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The Race for Digital Sovereignty: How 4 IT Services Leaders Are Positioned

07.21.26

TBR Fourcast is a quarterly blog series examining and comparing the performance, strategies and industry standing of four IT services companies. The series also highlights standouts and laggards according to TBR’s quarterly revenue projections as well as its geographic and segment estimates. With discussions about sovereignty in Europe only becoming louder, TBR thinks it is worthwhile to examine Atos Group, CGI, Fujitsu and Kyndryl. Our intent is to shine light on these similarly sized companies that have a strong presence in Europe and/or a strong presence in ITO and consulting and to discuss where each company’s opportunity lies.

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Telecom Infrastructure Services Market Expected to Become More Dependent on Hyperscalers and Fiber Technology Deployments

07.02.26

TBR research shows hyperscaler investment across multiple network domains will intensify through the forecast period, both to support cloud and AI as well as for general connectivity, driving TIS spend growth for this customer segment

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In the Agentic Era, Teradata’s Hybrid Strategy Will Drive Its Success

05.28.26

As enterprises look to operationalize AI across distributed environments, scale becomes less about where the infrastructure sits and more about how effectively the underlying data can be governed, accessed and turned into value. Teradata’s ability to deliver AI to where customers’ data already lives — without the need to modernize their infrastructure — will become more relevant.

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Will C&SI Revenue Growth Accelerate Significantly Due to AI Adoption at Scale?

05.14.26

Nearly all IT services companies and consultancies have adopted a customer-zero approach to emerging technologies. With enough experience and scale, they should move into the latter half of the 2020s with compelling use cases for clients and opportunities to benefit from their internal AI adoption.

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AI Adoption Predictions: What Will Determine Vendor Success and Who Is Positioned to Win

05.13.26

The shift toward outcome- and platform-based delivery will accelerate vendor consolidation, concentrating market share among providers that can demonstrate measurable ROI and scalable IP-led offerings. These dynamics will be amplified by industry-specific demand, especially in the manufacturing, energy and public sector verticals, where transformation investment and regulatory pressures will outpace market growth and benefit vendors with deep domain expertise and digital engineering capabilities.

Can the Big 4 Leverage AI to Capture Midmarket Opportunity?

05.05.26

With AI more difficult to adopt than expected and change management the bugaboo that never fades, a third element still exists in keeping the Big Four from significantly expanding in the midmarket: the competition.

Who Will Win the AI Services Race in the Next Wave of AI?

04.21.26

This quarter, TBR FourCast looks at Accenture, Capgemini, HCLTech and IBM Consulting, comparing how their underlying data strategies, especially related to engineering and integration, prepares them for advanced AI adoption.

Anthropic, OpenAI and Palantir: Who Gains and Who Loses in the Federal Fallout

04.16.26

Insights into how important the recent developments between Anthropic, OpenAI and Palantir are considering the implications for the largest agency (DOD), within the single largest buyer of IT in the world (U.S. Federal Government), relating to the single largest technology priority (AI).

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Salesforce Highlights Strengths in Innovation and Relationships at Agentforce World Tour

04.14.26

With the recent hype around the “death of SaaS” and other pressures on the business models of technology companies, Salesforce’s growing presence, success, and apparent disruption of competitors and alliance partners alike underscore Salesforce’s strengths in creating stickier client relationships and continually innovating, two qualities essential in the agentic AI age.

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IT infrastructure vendors balance demand hurdles and portfolio strategy in 2022

10.19.22/by TBR

Despite demand hurdles, IT infrastructure vendors continue to invest in expanding their portfolios to capture greater wallet share from customers and create more diversified revenue streams

How has economic uncertainty impacted the cloud applications market in 2022?

10.18.22/by TBR

Cloud applications vendors are pursing growth amid mounting economic uncertainty ranging from inflation challenges to geopolitical concerns — headwinds that are set to linger well into 2023

SAP and SoftwareONE: Persistent value through pragmatic transformation

10.17.22/by Patrick Heffernan, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

Emphasizing pragmatic, incremental transformation over broad digital transformations helps SoftwareONE more easily define its value to clients

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Cloud partnerships prove even more important than expected in 2022

10.17.22/by TBR

The current macroeconomic uncertainty makes cloud partnerships an even more important factor in cloud growth heading into 2023

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Native PaaS services delivered via hybrid architectures shape the cloud market in 2022

10.14.22/by TBR

Throughout 2022 cloud service providers continue to recognize that PaaS services are only as effective as the architecture they run on

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Automation enables business continuity and offsets macroeconomic-pressured human-centered implications

10.13.22/by TBR

Macroeconomic pressures have compelled vendors to reconsider the true opportunity to scale the integration of automation in service delivery.

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5G and edge computing remain top focus areas for telecom industry in 2022

10.12.22/by TBR

Revenue growth from 5G and edge computing remains tepid thus far in 2022, but new use cases for these technologies are likely to emerge and scale as the digital ecosystem evolves

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2022 was a good year for federal IT, but will 2023 be as growth-friendly?

10.11.22/by TBR

Cloud-centered IT modernization, cybersecurity enhancement, and accelerating adoption of digital technologies feature heavily in federal IT outlays in 2022 and will again in 2023

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Will IT services revenue grow despite the competitive talent environment?

10.10.22/by TBR

For the rest of 2022, attracting and managing talent will remain vendors’ core challenge to successfully growing IT services revenue and managing costs