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June 30, 2025Telecom operators face rising complexities from large-scale, always-on networks, rapid 5G expansion, hybrid infrastructures, and increasing customer expectations for zero downtime. Traditional tools such as ticketing and network management systems and siloed dashboards, while providing visibility, lag in agility and autonomy. This leads to frequent manual escalations, monitoring silos, and slower incident response, making this approach increasingly unsustainable over time. Systems of Execution (SoE) offer a powerful shift by autonomously detecting issues, making decisions, and acting in real time. For telecom, this translates to intelligent anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and self-healing networks, bringing a proactive approach to operations. By fusing AI-driven diagnostics, dynamic orchestration, and automation across the network, SoE minimize downtime, speed up resolution, and improve resource use. The payoff: stronger SLA performance, lower costs, and higher customer satisfaction. This Viewpoint unpacks how SoE are revolutionizing telecom operations, highlighting their unique architecture and value. It also provides a practical adoption roadmap for CIOs to drive transformation at scale.
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State of the Market
Semiconductor Engineering State of the Market 2025
June 30, 2025The semiconductor industry remains the backbone of digital innovation, from AI and cloud computing to autonomous vehicles and next-generation mobility. After a volatile 2023, the industry rebounded selectively in 2024 with strong growth in high-performance computing, AI accelerators, and advanced-node foundry services. However, this growth is uneven. While global leaders surged with cutting-edge R&D and close ties to hyperscalers, others struggled with legacy demand and geopolitical restrictions. Amid these shifts, the engineering segment of the semiconductor value chain is transforming. Generative AI, chiplet architecture, photonic-electronic co-design, and heterogeneous integration are rethinking their design and manufacturing strategies. Simultaneously, automotive and consumer Original Equipment Makers (OEMs) are increasing their internal silicon initiatives. Additionally, Global Capability Centers (GCCs) have emerged as pivotal hubs to scale innovation, access talent, and mitigate supply risks. This report serves as a comprehensive guide for stakeholders navigating the evolving semiconductor landscape. It offers a data-driven analysis of market dynamics, engineering outsourcing trends, provider positioning, and strategic imperatives for enterprises and suppliers.
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June 26, 2025With rapid digitization expanding the attack surface, the rise in sophisticated and state-sponsored cyber threats, and intensifying regulatory scrutiny on breach monitoring and reporting, demand for comprehensive Cyber Threat Detection and Response (CTDR) solutions continues to grow. In response to this demand, a broad range of technology providers now offer CTDR platforms tailored to diverse enterprise needs. Additionally, managed service providers deliver threat detection and response services through third-party platforms, proprietary solutions, or a hybrid of both. Regardless of the delivery model, whether in-house, managed, or hybrid, CTDR platforms serve as the foundation for threat visibility, investigation, and response. In this report, we provide an in-depth evaluation of enterprises’ CTDR postures, challenges, and investment priorities, based on a survey of enterprise customers using leading CTDR platforms. We also highlight evolving expectations and adoption dynamics in the CTDR space. Additionally, this report evaluates customer satisfaction across eight distinct parameters for 12 leading CTDR platform providers and provides an overview of their solution portfolios, helping enterprises navigate the evolving threat landscape and make informed decisions.
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June 09, 2025As enterprises strive for greater adaptability, autonomous execution, and continuous optimization, they are reimagining application development. Traditional approaches – focused on static requirements, linear workflows, and manual oversight – can no longer keep pace with real-time business demands. Development teams must now build systems that not only deliver features but also respond intelligently to change, act independently, and learn from every outcome. Systems of Execution (SoE) offer a new blueprint for application design – one that integrates AI, automation, event-driven architecture, and adaptive workflows to create intelligent, self-optimizing applications. By enabling real-time sensing, autonomous decision-making, and dynamic orchestration, SoE-ready applications fundamentally redefine enterprise responsiveness and resilience. This Viewpoint examines application development’s evolution in the context of SoE. It explores the architectural principles behind SoE-ready systems, the foundational investments enterprises must make, and real-world case studies demonstrating how leading organizations are unlocking value through agentic, context-aware applications. Scope Industry: agnostic Geography: global Contents In this viewpoint, we examine: SoE-ready application development The required technology investments A pragmatic roadmap for enterprise leaders to execute an SoE strategy How SoE enable future-proof, resilient, and intelligent enterprises
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May 19, 2025The Service Provider Health Check is a quarterly report assessing leading IT-BP and engineering providers’ financial and operational health. It equips enterprises with key insights for RFP evaluations, contract negotiations, and risk management. In this report, we cover 12 major providers and compare and analyze their growth, profitability, talent strategies, and cash flow utilization, helping enterprises navigate an evolving business landscape. The report addresses four key enterprise needs: a preliminary provider evaluation for RFPs, strategic insights to highlight how providers adapt to a shifting macroeconomic landscape, contract optimization to facilitate effective pricing and contract negotiations, and risk mitigation to enhance supplier risk assessments. Scope Insights in the report are structured into three sections: financial health, supplier organizational changes, and provider insights We cover 12 providers: Accenture, Capgemini, CGI, Cognizant, EPAM, HCLTech, Infosys, LTIMindtree, Mphasis, TCS, Tech Mahindra, and Wipro Metrics assessed include organic constant currency growth, operating margin, LTM attrition, headcount growth, return to shareholders, investments and capability building, and key leadership changes Contents In this report, we evaluate: The need for a comprehensive provider evaluation Providers’ relative health based on profitability, growth, talent strategy, and cash flow utilization Providers’ financial health and organizational changes
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Provider Compendium
Sustainable Engineering Services – Provider Compendium 2025
April 30, 2025This compendium profiles 17 leading sustainable engineering solutions providers. Their services include R&D for new sustainable products, smart charging solutions, and route optimization solutions across the engineering value chain. Each profile assesses the provider’s capabilities, case studies, investments, and strategic differentiators to help enterprises identify the right partners for digital industrial modernization. Scope Industry: ER&D and sustainability Geography: all Contents This report features detailed assessments, including profile overviews, key solutions, investment areas, and case studies of 17 providers that focus on sustainable engineering services.
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March 21, 2025AI’s impact on physical product engineering has been transformative, driving an evolution from traditionally manual processes to AI-driven automated workflows. Enterprises are adopting AI across the product life cycle to realize productivity gains, reduce overheads, and accelerate time to market. Additionally, AI is helping enhance physical products’ functionalities through features such as voice recognition, predictive analytics, and personalized user experiences. Physical AI is emerging as a new interest area where physical products are getting closer to autonomously perceiving, understanding, and dynamically interacting with the world. With that, technology giants such as Meta and Amazon are foraying into robotics and autonomous systems. Furthermore, fostering expertise across areas such as AI hardware, edge computing, sensor technologies, and advanced simulation platforms is becoming essential across the wider set of industries. In this Viewpoint, we explore strategic imperatives such as infrastructure investments, talent upskilling, and ecosystem partnerships that enterprises should adopt to thrive in such an environment. Finally, it explores providers' roles in enabling enterprises to seamlessly adopt AI as a core competency and realize substantial benefits in the current environment. Scope All industries and geographies Contents In this report, we examine: AI’s impact on the physical product engineering value chain AI-driven enhancement of product capabilities Physical AI’s evolution to autonomously create products Engineering service providers’ role to support enterprises in this evolution
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Provider Compendium
Semiconductor Engineering Services – Provider Compendium 2025
March 06, 2025The increasing adoption of AI, the Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G is significantly driving Engineering Research and Development (ER&D) investments in the semiconductor industry. Advances in semiconductor technologies, such as smaller node sizes, innovative materials, AI-enabled chipsets, custom-designed chips, advanced packaging techniques, and emerging chip architectures, are accelerating innovation. Companies are also leveraging generative AI to enhance semiconductor engineering. However, semiconductor enterprises struggle with meeting evolving customer demands and managing increased complexities in the value chain due to design changes and complex validation procedures. Providers in the semiconductor engineering industry are vital in addressing these challenges. They support fabless companies, integrated device manufacturers, electronic design automation tool providers, and foundries. In this report, we assess 19 semiconductor engineering services providers’ capabilities and offerings. The report highlights their key strengths and limitations regarding enterprise sourcing considerations. Scope Industry: ER&D Geography: global This assessment is based on Everest Group’s RFI process for the calendar year 2025, interactions with leading providers, client reference checks, and an ongoing analysis of the engineering services market. Contents In this report, we: Examine the semiconductor engineering services landscape Compare providers’ key strengths and limitations Assess each provider’s key solutions and investments Membership(s) Engineering Research and Development Sourcing and Vendor Management
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Jan. 16, 2025In the era of rapidly evolving consumer preferences, rapid technology advances, and increased environmental consciousness, sustainability has become vital for engineering firms. In response, companies have been altering their product value chains and processes to align them with essential sustainability goals. Companies are significantly spending their R&D budgets on sustainability, from developing electric vehicles and alternative fuels to changing engineering designs to make circular products. What began as sustainability in engineering has now evolved into engineering for sustainability. In this sustainability endeavor, enterprises seek providers’ support to implement greener engineering strategies. These providers offer innovative product development, process engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions, helping enterprises launch sustainable products, enhance operational efficiency, reduce emissions, and achieve broader sustainability goals. In this report, we examine the current sustainable engineering services market, highlighting trends and key drivers shaping demand-supply dynamics. The report analyzes 17 sustainable engineering service providers based on their service focus, key IP/solutions, domain investments, and demonstrated market proof points. Scope All industries and geographies This assessment is based on Everest Group’s annual RFI process for the calendar year 2024, interactions with leading sustainable engineering service providers, client reference checks, and an ongoing analysis of the sustainability services market Contents In this report, we: Explore the sustainable engineering services market Examine key factors and technologies shaping the sustainable engineering services market Analyze buyer adoption trends Assess sustainable engineering service providers’ capabilities Membership(s) Engineering Research and Development Sustainability Technology and Services Sourcing and Vendor Management
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Viewpoint
Engineering R&D (ER&D) Outlook for 2025
Jan. 10, 2025In 2024, enterprises faced economic headwinds from recessionary pressures, inflation, high interest rates, and geopolitical tensions impacting supply chains. Despite these challenges, organizations showed resilience by focusing on cost control, value realization, and technology adoption to enhance productivity. Key Engineering and R&D (ER&D) growth drivers included IoT, connected ecosystems, AI augmentation, and the demand for intelligent manufacturing and software-defined solutions. There were indications of a market recovery toward the end of 2024 due to the reduction in interest rates and the AI boom. The surge in Global Capability Centers (GCCs) and their shift from backend offices to R&D hubs also contributed to the ER&D growth momentum. In this report, we examine key ER&D verticals and horizontal themes, such as the rise of GCCs, AI, and manufacturing, that will influence enterprise investment priorities in 2025. Scope Industry: ER&D Geography: global Contents This research presents Everest Group’s view on key macroeconomic and technology trends shaping spending and outsourcing in the ER&D industry in 2025. Membership(s) Engineering Research and Development Sourcing and Vendor Management
