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Trends we’re watching in 2025:
- Scale, innovation and even repatriation will moderate cloud market growth in 2025
- Microsoft will narrow the gap with AWS in IaaS & PaaS market share, en route to leadership in 2027
- SaaS vendors will shrug off growing GenAI disillusionment, focusing on the long term by prioritizing GenAI agents within their development strategies
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Partnerships, Not Products, Will Define How Consultancies and Native AI Companies Share Value in Agentic AI Era
/by Patrick Heffernan, Practice Manager and Principal AnalystJust like supporting startup programs, many traditional IT services companies and consultancies have struggled to adequately put themselves in their alliance partners’ shoes. And when those partners are startups or immature native AI companies, that struggle will be harder in the absence of leadership, strategic direction and sustained investment. But that’s the potential downside. The upside is that consultancies are perfectly positioned to be change management specialists, helping their largest clients adopt the best new AI.
In Fast-evolving AI Markets, Platform Alignment Determines Who Keeps the Customer
/by Patrick Heffernan, Practice Manager and Principal AnalystThe speed of technology change and challenges adapting to business model changes drive the importance of platforms. The rapid developments in AI, most recently with agentic solutions, illustrate how being a platform company enables vendors to maintain a solutioning role even as technology evolves, and new participants become critical in the eyes of customers. Agentic solutions have also created myriad ways for companies to sustain their business models, acting as a conduit between end customers and the changing vendor landscape.