With TBR’s Digital Transformation market and competitive intelligence research, gain insight into how technology and services firms are investing, going to market, partnering and more as they help enterprises transition to digital solutions.
Learn how IT and business buyers approach digital applications, platforms and services within the context of disruptive market trends and emerging opportunities. Additionally, examine and dissect IT vendors’ ecosystem management as well as investments, performance and go-to-market strategies in both mature and emerging areas, including blockchain, Industrial IoT, analytics, customer experience and innovation centers, and cloud.
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Trends we’re watching in 2026:
- Customer experience becomes the battleground of AI for growth
- Data as the new (old) currency
- How vendor portfolio offerings evolve to avoid the GIGO (garbage-in-garbage-out) effect when on clients’ site
- Discretionary spend takes a new shape as IT buyers continue to shoulder more risk than the business, presenting an opportunity for vendors to deliver on service-level outcomes enabled by agents
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Market & Competitor Benchmarks
Market and competitor benchmarks provide a comparison of vendor performance in a market, including analysis on vendor strategies, financial performance, go-to-market and resource management. The research graphically portrays comparisons of vendors by myriad metrics, calling out leaders, laggards and business models. Defensible, data-informed views of market opportunity and operational best practices are highlighted in each publication. TBR also provides benchmark data in Excel pivot tables.
Current Market & Competitor Benchmarks:
- Digital Transformation: Analytics Professional Services Benchmark
- Digital Transformation: Digital Marketing Services Benchmark
Customer Research
Ecosystem Reports
Market Landscapes
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Bad Debt Expenses Will Rise for CSPs in 2026
/by Chris Antlitz, Principal AnalystIn a K-shaped economy that increasingly separates financial winners from losers, the majority of households and businesses on the lower arm of the “K” are under mounting financial strain and are finding it more difficult to pay their bills. As these economic pressures persist, communications service providers (CSPs) should expect bad debt expenses to continue rising, with the potential to meet, or even exceed, levels experienced during the Great Recession.
How Will Advanced AI Impact Pricing, Labor Practices and Client Expectations?
/by Jill CookinhamAdvanced AI may be front and center in IT services strategy, but execution challenges remain a familiar story. Despite ongoing hype around unlocking new efficiencies and nonlinear growth, IT services firms continue to grapple with the reality of needing labor arbitrage in the short term and meeting client expectations.