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Hidden Costs of AI Market Intelligence

07.28.26

The enterprises that succeed will not be those that provide unrestricted AI access to every employee. The winners will build trusted intelligence architectures enabled with proprietary, non-public data and analysis that prevent organizations from paying thousands of times for the same expensive thought. The future of enterprise AI is not simply broader access. It is governed intelligence aligned to enterprise strategy, with CFO approved efficiency. And increasingly, that efficiency may prove more valuable than the AI models themselves.

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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Embedding multicloud and software-driven services in portfolios helps vendors execute on strategy, expand addressable markets

08.20.19/by admin

Google Cloud revenue surpassed the $2 billion mark in 2Q19, doubling in size in six quarters. Under the guidance of CEO Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud is improving its enterprise appeal by launching its multicloud management tool set, Anthos; leveraging acquisitions to build out its migration, storage and analytics capabilities; and expanding its global sales and […]

Why license when you can buy? Salesforce to acquire ClickSoftware

08.13.19/by Allan Krans, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

After 3-plus years of licensing, Salesforce intends to acquire ClickSoftware to augment Field Service Lightning One week after Salesforce completed its acquisition of Tableau, the vendor announced its intent to acquire ClickSoftware, a field service management solutions provider, for $1.35 billion. ClickSoftware is a practical acquisition target for Salesforce; the vendors have been partners since […]

Acquisitions help European-heritage vendors Atos and Capgemini continue expanding in North America and globally

08.12.19/by admin

Atos is preparing to accommodate the explosion of data across enterprises by effectively managing, storing, securing and analyzing data. Revenue and cost synergies from the Syntel acquisition will enable Atos to achieve its financial goals in 2019. Newly established relationships with technology partners, the release of new product offerings that support edge and quantum computing, […]

Blockchain in the context of digital transformation: A slow-moving, inevitable revolution

08.05.19/by admin

In fast-approaching fourth industrial revolution, bureaucratic labor will become as nonessential as manual labor became to the agrarian economy with the advent of the combustion engine. Blockchain technology will enable smart contracts throughout our economy and will be the red thread stitching together multi-enterprise business networks for frictionless commerce that will greatly reduce demand for […]

Investments in acquisitions and startups enrich Capgemini’s next-generation solutions portfolio and improve its competitive position

08.01.19/by admin

“Capgemini has taken multiple steps to enhance its portfolio to drive transformations through next-generation technologies and create business value for clients. The acquisition of Altran to deliver digital transformation in the industrial sector, enhanced relationships with Microsoft around Microsoft Azure solutions and with SAP around certification of industry innovation accelerators in manufacturing and retail, and […]

Understanding an acquisition: Capgemini snaps up Germany’s energy-centric KONEXUS

07.30.19/by Patrick Heffernan, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

Capgemini’s acquisition of KONEXUS, a 30-person Germany-based energy strategy and management consultancy, triggered a reaction at TBR, as earlier this year we had looked at consulting for the energy sector and had been surprised at the relatively small number of acquisitions across the firms we track. Thirty management consultants will be a fractional addition to […]

While competitors stumble and struggle, Raytheon continues to outperform in IT services for the U.S. federal government

07.24.19/by admin

The U.S. federal earnings season kicks off the week of July 22, with legacy defense contractors General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon releasing their fiscal results for the second calendar quarter of 2019. General Dynamics IT (GDIT) passed the one-year anniversary of its $9.7 billion acquisition of CSRA in 2Q19. Absent the inorganic impact of […]

TBR upcoming research dives into quantum computing market

07.17.19/by admin

If you are a skeptic of or bullish on the quantum computing market, or somewhere in between, TBR has insights to share with you! Over the next few months, TBR will dissect the developments occurring in the quantum computing market and share a lot of interesting findings. The week of July 15 TBR’s blog […]

Executive change at Accenture portends changes for the market leader

07.16.19/by admin

With Julie Sweet appointed the next CEO of Accenture and David Rowland named the executive chairman of the board, the company doubles down on its proven go-to-market strategy and delivery frameworks. However, as Accenture strengthens its core as a technology organization and Accenture Technology plays a pivotal role in North America’s performance (Sweet was previously […]

IBM and Red Hat close the deal — will it be red washing or blue washing?

07.10.19/by admin

On July 9 IBM held a 30-minute Q&A with industry analysts, led by Red Hat EVP of Engineering Paul Cormier and IBM SVP of Cloud and Cognitive Software Arvind Krishna. The discussion confirmed the overarching strategic benefits both parties see in the union while stressing the intentions to keep Red Hat vendor agnostic. Around three-quarters […]

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