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The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated some trends and slowed others. In IoT, the emphasis has shifted to a more strategic approach to achieve greater resilience and transparency, while projects largely aimed at increasing operational efficiency have be put on the backburner. At the same time, the crisis has accelerated a maturation in customer organizations that […]
Like the rest of the world, IT decision makers have been moving into a highly reactive and tactical mode in 2020 to mitigate COVID-19’s impact on the businesses they underpin. TBR believes the ripple effect of these decisions will continue through 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated macro trends toward cloud technologies that leverage automation […]
Market overview The 14 benchmarked vendors continued to hire and acquire resources, albeit at a much slower rate in 1H20 than in 1H19 due to COVID-19, a trend we expect to accelerate in 2H20. 1H20 was a tale of two quarters as vendors had to swiftly change priorities and mobilize their staff to work remotely […]
vRAN will become a major driver of edge compute scale-outs Communication service providers (CSPs) that are driving forward with virtualized radio access network (vRAN), most notably Rakuten and Dish, will build many thousands of edge sites over the next few years to support their vRAN topologies. These edge sites will need to be located within […]
COVID-19 increases demand for edge installments Despite some challenges and resistance to adoption, the opportunity at the enterprise edge is vast, as edge workloads present a key solution to many of the new problems that have popped up due to COVID-19. For example, brick-and-mortar shopping was once seen as a leisure activity and has now […]
With Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google and Alibaba established as the IaaS cloud market leaders, Technology Business Research, Inc. (TBR) has noted an increase in partner ecosystem activity, particularly among IT services vendors, such as Accenture, Infosys and Cognizant, that are vying for a share of cloud services like migration and implementation. Consolidation will […]
The impact of COVID-19 on revenue, profitability and award activity was material but also erratic and inconsistent across vendors Federal IT vendors tracked in TBR’s Public Sector IT Services Benchmark generally reported at least some erosion of top-line growth or profitability in CY2Q20 that was directly or indirectly attributable to the pandemic. Many providers were […]
Regardless of whether the pandemic lingers, re-emerges with a greater power in the fall or significantly subsides, TBR expects management consultancies will benefit from opportunities created by the chaos of COVID-19 as vendors address clients’ tactical run-the-business needs and expand activities around digital workplace, change management, HR and supply chain operations. Vendors with greater scale, […]
Join Allan Krans, Evan Woollacott and Catie Merrill for a review of COVID-19’s impact on the cloud market so far and a look forward at the long-term impacts. This discussion will provide insight on the challenges and opportunities in the cloud market, and which vendors we believe are best positioned to address them. Don’t miss: A review of how the […]
As the global pandemic persists, vendors prioritize employee safety while increasingly looking to employee productivity measures. Retaining clients and securing a larger piece of a shrinking budgetary pie are IT services vendors’ primary concerns with respect to clients as the pandemic depresses economic activity. Attracting and landing new logos has become vastly more difficult in […]
