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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused 1.6 million deaths in the U.S. as of this writing. While death rates are falling, the physical and mental consequences for individual health outcomes will continue for decades. Long COVID-19 symptoms might last a lifetime, while much remains unknown about longer- term health effects. As was the rest of the society, the U.S. healthcare system was unprepared for the rapid change in demand for care, hospital beds, equipment and personal protective equipment (PPE). The industry is making changes to respond to the disease and to accommodate the increasing demand for healthcare services. Digital transformation and IT services are helping stakeholders in all parts of the healthcare ecosystem deal with the present and be future ready.

As businesses are becoming software and data-driven, they need an infrastructure base that can adapt to the changing market conditions, be managed as a hybrid model and to always be accessible. Most data center outsourcing engagements now have elements of private/hybrid cloud and intuitive cloud management and cognitive platforms enablement.

With vehicles becoming more software oriented, from being hardware oriented, and digital thread use gaining traction in R&D, enterprises can benefit from using a single source of data. Thus, a product lifecycle management (PLM) solution should be clearly explained to software developers by mechanical and electrical engineers. Accordingly, stakeholders in the U.S. are exploring options for driving the value proposition through the convergence of PLM, service lifecycle management (SLM) and application lifecycle management (ALM) in smart manufacturing in North America.

The U.S. insurance industry, like other regions, continues to face challenges pertaining to losses resulting from pandemic-related claims, climate change risks, rising operation costs, claims inflation, and cyberattacks. These are compounded by energy scarcity, rapid inflation, geopolitical tensions, increased need for operational readiness for regulatory changes, and changing customer expectations. The world has entered a new era that has become structurally different over the past 30 years.

Global enterprises are building new digital platforms to implement automation solutions that can replicate human action and eliminate employee routine tasks to achieve higher outcomes across industry verticals. Automation creates a new paradigm of people, processes and technology collaboration that complements and enhances business outcomes.

Intelligent automation is now a mainstream technology spanning across enterprise portfolios. The evolution of RPA platforms in the past decade has been astounding, and the technology is now a vital constituent for driving digital business transformation. Core RPA characteristics are being integrated into platforms for building advanced products and capabilities. These platforms converge proprietary capabilities, emerging technologies and third-party solutions to develop a unique value proposition. This continuously evolving category acts as a differentiator and is one of the significant developments in the software vendor market.

In today’s world, to enable key business initiatives, cloud adoption plays a central and leading role in ensuring enterprise continuity. Enterprises are dependent on IT’s ability to deliver technology and solutions that provide differentiation in the market. The public cloud service market continues to grow as observed in previous years. This is mainly due to the acceleration of digital business transformation programs undertaken by enterprises to grow their businesses and improve customer experience (CX). Cloud migration and application modernization represent the leading enterprise initiatives. Data and analytics come third on the priority list, with cloud governance interest increasing in enterprises.

This ISG Public Sector Provider Lens™ research study examines public cloud service providers that develop, enable and deliver capabilities needed by these public sector organizations in the U.S. as they work to improve operations, reduce costs, address digital change, and improve their ability to serve constituencies and internal users alike.

The banking industry has been experiencing major shifts globally, driven by emerging technologies, innovations triggered by the COVID-19-induced movement restrictions, changes in consumers’ preferences and behaviors, and the increasing regulations in the industry. The adoption of the net-zero approach and emerging enterprise-level risk management and compliance requirements are also driving banks to change their strategies and businessoperating models.

As the contact center industry is rapidly evolving to address future consumers’ needs, businesses are beginning to realize the need for new technologies and operating models. Accelerating transformation has become a priority for all businesses. There has been a drastic change in the business approach in the last 30 months, and new trends, which are redefining this industry, are emerging.

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the consumption of over-thetop (OTT) platforms, further accelerating the disruption of the well-established media and entertainment business ecosystem. In addition to streaming new content, many OTT players act as distributors, pooling content from different media companies and offering it to their customers seamlessly. End users in this rapidly developing ecosystem will require robust content management systems that automate the content supply chain and royalty rights without disrupting the quality of experience (QoE) of their customers.

After adapting to the changes brought upon by the pandemic in the last two years, enterprise clients in the U.S. are reassessing their strategies for transforming their workplaces. The Microsoft Future of Work study 2022 shows that many enterprises in the region are now embracing hybrid work models while maintaining the post-COVID norms.