Welcome to the inaugural AVANT “6-12 Report,” developed by AVANT Research & Analytics with the assistance of technical teams within AVANT Communications, and backed by a wealth of data secured by AVANT in our normal course of business, our own primary research of end customers (AVANT State of Disruption Study) and Trusted Advisors (Cloud Channel Survey), plus other reputable industries sources. Our reports will focus on today’s most disruptive technologies, where the pace of change is rapid. These companies or technologies, which may have been relatively anonymous just a few years ago, have now emerged as highly viable solutions to resolve the business needs that led to their creation. They have, in effect, disrupted the IT landscape, which is well known for its accelerating pace of change and innovation. The 6-12 Report is designed to provide enterprise technology leaders with a contemporary and rel- evant overview of the featured subject for the next six to 12 months. Each subject is selected based on its opportunity for adopting companies to realize competitive advantages within their particular industry, market space, or company size. Our Mission AVANT enables Trusted Advisors (agents, VARs, MSPs, consultants and similar channel partners) to support their business customers with IT technology decisions, with a specialization in disruptive technologies and solutions. We accomplish this with our: • AVANT Technical Specialists that study the ins and outs of the latest IT technologies • AVANT Assessment Data collected during thousands of customer assessments and resulting customer decisions • AVANT Primary Research of both customers and trusted advisors, to inform our decision making process • AVANT PATHFINDER an IT Decision Making tool and repository of AVANT’s market intelligence, allowing for comparative searches and intelligent search to help (1 minute video of the Pathfinder) • AVANT Analysts to conduct research and analyze data for in-depth analysis 3 Copyright © 2019 AVANT Communications, Inc.