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Data Viewpoint

The self-insured market is beginning to realize ~$600 billion in opportunities

Self-insured healthcare is transforming fast, creating a $600B market across five cost–wellness employer archetypes.

Point of View

Break your operating model before it breaks you

Traditional models aren’t failing at execution—they’re failing at logic. It’s time to build for complexity, speed, and autonomy.

Point of View

Sustainability forces the financial sector toward technology: adapt and mitigate

BFSI must simultaneously adapt to and mitigate the climate and broader sustainability emergency.

Point of View

Rewiring retail and CPG: 2025 CIO agenda for resilience, relevance, and reinvention

RCG faces price-sensitive yet principle-driven buyers—CIOs need bold, multifaceted agendas to stay ahead.

Data Viewpoint

Rewiring engineering R&D innovation with advancements in technology

Technology has become a strategic enabler for growth, resilience, and competitive advantage across ER&D services.

Highlight Report

Five Sigma aims to disrupt insurance with smarter AI claims tech

Five Sigma offers insurers a low-disruption path to AI-powered, scalable claims modernization.

Highlight Report

Prepare for lower cost, democratized insight—Inflection AI’s agents show the way

Agentic AI changes how enterprises must access and act on data - offering the democratization of insight while cutting data debt.

Point of View

HCLTech is supercharging BFSI with service-led platform outsourcing and AI

HCLTech is making bold moves in BFSI transformation, embedding AI and automation across banking, insurance, wealth, BPO, and FCC.

Highlight Report

Time to connect the data dots: Databricks pushes AI-integrated platform for enterprises

A broader market shift is underway, with enterprises increasingly integrating AI directly into their core data platforms.

Highlight Report

Driving the future: How AI and Hitachi Digital Services keep Penske’s fleet on the road

Penske & Hitachi Digital integrate AI-powered Proactive Diagnostics & Guided Repair to transform fleet operations.

Highlight Report

Insurers cannot continue to ignore decades of technical and process debt

Mounting technical and process debt—estimated at $200 billion by HFS Research—is no longer sustainable for the insurance industry.

Highlight Report

Snowflake and Microsoft arm up to make AI enterprise-ready via integrated data platforms

AI is transitioning from an experimental capability to a standardized commercial functionality within technology stacks.

Point of View

Championships start with player health—make advanced health tech your MVP

In the sports industry, the product is the player, and leaders must protect their athletes at all costs.

Market Impact Report

The next era of commercial insurance: Faster, smarter, and embedded

Examines the transformation of commercial insurance amid evolving risks, legacy constraints, and a critical need for agility and digital integration.

Highlight Report

IBM adds DataStax to support your Generative Enterprise foundations

IBM’s move to acquire DataStax is a bold bet on the value of fixing a big enterprise AI bottle neck: unstructured data.

Highlight Report

Bridging the analytics-BPO divide: How WNS must integrate Kipi.ai for real impact

WNS now holds a powerful card, but its success will be measured by how well it enables enterprises to operationalize analytics.

Highlight Report

Infosys’ AI and policy migration solutions target insurance technical and data debt

Infosys' XtractEdge and IPMS help insurers tackle legacy system debt, automate workflows, and accelerate AI-driven policy migration.

Highlight Report

From compliance to competitive edge: TechM’s ESG differentiator in insurance

Tech Mahindra embeds AI-driven ESG into insurance, transforming compliance into a competitive advantage with automation and cloud solutions.

Challenger Series

HFS Challenger: DataArt

DataArt, a provider of app development, data analytics, and cloud migration, has steadily gained recognition in the IT services industry.

Point of View

The Next Frontier: Evolving business services into a growth engine

GBS moves from efficiency driver to trusted growth enabler.

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