues

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Highlight Report

Capgemini's ace of spades is focused domain expertise, not end-to-end transformation

The HFS take on Capgemini's annual strategy update: the firm is going deep rather than broad.

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Data Viewpoint

When the three lines of defense for information security rapidly become two

Security-as-a-Service is moving the responsibility for managing security risks and controls from enterprises to service providers

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Market Analysis

Sustainability Services Ecosystem Mapping

The state of sustainability across consulting, technology, and managed services.

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Point of View

From operator to orchestrator - the new role for GBS

GBS is still relevant, but its role is changing to meet the demands of enterprises.

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Top 10 Report

HFS Energy Services Top 10, 2021

An assessment of the energy industry and its leading service and tech providers across execution, innovation, and client feedback.

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Highlight Report

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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Point of View

Low-code addresses the fast-paced go-to-market needs of accelerating digital

Speed, investment, training, collaboration, and partnerships make up the five factors driving the adoption of low-code and no-code.

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Highlight Report

Optum’s Market Performance Partnerships lend viable non-clinical operational options to providers

Managed services are an essential part of the healthcare ecosystem, to alleviate the non-clinical functional burdens.

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Highlight Report

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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Data Viewpoint

Leading providers bounce back to double-digit growth as pandemic pressure eases

As the latest wave of earnings announcements is hitting the news, we take a look at the performance of the early announcers

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Data Viewpoint

The biggest operational model shift is just ahead: get ready for gig!

Operations leaders are exploring the potential for gig to augment their workforce.

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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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Highlight Report

Atos needs a new strategic playbook more than it needs a new CEO

Atos was staring at the Innovators Dilemma for years—but is it now too late for a makeover?

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Highlight Report

Roboyo adds global RPA depth with JOLT but must broaden its native automation chops

Automation services company Roboyo adds North American scale to boutique excellence with its acquisition of JOLT.

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Highlight Report

Blue Prism sale to Tibco—it’s time to go loud, not fade gently into the night

Blue Prism is due to become part of Tibco—if shareholders agree a $1.5 billion deal. What should customers think?

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Point of View

Don’t let cybersecurity hysteria get you down—the HFS manifesto will guide you

Our five core research pillars and CHIEF principles provide differentiated insights to CISOs, IT and business leaders.

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Data Viewpoint

Tactical use of automation is no longer enough. Wise enterprises target transformation.

Automation’s value proposition may once have been cost-cutting, but now enterprises see automation as more fundamental.

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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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Point of View

Kryon’s Automation Expedition must emphasize business outcomes and less hype

Enterprise leaders need to keep their automation providers focused on what they do best.

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Market Analysis

ITMS and BPO Contract Analysis—Q2 2021

This report analyzes publicly announced ITMS and BPO contracts in Q2 2021.

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Point of View

Tech, media, and telecom must be a springboard for sustainability

TMT must solve its sustainability challenges and embed its learning in the solutions that will govern global sustainability.

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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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Data Viewpoint

North American and APAC manufacturers have significantly increased IT budget

Distribution of IT budget by industrial manufacturers from North America, Europe, and APAC

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Point of View

From outsourcing to innovation: partner to revolutionize mortgage servicing

We connected with Sourcepoint and one of their clients to understand how they are revolutionizing mortgage servicing together.

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Point of View

Catch the Blockchain Bounce Back: Record Funding in 2021

Blockchain funding reached a record high in the first half of 2021—and we're keen to understand why.

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Point of View

Health plan survival depends on adopting digital technologies

Core Admin System (CAPS) are way past their expiry but we have AI & cloud to help replace them fast...so giddy up health plans!

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Highlight Report

With $1B FullStride Cloud Services, Wipro is taking significant steps to beat the competition

Wipro puts money into Cloud Services with FullStride initiative.

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AntWorks is back on the hill and serious about scaling IDP in the enterprise

AntWorks is back squarely focused on IDP with an enhanced out-of-the-box proposition, a new marketplace, and a ‘new’ CEO, too

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BP3 doubles down on acquisitions, building RPA services scale to reassure enterprises

BP3 is the newest RPA services specialist that can offer enterprise customers the reassurance of scale.

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Point of View

Make decentralization your friend; let consumers take control of their health data

Ransomware attacks on healthcare is rampant; regulations and enterprise capabilities are insufficient. So consumers to own data.

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Point of View

Phil Fersht keynote delivers data behind Global 2k upheaval and COVID relief in India

HFS’ Phil Fersht delivers keynote address featuring just-released HFS Pulse data directly from the Global 2000.

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Point of View

The pandemic molded enterprises to embark on a digital transformation journey

HFS Symposium, Digi Chat with Phil Fersht, and Manish Sharma on enterprises digital transformation journey and market adoption.

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Point of View

Unraveling the current innovation wave and the power of technology

Are ecosystems, outcomes, and diversity the keys to successful tech adoption? Read on.

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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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Highlight Report

Accenture acquires HRC Retail Advisory to expand retail strategy capability

Helping retailers accelerate their digitalization amid disruption.

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Market Impact Report

HFS Healthcare Industry Primer 2021

A comprehensive view of global healthcare industry trends and their impact on IT and BPS and technology change agents.

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Highlight Report

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

Make sustainability about outcomes and global context

It’s code red, but in climate terms, we knew that. Business and political leaders must change their approach to sustainability.

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Point of View

Put people first to succeed with digital transformation

Digital transformation fails for three key reasons—culture, talent, and process debt.

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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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Point of View

Can we tame the business monster? The future of work and technology

At our Digital Symposium, HFS' own Saurabh Gupta was joined by Paul Roehrig for a candid Digi-side Chat.

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Point of View

Relentless execution and team building sailed Coforge in turbulent waters

Coforge pivoted fast and pivoted right, right from the early days of the pandemic.

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Point of View

More change is going to come, but nothing is more important than people

At our Digital Symposium, HFS CEO Phil Fersht joined Tiger Tyagarajan, President and CEO of Genpact, for a candid Digi-side Chat.

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Data Viewpoint

The technology and business services industry is far from reaching gender equality

There are no good reasons or excuses left. It’s time to call out diversity as company-wide priority and make it non-negotiable.

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Point of View

Experience the exponential age at the intersection of technology and society

An engaging digi-side chat between Azeem Azhar and Phil Fersht on the intersection of technology and society.

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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

How People’s United Bank worked with Pega and Virtusa to create customer personalization

Read how People’s United Bank used Pega to transform the its customer experience to remain competitive.

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Point of View

Use “rebel talent” to reshape your post-pandemic ways of working

HFS Symposium Keynote speaker Francesca Gino’s talk of 'rebel talent' shows us how to create the capacity for innovation.

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Highlight Report

Salesforce continues moves towards the back-office with Servicetrace acquisition

Salesforce adds to its enterprise portfolio with an RPA provider of its own.

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Market Analysis

HFS OneOffice™ Pulse, H1 2021: Summary of key findings for healthcare services

HFS OneOffice Pulse in healthcare focuses on demand changes we anticipate for technology and business services.

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Market Analysis

HFS OneOffice Pulse: The post-pandemic reality check for the Banking and Financial Services industry

A BFS view of our juicy OneOffice Pulse study - the post-pandemic outlook is cloudy with a 100% chance of emerging tech investment.

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Point of View

Healthcare must blow up its organizational silos to thrive in a post-pandemic world

The time is now to replace analog work methods with the OneOffice mindset & work culture.

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Data Viewpoint

Sustainability gets a major push from industrial manufacturers

Sustainability has the highest adoption of emerging technologies, followed by Sales & Marketing and Aftermarket Services.

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Data Viewpoint

Busted! It’s a myth that healthcare industry is a laggard in emerging technology adoption

Healthcare has long been considered a technology laggard, however it has emerged a leader in the adoption of emerging tech.

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Highlight Report

Unqork’s marketplace piles pressure on low-code, no-code laggards

The rapid rise of low-code, no-code makes it harder than ever for technology leaders to ignore.

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Data Viewpoint

The IT budgets for most industrial manufacturers will grow single-digits in 2021

Around 67% of manufacturing firms survey expect that their IT budget will increase up to 10%.

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Point of View

Enable cloud-native and AI-powered healthcare digital platforms to manage rising costs, risks & demand

HFS Research, with Infosys, surveyed 100 CXOs at US health plans to evaluate the fit for a “healthcare digital platform.

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Highlight Report

Accenture acquired umlaut to bolster product engineering capability

Accenture continues its Industry 4.0 related acquisitions and this time its umlaut.

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Highlight Report

IBM buys BoxBoat: Boosts Kubernetes, DevOps capabilities for its Hybrid Cloud customers

IBM acquires private firm BoxBoat to boost Kubernetes and Application Containerization services.

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Highlight Report

Sustainability relies on combining partner ecosystems with technology and services

Enterprises and providers must combine tech, services, and ecosystems to reach net-zero and broader sustainability goals.

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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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Point of View

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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Point of View

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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Point of View

Define your ERP transformation objectives and keep them time-bound

Infosys and Thales DIS are fast approaching a single global Oracle system for distributed operations.

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Point of View

Pfizer’s vaccine proves the Power of Emerging Tech when the Burning Platform is Red Hot

Emerging tech Pfizer brought together to win the COVID-19 vaccine race should be a wake-up call for every healthcare organization.

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Highlight Report

Cutover aims to orchestrate and automate the digital workforce

Cutover provides a differentiating position on AIOps and Observability by aiming to orchestrate the digital workforce.

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Highlight Report

Salesforce DevOps solution provider Gearset gears up for US expansion

Cambridge UK start-up Gearset, is scaling fast and headed for the US, on the back of burgeoning demand for its Salesforce DevOps.

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Highlight Report

Robocorp RPA is coming for the middle market

Robocorp Technologies Inc. is on a mission to bring rpa to mid-tier enterprises.

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Highlight Report

Move on from manual sustainability: integrate carbon accounting and reporting

Sustainability teams have better things to worry about than spreadsheets and manual data gathering.

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Point of View

Ignore the digital health semantics, and focus on the outcomes

A digital health framework that helps organize our thinking about this vast market segment.

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Highlight Report

Genpact’s Enquero acquisition helps build data engineering clients sorely need

Genpact is adding data engineering talent along with a compelling data quality, discovery, and lineage platform, PowerMe.

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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

Resolve Systems adds Ayehu to progress end-to-end IT automation offering toward self-healing

Resolve Systems has acquired Ayehu to lead the evolving segment of Intelligent IT Automation.

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Highlight Report

Record investment in Neo4j suggests, maybe it IS all about relationships

Graph database business Neo4j has taken the largest Series F investment in database history - landing $325m.

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Highlight Report

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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Data Viewpoint

Sustainability has broken into the top of enterprise priority lists

Master your data, plan your route to decarbonization, and improve your CSR on all fronts.

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Highlight Report

What UiPath may be best at is listening to customers

When everyone is playing the same song, go deep on happy customers.

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Data Viewpoint

Tech for sustainability tops the energy industry radar

Over the next 2 years, more than 90% of energy enterprises expect sustainability to drive their emerging technology adoption.

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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

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

Defy DeFi no more!

The market cap for Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is $70B today. It was $1B twelve months back.

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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

Roboyo acquires AKOA and stakes claim to intelligent automation services crown

Roboyo becomes the world’s biggest intelligent automation professional services company with its acquisition of AKOA.

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Highlight Report

ignio blends ability to act with ability to reason

HFS assesses the progress of Digitate's ignio IT-led automation approach.

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Point of View

Adopt emerging tech before it becomes table stakes

Digital health is at the beginning of the end of its journey. The end is near—not because digital health is becoming obsolete but because its underlying are

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Data Viewpoint

Cloud migration: Business critical applications

Business critical applications are migrating to the cloud. Microsoft Azure takes an early lead as platform of choice.

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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

NTT DATA scales product-focused digital transformation

NTT DATA has announced its intent to acquire former HFS OneOffice Hot Vendor Nexient.

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Data Viewpoint

The fastest 5: providers with the highest YoY Q220 growth

Q2 2020 saw a shift in providers we include in the fastest five.

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Data Viewpoint

NA learns fast from process intelligence pilots

NA & Asia-Pac are learning fast from process intelligence pilots – now they’ve both opened a scale gap on Europe.  

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Highlight Report

Process platform EvoluteIQ accelerates its evolution

Low-code business process automation platform provider almost triples its headcount in six months.

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Highlight Report

Accenture gains cloud muscle in Europe with the Linkbynet acquisition

Accenture is consistently expanding its cloud capabilities in the European market.

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Point of View

THL recovery: over-confident or poised for a surge back?

Leaders in the travel and hospitality sectors are poised to face unknown demands.

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Highlight Report

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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Data Viewpoint

North America Scales Emerging Tech Fastest

Executives based in North America are moving fastest from pilots to scale with an eye placed firmly on the promised benefits.

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Data Viewpoint

Emerging Tech Challenges

Over 70% of 801 global 2000 companies expect to increase their stake in emerging tech, but it's not without its challenges.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Automation Anywhere must differentiate its legitimate cloud-nativeness

AAI must find a narrative that nails the benefits of a "cloud-native platform" to differentiate in a rapidly expanding market

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Data Viewpoint

HFS Data Viewpoint: The Seven Must-Haves for a Successful Modern Retail Organization

Company performance and success have always been measured by revenue and profit, but since COVID-19 hit, ”fit-for-future" measures are growing in Here are the

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Point of View

Master your data to excel in sustainability

Become an ecosystem leader by conquering your data, road-mapping toward sustainability goals, and pulling others along.

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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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Point of View

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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Point of View

To react to disruption rapidly, build a foundation of customer-centric experience design

How Premier set up a unique digital customer experience that came to the rescue in a crisis

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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Redwood Software gets multi-million injection to drive the automation agenda beyond RPA

Redwood Software, an IT and business automation provider, has announced a $380million strategic investment from private equity fund Turn/River Capital to drive

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: EY does the math and acquires Pythagoras to bolster Microsoft capabilities in the UK

Pythagoras' acquisition further boosts EY's Microsoft service capabilities. Going strong against its direct rivals in the UK market.

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Point of View

Use combinations to power technology adoption in TMT

Siloed projects and culture have inhibited digital transformation for too long; embrace “AND” to realize their full potential in combination

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Point of View

Digitization, Health Outcomes, and Sustainability will drive Life Sciences future

HFS is pleased to announce the launch of a seminal study that will evaluate the role and evolution of service providers and their value to life sciences This is

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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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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Atos acquires Processia to bolster its PLM and Industry 4.0 capability

Atos announced the acquisition of Processia as it aims to strengthen its digital engineering and manufacturing capabilities to support client manufacturing

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Highlight Report

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: IBM strengthens its Salesforce services value proposition in hot growth markets with the

IBM acquires second Salesforce Platinum partner in 2021 to increase its value proposition in this competitive market

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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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HFS Highlight: Hive brings cloud-enabled AI to the battle against hate speech – and bags $50m in Series

A cloud-enabled AI start-up ,with a crowd-sourced two-million-strong distributed workforce and a timely solution to tackle content moderation in social media, D

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HFS Highlight: IBM eyes deal with Turbonomic to help it get closer to full-stack observability

IBM accelerates building out its AIOps capabilities with Turbonomic acquistion focused on application performance management

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Point of View

Act Now—Before Climate Change Destroys Healthcare

Climate change and healthcare's Triple Aim of improving outcomes, reducing costs, and improving experiences impact each other.

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HFS Highlight: $3 billion Boomi sets new customer records as speculation mounts about Dell being ready to

Boomi – the leading integration Platform-as-a-Service (IPaaS) provider is setting new customer records amid rumors the business may be sold off by owner Dell.

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Market Impact Report

HFS Travel, Hospitality, and Logistics Industry Primer 2021

A comprehensive view of the global travel, hospitality, and logistics industry trends and their impact on IT and business process services and technology change

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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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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Leaders must battle hard to avoid being de-railed on their journey to cloud native

Leaders at Wipro-supported HFS Cloud Native roundtable aim to double down on people and culture to avoid being derailed by the pandemic's second wave

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Data Viewpoint

HFS Data Viewpoint: In a work-from-anywhere economy, cybersecurity and cloud have become mission critical

Leaders must adopt the NATIVE automation mindset to take the fullest advantage of the cloud-native organizations they are building.

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Highlight Report

IBM Blockchain Fuels State of New York’s Covid Health Pass

Digital health certificates could serve as a route out of the Covid-19 restrictions, and blockchain could be the technology to underpin them.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Infosys’ chance to seize the Sustainability First narrative

Infosys has marked sustainability services for rapid growth

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Point of View

OneOffice skills critical for survival continue to be under-invested

The ability to drive the seamless interplay between business and technology - is recognised as the most urgent business skill to ramp up in today’s rush-to in

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Capgemini created a joint venture to develop digital healthcare solutions for the European

In January 2021, Sanofi, Capgemini, Generali, and Orange joined hands to build a joint venture for developing patient-centric healthcare solutions that can be

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Data Viewpoint

As the TMT services market grows—enterprises and providers can’t afford to get comfortable in their

The TMT market is expanding, converging, and becoming hyper-specialized.

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Market Vision Paper

Mphasis’ next act—applied innovation in the digital dog years

The HFS take on sustaining Mphasis’ success with its growth CEO, Nitin Rakesh

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Point of View

OneOffice, One World - The pandemic must inspire us to address climate change - which has no vaccination

We can’t vaccinate our planet when things get really bad—we must cure it ahead of time.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Blockchain to block spam: How India’s telecom regulatory is using DLT to solve genuine

TRAI has created a regulation mandating a blockchain solution aimed at combatting spam calls in India’s telecoms industry, and it’s a great example of at

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Point of View

Learn how Siemens Mobility achieved a digital transformation with an eye on the future

Learn how Infosys helped Siemens Mobility to achieve a digital transformation

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: TCS Algo Retail™ is well-positioned to deliver exponential value through its Cognitive

Given the unsolved and unanticipated problems across the retail industry caused by the pandemic, TCS offers a cognitive supply chain solution as part of its and

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Highlight Report

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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HFS Highlight: Solink’s new use cases enable work-from-anywhere managers to build better experiences

Solink’s new use cases enable work-from-anywhere managers to build better brick-and-mortar experiences with connected data

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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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Point of View

Work-from-anywhere economy drives a huge reliance on customer data platforms

As we begin working-from-anywhere, so we begin consuming from anywhere, adding to the range of data touchpoints and complexity of achieving a 360-degree

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Point of View

Connect the dots between the back and front offices using Pegasystems to deliver a OneOffice experience

Pegasystems has the components to assist you in your OneOffice journey. Here we explore how.

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Market Analysis

ITMS and BPO Contract Analysis - Q4 2020

This report analyses publicly announced ITMS and BPO contracts in Q4 2020 by region, service types, key verticals, main vendors and digital services.

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Highlight Report

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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Point of View

Adopt existing technology and business governance on your cloud journey to cloud native

Some of the best practices and governance policies to achieve the optimum use of cloud budget and reach the cloud native soon.

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Point of View

Make sustainability native: Lessons from digital transformation during COVID-19

Sustainability must become native to businesses and government policy. Service providers are the keys to this.

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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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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: TCS embeds sustainability in the benefits of technology

TCS launches Clever Energy, enterprise-level energy and emission management system.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Salesforce sets up a OneOffice battle royal with ServiceNow with Return-to-Work offerings

Salesforce is building out the next major building blocks to offer an ecosystem for the future of work while launching a full-frontal attack on ServiceNow

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Accenture acquires industrial robotics and automation solutions provider Pollux

For the first time, Accenture has acquired an industrial robotics solutions provider, Pollux. This acquisition will expand Accenture’s capabilities in the of

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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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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Teleperformance’s Cloud Campus prepares to overcome cyber threats in its global model

How Teleperformance's security and data privacy expertise is defending against and preventing cyber attacks

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Data Viewpoint

HFS Data Viewpoint: Emerging Tech leaders: Update your roadmaps and aim high to take advantage of this

OneOffice emerging tech companies with serious ambitions must act now to update their roadmaps and set even greater goals to take advantage of a hot investor It

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Infosys establishes its role as a partner helping clients succeed in their growth journeys

As the world experiences the impact of COVID-19, we attended the Infosys APAC Confluence 2021, an annual event that brought together the company’s leaders and

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Point of View

Adopt Design Thinking to Craft Your Work-from-Anywhere Future

Design thinking is re-emerging as a critical transformational activity as enterprise leaders move beyond "fix-and-survive" to compete in the economy

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Point of View

Unchain Your Supply Chain - Adopt the OneOffice Mindset

COVID-19 shined a spotlight on supply chains, illuminating the cracks, and in December HFS organized a digital roundtable to discuss them.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Atos and IBM expand the decarbonization solutions ecosystem

It’s not quite a first-mover advantage—but Atos and IBM are among the early big names in the sustainability solutions space.

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Highlight Report

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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Point of View

Avoid the seven deadly IT automation sins to drive real outcomes

With often bewildering noise levels around automation, it is not easy to find your bearings in a foggy technology landscape. Thus, we are taking stock of the on

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Highlight Report

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

Accelerate towards cloud-native through convergence of trust, domain and AIOPs capabilities

The secular shift toward an accelerated adoption of cloud capabilities continues unabated. Learn from the experiences of Coforge and its client, a US-based and

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Can SAP RISE to the cloud/HANA/Business Transformation challenge?

HFS analyzes the strategic impact of SAP's launch of a new offering "RISE with SAP" aimed at accelerating migration to HANA

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: The OneOffice Emerging Tech Stack enables enterprise-wide decision-making when certainty

The OneOffice Emerging Tech stack offers the listen-learn-respond capabilities to power decision-making in our increasingly complex business environment

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Cognizant acquires Linium to drive ServiceNow capabilities across enterprise functions

Cognizant has acquired Linium, one of the early proponents of what ServiceNow calls Enterprise Service Management (ESM), the expansion of the platform towards

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Data Viewpoint

HFS Data Viewpoint: OneOffice Mindset in demand in the race for talent

Talent is the top enabler of the HFS OneOffice drive toward true digital transformation. Fifty percent (50%) of high-performing Global 2000 companies are and to

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Why does Cognizant’s healthcare BPaaS resonate post the pandemic shock?

To understand why BPaaS and other XaaS offerings are likely to gain traction in healthcare, we deep-dive into Cognizant’s healthcare BPaaS offering.

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Point of View

Insurance Executives: the time is right to go “straight to digital”

A new dawn for digital insurance: the pandemic is one crisis that is not going to waste. The industry has had a kick up the proverbial and is advancing steadily

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Google aligns sustainability and cloud benefits

There's a growing ecosystem of services and technology providers making sustainability native internally and for customers.

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Point of View

Marketers need customer data platforms to accelerate to OneOffice success

Customer data platforms (CDPs) meet three urgent needs for marketers to champion a OneOffice mindset. The cloud-based platforms can handle the trend to work and

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Fulfilling the promise of omnichannel in the public sector

Ditch the CRM focus and embrace an omnichannel strategy

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Design sophisticated digital self-service to provide top-notch citizen experiences

ASR and NLU are the building blocks for intelligent self-service in the public sector

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Point of View

Strong Capabilities alone will not win you IT services deals

Critical factors that we often overlook during IT service engagements.

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Point of View

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Cloud Native: Align People, Process, and Culture

The shift to cloud native will dominate the next decade and drive companies to adopt HFS’ Digital OneOffice perspective. Technology will be the agent of for

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Highlight Report

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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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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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Daimler has got the timing right to embrace cloud through partnership with Infosys

Understanding the criticality of choosing the right IT service provider as a partner, in combination with its focus on slashing cost, Daimler has partnered with

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Leverage Emerging Technologies to Shift the Focus of Healthcare from Illness to Wellness

As improving patient experience remains at the heart of healthcare transformation, we recently caught up with Frank Gulitz, the CIO of Switzerland-based startup

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Accenture is set to change the sustainability game

Accenture is making sustainability native to everything—internally and with clients—and is redefining how it measures impact. Enterprises and governments

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Point of View

Make Use of the Pandemic Shock to Remove the “Friction” in F&A

Musings from HFS’ F&A Digital Roundtable

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Point of View

The OneOffice becomes the true digital operating mindset as GBS grinds to a halt

The OneOffice (connecting the front, middle, and back offices to create a touchless and frictionless digital experience) is no longer a pipe dream. Almost it a

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Point of View

Embrace the power of AND for greater emerging technology value

Emerging technology success needed a business case and change of culture before COVID-19—now they’re even more critical.

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Point of View

Doing more with less | Align emerging tech investments with business goals beyond narrow financial

There has been a decrease in IT spending during the Pandemic along with a shift in overall business challenges around activities associated with greater in the

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: EXL looks to differentiate within its industry domains with an ambitious data-led approach

EXL believes that a data-led approach is crucial for enterprise, and their domain and analytics expertise might make them a partner worth considering.

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Point of View

Don’t write blockchain off! COVID-19 slowed spending—but didn’t stop it!

Blockchain has been on an upward trajectory for many years, but the COVID-19 outbreak threatened to change that – our recent survey with KPMG International

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Point of View

Realign the 3D printing services portfolio to post-pandemic trends

Explore how different industry players are using 3D printing for their business landscape and how service providers should prepare themselves for 3D printing

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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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Point of View

Automation should be native to your organization to achieve digital nirvana

In HFS’ recent digital roundtable, supported by IBM, a select group of enterprise delegates gathered to discuss automation’s role in achieving digital

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Atos OneCloud announcement is putting culture, people, and processes at the heart of the

Atos announced a restructuring of its cloud go-to-market. Learn how this fits into a secular in the market.

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Market Vision Paper

Cognizant's Ambition to Engineer the Modern Enterprise

What is Cognizant's strategy to revitalize, survive and thrive in the pandemic economy? To understand demand-side perspectives on the future of business and and

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Market Analysis

ITMS and BPO Contract Analysis—Q3 2020

This report analyses publicly announced ITMS and BPO contracts in Q3 2020 by region, service types, key verticals, main vendors and digital services.

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Point of View

Crucial new robotics segments to watch: collaborative bots will reign in the socially distant era

The PoV explores industrial robotics landscape and describes how service providers can align themselves to it.

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Highlight Report

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

Banks must digitalize debt collection processes to survive the pandemic

While BFS as a whole may have been less impacted by the pandemic as other industries, some segments, such as collections, are much more exposed.

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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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Point of View

Discover the expanding AND converging telecom-media-technology (TMT) value chain

HFS Research launches its first-ever Telecommunications, Media, and Technology (TMT) Services Providers Top 10 report, due in Q1 2021.

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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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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: HCL positions “Digital Engineering” as next-generation services to accelerate the of

Explores HCL engineering segment including its alignment with overall HCL vision and strategy, key client engagements, and differentiating factors

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Point of View

Can the empire strike back yet again? IBM has to double down on business outcomes to succeed with its

HFS provides an assessment on IBM's announcement to split the company by spinning out Managed Infrastructure Services

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Find your supply chain’s digital thread to get a control tower that really controls!

Explores how Oracle Cloud SCM provides clients the agility they need to respond to pandemic-shocked supply chains

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Capgemini developed a series of smart healthcare offerings to address the sector’s pain

In this report, we focus on how Capgemini’s emerging and smart healthcare practice is launching new services to address the current healthcare market.

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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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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Accenture’s myWizard is operationalizing the journey toward the OneOffice

Accenture has announced a new generation of its myWizard Intelligent Automation platform. HFS analyzes the progress and puts the announcement in the context of

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Point of View

Pinpointing major areas of growth will be the key to provider’s survival in the pandemic economy.

Every industry is experiencing different challenges thanks to the pandemic, and service providers must develop a unique strategy to support them

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Atos turns CSR into sustainability services as the market demands a green recovery from

In early 2020, we predicted that sustainability services would evolve from a fragmented and undefined market towards a thriving ecosystem.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Genpact’s AI-analytics combination in Formula E validates enterprise leaders’ wish

Focus on the power of AND for Triple-A success, whatever the business setting

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: KPMG Using Low Code/No-Code Services to Accelerate Digital Transformations

This Highlight report outlines KPMG’s approach, thoughts, capabilities, and vision for low code/no-code (LCNC) development services.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Will the pandemic grind the Mphasis growth story to a halt? We don’t think so…

HFS recently attended Mphasis’ Virtual Analyst and Advisor Day to check how this dynamic mid-tier growth firm has been faring during this cruddy year.

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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: IBM looks to ace digital fan experience at the US Open

The second wave of digital transformation in Media will be driven by experiences.

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Point of View

Are North American enterprises missing the process intelligence party? Don’t be fashionably late.

Our research found that over half of process intelligence engagements are in Europe, which means North American enterprise could be missing the party!

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Point of View

Industrialize automation with a process bot factory

Belfius’ and Hexaware’s enterprise-wide approach fuels a journey from RPA to intelligent automation and beyond

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: With the pandemic economy being defined by the cloud, Wipro adds European muscle to its 4C

In this Highlight we look at Wipro’s acquisition of Salesforce Platinum partner, 4C to strengthen its consulting and implementation skills in Europe and the

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Infosys acquires Kaleidoscope Innovation to bolster software product design and expertise

Explores the rationale for Infosys' recent acquisition of Kaleidoscope Innovation

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Kryon proves the value of full-cycle automation at its own “Olympics” - who needs 2020

Kryon is becoming more than just the industry’s first-mover; FCA is delivering tangible business value for some new frontline clients.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Cognizant magnifies its cloud muscles with its 6th acquisition: 10th Magnitude

Cognizant's continuous investment in cloud portfolio, further strengthens its position as one of the cloud leaders

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Highlight Report

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: EY expands its partnership with CPG giant P&G to sure-up COVID-affected supply chains

Whether you’re a provider or partaker in the supply chain, resilience now and for the near future is front of mind.

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Point of View

Use service partners to import fresh thinking to your industry

An agricultural equipment manufacturer partners with Infosys to ensure farmers have the tools and capabilities they need to feed the world

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Market Analysis

ITMS and BPO Contract Analysis—Q2 2020

This report analyses publicly announced ITMS and BPO contracts in Q2 2020 by region, service types, key verticals, main vendors and digital services.

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Point of View

Modernize and transform your business with low-code/no-code development

This POV outlines the main advantages of low-code/no-code development, and acts as a primer to our series of service provider profiles in this space

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Highlight Report

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

Disruption not duct tape is the key for mortgage transformation

To best explore the mortgage industry’s future, we went to the experts and spoke with various lenders and providers supporting the industry.

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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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Point of View

Providers must shore up cloud talent in a $305+ billion market opportunity

While the pandemic pushed providers to lose alpha, cloud computing could step in to support the imbalance with the right talent pool.

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Point of View

Employ flexibility and integrity to woo enterprises with cultural affinity

What does cultural fit really mean? This article explores how providers can differentiate through the flexibility and integrity of their staff.

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Point of View

Go beyond RPA with integrated automation to enhance operations transformation

HFS is working with Pega to profile integrated automation journeys highlighting the importance of a holistic approach with robotic process automation (RPA) in

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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Accenture bolsters cloud talent pool with Gekko acquisition

In July 2020, Accenture finalised the acquisition of Gekko - adding another 100 professionals to the firms growing ranks in France and Benelux.

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Point of View

Leap on new F&A priorities and expectations

Cardinal Health shows how finance is becoming more customer-focused, predictive, and strategic

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Market Analysis

Accenture’s earnings confirm the industry’s expected struggles—and offer a glimmer of hope for

Accenture’s recent Q2 2020 earnings give service providers the opportunity to understand the state of the market after the initial shock of COVID-19.

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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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Point of View

To secure IT assets, believe nothing and trust no one

Thinking about security in terms of keeping the bad actors out is no longer enough. Assume they can get in and think about how you will stop them when they do.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Infosys partnership with Celonis will help streamline client's SAP S/4HANA migration

Infosys clients looking towards SAP S/4HANA migration should take note of the provider’s latest partnership with process mining unicorn Celonis.

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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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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: NTT DATA forges new partnership with TOYOTA Connected in the connected car segment

This report includes the smart mobility future roadmap of NTT DATA and TOYOTA Connected through the partnership

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Newly launched Insurance Primer report points to the industry’s precarious balancing act

HFS recently launched our inaugural Industry Primer, focused on the insurance vertical.

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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Atos expands strategic partnership with Groupe PSA to build new integrated SAP S/4HANA

This highlight tells about the strategic partnership of Atos with Groupe PSA to build its new integrated SAP S/4 HANA Platform

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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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Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: DXC brings automotive innovation to its evolving brand image by acquiring CMORE Automotive

Highlights DXC's focus on autonomous driving technology and its recent acquisition of CMORE Automotive

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Top 10 Report

HFS Top 10: Agile Software Development, 2020

In the 2020 HFS Agile Software Development Top 10 Report, we analyze the capabilities and vision of the leading service providers in agile development.

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Market Analysis

ITMS and BPO Contract Analysis—Q1 2020

This report analyses publicly announced ITMS and BPO contracts in Q1 2020 by region, service types, key verticals, main vendors and digital services.

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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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Point of View

Business Leaders Should Get Real With Virtual and Augmented Reality

Have AR and VR reached the level of maturity that businesses need to consider them as new sources of disruption on their markets?

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Highlight Report

HFS HIGHLIGHT: Infosys Brings its Live Enterprise AI-driven Solution to the Supply Chain

"Digital Brain" SCM solution helps retail and CPG companies become more intelligent and dynamic

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Highlight Report

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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Point of View

IT service providers, partner up with a top-notch integration tool to meet the demands of a COVID-19 B2B

This POV highlights the importance of integration software and how Wipro Appirio is using MuleSoft to help clients.

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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

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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Highlight Report

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: HCL Domino gets new low-code capabilities in the firm’s latest investment in platform

Since acquiring Domino from IBM, HCL has been working to revive the platform, making it one for enterprise clients to keep on their radar.

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Point of View

COVID-19: Mid-level managers need to nail their soft-skills in this crisis

Furloughs and lay-offs definitely stress employees, but employees working remotely have witnessed a unique problem from mid-level managers during this pandemic.

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HFS Highlight: EXL PayMentor is taking debt collection digital

EXL have developed PayMentor, a modular solution that aims to streamline early-stage debt collection, and boost effectiveness.

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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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Enterprise leaders, consider these factors before choosing your data science and machine learning

Key trends from HFS Top 10 report on the top data science and machine learning platforms, with insights for enterprise IT leaders

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Bolster your digital manufacturing capability through acquisitions—the Accenture way

In this PoV, we discuss how this latest acquisition is a win-win scenario for both Accenture and Callisto.

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HFS’ Four Phases of Paradigm Shock drives the people-powered organization

Leadership needs to pivot at a pace many have never experienced, and only time will tell if organizations can ignite their people to turn the tides.

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Focus on customer relationship management and flexibility while serving IoT and Industry 4.0 clients

In this POV, we discuss the service providers’ innovation and execution capabilities that clients like the most and the areas where service providers could

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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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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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Improve your decision making through smart data platforms; NTT’s Accelerate SMART provides some best in

In this PoV, we explore how NTT envisioned and developed an industry-agnostic smart platform that has already been deployed on several campus, commercial, and

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Keep an eye on COVID-19 drone use cases for future business opportunities

In this PoV, we highlight the drones’ potential in the fight against COVID-19, including examples of how it has already been helpful in the fight against this

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Enterprises - evaluate IT service partners as viable options for contextual AI solutions

In this PoV, we examine how HCL is rising to the challenge of supporting clients with contextual solutions incorporating its AI products portfolio.

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HFS Highlight: Atos brings US-based AI and data science capability into its Industry 4.0 toolbox by Miner

If you thought of Atos as a Europe-only player when it came to Industry 4.0, then your provider shortlists need a revamp

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If you’ve been wondering how Microsoft’s RPA is taking shape, wonder no more: Power Automate has hit

Power Automate, Microsoft’s Power Platform rebrand of Flow with newly added UI Flow for RPA, is now in general availability (GA).

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Develop transformational Jedis to drive change in your business, says Celonis’ Alex Rinke

HFS’ Phil Fersht recently sat down with Alex Rinke, the co-CEO of the process-mining unicorn Celonis, to talk through the company’s journey, key client and

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Learn from the Paradigm Shock: Ignore BCP/DR at your own peril

The IBM GBS story to scale WFH post Covid-19

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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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Keep blockchain investments real to get beyond a successful but useless POC

We dive into the thoughts of enterprise leaders at EY’s 2020 Blockchain Summit, which show how you can convince your C-suite of blockchain’s worth.

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Retail and CPG firms must meaningfully apply integrated automation initiatives to engage customers in the

Mars, Inc shares its response to today’s paradigm shock

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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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Use COVID-19 as an opportunity to expand your healthcare solutions portfolio

In this PoV, we discuss the overall problems getting faced by the healthcare industry and the interesting use cases it is using to fight COVID-19.

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Recovering from COVID-19 will involve finally fixing your organization’s data backbone

Business leaders must prioritize data and analytics investments toward better customer handling, forecasting and business planning, and operational process and

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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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Salesforce services providers must address the talent crisis to improve CSAT

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

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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 clients should keep abreast of Cognizant’s continued investments to position itself as a CX

Cognizant doubles down on Salesforce marketing cloud and CX with Lev acquisition

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Any repeats of the Cognizant Maze attack will have significant ramifications for the whole outsourcing

The recent Maze ransomware attack on Cognizant is an example of the potential risk all enterprises face as they support a dispersed workforce.

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Sourcing teams must look for strong regional teams - Capgemini shores up capability in APAC with Whitesky

Capgemini's acquisition of Whitesky Labs adds Salesforce and Mulesoft talent to help shore delivery in APAC.

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HFS Top 10 Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms

This report examines the capabilities of 14 data science and machine learning platform vendors in practices of innovation, execution, and customer criteria.

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Market Analysis

Market Analysis of Enterprise AI Products from Leading Service Providers

This is HFS Research’s first-ever report on enterprise AI products from leading service providers. The report includes detailed profiles of 17 service their

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Balance short-term survival during COVID-19 with a long-term talent strategy: Capgemini gives its a vote

Service Providers must nurture relationships with their employees if they hope to retain the talent needed to compete on the other side 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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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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Service providers must align their offerings with BFS clients’ partner selection priorities

It’s crucial that service providers ensure they align their offerings with the needs of BFS clients, or they risk losing their grasp on the market.

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Manufacturers must use the four-factor prioritization guideline to evaluate their Industry 4.0 journey

This PoV acts as a guideline for manufacturers to start their Industry 4.0 journey, including the selection of their technology service providers.

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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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To drive patient-centricity, the life sciences industry needs to stop acting like a B2B industry

Consumer-driven medical devices are taking the industry by storm

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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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Supply chain leaders must address modern slavery to mitigate risk and save millions from forced labor; it

Addressing modern slavery is not just about brand image and mitigating business risk—it’s a moral (and legal) obligation.

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F&A BPO buyers must consider the current technology climate and the environment when assessing locations

With so many aspects to consider- technology, politics, talent, environmental constraints, etc.- F&A BPO buyers must take a holistic approach when it comes to

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Service design and design thinking efforts must recognize every end user; the public sector’s digital a

Yes, we all know to consider the end user—just be sure to cover every end user: it’s critical whether you’re in local government or a CMO.

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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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Don’t overlook China for manufacturing outsourcing because of COVID-19 supply chain disruption

This PoV acts as guidelines for enterprises making decisions about diversifying their manufacturing operations from China.

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Reimagine your manufacturing operations continuity plan in the light of COVID-19

This PoV provides guidelines for both manufacturers and service providers to use for formulating a continuity plan.

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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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Focus on integrated manufacturing to improve manufacturing operations

We discuss how manufacturers can integrate their operations value chain activities and provide guidelines that manufacturers should follow to implement in their

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Leverage blockchain applications to fight COVID-19

In this PoV, we analyze the potential of blockchain to fight COVID-19, including several examples of how it has already helped us fight this pandemic.

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COVID-19: Outsourcers must ensure they’re better prepared for the next crisis

Covid-19 took the world, and the outsourcing industry by surprise - in future, business continuity plans must be more far reaching

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Will COVID-19 put the nail in the coffin of the legacy contact center?

Times of crisis must drive a new digitally optimized customer service model

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Ignore blockchain at your peril, but don’t drive blindly

This study provides unmatched insights into the current and emerging state of enterprise blockchain adoption.

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Crack your cloud-data integration conundrum with co-innovation

Infosys and its banking client’s “Juniper” solution could simplify cloud data integration for the entire banking industry

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The CISO talent crisis: Enterprise leaders must nurture and protect their CISOs, or they might find with

The stress levels of CISOs are rising, with 90% advising they are moderately or tremendously affected. Enterprise leaders must act: improve working conditions,

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COVID-19 will impact supermarket supply chains: producers of nonperishables must brace for roller-coaster

Bulk buying and mass panic will not last forever- current high-demand manufacturers must adapt accordingly.

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Technology, media, and telecom—it’s your time to shine. “Digital transformation” seemed now, it

The COVID-19 pandemic will spur digital transformation initiatives across the globe. Social distancing has massive implications across the technology, media,

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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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Emerging technologies could have really helped manage COVID-19…if we’d only had some smart leadership

Soap and social distancing are the best answers that humankind has had thus far to COVID-19. But what about all the technological advancements that we’ve

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It’s not just healthcare industries that need to worry about COVID-19: Every enterprise should be to in

Cybercriminals are once again out in force, and just when you thought they couldn’t get any lower, they have quickly taken the opportunity to strike

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Providers must not forget about blockchain, despite uncertainty from COVID-19

Providers must ensure their investment in blockchain isn’t cut significantly through this uncertain time or they risk being left playing catch-up

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To automate processes effectively, you need to understand them. RPA software vendors double-down on

Automation Anywhere (AA) is the latest RPA software vendor to hop on the process discovery bus.

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Quantum could hold the key for post-recession growth—tech giants, enterprises, and investors can’t of

We are exploring the likely impact of COVID-19 crisis on quantum computing.

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BYOAI (build your own AI): Enterprise leaders must evaluate low-code AI platforms to alleviate the talent

Discuss how business teams can use low-code AI development platforms to overcome the talent crunch in this domain

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COVID-19 and a new oil-price crash pile uncertainty onto oil and gas execs: Providers must double-down on

Service providers to the oil and gas sector have already been shifting to outcome-based models.

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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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Manufacturers should focus on supply chain visibility and risk management measures to face a crisis like

Recommend ways for manufacturers to handle a crisis like COVID-19 for their manufacturing supply chain.

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Enterprise AI leaders must consider two ways to scale up the low-code AI platform leverage

Discuss how low-code AI platforms can help to increase the productivity, process accuracy, service quality, and efficiency of the overall business.

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Rethink embedded and semiconductor engineering services portfolios to cater to customer needs

We highlight some of the global semiconductor players’ interesting projects and recent developments in the semiconductor and embedded engineering landscape

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Market Analysis

ITMS AND BPO CONTRACT ANALYSIS—Q4 2019

This report analyses publicly announced ITMS and BPO contracts in Q4 2019 by region, service types, key verticals, main vendors and digital services.

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BFSI firms must update their approach in order to measure and manage climate change risk

BFSI firms don’t want to move first on climate change—but the leaders will find partners that help them quantify risk and make confident decisions.

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Leverage AI solutions to optimize cost and improve control strategy for upstream O&G operations

This PoV enables oil and gas companies to evaluate the AI solutions that they can implement for upstream oil and gas to achieve cost reductions and overall

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Security service providers need to target the overstretched security of state and local than 40% of US to

With this wave of ransomware hitting local government organizations hard, security service providers should be looking to step forward to plug the evident gaps

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Find a method to the madness to stay at the edge of innovation

Enterprises are struggling to keep pace with the unprecedented rate of technological advancements. The promise and impact of emerging technologies on how we and

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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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The BFS sector’s laggards need to stop only seeing uncertainty in sustainable finance—and think about

Succeeding in sustainable finance starts with connecting BFS’ capital experts with the technology experts in enterprises, providers, and policymaking.

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Focus on fully delivering on your ambitious insurance vision, says industry voice of the customer

Insights from the voice of the customer research conducted as a part of the HFS Insurance Top 10 report.

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Prioritize operations management to drive Industry 4.0 implementations

We explore the manufacturers’ challenges in this space and prescribe actions that manufacturers should keep in mind for Industry 4.0 deployments.

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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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Clients must find partners with experienced talent pools to enjoy ServiceNow success

In this report we examine how finding the right partner with the talent and experience can drive real success.

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Salesforce clients must recognize Infosys’ growing Salesforce capability: the acquisition of Simplus to

In the past few years, Infosys has made several Salesforce acquisitions that significantly transform its Salesforce services offerings and local delivery

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Life sciences third-party service providers, support your clients by driving meaningful as usual”

As digitization sweeps every industry in the new age of hyper-convenient, customer-centric models, the healthcare and life science communities must prepare to

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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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Enterprise leaders must build the three pillars of hyper-productive work to be successful in the modern

The 2020s present an extraordinary opportunity to prepare for the future of work and to drive it with a diverse, inclusive, and ever-evolving workforce. In this

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Use crowdsourcing to inject creativity into cutting-edge IT project work

As IT projects rely less on traditional programming, and more on ML and data science. Crowdsourcing can help provide access to rare talent and innovation if

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Telco leaders must comply with new UK 5G rules and ensure their partner eco-system isn’t over-reliant

5G is well on the way to global deployment—but the Huawei question remains. Previous HFS work has outlined the advantages and disadvantages of 5G and the of

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To get value from process automation in your organization, you must maximize its initial impact

HFS recently sat down with three of NICE’s finest to discuss the myths, reality, challenges, and opportunities in RPA and to understand the best route to and

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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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If you want success with machine learning-enabled analytics, don’t boil the ocean!

Citizens Bank reinvents collections segmentation and creates a trust-based foundation for smart analytics scale

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Process mining emerges as your gateway drug to OneOffice finance transformation

A recent HFS executive roundtable supported by Celonis, held in February 2020 in London’s Ritz Hotel, brought finance and accounting (F&A) leaders from with

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Concentrix’s marketing solutions meet manufacturing execs’ needs, but they face competing priorities

Manufacturing providers have a strong focus on sales, marketing and aftermarket services; to cut through the competition, success stories must shine.

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As challenger banks’ profits fail to match their growth, incumbents must continue to invest in digital

Despite continued growth from challenger banks they are struggling to make profit – incumbents investing in their own offerings could outlast them.

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Executives salivating at nearshore opportunities must pick locations carefully

In this report we examine the growing demand for nearshore delivery capabilities in Europe, and why executives must pick locations carefully.

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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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Top 10 Report

HFS Top 10 Digital Workplace Design Services 2020

The 2020 HFS Top 10 Digital Workplace Design Services report examines the role service providers play in the highly competitive market.

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Providers must develop a talent transformation strategy to survive in the current labor pushes forward

Accenture continues to evolve internal talent development, we examine why the broader services industry most follow suit.

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Higher education institutions in the US should get excited about Accenture’s acquisition of in the

Here we outline the implications of Accenture’s acquisition of Sierra-Cedar in the Workday services market.

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Service providers will find ample opportunity in content moderation services, but they must proceed with

What you need to know about the opportunity (and risk) involved in this hot marketing services area

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Oil and gas giants: establish trust to get over your data constraints—and drive growth, efficiency, and

Proactive oil and gas leaders will push for trust, data sharing, and collaboration in their ecosystems for everyone’s benefit.

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Manufacturers and hospitality giants: use an integrated approach to saving water that also saves energy,

There’s a close nexus between water and energy consumption; thirsty firms must bring water and energy data together to compound the savings.

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A fireside chat with Mohit Joshi: Introspection and understanding why clients pick their partners are the

Part 2 of 2: HFS CEO Phil Fersht talks with Mohit Joshi, President, Infosys, about the banking sector, the future of Infosys and the wider market.

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CISOs, take note: Accenture aims to boost the contents of its cyber toolbox with Symantec’s Cyber

Unless you have been living in a cave, it will have become clear that Accenture has been leading CISOs on a feeding frenzy through its multiple security

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Unisys unleashed: IT services incumbents should heed Unisys selling off its federal services business as

Unisys recently announced the sale of it's federal services business - we take a look at how this risky strategy might unleash a new Unisys on to the market.

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Managers serious about talent need to stop paying lip service to employee engagement and use more agile

Organizations must learn to harness the power of immediate feedback, and for this, they need to find the right vendor.

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Insurance clients need their service providers to step up their IoT partnerships

Providers’ key to IoT and insurance starts with a more strategic approach to partnerships, IP, and go-to-market.

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ServiceNow’s AI spending spree: Providers must rethink their approach for 2020 and beyond

ServiceNow continues to build innovation into its core platform - in this case additional AI capacity through acquisition. We examine what this means for the

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A fireside chat with Mohit Joshi: The banking industry must invest in technology to make sense in the new

Part one of two: HFS CEO Phil Fersht talks with Mohit Joshi, President, Infosys, about the banking sector, the future of Infosys and the wider market.

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Point of View

Providers must invest in talent initiatives - TCS’s approach is driving down attrition of valuable

TCS's broader approach and various initiatives to tackle the shortage of skilled IT talents could pave path for peers

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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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ServiceNow clients have spoken: Providers must sort out talent issues

Over the past 18 months we have talked at length with enterprise buyers about the trials and tribulations of ServiceNow implementations. One this is at the of

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The Ants are different, even compelling, but can they drive a genuine integrated automation proposition

2019 was a high-octane year for AntWorks as the firm's leadership laid critical groundwork for 2020, generating a lot of goodwill

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Point of View

IoT and Industry 4.0 practice leaders must respond to the five trends to stay ahead of the curve

In this PoV, we discuss the current landscape and future state of IoT and industry 4.0.

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Every vendor claims to be an expert in continual learning - CHROs must find the real experts who have own

Enterprises must foster a culture of continual training and learning when most firms are facing talent shortages

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HSBC is pioneering blockchain in financial services—don’t find yourself playing catchup!

Blockchain has thus far been unable to make a significant impact in the BFS industry. But this could all be about to change

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The arms race against cybercriminals is in full swing, and Unisys Stealth in combination with Dell EMC a

You might think that Unisys was an out-of-date, irrelevant dinosaur with nothing new to offer—but think again! This solution is innovative and leading-edge, a

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Point of View

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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Point of View

IT needs to invest more in cloud 2.0 – with service partners playing a vital role

HFS looks at maturity in cloud computing. Which industries are betting big, the choice between containers and serverless, and where multi-cloud fits in.

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Blockchain offers a solution to solve cross-border trade issues, but stakeholders must come together

Stakeholders must put their differences aside and come together if they hope to solve cross-border trade issues.

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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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Point of View

Utilities’ customer experience is the digital battleground—legacy firms must prioritize it alongside

The utilities industry must give CX the attention it deserves, in amongst its focus on reducing operating costs, and growing top and bottom lines.

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Big energy consumers must visualize and take control of their usage: smart meters and IoT platforms can

A smart meter-IoT platform combination is a ticket to visualizing and controlling energy usage, cost-saving, and promoting a renewable energy market.

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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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Point of View

Focus on making cognitive assistants understand human behavior, not mimic humans

Cognitive assistants must be able to handle queries and form responses with precision, yet maintain social and cultural boundaries between humans and

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Point of View

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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Drive meaningful customer experiences with equally meaningful employee experiences

Integrated automation can enable a OneOffice experience by breaking down silos across an enterprises’ customers and employees

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Market Analysis

ITMS and BPO Contract Analysis—Q3 2019

This report analyses publicly announced ITMS and BPO contracts in Q3 2019 by region, service types, key verticals, main vendors and digital services.

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Point of View

Blockchain exploration efforts: accelerate and reduce costs in partnership with academia

You may have doubts about academia, but it can offer talent, infrastructure, and real benefit when piloting complex, untested blockchain use cases.

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Don’t let a few cool 3D printing use cases make it Industry 4.0’s poison chalice

3D printing, for now, remains small scale and complex—but manufacturers can’t be complacent: find the right providers and partners for your firm.

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Point of View

Drone adopters must choose between providers’ “mature” offerings and co-developing solutions for

Despite the promise of drone technology, mature services are few and far between – but crucially, there are some, and far more in the build-up phase.

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Point of View

Novartis partners with Microsoft to build AI solutions—showing pharma firms why they must look to for

The race for AI prowess in the new age of pharma will center on partnerships—but the competition is fierce and fraught with challenges.

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Point of View

Are your IT systems working against you? BFS firms must address creaking IT as it comes under the

Governments and corporate clients are putting more pressure on banks to sort creaking IT; they must act swiftly to avoid outcry and financial losses

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Industrial execs must embrace disruptive innovation through providers and partners—there isn’t enough

Embrace industrial innovation while it’s booming via partners and providers, or realize too late that you can’t transform quickly enough to catch up.

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Point of View

The Decade to Deliver: Service providers must take advantage of CEOs’ drive for sustainability 

The service provider community has a clear opportunity to bring its expertise and resources to help CEOs drive sustainable initiatives

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Request these five team characteristics to make your SAP SuccessFactors engagements succeed

This POV provides recommendations to enterprises to achieve a successful SAP SuccessFactors deployment.

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Developing the Hyperconnected Airport for Next-Generation Passenger Experience

How the Greater Toronto Airports Authority is reimagining and modernizing operations to become an experience focused business

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The New RPA Manifesto

HFS annouces their seven-year RPA manifesto - the industry's only realistic approach to the future success and longevity of RPA.

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Insurers must not underestimate the need to secure the data they collect through IoT

If insurers hope to maximize efficiency by using more data, they must understand that securing and storing data is a complex task.

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To competitively scale future IoT projects, you must build a baseline 5G capability—before it booms

One of IoT’s biggest hurdles is existing 4G infrastructure. If enterprise want to scale their IoT projects, they must recognize 5G is essential.

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CIOs would be foolish to ignore Alibaba Cloud, even if it struggles to gain traction outside of APAC

Alibaba Cloud may be a regional player now, but the firm is investing heavily to take the battle to the major cloud giants. We examine why CIOs must include in

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Leidos’ public sector growth is a sign of the importance of biometrics – all CISOs should take note

Biometrics will play a vital role in Cybersecurity – just look at the recent appointment of Leidos to handle a project with the UK Home office

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Realize the Digital Factory Dream With A Broad Vision And Phased Implementation Approach

This PoV explains pointers that manufacturers should keep in mind for Industry 4.0 success and provides an example of how TCS is enabling a large Indian to the

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Ten years after, ten years onward: HFS Research Agenda 2020

We're delighted to share with you our 2020 Research Agenda, as we continue our mission to define business operations and their technology enablement in the next

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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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Industrial IoT cybersecurity rests on integrating digitally native and legacy devices (and people)

As the Industrial IoT expands, cybersecurity's importance must be translated across IT and OT departments, and new and legacy devices.

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Need to address unstructured data challenges with RPA? Combine it with intelligent capture.

With the Triple-A Trifecta on the brain, HFS attended ABBYY’s recent customer- and partner-focused Content IQ Summit in Nashville to see how the company is as

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Industrial executives must clarify their ambitions for cognitive and ML technologies

Cognitive technology must be brought into holistic industrial strategies – it’s getting attention, but no priority, and investments are confused.

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You should think big with quantum computing!

The most pressing issue with quantum computing is the general public’s lack of understanding of what it can do and when it will be practical to use it. A to

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Infosys clients must race to exploit their provider’s untapped sustainability prowess

The UN have lauded Infosys for their internal sustainability and CSR initiatives, but there's no mention of sustainability services for their clients.

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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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The SAP S/4HANA migration 2025 deadline looms—make a plan

SAP is set on a migration deadline to S/4HANA by 2025; the official line is that SAP will no longer support its legacy software afterward.

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Leverage IoT to bring humanity back to healthcare

With the advent of IoT, some of its applications have the potential to bring a sea change across all the stakeholders in the healthcare industry.

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Providers must unlock all their capabilities to play in the sustainability services game

Part 1/2: As we enter the third era of sustainability services, providers must reach across their functions to match sustainability’s breadth & depth.

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HFS Top 10 ServiceNow Services 2019

The 2019 HFS Top 10 ServiceNow Services report examines the role service providers play in the highly competitive ServiceNow Services market.

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Awakening the sleeping giant: Google Cloud must strike now if it’s to take on AWS and Microsoft

Google is ramping up to take on competitors in hyperscale cloud. We examine how this sleeping giant is adding weapons to its arsenal to win the cloud wars.

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Insurance customers must evaluate SE2 for both innovation and execution with its new investments

SE2 made a few announcements recently, including the opening of its delivery and innovation centers in India and the launch of its Digital Engage platform. the

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Wipro is redefining how clients navigate digital services: Enterprise leaders must shift mindsets to the

Wipro has developed a unique approach to bringing digital services to clients, but enterprise leaders must shift mindsets to make the most of them.

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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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Infosys BPM acquires Eishtec to bolster its OneOffice offering

The most recent example of front office investment is Infosys’ acquisition of Eishtec, a 1,400-person contact center firm based in Ireland

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Accenture’s cybersecurity acquisitions add capability in the US and boots on the ground Down take now!

As we well know, Accenture is not afraid to make a few acquisitions to bolster its armory and it has once again demonstrated this buying power with the of BCT

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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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AI-infused whisky? What’s next?! Consider AI’s potential for mass customization.

Swedish whisky house Mackmyra created a blend of single malt whisky, Intelligens, using AI with cloud-based compute and infrastructure services from Microsoft

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ITMS AND BPO CONTRACT ANALYSIS Q2 2019

This report analyses publicly announced ITMS and BPO contracts in Q2 2019 by region, service types, key verticals, main vendors and digital services.

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Use the combined power of human-focused design, data, and intelligent automation to deliver an experience

HFS POV on Sutherland's human-centered design and on-demand solution that enterprises can use to become more agile with their omnichannel efforts.

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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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Insurers: Explore blockchain to cut crippling claim administration costs

Insurance is complex and the claims process relies on efficient collaboration but blockchain can streamline the process, driving down operating costs.

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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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You need orchestration to scale attended automation. That’s why Automation Anywhere acquired Klevops.

Automation Anywhere (AA) recently announced its acquisition of Klevops declaring a “new Attended Automation 2.0.” HFS sees this as a much-needed injection

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

Part two of two: HFS CEO Phil Fersht talks with Genpact's CEO and Chief Strategy Officer about their data, mindsets, reskilling, and future.

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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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Service providers ignoring sustainability are fast becoming laggards

The sustainability services space is not mature. Providers must build capability now before they miss out on a huge strategic opportunity.

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Sharpen your swords and fill your disruptor-sized cybersecurity gaps today!

As the number and variety of cybersecurity challenges continue grow for the modern enterprise, so does the understanding that security is a top priority, of

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Patient Data is valuable and vulnerable - the healthcare industry must prepare or risk catastrophic

Gone are the days of wearing wristwatches to actually tell the time. Smart connected devices have made a huge public impact, becoming widely accepted as a part

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(Real) Holograms: If you’re about to miss the boom, here’s what you need to know

2D has reached its limits in mimicking 3D. True “holography” and AR are reinventing customer and worker experiences, minus the historical barriers.

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Industry leaders must look to modern innovators for their cybersecurity defense or risk embarrassing from

Industry leaders must look to secure their enterprises from multiple cyber threats on a constant basis. Remote workers are an easy target for cybercriminals

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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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LEVERAGE 3D PRINTING FOR MANUFACTURING OPERATING MODEL TRANSFORMATION

In this PoV, we discuss how 3D printing is influencing the manufacturing industry and how the manufacturers can accelerate their 3D printing journey

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How to scale-up enterprise IoT programs in five steps

The internet of things (IoT) technology trend has caught the imagination of technical and business folks alike with the promise of billions of connected devices

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Demand Cost and Value Gains from your service providers with AI-powered predictive and autonomous SLAs

Leading service providers are effectively reducing their operating costs and service costs with AI-ML. But, are these savings and benefits being passed on to

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Enterprise leaders have been funding cybercriminals for years, now stop!

With ransomware’s lethality continuing to grow, industry leaders must look to themselves as part of the problem.

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Continuous change management must underpin enterprise automation journeys

HFS, with support from Blue Prism, is showcasing real enterprise journeys with robotic process automation (RPA). This report spotlights Henkel.

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If banks want to improve ROI on digital transformation, they need to stop prioritizing efficiency

This POV examines the state of digital transformation in the BFS sector, leveraging the latest data from our Industry Digital Transformation survey.

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Operations leaders shouldn’t expect outsourcing to fix strategic issues

Interest in IT and business process outsourcing seems to be at an all time low. Are organizations wholesale shifting to internal models or is something else

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Service providers to the public sector must fuel local-scale innovation to propel nationwide

With the public sector crying out for transformation, providers must develop ecosystems that pioneer scalable use cases and define “best practice”

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Executives must focus on sustainability, or prepare for a new wave of lawsuits

Evolving scientific evidence of climate change, coupled with changing legal interpretations, means a new wave of lawsuits washing over enterprises.

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You must strike a balance between customization and long-term compatibility to get the most value from

After countless client reference calls with ServiceNow practitioners, we examine how the market is balancing customisation to get the most value out of the

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Providers must build a bespoke toolset and strategy to save the modern banking industry

Over a decade on, the Financial services industry is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis - whether that's the changing regulatory environment or market

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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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A time to kill, or a time to be killed? Five critical steps for LTI and Mindtree to make it work or risk

We now have one service provider with revenues approaching $2.5 billion aspiring to break into the open spot between these mid-caps and the large providers: LTI

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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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Manufacturers must push their providers to focus more on sustainability

In HFS’ Manufacturing Top10, sustainability is providers' least mature offering. Clients must push for it to be a competence before it’s too late.

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Service providers shouldn’t put all their eggs in the BFS basket

Many IT service providers rely on BFS revenues to drive growth, and if they don’t change this, they leave themselves open to significant risk.

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MANUFACTURERS NEED INTEGRATED AUTOMATION SYSTEMS TO ENABLE MASS PERSONALIZATION

This PoV outlines the structure of an integrated and intelligent automation system for manufacturers to cater to the mass personalization requirements of

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Care providers must blend digital and data with user-centric design as the population ages

As life expectancy and demand for social care grows, care providers must reinvent their ecosystems to adopt digital in a user-centric approach.

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Put Culture and Talent at the Heart of Your CX Partnering Strategy

Showcasing why talent and culture are so important to CX partnering strategy, through a glimpse into Teleperformance University and the Athens multi-lingual

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Market Analysis

ITMS AND BPO CONTRACT ANALYSIS Q1 2019

This report analyses publicly announced ITMS and BPO contracts in Q1 2019 by region, service types, key verticals, main vendors and digital services.

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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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Take advantage of providers’ end-to-end security offerings to focus on IoT innovation

Find the cybersecurity vendor that allows your IoT teams to focus on business-critical activity, or innovation might just grind to a halt.

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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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Insurers must leverage change agents to offer live-time insurance

The insurance industry is ripe for disruption as consumers seek innovative ways to insure risk and change agents offer considerable opportunities.

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Service providers must look at Alibaba Cloud as their next strategic partner

Is Alibaba Cloud the rising star of the hyperscale cloud market? This report digs deeper.

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Funding is flooding into insurtech startups—use them to drive innovation

For years, insurers have coasted with little to no impact from new and emerging technologies. However, the clock has run down—now’s the time to innovate

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The Undercover Analyst: Back by unpopular demand, featuring real analysis!

Moving away from political satire - The UA hopes our remaining 6 readers enjoy some actual analysis littered throughout providers’ recent activity.

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UK energy suppliers must decide: Will they play the cost game or focus on customer experience and

UK utility execs are split between cost-leadership, their customers, and sustainability; they must choose now, as "auto-switching" sweeps the market.

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Industrial and High-Tech leaders must take Capgemini’s growing capabilities seriously after Altran

The Industry 4.0 market is looking for a new champion, does Capgemini's acquisition of Altran put it in the running?

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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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Navigate the talent crisis with crowdsourcing, or fall behind the pack

The ever-accelerating evolution of technology means new waves of talent are in constant demand. However, enterprise talent strategies haven’t changed

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Avoid IoT project pitfalls and deliver business value from the outset

IoT success is about outcomes, not just technology. Follow these 5 pathways to find real business value from the rapidly expanding IoT market.

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Leadership teams have a vital role to play in the future of talent—they must take it seriously

Follow these steps to address your short- and long-term talent shortages - using different approaches at different levels of the talent ladder.

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Go big or … specialize. Chris Caldwell chats on contact center convergence

HFS Research talks with Chris Caldwell, President of Concentrix Corporation, about the combination of two contact center titans and its implications on the

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ACHIEVING INDUSTRY 4.0 REQUIRES A COCKTAIL OF SMART WORKFORCE WITH EMERGING TECH

This PoV defines the Industry 4.0 value chain that demarcates the boundary of the people, process, and technology, enabling manufacturers to successfully 4.0 to

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How Blockchain can connect consumers to the supply chain—improving your topline and avoiding public

As consumers demand new sustainable standards, Blockchain is opening up supply chains - facilitating transparency, traceability, and value for workers.

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Security officers must acknowledge 5G’s cybersecurity risks

With 5G on the horizon, security officers and enterprise leaders must embrace the technology while acknowledging the risk with their eyes wide open.

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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 transactional F&A must be “invisible” to elevate finance as a strategic partner

Enterprises have always wanted far more for far less from their from F&A function. But the old days of finding cheaper labor and some better packaged software

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Big Pharma must partner with blockchain disrupters to drive drug provenance

We have a serious issue with the provenance of pharmaceuticals and driving provenance by partnering with blockchain disruptors could be the solution.

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Manufacturers can’t afford disastrous file-based 3D Printing security blunders

Cybersecurity doesn’t immediately spring to mind when you think of 3D printing but enterprise hoping to adopt must make security a priority.

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Look Beyond Legacy Education To Avoid Falling Foul of Major Talent Shortages

As technology and business evolve at a frightening pace, don’t wallow in the talent crisis - look to non-traditional talent pools and re-skilling.

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OneOffice Vendor Assessment - WNS

An enterprise-focused analysis of WNS that highlights its business strategy, financials, contracts, clients and strengths and weaknesses.

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Enterprises, Escape Your RPA Pigeonhole Today to Achieve End-to-End Automation

HFS interviewed enterprises using RPA, service providers delivering RPA services, and RPA software companies to triangulate on the best ways to combine RPA and

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Sustainability: it’s time to get your act together or miss out on the value that others are currently

Ingrain sustainability in top-level strategy to capture part of the $12 trillion on offer – partnerships can be an accelerating first step.

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Executives and Security Officers, let’s get physical about security!

Physical security is a key concern for any organisation, but are you spending enough to secure yourself? HFS data has revealed that many organisations physical

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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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Facebook Workplace: The good, the bad, and the distracting - Enterprise leaders must decide if it’s for

Collaboration tools and platforms are very much in vogue, and even Facebook is getting in on the act in a big way. But in some cases, increased collaboration

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Blockchain can provide physicians with ready access to patients’ electronic health information

Blockchain can provide physicians with ready access to patients’ electronic health information.

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Process industries must combine synthetic data with human experience to capture AI value

Poor data plagues the process manufacturing industry. Drive the adoption of AI and analytics by combining synthetic data with workforce experience.

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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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The Brexit Cybersecurity Talent Crisis: Enterprise leaders must act now or leave themselves exposed to a

After a sobering review, it’s clear that security leaders must put the groundwork in now if they want to weather the impending Brexit talent crisis.

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When should you worry about investing time and energy in understanding quantum computing?

Quantum computing is a truly exciting emerging technology. It is a new type of computing that provides a fundamentally new way of solving particular Quantum new

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Palo Alto clients must pay attention to the Demisto acquisition to combat security threats

The cybersecurity space is a complex yet predictable headline generator for mainstream media. Enterprises are pushing their cybersecurity harder than ever to as

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Make Sure Your Service Provider Is as Invested in Sustainability as Your Customers

Sustainability is not just philanthropic show. With the right service provider it can create game-changing business value.

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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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Why it’s important to understand Alight’s new capabilities in Workday services with Appirio

This POV details Alight’s additional capabilities after acquiring Appirio’s Workday service practice.

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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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Future-proof your core insurance platforms by preparing for hyperconnected ecosystems

Insurance carriers have remained distanced from their end customers due to the nature of the industry. Connected ecosystems now offer a way for carriers to plug

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Automators Anonymous: The HFS Intelligent Automation Roundtable vents, commiserates, and shares learnings

The recent HFS executive roundtable, held in April 2019 in New York City served as the “safe space” where automation and operations leaders got together HCL

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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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Market Analysis

Top 100 outsourcing contracts of 2018

As part of HFS’ analysis of outsourcing and managed services contracts in 2018, we are publishing a list of the Top 100 contracts by deal size.

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ITMS AND BPO CONTRACT ANALYSIS Q4 2018

This report analyses publicly announced ITMS and BPO contracts in Q4 2018 by region, service types, key verticals, main vendors and digital services.

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Atos must quickly step outside of its comfort zone to use Syntel for competitive leverage

HFS Research attended Atos’ 2019 Global Analyst Summit in Boston. We believe Atos needs to move much faster with its integration efforts, and have a crisper

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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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Deploy a smart recruitment strategy and resource training in telecom engineering services

The engineering talent management issues faced by telecommunication clients and how service providers can step up in this space to mitigate them.

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Verticalized AI in a Box Use Cases Hold the Key to Fast, Competitive AI

Business use cases of AI are verticalized by default, given the domain contexts and consequently the data models, ontologies, semantic networks and rules are to

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Airlines must connect front-to-back offices to achieve customer-centric baggage management

Why a One Office approach is critical to driving a touch-less personalized customer experience for airlines.

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Energy and utility firms must invest in blockchain to thrive in this decentralizing market

The energy market is under significant threat and incumbents must prepare themselves now for renewable energy fuelled blockchain revolution.

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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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Absolutely sure you’re ready for AWS lock-in? Then read this first

AWS has continued to grow exponentially, growing to become one of the most valuable IT Services firms in the world. But is going all-in-with-AWS as risk free as

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Manufacturers must have effective on-site and hyper-connected approaches if they truly aspire to find 4.0

Manufacturers must streamline the hype if they ever hope to reach the promised land of Industry 4.0.

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Blockchain will create genuine transparency for enterprises’ use of renewable energy. Act now.

With the social and economic impact of environmental causes becoming so critical, you must embrace blockchain to stay in the game.

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Wipro clients must improve their understanding of digital outcomes to leverage the firm’s growing

This report examines why enterprise leaders need to build a better understanding of digital outcomes to make sense of changing business models.

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Make AI Relevant to Your Business Operations

The building blocks of AI and the multi-dimensional capabilities required to take enterprises toward the institutionalization of ML and other AI approaches.

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Traditional banks: risk losing your customers if you can’t offer them better access

High street banks, you have a problem! Customers are demanding new ways to access and interact with their finances.

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DISMISS DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION INITIATIVES AT YOUR OWN PERIL

HFS presents insights on what needs to change in the modern workplace to create sustainable businesses, gleaned at its inaugural International Women's Day

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Cox’s exit and failure to manage Christchurch images expose our massive AI data privacy problem

Massive hidden fractures in the ways enterprises are handling data privacy issues in AI usecases have been exposed. To regain user confidence in AI and data to

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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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GBS leaders must align their shared services for the digital age or face extinction

Enterprise leaders are under increased pressure to pivot their businesses to meet the needs of consumers and ensure operations are agile enough to support these

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The strategy behind IBM GBS’ “Cognitive Enterprise” makes sense, but will it be enough to ensure

At the recently concluded IBM Think in SFO, we spent significant time with IBM GBS Leadership and its clients to understand their go-to-market strategy. We the

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Memory Networks Part II: AI with memory could be the holy grail of general-purpose intelligence—but is

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 - Genpact

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

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Atos clients: Get your share of the Syntel efficiency gains!

In late 2018, Atos acquired Syntel, and now both firms have ambitious plans for how they will deliver value to clients - we examine what the potential benefits

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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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Competitive Intelligence

OneOffice Vendor Assessment: Concentrix 2019

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

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Top 10 Report

HFS Top 10 High-Tech Service Providers 2019

This report analyzes and rates 13 service providers serving the High-Tech industry across innovation, execution, and voice of the customer criteria.

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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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Market Analysis

ITMS and BPO Contract Analysis Q3 2018

This report analyses publicly announced ITMS and BPO contracts in Q3 2018 by region, service types, key verticals, main vendors and digital services.

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Competitive Intelligence

OneOffice Vendor Assessment: Hexaware 2018

HFS OneOffice Vendor Assessments are the comprehensive summary of service providers' capabilities, strategies, strengths, weaknesses and financial performance.

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Banks Must Embrace Customer-Centric Transformation to Remain Competitive

In the face of digital disruption, organizations across industries are re-thinking how they operate and interact to support the customer experience better.

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Top 10 Report

HFS Top 10 Digital Technology Strategy and Consulting Services 2018

HFS Top 10 Assessment of leading Digital Technology Strategy and Consulting service providers

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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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Make Digital Twins Be Your Enterprise’s New Best Friend in an IoT World

Digital twins could be the form of AI to give enterprises a competitive edge in an increasingly connected world of IoT devices.

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The Big Green Monster Is Back to Punish Your Lousy Cloud Carbon Footprint

As more enterprises look to the cloud as the platform for their digital business, we take a look at the looming cloud carbon footprint crisis.

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Signal Remains Green for GE Transportation

HFS Research had a candid conversation with Rakesh Jain about the future of GE Transportation and his experience with GE.

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Artificially Intelligent Agriculture Anyone? Aquabyte, Plenty, and Soft Robotics Take Agribusiness into

Emerging technologies are often applied to consumer-driven industries like banking, but they are finally making there way into agriculture.

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Untangling the Gordian Knot: The HFS Dummies’ Guide to Enterprise AI

Confusing terminology stops organizations unlocking the full potential of AI. HFS clears things up.

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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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Six Growth Levers Engineering Providers Must Follow—or Else Forget Their Billion-Dollar Dreams

In this POV, we discuss six key growth levers these service providers are using to achieve their billion-dollar dreams.

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Deep Fakes Pose a Massive Threat to Society and Democracy. Don't Get Caught Off-guard.

Counterfeit reality is on it’s way; media execs, governments, journalists, and public figures need to start preparing.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Machine Learning with Infinia ML’s Robbie Allen

HFS discussed the potential, hype, and actual progress of ML in a candid conversation with Robbie Allen, CEO of Infinia ML.

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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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HFS Top 10 Workday Financials Services 2018

This report presents a service provider Top 10 and profiles for the Workday financials services market.

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Why Now? The Drivers for the Recent Spike in Cloud Adoption

Through tracking recent Cloud migration deals, HFS is able to paint a picture of the major drivers for enterprises moving to the cloud.

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Synthetic Data May Hold the Keys to Unlocking Deep Learning Effectiveness

AI capabilities are now an essential element of success, but access to training data is still limited for many companies. Synthetic data could help.

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Don’t Fall for These Six Cognitive Assistant Myths

Falling prey to these myths will inhibit the potential for your business unit to take advantage of these opportunities.

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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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Don’t Let Security Concerns Hold Back Your Cloud Migration Journey

Enterprises are showing increased appetite for the cloud, but some are still holding back due to security concerns. This report examines why.

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What Does the IT Services Market Look like in 2018?

This report is a continuation of the top 25 IT services market analysis, examining the major changes in the industry.

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Utilities Are Fighting a Battle for Survival

Utilities across the globe are struggling to drive growth and profit. This report explores how utilities are dealing with the challenges facing them.

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Your Success Is Dependent on Immersing Yourself in the Sharing Economy

We're all quick to talk about amazonification, but at the expense of focusing on the more impactful trend of sharing. This report digs into how sharing in our

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HCL Hurdles Wipro into 4th Place – but for How Long with the Alight Deal?

This report examines the market performance of the TWITCH providers to dig deeper into some of the dynamics at play.

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AI in HR Is a Matter of How, Not If

AI is now a crucial tool in workforce management, but assuming it can solve all of a company’s HR issues is dangerously naïve.

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Stakeholders' Digital Agendas Are Shaping the BPO Top 50

Some of our latest survey research shows that although operations managers and C-Suite executives still demand cost savings, they increasingly need operations a

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Genpact aims for high-end SCM market with Barkawi, but will it learn from past mistakes?

This acquisition is a talent and expertise play for Genpact, enabling growth and adding 170 consultants to Genpact's supply chain capability.

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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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Market Analysis

EMEA Contract Landscape Analysis 2017

This report analyses publicly announced ITO and BPO contracts in the EMEA Countries by service types, key verticals, digital services, and providers.

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How are companies consuming analytics services? Analytics Contracts Deep Dive Analysis

This report provides a detailed analysis of analytics contracts worldwide by industries, geographies, tenure, and provider shares.

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Buyers' Guide to Zensar

HfS Buyers’ Guides are the premium digest on service providers capabilities, strategies, strengths, weaknesses and financial performance.

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FORA Leadership Insights: The Chip Shop Taking Over Cambridge

An interview with Tim Pullen, Chief Financial Officer of Arm Limited

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Are you ready to move your digital transformation into a higher gear?

The next wave of digital will require faster, better controlled operations. Change gear before your competitors.

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Which cloud provider will drive your digital strategy the best: AWS, Google, IBM or Microsoft?

In the hyperscale cloud space, it's a four horse race. But who out of Google, AWS, Microsoft and IBM is the best fit for your digital strategy

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HfS Industry Health Dashboard: Utility Industry

The health of the utility sector quantified, based on recent research

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Why Blockchain has a future in Energy

Energy blockchain is the red-hot topic everyone is talking about, but what can it do for the energy transition?

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Making AI the Killer App for Your Data

HfS and IBM have jointly developed a practical guide with actionable recommendations to starting your AI journey.

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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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The Digital OneManufacturing Framework defines success in Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0: The shift from mass production to mass customization

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Insurers: Don’t ignore insurtechs unless you want to be the next Blockbuster

Emerging technologies are bringing about a reckoning for a long-complacent industry

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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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Our world has officially gone mad: Teleperformance just splashed a billion on Intelenet

The global market leader in contact centers, Teleperformance, has made the first bold move to shake up an industry in desperate need of a shakeup

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Prioritize communication to survive the data rights paradox

Clear communication will help your enterprise survive in the GDPR age.

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A blueprint assessment of the top 4 cloud providers: AWS, Google, IBM and Microsoft

A quick guide to answer the question ‘Who will win this cloud war?’

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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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Stitching the digital thread

How engineering service providers can help manufacturers with digitizing their value chains and staying ahead of the competition

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Why Global Business Service (GBS) is evolving into the Digital OneOffice

Decision-makers: reset GBS on course for digital transformation and maximise your cost-saving and real-time data opportunities

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How Insurance carriers must embrace insurtech to win on customer experience

Insurance carriers have an opportunity to harness insurtech to differentiate on customer experience. Here’s how.

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If you aren’t embedding RPA into your procurement, plan your retirement

Use robotic process automation (RPA) to transform source-to-pay (S2P) and set a clear course to competitive advantage

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10 fintechs that banks must have on their watchlists

Fintechs aren’t disruptive anymore, they’re the new face of finance

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Essential factors for automotive engineering go-to-market success

Advanced capabilities and client partnerships are essential for automotive engineering go-to-market success

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The need for speed: BFS firms risk digital failure by taking too long to execute

This report presents new data that shows how BFS enterprises are faring with the definition and execution of their digital transformation strategies.

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With GDPR about to strike, who is actually ready? The Industry speaks...

A final poll of global preparedness before the legislation begins

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CX leaders have a massive opportunity to impact digital business strategies by mastering AI

Customer Service leaders who think artificial intelligence (AI) stops at chatbots are cutting their careers very short

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HfS Blueprint Report: Smart Analytics

Analysis of analytics services, with an emphasis on the smart analytics sub-set of the HfS Triple-A Trifecta of intelligent automation technologies.

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Avoid SaaS deployment failure by prioritising post-go-live services

Enterprises are failing to maximise the benefits of their SaaS deployments because they under-estimate the importance of ongoing management 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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The era of the disruptive mid-tier provider is here: meet Hexaware's CEO Keech

Phil Fersht interviews Hexaware's energetic CEO R Srikrishna (aka "Keech") to shed some light on what makes a mid-tier provider like Hexaware tick

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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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More de-Vishalization for Infosys! But… does this benefit its clients?

Infosys plans to sell off Panaya & Skava, acquisitions made under the watch of former CEO Vishal Sikka. Will this benefit clients in the long run?

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Amazon has reinvented Procurement and forces you to change with it

‘Amazonification’ drives the improved buyer experience imperative and better applications of technology in sourcing and procurement

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A simple guide to avoiding poor quality IoT service providers

8 suggestions to consider before engaging with a Service Provider on an IoT project

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HfS Blueprint Report: Internet of Things Services 2018

A review of the Internet of Things services capabilities of 27 leading Service Providers

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Retailers Seek Omni-channel CX with Digital Customer Engagement Strategies

The role of customer engagement service providers has never been more important or more complicated.

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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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Five Value Drivers For Aerospace Engineering Services

In this PoV, we discuss the top five value drivers that clients of aerospace engineering services can expect from their engineering service providers.

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HfS Blueprint Report: ServiceNow Services 2018

This Blueprint takes a detailed look into the ServiceNow Services practices of major providers.

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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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Digital Deals Deep Dive Analysis – 2017

This report contains a detailed study of digital outsourcing deals for the year 2017

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Industry Impact - The Manufacturing Operations Value Chain

This Point of View report previews our manufacturing value chain and the in-scope processes and change agents we’ll be examining throughout 2018.

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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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Competitive Intelligence

A Buyers' Guide to Dell Technologies

A comprehensive view of Dell's Outsourcing Services Capabilities

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Insurance Customers Demand Intelligent Automation

Major study findings spotlight the emerging reality of intelligent automation for insurance carriers.

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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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Industry Impact—The Insurance Operations Value Chain

Preview of our insurance-specific value chain, the in-scope processes and change agents we'll be examining throughout 2018.

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Industry Impact - The Utility Operations Value Chain

This POV previews our utility industry-specific value chain and the in-scope processes and change agents we’ll be examining throughout 2018.

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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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Digital Transformation Needs Algorithms and Data

Through knowledge capture and self-remediation across business and IT functions, Arago adds a new quality to the discussions in Intelligent Automation

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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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2018: IT Services Beyond the Tipping Point

Our top level predictions for IT Services growth for 2018 and beyond.

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Did TCS Discover a Time Portal Back into the Days of Mega-Deals?

The last few weeks have been dizzying for TCS, with two mega-deal announcements making the entire technology services industry sit up and take notice.

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Consumerization of AI: The Case of Salesforce Einstein

Salesforce Einstein is an example for industrializing machine learning, deep learning and NLP as part of its platform strategy

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What Enterprise IT Services Clients Want in 2018

This report dives into over 1000 client interviews conducted in 2017 to find out what IT services clients want in 2018.

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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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A Buyers’ Guide to Atos

A comprehensive view of Service Provider's Outsourcing Services Capabilities

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A Buyers' Guide to EXL Services

A comprehensive view of EXL Services capabilities

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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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How Digital Transformation is Defined by the OneOffice Framework

Digital Transformation takes many forms. We observe six dominant approaches to digital transformation.

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Competitive Intelligence

A Buyers' Guide to TCS

A comprehensive view of Service Provider's IT Services and Business Process Outsourcing Capabilities

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The Procurement Dilemma – Fixing the Basics with an Eye on the Future

How procurement buyers experience a market that’s evolving toward more business-outcome focused, flexible, collaborative services.

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Amazon, Google, and Netflix: How Game Changers Disrupt Our Professional Lives and Enterprises

Amazon, Apple, AWS, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Salesforce, Airbnb, and Uber. What have they fundamentally changed?

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Blueprint Snapshot: Digital Tech Strategy Services, Travel and Hospitality

This report analyses and evaluates key digital consultancy service providers operating in the travel and hospitality industry.

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Blueprint Snapshot: Digital Tech Strategy Services, Public Sector

This report analyses and evaluates key digital consultancy service providers operating in the public sector.

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Blueprint Snapshot: Digital Tech Strategy Services, Insurance

This report analyses and evaluates key digital consultancy service providers operating in the insurance industry.

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HfS Blueprint Report: Aerospace Engineering Services

The 2017 Aerospace Engineering Services Blueprint analyzes 20 service providers including trends, and major market activities.

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Blueprint Snapshot: Digital Tech Strategy Services, Banking and Financial Services

This report analyses and evaluates key digital consultancy service providers operating in the banking and financial services industry.

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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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Emerging AI Use Cases in Financial Services

An analysis of emerging AI use cases helps to understand how AI is starting to impact and transform service delivery

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Competitive Intelligence

A Buyers' Guide to HCL Technologies

A comprehensive view of Service Provider IT Services and Business Process Outsourcing Capabilities

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Blue Prism Hits £1bn Market Value, but is it Sustainable?

How sustainable are the high valuations now being attached to RPA providers?

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Five-Pronged Strategy for More Holistic Security in Energy & Utilities

Increasing attacks on critical energy infrastructure are a critical issue that needs more attention, investments and holistic security services.

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Competitive Intelligence

A Buyers’ Guide to Arvato Bertelsmann

A comprehensive view of Service Provider Outsourcing Capabilities Arvato Bertesmann

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2018 Poised To Be the Tipping Point for Enterprise Mobility in Insurance

Mobility is increasingly becoming an intrinsic part of most carriers’ channel strategy.

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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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Blueprint Snapshot: Manufacturing IT Services, 2017

This Blueprint snapshot provides analysis and evaluation of IT Service providers operating in the Manufacturing industry.

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Blueprint Snapshot: Insurance IT Services, 2017

This Blueprint snapshot provides analysis and evaluation of IT Service providers operating in the Insurance industry.

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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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Sumitomo Announces Largest-ever RPA Initiative, but is it really all RPA?

RPA initiatives, in general, have not nearly met cost savings and productivity targets anything near these touted outcomes.

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Blueprint Snapshot: Energy IT Services, 2017

This Blueprint snapshot analyses and evaluates key IT Service providers operating in the Energy vertical.

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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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Industry 4.0 Services Go-to-Market Strategy

The top strategies adopted by the Industry 4.0 service providers to expand their businesses.

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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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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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Cognitive Automation of the Digital OneOffice Organization

The Batch Management process has not been disrupted for decades. Cognitive Automation is aligning it with the Digital Age.

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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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ServiceNow Is Muscling In on the Intelligent Automation Continuum

As ServiceNow is making solid progress expanding beyond ITSM, Intelligent Automation is emerging as the next frontier for the company

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HfS Blueprint: Payroll Services in the Digital Era

This report covers market size, trends, and direction, as well as execution and innovation capabilities of 15 leading payroll service providers.

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Competitive Intelligence

A Buyers' Guide to NTT DATA

A comprehensive view of the services capabilities of service provider NTT DATA

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Jobs of the Future: The Great Human Middleware Opportunity

Discussions around RPA and AI almost always correspond with shrinking opportunities for humans. This presents a threat and an unmatched opportunity.

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The RPA Bible: Your Practical & Technical Guide to RPA

This comprehensive report describes an actionable set of eight elements required for successful RPA orchestration.

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Turbulence Ahead: Major Trends Wreak Havoc in the Infrastructure Space

Digging through the wealth of data generated from the Infrastructure Services blueprint, this report uncovers some of the major trends at play.

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NGA sharpens focus on HR and Payroll services, sells UK&I software division

This PoV assesses NGA HR's disposal of its long-held UK&I software business, and what it means for the future.

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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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The State of Automation & AI: The C-Suite’s Number One Strategic Imperative

The first-of-its kind research involving 400 senior IT and operations executives on the maturity of automation and AI on business operations.

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HfS Blueprint: IT Services Masters 2017

This Blueprint report report analyses and assesses 18 providers operating across the IT Services market.

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Accelerate Data Strategy to Drive Business Outcomes

This report depicts the journey toward data-centric models with a view to drive business outcomes

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IP Development at the Forefront of Engineering Services Go-to-Market

In this PoV, we discuss the top strategies adopted by the embedded and semiconductor service providers to expand their business

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Oil and Gas Buyers Are Hungry for Innovation and Collaboration

This report outlines energy operations services clients’ experiences and preferences based on interviews with oil and gas executives

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Dealing with “Lower for Longer” in Oil and Gas

How can clients of oil and gas operation services better leverage their third-party providers to get their operations to the next level?

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Need for Consulting in the Growing Salesforce Services Market

Examining the key market trends in the Salesforce Services market.

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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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Consumer-Centricity as the Heart of Cultural Change at Blue Shield of California

How customer-centricity is core to changing the culture in & impact of Blue Shield of California on making health care family friendly and affordable.

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What Makes HfS Blueprints Unique?

Each of our Blueprints covers trends and themes on the combinations of talent and technology for business outcomes, service provider analysis, and for

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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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HfS Blueprint: Application Development and Management Services 2017

This Blueprint report analyses and assesses 19 providers operating in the competitive application development and management services market.

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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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RPA Enables AstraZeneca To Deliver Rapid Business Insights

RPA Is Helping In The Race Against The Clock To Deliver Accurate Insights

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Creating Great Digital Customer Experiences with OneOffice

An in-depth look at how enterprises are investing in and adopting a digital OneOffice-type framework.

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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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Top 10 Report

HfS Blueprint: Embedded and Semiconductor Engineering Services

The 2017 Embedded and Semiconductor Engineering Services Blueprint analyzes 20 service providers including trends, and major market activities.

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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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Top 10 Report

HfS Blueprint: Application Testing Services 2017

The 2017 Application Testing Services Blueprint analyzes how service providers are supporting the journey toward Digital Transformation

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Point of View

The Back Office Is Key to Meeting Digital Expectations

An Executive Viewpoint POV focused on the key takeaways from a roundtable discussion with business executives discussing their digital ambitions

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Competitive Intelligence

A Buyers’ Guide to Concentrix

The HfS Buyers' Guide offers a view on the services capabilities of Concentrix

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Massive Savings for Utility Customers

A massive push to promote battery storage in the United Kingdom, public policy changes, and legacy utilities struggling to hold on to customers.

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Top 10 Report

HfS Blueprint: IT Infra Management and Enterprise Cloud Services

The first in a series of IT Services Blueprints, this reports assesses a providers operating in the infrastructure and enterprise cloud space.

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Industry 4.0: Bringing It All Together With Four Fundamentals

What is Industry 4.0? When somebody says they have Industry 4.0 solutions, ask them whether their solutions have these four characteristics.

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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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Competitive Intelligence

A Buyers’ Guide to DXC Technology (CSC/HPE/Xchanging)

The HfS Buyers' Guide offers a view of the services capabilities of DXC Technology

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Want to avoid a PR Disaster à la the legacy Airline Industry? Then fix your DumbOffice asap

These DumbOffice failures could seriously take some of these airlines over the edge and put them out of business.

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Ten Commandments for Utility Executives to get out of the Perfect Storm

The utilities industry has encountered disruptive forces over the last few decades and now faces a new wave of powerful forces.

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A Talent War Is Looming, and IT Services May Just Be the Super Weapon

Business across the globe are struggling to attract the best and brightest talent. Find out how this trend is playing out in the services industry.

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The HR Power Tools 6-Pack for High-Impact Service Delivery

This POV explores the six newest areas of HR Tech innovation that offer significant value-driving potential for HR functions.

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Competitive Intelligence

A Buyers' Guide to Accenture

A buyer focused view of services capabilities of Accenture.

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Top 10 Report

HfS Blueprint Report: Utility Operations 2017

The inaugural Utility Operations Blueprint covers IT, BPO and Engineering Services in the utility industry, trends, market activity and 14 service providers.

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Customise First - Digital OneManufacturing

In this PoV, we discuss HfS Digital OneManufacturing framework which can help manufacturers in developing Industry 4.0 capabilities

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The HfS Blueprint Guide to Industry 4.0 Services

This Blueprint Market Guide presents research-based insights and recommendations to both manufacturers and service providers, specifically in regards to 4.0

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Workday Services: Industry Sector Focus Emerging

This POV outlines the trends and emerging opportunities for Workday service providers to develop services and solutions tailored for particular industry

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The HfS Blueprint Guide to Predictive Capabilities in HCM Systems

This Blueprint Market Guide presents research-based insights and recommendations to both HCM software customers -- and vendors, specifically in regards to HCM

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Action for Salesforce Service Providers

HfS recently published the HfS Blueprint Report: Salesforce Services 2017, in which we profiled twelve service providers and spoke to client references. Here we

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Ten Recommendations for Salesforce Service Buyers

HfS recently published the HfS Blueprint Report: Salesforce Services 2017, in which we profiled twelve service providers and spoke to client references. Here we

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HfS Blueprint Report: Salesforce Services 2017

For the 2017 HfS Salesforce Services Blueprint Report we analyze the capabilities and vision of 12 Salesforce services partners.

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HfS Blueprint Report: Capital Markets Operations

We believe that capital markets firms will undergo a large-scale operational transformation in 2017. Service providers for this market are now in a unique to

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Defining the Digital OneOffice Organization

HfS defines how the Digital OneOffice is becoming the digital operations framework for the emerging organization.

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In 2017, Will Banks Break the Siloes to Better Serve Customers?

For banks to remain competitive in the current climate, they will need to embrace a “customer first” strategy, with better customer experiences at the

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HfS Blueprint Report: Digital Marketing Operations 2016

This HfS Blueprint Report looks at the innovation and execution capabilities of 14 digital marketing operations service providers in detail.

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The 5 Things Clients Are Demanding from Salesforce Services Providers

As we complete the 2017 Salesforce Services Blueprint Report, we share the top demands for clients in this market.

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Point of View

The 2016 RPA Premier League Table – Transformation Comes to the Fore

This RPA Premier League Table captures the shift toward transformational projects.

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HfS Blueprint Report: Internet of Things (IoT) Services 2016

This Blueprint Report covers current trends, forward-looking market activity and analysis of 18 service providers deploying IoT work.

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10 Tips for Workday Service Providers

This PoV outlines key recommendations for Workday Service Providers.

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HfS Blueprint: Digitally Enabled Contact Center 2016

This Blueprint is a spinoff of the previously published Contact Center Operations Blueprint, focusing on the digital elements of contact center BPO.

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HfS Blueprint Report: Workday Services 2016

This Blueprint Report looks at the innovation and execution capabilities of sixteen Workday service providers in detail.

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Can HR be an Innovation Incubator?

Can the HR function act a catalyst to drive innovation from digital services in organizations?

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Can Unisys be Hip Again?

Unisys leverages digital trust in its efforts to get its mojo back.

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Market Analysis

Americas IT Services and BPO Market Size and Forecast, 2016 - 2020

This document provides HfS Research market sizing and forecast for the Americas IT Services and BPO Market from 2016 to 2020.

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SaaS Services Success Requires a Different Approach

This PoV outlines some of the challenges and recommendations for service providers offering SaaS services.

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What Enterprises Can Learn from Digital Natives Using BPO for Innovation

Born-in-the-cloud enterprises are turning to service providers like Cognizant with a growth agenda, and changing the nature of BPO partnerships.

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5 Highlights from the Workday Services Research

HfS has launched our 2016 Workday Services Blueprint report. Here we highlights five emerging trends from the research.

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Market Analysis

The HfS BPO Top 50

This is the HfS list of top 50 BPO providers by revenue.

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Can Microsoft Dominate the Talent Engagement Market Like it's O365?

HfS takes an in-depth look at what the LinkedIn acquisition by Microsoft means for the HR market.

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The Journey to Intelligent Operations and OneOffice —Study Findings

This report looks at the evolution of sourcing and enterprise operations, from back office efficiency to the Intelligent and Adaptable OneOffice.

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KellyOCG: A Contrast in Forward Thinking Versus Legacy Operations

While KellyOCG shared advancements in analytics and advisory services, BPO and RPO seems a bit stuck in legacy.

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Learning from Our Current Digital Failures to Make a Fresh Start

From a business strategy perspective, the art of reaching a more ‘digital' state is to break down rigid silos and allow real time information and data.

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Make Your SaaS Partnerships More Strategic or Get Dropped

Successful SaaS service providers need to demonstrate genuine capability backed by strategic commitment and investment in their chosen SaaS platform.

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The Desire to Move to HR Cloud Platforms Is Recreating HRO

Following on from the publication of the HR Operations in the As-a-Service Blueprint, HfS launched the first in a series of pieces on this topic.

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UltiPro Leads the Arms Race for HR Analytics

The need for HR analytics from buyers has sparked a race between platform and service providers. HfS takes a look at Ultimate Software's recent release.

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Bots Are Starting to Comprehend Spanish

Jidoka is adding a distinctive Spanish voice to the discussions on RPA.

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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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Harvesting a BotFarm to Shake Up Process Delivery

HfS looks at the implications for process delivery of Automation Anywhere's BotFarms announcement.

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Intelligent Automation Is Coming of Age

The launch of a formalized practice comprising IPsoft’s virtual agent Amelia platform is a milestone on the maturity journey of Intelligent Automation.

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Automation Requires More Than Digital Inputs

ITyX is adding extraction and classifcation of unstructured text to the Intelligent Automation Continuum.

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Predictive Analytics, Outcomes and Scalability: Keys for SuccessFactors

SuccessFactors recently hosted its Influencer Summit in San Francisco, which we cover here.

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SaaS Service Providers Need to Align with As-a-Service Ideals

SaaS service providers need to align with the HfS ideals of the As-a-Service economy to remain competitive. This POV outlines the opportunities.

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Accenture Expands Global Cyber Ops with a BANG!

Accenture launches its Cyber Fusion Center for cybersecurity ops. Can its focus on automation, collaboration and analytics set it apart?

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#Cyberchat: Cyber Risks, Behavior, and Talent with IBM's Michael Montecillo

Delving into the shape of cyber security, the industries at risk, and the one thing every CISO should be concerned about in 2016.

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#CXforum: Can Enterprises Automate Better #CX?

Can automation and the use of software robots dramatically transform customer-facing CX initiatives?

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Have HRO Service Providers Tapped into the Power of HCM Analytics?

With data gathered in the upcoming HRaaS Blueprint, HfS lifts the lid to examine the maturity of analytics within HRO.

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Utility Regulators Play the Cloud Catch-Up Game

Utility regulators are waking up to the reality and the possibilities of cloud computing and As-a-Service, looking to take away cloud adoption hurdles.

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Are Service Providers and Advisors Doing Enough to get Digital into F&A Processes?

We asked service providers how aggressively their organization is taking measures to generate more digitally aligned F&A engagements.

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Atos Aims to Orchestrate the As-a-Service Economy

Atos wants to be the orchestrator for innovation to accelerate clients’ journey toward the As-a-Service Economy.

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KLM Uses Facebook Messenger to Stimulate Customer Interactions

Facebook messenger could become the next linchpin in enterprise omnichannel communication.

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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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Utilities on the Brink of Disruption

HfS looks at the IUEC 2016 in Madrid. Theme? "Digital, digital, digital, disruption, disruption, disruption, transformation and cyber security."

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10 Tips for SuccessFactors Service Providers

Our SAP SuccessFactors Services Blueprint profiled thirteen of the leading service providers. Here we outline ten key recommendations for providers.

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It Is About Intelligent Automation, Stupid!

We have to go back to emphasizing the Continuum of Intelligent Automation. The Continuum represents a disparate set of automation approaches.

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SXSW Interactive 2016: Like the Food Trucks, it Promised a Lot, but Failed to Satisfy

HfS went to Austin for SXSW Interactive 2016 to catch a perspective on the emerging As-a-Service Economy.

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Five Golden Rules to Avoid IT Irrelevance

HfS sets out the five golden rules IT executives must follow to increase their relevance and value to their organizations.

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Acquisitions in HRO Are a Response to the Emerging As-a-Service Economy

In recent years, the HRO market has seen numerous acquisitions. As 2016 continues, we see no signs of it slowing down.

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Sykes Buys ClearLink to Target Omnichannel: But can it Integrate the Pieces?

The Sykes acquisition of ClearLink adds digital marketing and sales generation to its portfolio poses integration and talent alignment challenges.

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Shining the ignio Light on Incident Resolution

TCS's ignio platform has evolved since its launch in June 2015 and is focusing on incident resolution. This Soundbite looks at that evolution.

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Cyber Watch List: PassFort Cranking Up the FinTech Compliance Engine?

PassFort, a startup in the KYC/AML and onboarding workflow market, is added to our Cyber Watch List as an emerging player in the Digital Trust and Security

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Optimizing the Intersection of Intelligent Automation and Manual Work

Many complex IT projects continue to require large-scale manual work. Cutover is a SaaS platform that focuses on those activities.

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Accenture Pushes Envelope on Testing Services with Artificial Intelligence

Just like the broader notion of Intelligent Automation, Test Automation is evolving toward cognitive computing and artificial intelligence.

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Ultimate Software: Bringing Anonymous Crowd Sourcing to the HR Game

Ultimate Software brings innovation to the HCM software market through its use of design thinking as well as predictive and prescriptive analytics.

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Linkedin’s Relevance to the HR Market

LinkedIn remains a major player in the global HR market as the largest community of online professionals and online jobs board.

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Cloud Stocks Take a Beating

For HfS, individual stock fluctuations don’t matter much but we are interested in what this means for the market.

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SaaS Black Friday Is a Warning Sign for Linkedin

February 5th 2016 was the worst day ever for SaaS companies, erasing $28 billion in market cap. LinkedIn lost 43% of its value.

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E is for Energy: How Alphabet is Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Smart Energy Investments

The Silicon Valley giants have huge energy needs. How do these companies make sure they have enough energy supply to keep their operations running? Google bets

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Designs on Your Business: IBM's Deals Start to Ad Up

IBM announced the purchase of German digital ad agency Aperto days after the acquisition of US based agency Resource/Ammirati.

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Six Snippets from our SuccessFactors Research

HfS has launched the SuccessFactors Services Blueprint. We highlight emerging trends based on our conversations with service providers and clients.

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Geofluent Introduces Multi-Lingual to Multi-Channel

Real-time translation platform Geofluent brings automated multi-lingual, multi-channel support to the contact center.

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IBM’s Video Spending Spree Continues with Ustream

IBM has announced the acquisition of Ustream, a cloud-based video streaming service, for broadcast and enterprise clients for an undisclosed sum.

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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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From the Ashes of HRO Comes HR As-a-Service

HfS Research will undertake a market leading Blueprint report into the changing shape of the HR market.

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Beware the ‘Bots or Not? A Call to HR Professionals

Now is the time for HR professionals to proactively address the onset of automation.

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Mercer Doubles Down on Workday Services

Consolidation in the Workday services market continues, with HR expert Mercer acquiring Workday specialist CPSG.

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The Race To Roll-up Salesforce Services Capabilities in Europe

Recent acquisitions of European Salesforce services partners by Accenture and Capgemini show the race to expand geo coverage and drive to scale is on.

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WNS Gives Wings to Traveler Experience with Expertise and Automation

WNS has leveraged its heritage to demonstrate strength in blending automation, analytics and talent to optimize the traveler experience.

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Wipro Gets Serious About As-a-Service with the Acquisition of Viteos

Wipro makes an important acquisition in Viteos to extend As-a-Service capabilities and increase presence in Banking and Financial Services solutions.

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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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Lessons from the RPA Trenches

Despite a noticeable shift in maturation of Intelligent Automation there is a scarcity of case studies and reference material.

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How Software Product Engineering Service Providers are Helping ISVs in their As-a-Service Journey

A closer look at investments software product engineering service providers are making to help ISVs on the As-a-Service journey.

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The Speed of Change In Workday Services

Workday service providers have been busy expanding their capabilities and scale throughout 2015.

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LiveOps Solves its Identity Crisis

LiveOps Cloud Platform and Agent Services have split up, allowing each to solidify the brands independently, and to re-focus resources and investments.

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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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Warner Bros. and Capgemini Co-Develop Talent for Finance As-a-Service

Chris Piazza, Warner Bros. EFS, and Marty Borcharding, Capgemini, share how talent features in successful shared services and outsourcing.

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Viral Automation Will Require “Bot Stores” For Sustainability

In 2016 RPA vendors and service providers will focus on the creation of “bot stores” to support the pending viral availability of process “bots."

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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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The 2016 Autonomics Premier League Table

HfS aims to stimulate a much broader discussion on Intelligent Automation by launching the Autonomics Premier League Table.

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Understanding Consumers in Design Thinking Brings Providers, Clients Closer

We highlight how a simple yet powerful dataset of household consumption pattern can help design your next engagement model with the clients.

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Contemplating the New Telefonica and Huawei Partnership

The agreement commits the service providers to deploy compute, storage and backup public cloud services from eight data center locations.

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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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The Role of Analytics for the CFO: a #CFOexchange session

In this session of the #CFOexchange, we sat down with an all-star crew to discuss the importance, and value, of analytics to the CFO.

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How to Make MRO a Proactive Contributor to Your Enterprise

MRO can be a more proactive, better managed capability so that enterprises can be more effective and adaptable with a well-defined supply chain.

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Crowdsourcing Has Real Potential in Intelligent Automation

WorkFusion's approach of combining crowdsourcing and machine learning is offering new capabilities to the continuum of Intelligent Automation solutions.

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Six Strategic Challenges to Cyber Security Today

Dealing with 21st century cyber risks requires a detailed plan of action and buy in from the C-suite to the consumer.

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Autonomics are Accelerating the Journey To Intelligent Automation

The evolution of Intelligent Automation toward unstructured data, less well defined processes and integration of cognitive computing and AI.

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Why Blockchain Technology May Create New Relevance for As-a-Service Solutions

By putting shared data out into a commonly trusted system of record, Blockchain offers hope for BPaaS solutions that seek to build across enterprises and become

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The New Dell: Integrating Enterprise-Class As-a-Service Solutions Essential

HfS examines the implications of Dell's acquisition of EMC on the services market. Focusing on the likely success of Dell as a hybrid cloud provider.

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How MRO As-a-Service is Changing the Procurement Outsourcing Market

This is the first part in a series of three soundbites focused on the evolution of Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) outsourcing in the As-a-Service

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10 Points to Consider in Salesforce Services

HfS recently published the Salesforce Services Blueprint, in which we outlined market trends and profiled thirteen of the leading service providers. Here we the

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How IBM’s Acquisition of The Weather Company Is Changing The Climate of IoT

IBM is in the Winner’s Circle of the Blueprint on IoT Services from their portfolio of IoT tools & platforms and end-to-end managed services. The acquisition

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What Makes Service Providers Relevant for Software-As-a-Service

Contrary to popular belief, there are increasing opportunities for service providers in the Software-As-a-Service market. Those who can make their services and

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How Sourcing Can Change What Engagement Means in Healthcare

Changes in healthcare provide a catalyst for changing the nature of (out)sourcing relationships as well. Here's an example of how Sutherland changed from to a

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IBM Prepares its GTS Business to Compete in the As-a-Service Economy

HfS examines the strategic changes IBM has made to its GTS business.

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The Rise of the Digital Transformers?

All hail the rise of the Digital Transformer, a new breed of board-savvy, change-driven leader, charged with transforming enterprise-wide risk management, and

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As-a-Service: The New Dawn for Utilities

HfS Research suggests that the Ideals of the As-a-Service Economy provide a fresh opportunity for utilities to optimize their cost to serve.

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Chinese Telecom Firms Open R&D Centers in India to Gain Foothold in Massive Market

The strategic moves of Chinese telecom firms validate the predictions in our recent Engineering Services Blueprint of growth in engineering services from our on

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HfS Blueprint Report: Healthcare Payer Operations 2015

The 2015 HfS Healthcare Payer Operations Blueprint Report covers current trends and forward-looking market activity, and analysis of 15 service providers.

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Metering the Degree of Analytics Adoption in Utilities

HfS believes that the time is ripe for utilities to embrace analytics – having fast and relevant access to meaningful insights can have a significant impact

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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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Government-As-a-Service: How the “Eight Ideals of As-a-Service” Help Federal Agencies Find New Value

HfS explores the shared services and sourcing journey to Government-As-a-Service: on-demand access to government employees & citizens. It requires bold moves to

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The Long Tail of Ashley Madison

30 million exposed users are just the beginning of a nasty Ashley Madison saga touching on the very nature of cybersecurity, the risk of corporate and the value

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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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Dell Arrives at its “Crossroads”—Which Direction Is Next?

Since being taken private in late 2013, Dell has been a business in transition, while the market and consumers seek to answer a very fundamental question: Who

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Healthcare Analytics Heats Up

In healthcare, service providers are quickly moving into partnerships and acquisitions, realizing that the big data problem is too complex to solve alone.

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8 Strategic Issues Procurement Service Providers Need To Address

The development of Procurement As-a-Service demands that service providers reevaluate core tenets of their offering strategy. HfS recommend 8 specific areas for

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Autonomics Advances the Conversation Beyond RPA

Arago's expansion into the US market is a reference point that the notion of autonomics is the next wave to create value in process automation beyond RPA.

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Why We Need to Get Over the Uber Argument

It’s time to move on from this old chestnut and forget the “Uber” case for a while. Please.

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Risk, Opportunities & #CX: A Conversation with Abid Ali Neemuchwala of Wipro

A conversation with Abid Ali Neemuchwala, Group President and COO of Wipro, recorded at our As-a-Service Working Summit, on the risks, opportunities, and of

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The Other Shoe Drops in the US Healthcare Insurance Market

Anthem’s acquisition of Cigna, announced yesterday, creates a triopoly in the US healthcare market, where less than a month ago five separate healthcare the

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Why Aren’t We Talking About Testing Services?

Testing providers need to proactively engage with clients on the fundamental shift that the emerging As-a-Service Economy represents. The testing community has

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Beware of the Smoke: Your Platform is Burning

In this report, HfS explores the shift in sourcing to working smarter through more simplified, intelligent operations, what we call the As-a-Service Economy.

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Salesforce Connections Heralded the Future of Digital Marketing Technology, But What About Services?

For Salesforce to be successful in bringing to life its full vision for digital marketing it needs customers and partners to also embrace a revolutionary way of

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Luxoft - Writing the Interface to Growth

HfS recently visited Luxoft's development center in Kiev and got an inside view into what is driving the company’s success.

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Five Ways Automation and AI Are Enabling As-a-Service Delivery

In this PoV we look at how process automation and artificial intelligence are core technologies in bringing about the realization of the 8 Ideals of the

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How Uncertainty Is Driving Engineering Services Outsourcing

We look at how industry uncertainty is one of the major driving forces behind the adoption of engineering services outsourcing.

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Personalizing Medicine with “Intelligent Data” in the As-a-Service Economy

Approximately 3 in 4 pharma & healthcare participants rank “Intelligent Data”—real­time applied analytics models, techniques, & insights from big having

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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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Will We Drown In Automation?

Will a whole industry of service providers and all the jobs they provide be wiped out by the forces of automation? We don't think so as we can find examples in

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HfS Webinar: Industrializing Mobile Application Development

This webinar replay looks at how to align your IT service provider relationship to meet today's new demands.

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The Life of RPA

The market for RPA and Autonomics is getting more crowded with new players entering the fray adding to the blurred perception owing to a lack of education by

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Widening the Lens: Xerox Acquires HCI for Broader View of the Patient

Xerox acquires cloud-based data & analytics provider HCI to add socioeconomic view to the medical and care view of patients seen in hospitals to help in of more

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The Curse Of The IT/BPO Services Unicorn

In the world of Silicon Valley, the Unicorn is a great thing these days, but in IT/BPO Services being a Unicorn today looks more like a curse than a boon.

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Accenture Spearheads Retail Transformation With Javelin Group Acquisition

Accenture’s acquisition of the Javelin group complements its vision of positioning itself as an end-to-end digital partner for this next wave of growth for

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There is Energy in the On-Shore U.S. Sourcing Opportunity

As the on-shore market grows, RevAmerica attendees were eager to explore what it takes to train, attract, and develop talent to meet this rising demand.

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It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere, Time for a Shot of Tquila, Salesforce and Accenture

It’s hard to acquire and retain specialized consulting resources but with demand for people skilled in the new As-a-Service platforms outstripping the in the

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Infosys Begins to Show the Signs of Strategic and Transformational Confluence

The signs of change are encouraging at Infosys but we'll soon want to see examples and employee testimonials from the middle layers as to how new and renew are

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Embracing IoT Demands Embracing Design Thinking as Well

IoT is emerging as a hot area of focus in 2015 yet given the breadth of technologies and use cases around it, predefined roadmaps for adoption may resulted in

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A Solution for Making Sense of the Alphabet Soup of Health Care Financing

ConnectYourCare is tackling an issue in health care financing -- making the HDHP/HSA that is a generally a bit "daunting" more user friendly and accessible --

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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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Engineering For Telecom BSS - Comverse & Tech Mahindra

Tech Mahindra's engineering services partnership with Comverse is a significant industry event as it demonstrates the value proposition of a third party model.

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Insurance Majors Pulling Out The Checkbooks For Digital Innovation

HfS Research believes that in order to really embrace the “As-a-Service Economy,” enterprises will have to develop new capabilities that go beyond what was

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Betting Big & Being Agile: Atos Brings Core Strengths to the “As-a-Service Economy”

Atos is a service provider who is bringing core strengths of an agile and open culture together with a willingness to make big bets to the "As-a-Service as it

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How "The World We Live In" Is Driving Engineering Services Outsourcing Market

In the market for product engineering services, we are observing six key changes in "the world we live in" which are acting as catalysts in the adoption of the

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HfS Blueprint Report: Enterprise Analytics Services 2015

The 2015 HfS Enterprise Analytics Services Blueprint Report is a refresh on our November 2013 report. We discuss buyer challenges, market trends, for service 19

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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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iWatch, iWait, iWonder

After shipments begin in late April, we anticipate marketing departments across the G2000 will see their summers impacted by urgent requests to build out a on

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Ceridian Looks to Transform Human Resources to Human Relations with RelatedMatters Acquisition

As impressive as the HR, time, pay, benefits, compliance, and talent capabilities are in its solution to date, Ceridian’s RelatedMatters acquisition raises to

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How the CTO is changing BPO

To remain relevant to evolving client needs, BPO service providers must be investing in creating a strong CTO position and empowering that role with the budgets

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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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Using Analytics to Reinforce Strengths and Fill Gaps, Accenture Buys Gapso

Accenture's acquisition of Brazil based Gapso, provides analytics capabilities across a key combination of geos (Brazil/Lat Am), industries (Energy and and IoT

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HfS Blueprint: Progressive Finance & Accounting Business Process Outsourcing Services

The Progressive F&A BPO Services Blueprint looks at the performance of 22 SPs in this service offering. 47% of the Blueprint scoring is tied to proven and that

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The “Digital” Litmus Test: Three Traits Your Service Provider Must Possess

Becoming a Digital company is one of the top priorities for the senior leadership of most companies today yet the term is vague at best. This report explores of

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How to Assess Service Provider Relationships

This POV describes a relationship framework that can be used to assess service provider relationships. The framework was developed by Dr. John C. Henderson in a

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GBS Adoption Remains a Priority, but There Are Barriers to Success

In spite of all the interest in adopting a GBS model, and receiving the associated benefits, a number of impediments continue to slow organizations down.

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Are CPG Companies Expanding Their Analytics Agendas?

Our research with CPG companies and their analytics service providers reveal opportunities for growth in marketing and supply chain analytics mandates. We our

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The Twelve Tenets of Trust

In the maelstrom of the digitization of business and transition to the As-a-Service Economy, there is a concept potentially the calm eye in the storm of facing

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CSC Aspires To Be In the Middle of the “As-a-Service” Ecosystem

HfS just met with a reinvigorated leadership team at CSC who are building on the momentum of a recent financial turnaround. CSC unveiled a vision that could put

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Lessons for Digital from Sailing’s Most Grueling Offshore Race

Big results demand big bets and this year’s Volvo Ocean Race is no exception. An all-female team will face grueling conditions but with help from Accenture a

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Why Innovation Doesn’t Happen In Outsourcing

This POV discusses the top three reasons why innovation doesn't occur in most outsourcing relationships. Despite best intentions, organizations that fail to not

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HfS Blueprint Report: Retail Operations

The retail operations marketplace has the potential to incorporate several external value drivers towards progressive operations delivery.

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Outsourcing: Presumed Dead, or Poised for Reincarnation?

Outsourcing... has any business activity been so brutalized in recent years?

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Don't Let Compliance Concerns Curb Workforce Transformation Efforts

The Moneyball analogy “Never use payroll as an excuse” is spot on with increasing workforce regulatory issues at play.

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A New Workday is Upon Us

Workday says its new UI and single code line offer streamlined usability and updates for workers and application owners, but questions exist if companies on can

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Sellers Beware: Clients are Demanding More, but do they Have their Act Together?

For years, I’ve heard the expression “Buyer Beware,” but what about the seller? When should sellers, or service providers, beware?

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The Ultimate Employee Experience

Ultimate Software announced its latest software with better global capabilities and usability but the news it is entering into managed services is the bigger to

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Who's Going to Challenge for Indian IT Services Supremacy in 2014?

Brand India has arrived in IT services and the Indian-centric majors are poised to dominate more than ever in 2014. Let’s examine the landscape and which we

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Why BPO Providers are About to Eat The Analytics Lunch of IT Services Firms

A relatively new offering from Genpact is pushing the bounds of what benefits an enterprise can expect from social media.

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WIPRO Platformizes its Mortgage BPO Capability with OPUS CMC

Wipro BPO's acquisition of Opus CMC extends their mortgage services offering to include loan portfolio due diligence and risk management.

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TCS Q3: Remains the One to Watch

This document examines TCS' Q3 2013 (calendar) results.

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Framing a Constitution for Robotistan

The interest in and demand for robotic automation is growing quickly. One year after our initial study we look at how it has progressed and the areas of in all

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WTF? The Workforce Trust Factor

The US DoD is learning a tough lesson from its “contractor” on the lam Edward Snowden, but it’s a timely opportunity for all organizations that use third

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Guatemala: The Nearshore Collections Hub of the Future?

In this document, we discuss Guatemala’s BPO sector in brief and elaborate on Capgemini’s current progress and future plans for BPO delivery in the country.

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Oracle Keeps Pushing EXA-Boundaries

How does Oracle’s Exalytics 3-4 upgrade help customers remain loyal to Oracle?

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SunGard Focuses on Technology-Enablement Consulting to Create Client Value Beyond Cost

HfS recently visited SunGard, the financial services technology business services provider, for an executive briefing on the firm’s services capabilities. The

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The State of Outsourcing Talent... The Industry Has Spoken!

Slides from the May 16, 2013 HfS webinar featuring Phil Fersht of HfS, Henric Häggquist of Microsoft, John Haworth of Cigna, and Anoop Sagoo of Accenture.

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MedeAnalytics - The Healthcare Analytics Experts: A Rapid Profile of MedeAnalytics’ Analytics

Sweeping industry reform, regulations, increasing data availability, and a newfound need for operational efficiency are driving healthcare buyers to get smart

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Which Service Provider Owns the Minds of IT Executives in 2013: IAAS, Hybrid Cloud Services, and SaaS

Results from the HfS Research Global IT Trends Survey – Part Seven

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State of the Industry 2013: Banking and Financial Services (BFS) Summary

Outsourcing remains a strong preference while in-house delivery is showing strong indications of reduction.

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Market Analysis

The HfS Market Index: European IT Services and BPO Market Size and Forecast, 2013 - 2017

HfS’ State of Outsourcing 2013 Study, conducted with the support of KPMG covers 1355 major enterprise and supplier industry stakeholders.

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Five Objectives Driving Customer Experience Design

This document introduces HfS Research’s strategic customer experience management (CEM) framework that enables analysis of opportunities for enterprises to CEM

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The HfS Market Index: Asia Pacific IT Services and BPO Market Size and Forecast, 2013 - 2017

IT Services to growth 5.3% in 2013, 4.8% CAGR to 2017.

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Transforming Marketing Optimization for a Retailer: Infosys’s Consumer Genome Project

This report highlights the path that a large footwear retailer in the US took to modernize its marketing by working with Infosys on a new marketing optimization

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Market Analysis

The HfS Market Index: Global IT Services and BPO Market Size and Forecast Primer, Q1 2013

This document sets out HfS Research’s market size and forecasting methodology for global IT and business services market data and provides the first set of

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Market Analysis

HfS Market Index: IT Services and BPO Market 2013 – 2017, Q1 2013

We examine the IT Services and BPO Market from 2013 to 2017. Our primary method is a supply side model that builds market dimensions by estimating revenues from

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Business Services Outsourcing in Banking and Financial Services: 2013 Market Report

This report outlines the strategic business priorities BFS executives will focus on over the next few years and examines how the outsourcing industry is to the

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Five Reasons Financial Services Companies are Keeping Their Captives

In this RapidInsight™, we look at the trends in this area, specifically the top five reasons many financial companies have chosen to retain captives and the

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What's Next in Finance Global Business Services?

What are the seismic shifts in the evolving global finance sourcing landscape? HfS Research explored those grinding tectonic plates in its eye-opening September

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Seeking Scalability and Capability in Mortgage Originations

In 2007, the mortgage market began to spiral out of control. Delinquency rates more than doubled, and as a result, primary and secondary market activity came to

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Market Analysis

2015 Market Size and Forecast for Finance and Procurement BPO

As procurement outsourcing services have matured, more organizations are adding distinctive strategic sourcing and tactical purchasing to the scope of their F&A

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Executive Company Profile: HP's BPO Division

After its acquisition of EDS in 2008, HP struggled to find its place in the BPO market. Since that time, HP has regrouped, and its outsourcing services are the

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Onshore Outsourcing: In Insurance BPO It’s Really Happening

We examine how ING and Cognizant are working together to create the kind of strategic relationship that can bring complex onshore-centric delivery models to in

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Executive Company Profile: Accenture's BPO Business

Accenture has very effectively evolved its 20-year-old BPO business to become a market leader in terms of market share and vision. Its sophisticated and BPO the

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Twitter Goes After Its Biggest Allies

In a blog post, Twitter signaled it has made significant changes to its API that have the potential to considerably harm and diminish the function of clients

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Rohit Kapoor: Success Through Focused Leadership

EXL has proven that you don’t have to be a $1B+ company to be an industry leader. Under the leadership of Rohit Kapoor, vice chairman and CEO, EXL has shown

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Executive Company Profile: EXL Services

EXL has resisted the temptation to be “all things to all people,” instead making investments into areas the company wants to target. This focus is the that

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IBM Targets Talent Management at the C-Suite with Kenexa Acquisition

IBM’s acquisition of Kenexa places it in pole position as a Recruiting BPO services provider. The big question now is whether it will next acquire a cloud or

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The Challenges Facing Brokerage

In this RAPIDInsight, HfS Research examines the specific challenges facing brokerage companies and how these firms are leveraging outsourcing service providers

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How well do you manage multiple providers?

Multiple provider governance should deliver three things: that your providers are aligned to the business, that flawless service delivery marshals them together

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IBM Remains a Gorilla in the Security Services Jungle

HfS Research views IBM's Security Services group as offering a heft, breadth and depth of capability, reputation, and global footprint that few rivals in the

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Reasons for SaaS Providers to Partner with Services Firms

We explore the reasons for partnering in the cloud services world, examines the challenges that both buyers and providers face, and outline for services and how

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Legal and Contractual Risks in Cloud Services

In this report, we look at a few pressing legal and contractual risks that cloud services can introduce, be it the IT infrastructure underlying cloud services,

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The “Hiding To Nothing” Account Manager Role Must Focus On Delivery

A service provider’s account manager may be the most important position on the account team. HfS Research conducted a series of interviews with buyers and to

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The Retail BPO Market Landscape and Service Provider FormGuide

Although undergoing change, retailers' essence is still inventory and demand management, supply chain optimization, and meeting margins. To them, outsourcing to

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Surviving the Aftermath of Lift and Shift Transition

Instead of fixing things first, you outsourced your junky processes almost completely intact. Now in the (hopefully) capable hands of your lower cost service

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Databook: The State of Outsourcing in 2011

The analysis of responses of 1538 IT-BPO Buyers, Providers and Advisors received over July-August 2011 have proven that the initial goal of outsourcing, to out

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Eight Strategies For Achieving Innovation In Infrastructure Management Services

Corporates are exploring smarter ways of working, growth opportunities in new markets, and ways to manage capital-intensive heterogeneous infrastructures. We to

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Healthcare Payor BPO in 2011: Will Reform Shatter a Complacent Industry?

The conservative healthcare industry faces the strong headwinds of regulatory change. While most payors have some experience in labor arbitrage-based the future

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Capgemini Adds Significant Order-To-Cash Depth With Vengroff Williams Acquisition

Capgemini has bolstered its capabilities in the competitive F&A BPO market with its recent acquisition of order-to-cash services provider Vengroff Williams and

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The Banking Industry BPO Landscape in 2011: Getting Back To Basics

Banking has gone through some very rough years. It will continue to encounter considerable uphill battles over the unforeseeable future. Rebuilding customer and

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The Oil & Gas Industry Sourcing Landscape in 2011

Oil and gas companies face challenges: declining production, rising consumption, and low reserves. With a focus on cost savings, there are opportunities for to

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Tectonic Shift to Digital Creates a Perfect Storm for CMOs

The switch to digital is forcing marketing into running itself like a proper business process. As CMOs change channels, they’re seeing this imperative emerge,

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The legal process outsourcing landscape in 2011

This HfS Market Landscape evaluates the growing global LPO market - the core trends and dynamics, and examines the services provider landscape.

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The CPO In 2011: The Toughest Job In The Global 1000

Chief procurement officers may have the toughest corporate job in the world. Their internal stakeholders are a raucous group who require everything from and to

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Designing an Optimal Procurement BPO Program: Process Expertise and Realized Improvement

When Spend Matters and HfS Research decided to jointly study procurement BPO, our first observation was simple: what’s gone wrong in a market that should have

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CSC stakes its claim to prosper in the new IT services ecosystem

CSC has struck out in a new direction towards a long-term position as a 'service integrator" and laying out a cloud strategy that goes beyond the usual hype. We

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Mahindra Satyam - the bleeding has stopped, but can it regain its Tier 1 India provider status?

Mahindra Satyam recently staged its first conference as a new entity, to announce to the industry that its new structure was complete, and it was a serious HfS

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