Commercial banks seriously need to up their digital game to meet the B2B needs of their customers
HFS conducted a significant deep-dive Horizons Study into the needs of commercial banks and the best IT and business process service providers to support them: HFS Horizons: The Best Service Providers for Commercial Banks, 2025. This report evaluates the capabilities of 22 service providers across the HFS commercial banking value chain based on a range of dimensions to understand the why, what, how, and so what of their service offerings.Read More
Back to drive the HFS sustainability talk track: Josh Matthews
We're delighted to announce that the analyst who made sustainably great... is back to MAKE SUSTAINABILITY GREAT AGAIN! Yes, folks, Joth Matthews has returned to the HFS analyst family!Read More
Can today’s service providers modernize manufacturers with their plethora of technology expertise?
HFS’ new Manufacturing Intelligent Operations Services Horizon report explores the capabilities of the leading service providers to help manufacturers achieve better visibility into their daily operations, make their supply chain more resilient, and adopt sustainability practices with evolving regulatory and compliance requirements.Read More
We’re entering the Third Phase of AI: Purposeful AI
Welcome to the Purposeful AI where humans set the goals and the boundaries, and your AI is empowered to deliver on the actions. This 'Third Phase of AI' follows from Foundational AI and Generative AI and is designed to make independent decisions – acting with autonomy within human-defined boundaries. Purposeful AI goes beyond a one-time-only assembly of rules of engagement. It will learn from its interactions and from prompts provided by humans to constantly improve its capabilities to action their desired outcomes in real-timeRead More
A modern-era lift and shift: Danske Bank seeks massive cost-to-income ratio improvement with the help of Infosys
As the IT services industry braces for a slowdown in 2023 with large deals taking eons to get completed, Infosys adds some renewed hope to ambitious service providers that big, meaty deals can still get thrashed out, with a 1,400 employee $450 million outsourcing engagement with Danske Bank.However, rather than basing a deal's value on tangible cost takeout from onshore–offshore employee displacement, firms like Danske have to look to other metrics to justify the cost. Those metrics are tied firmly to the technology and talent (aka “digital”) capabilities Infosys can bring to the table to make Danske a more innovative, efficient, competitive—and ultimately profitable bank.Read More
HFS launches large language search capability to revolutionize research access
HFS Research, the leading analyst firm focused on the autonomous enterprise, today unveiled the first analyst search capability based on Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) to search the HFS Web.Read More