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Service Buyer's Guides

Don't write an RFP from scratch. Use our data-driven guides to scope projects, benchmark pricing, and avoid "consultingware."

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Cross-Cutting

The Unvarnished Truth About Strategic Consulting. What to pay, what to demand, and how to avoid the 'Slide Deck to Nowhere'.

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Your cloud bill is out of control. You need FinOps that actually cuts costs—not just dashboards that show you how much you're bleeding.

Stop paying 3x more for cloud than on-prem. Get a data-driven roadmap to eliminate waste and unlock cloud-native economics.

60% of K8s migrations fail. We analyzed 50+ companies to find the 10 specialists who get it right.

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Stop Buying 'Zero Trust' Tools. Start Building a Zero Trust Strategy. A CISO's guide to identity-centric security.

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Stop Drowning Your Developers in Ops Work. Build a Golden Path to Production.

Breaking changes kill APIs. We analyzed 50+ companies to find the 10 that get versioning right.

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The brutal truth about migrating 40-year-old COBOL: Why 'Lift-and-Shift to Java' fails 60% of the time, and what actually works.

Our research team publishes new buyer's guides weekly. Request a specific topic and we'll prioritize it.