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Outcome‑Based Pricing In IT Sustainability Services: What Buyers Need To Know

Abhijit Sunil 7 days ago
Outcome‑based pricing links a portion of provider fees to clearly defined measurable results rather than effort or time spent. For IT sustainability services, those outcomes are typically financial (cost reduction, efficiency gains) or environmental (carbon reduction, energy savings, audit‑ready compliance outputs). Unlike time‑and‑materials or fixed‑fee models, this approach shifts delivery risk to the provider and […]
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Anthropic’s Pricing Shift Puts AI Consumption Risk Back On Customers

Tracy Woo August 12, 2026
Back in May of this year, Anthropic announced changes to its pricing model. Its original fixed-fee, per-seat subscription model was replaced with one that separates platform access from AI consumption. Customers still pay for access, but usage is now metered and billed separately based on token consumption. Under the previous model, customers were split into […]
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The Future Of AppSec May Be Autonomous, But The Present Is Surprisingly Practical

Janet Worthington July 29, 2026
AI is no longer a future feature in application security; it is rapidly becoming a core part of how application security (AppSec) tools identify, prioritize, and remediate risk. Yet despite aggressive vendor investment, adoption remains constrained by trust concerns, questions about value, and uncertainty about pricing models. In our new report, The State Of Artificial […]
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AI Is Redefining BPO: Trends (Re-)Shaping The Industry

Jeffrey Rajamani July 29, 2026
For years, business process outsourcing (BPO) ran on a familiar playbook: labor arbitrage, process standardization, and global delivery. That era is rapidly slipping into oblivion. Our latest research on the BPO market points to a deeper shift — AI isn’t just changing how efficiently providers deliver but how they create value, how clients consume services, […]
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Microsoft’s Project Perception Announcement And How To Implement It Right

Allie Mellen July 27, 2026
Today, Microsoft announced Project Perception: a series of red, blue, and green team agents designed to be coordinated together in an agentic architecture to evaluate infrastructure and close gaps as close to autonomously as possible. The red team agents find potential paths to compromise, the blue team agents prioritize and evaluate them, and the green […]
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Look Up: Your AI Voyage Depends On It

Srividya Sridharan July 27, 2026
AI adoption is accelerating, but too many organizations remain focused on deployments and efficiencies rather than customer value. Learn why the most successful AI adopters build customer-focused strategies that drive trust, differentiation, and business outcomes.
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Which AI Consulting Service Provider Is Best For You?

Ted Schadler July 9, 2026
We wrapped up a multimonth evaluation of 10 AI consulting service providers: Accenture, Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Capgemini, Deloitte, EY, IBM, KPMG, McKinsey & Company, and PwC. It’s available to Forrester clients as The Forrester Wave™: AI Consulting Services, Q2 2026. There are more than 10 AI consulting service providers, of course — […]