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Horizons Report

HFS Horizons: Customer Experience Services, 2026

See where 33 service providers rank on AI-native customer experience and what sets the leaders apart.

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Highlight Report

Use Cognizant’s open sandbox to cut risk of rogue agents

Cognizant's open TerraLingua sandbox shows enterprises how autonomous agents go off-script before production.

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Highlight Report

OEMs should partner with specialist engineering firms for successful innovation

Manufacturers can cut new product failure risk by partnering with specialist engineering firms with deep industry expertise.

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Market Vision Paper

Redefine engineering with lifecycle accountability for industrial transformation

Industrial enterprises are consolidating engineering, digital, and operations under one lifecycle accountability model.

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Highlight Report

Fragmented AI leaks ROI at handoffs, and LTTS bets on closing those gaps

Fragmented AI leaks ROI at handoffs, so OEMs should deploy agentic AI to orchestrate the full product lifecycle.

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Take 5 Report

Build the foundation before you continue to scale complexity

New HFS and Movate research on why enterprises can deploy AI in 2026 but few can price, orchestrate, or grow with it.

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Take 5 Report

CMT CX leaders, move past your cost and fix your debt to unlock customer value

Why CMT CX leaders must fix integration and data debt to make agentic AI deliver real customer value.

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Point of View

TWILTCH growth returns, but an AI monetization gap is opening across the cohort

TWILTCH growth rebounded to 5% in Q1 2026, but providers now split sharply on how they turn AI into revenue.

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Point of View

The headcount era is fading as the pivot to Services-as-Software™ continues

Eleven service providers are decoupling revenue and margin growth from headcount as Services-as-Software adoption accelerates.

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Point of View

Media leaders can explore the next growth wave of agentic AI to reclaim control

How media broadcasters can use agentic AI to reclaim content, community, and commerce from big tech platforms.

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Hot Tech

HFS Services-as-Software™ Hot Tech: Zime AI

Zime's AI engine turns your best sellers' behaviors into scoreable guidance so every rep can sell like a five-year veteran.

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Data Viewpoint

CX buyers want outcome-based pricing, yet their contracts still pay for effort

Most CX buyers want outcome-based pricing, yet only 5% have contracts built to pay for results.

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