When Accenture LLP advises its clients to move fast and acquire technologies for continuous innovation, it also follows its own advice. Since August, Accenture has made 17 acquisitions or investments, which included a number of consultancy firms and subsidiary businesses from major enterprises, such as SAP SE and Symantec Corp. Accenture’s pursuit of new technologies ...

Corporate executives think tech needs to be more human-centric, and Accenture LLP is more than happy to provide research space where that can happen. In Accenture’s newly released “Technology Vision 2020: We, The Post-Digital People,” the consulting firm found that 76% of executives surveyed believed that organizations needed to re-engineer experiences that bring technology and ...

There is no “tech-lash” or widespread pushback against technology by consumers. In fact, more than 50% of consumers say tech is ingrained in daily life and nearly 20% believe that it has become an extension of themselves. Instead, there is a looming “tech-clash,” a situation where businesses continue to rely on old models to deploy new technology ...

Before running cloud operations for major technology companies such as Dell Technologies Inc., RMS Computer Corp., and Qualys Inc., Syamla Bandla learned a very important skill early in her career: She learned how to move fast. Starting with her role as a lead network engineer at Fidelity Investments in 2001, Bandla (pictured) was responsible for security, ...

A survey last year by a software intelligence company revealed that three out of four chief information officers felt that complexity in the enterprise cloud had made information technology way too hard to manage. Today, IBM Corp. took steps to address that issue where it involved storage. The company announced a new family of IBM ...

Among the many announcements from Cisco Live in Barcelona was the news that Cisco System Inc. would release Terraform support for application-centric infrastructure, or ACI. This recent move by Cisco, in concert with HashiCorp Inc., highlighted a continued need for solutions to bring up and configure ACI in a muticloud world. Whether on-premises or in ...

In the 1960s, the Cuban cartoonist Antonio Prohías wrote a comic strip for Mad magazine called “Spy vs. Spy.” It featured one character dressed in white and one in black who were continually at war with each other, inflicting harm and alternating between victory and defeat. At the time, Prohías’ cartoon was a commentary on the ...

Worldwide spending on customer relationship management software crossed the $48-billion mark over the past year. However, a recent survey conducted by Whatfix found that 40% of responding enterprises that didn’t regularly use CRM systems claimed that data entry was too time consuming, and nearly the same percentage needed more training. To address this issue, Whatfix ...

Some companies steadily build toward an initial public offering, while others stay private. Then there’s AppDynamics Inc. which called off its IPO practically at the last minute in 2017 when Cisco Systems Inc. dangled a check for $3.7 billion. What led Cisco to proffer an eyebrow-raising sum of money, more than twice the estimated IPO valuation, ...

The webpage for Cisco DevNet, the developer program for Cisco Systems Inc., could easily be mistaken for a tutorial on key elements of the computing world in general. Developers can explore DevNet’s various “platforms,” ranging from the “internet of things,” cloud and networking to security, mobility, the data center, open source, and much more. It’s ...