Business & Technologies

Research and insights centered around business functions – plus the trends and enabling technologies changing the landscape.

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Business Functions, Meet AI


Whether it’s your customer experience, sales engagement, product information management or even your finance and accounting function, AI is shaking up known processes, technologies, and ways of working. We provide comprehensive research across critical business functions and technology domains, sharing insights to drive organizational performance.

As you seek to optimize customer journeys and revolutionize workplace collaboration, streamline financial operations and maximize revenue potential, ISG Research delivers actionable intelligence on the technologies and strategies that matter most. Our business technology research encompasses human capital management, supply chain optimization, and digital business capabilities – the backbone of modern enterprise operations.

Leverage our expertise to identify new opportunities to create efficiencies and savings, implement innovative solutions and create sustainable value with AI across your organization's most essential functions.

Areas of Expertise

  • Customers & CX

  • Digital Business & Workplace

  • Employees & HCM

  • Office of Finance

  • Office of Revenue

  • Supply Chain & Operations

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Enterprises leverage our independent research and evaluation to select the right business and technology service partners. Our data-backed insights and advisory expertise support informed decision-making across IT and BPO technologies. To maintain our independence, provider participation in our research evaluations is always free.

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Software Market Intelligence

Software Market Intelligence

Business technology today relies on software. ISG's comprehensive software research and advisory services help enterprises navigate the software landscape and select optimal solutions. We also assist software and service providers in identifying market opportunities and enhancing competitive positioning. Our expertise delivers research-backed insights, ratings and rankings that guide strategic decisions across the software economy, with provider participation always free.

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Access to all of ISG Research with flexible subscription credits for custom research initiatives, tailored market analysis and specialized intelligence projects.

 

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Analyst Perspectives

Analyst Perspectives

Midsize Enterprises Need a Technology Update

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Analyst Perspectives

Silos in HR, Sales and Finance for Total Rewards Strategy

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Analyst Perspectives

The Consequences of AI-Induced Head Count Reduction for Contact...

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Analyst Perspectives

HR Metrics That Matter: Why Your Turnover Rate Isn’t the Whole Story

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Making Back Office Apps Fun

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Analyst Perspectives

Forecast: Sunshine, With Clouds

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Report Plan and Calendar

January

PUBLISHED

Analyst Perspectives

February

UPCOMING

Analyst Perspectives

Buyers Guides

  • Field Service Management

March

UPCOMING

Analyst Perspectives

  • AI Agents as the New UI: What Happens to Your HR Stack?
  • Changing Roles Within the CC
  • The Death of Dashboards
  • Digital Process Reengineering Drives Better Performance
  • From Reqs to Relationships: Rethinking Recruiting Tech
  • The Growing Strategic Importance of Sales and Operations Planning
  • HR Data Governance: Build Trust Before Dashboards
  • What High Performing CROs Are Doing Differently with Their Tech Stack

Buyers Guides

April

UPCOMING

Analyst Perspectives

  • Future of CCaaS
  • WFM Meets AI: When Algorithms Run the Roster
  • Why “Can It Do X?” Is the Wrong HR Tech Question
  • You Want HR AI—But Your Data Says “Not Yet”

Buyers Guides

  • Supply Chain Planning

Research Experts

Matthew Brown

Matthew Brown

Director of Research

Keith Dawson

Keith Dawson

Director of Research

Namratha Dharshan

Namratha Dharshan

Chief Business Leader – ISG India Research

Robert Kugel

Robert Kugel

Executive Director
Business Research

Barika Pace

Barika Pace

Director of Research
Office of Revenue

Mark Smith

Mark Smith

Partner, Head of Software Research

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