Most enterprises worldwide have seen little choice outside of refactoring to stay competitive amidst supply chain disruptions and COVID-induced changes. For Vodafone Kabel Deutschland GmbH, the largest cable television operator in Germany, that digital transformation was thorough, even leading to changing customer preferences as a result. “Not only since the recent uncertainties, the telecom market is highly volatile, and ...

Calling data the 21st century’s predominant currency couldn’t be more accurate, as it governs multibillion-dollar corporate decisions driving unprecedented profits across several industries. However, data plays a role in society’s actual monetary and financial systems, helping organizations such as Western Union Financial Services Inc. with efficiency, practicality and value delivery as the arteries of global finance. ...

In the time since the inaugural Supercloud22 event last year, many industry insiders have pointed to improved collaboration between the big hyperscale cloud players as the key to supercloud flourishing. During this year’s Supercloud event, analysts dug deeper into such unique partnerships as Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure, as well as going in-depth into ...

Last year’s inaugural Supercloud event shed light on the accelerating popularity of multicloud infrastructures as a default enterprise standard and the eventual emergence of an eponymous supercloud paradigm. A major reason for organizations coming to terms with these trends is the unwavering data sprawl. Thus, a prominent part of dissecting the cloud-data intersection within this ...

As part of enterprise digital transformation, companies often have to take a few technologies and customize them to suit an intended set of business-critical use cases or end goals. But as these company-specific cloud tools advance in complexity, a trend is emerging where they fit the “supercloud paradigm.” An apt example of this is the ...

As the dust settles on the COVID pandemic, fewer industries were more affected than cruise ship operators. With customer experience now more important than ever, Royal Caribbean Group partnered with Cisco Systems Inc. to build applications that deliver consistent end-user value. “We have really worked hard to improve and remove friction from our guest vacation; we want ...

The global trend toward digital transformation doesn’t only improve supply chains and corporate bottom lines. It can also save lives and livelihoods. In recognizing this fact, E.design Insurance Co. Ltd. has tapped into cloud technologies to create “&e” (Andy), an automobile insurance system. “E.design, in collaboration with Accenture, sought to redefine the company’s mission, vision and values by ...

Humankind has made such a habit of using technology and barely notices how much better life has become over short timespans. Thankfully, literature is a window of collective insight and experience shedding light on things that, by themselves, often seem mundane. The book “Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future“ ...

A welcome trend that’s become increasingly evident at the recent re:Invent conference is the cloud transformation of healthcare service providers. In perhaps the widest-reaching example yet, Baptist Health South Florida has worked with Accenture to infuse cloud technologies across its 11 hospitals. “Baptist started a digital transformation initiative about three years ago,” said Tony Ambrozie (pictured, right), ...

An ongoing theme at the re:Invent conference was the increasing volume of public sector investment in the public cloud. Agencies all over the U.S. now see the cloud’s benefits in areas like innovation, service delivery, research and data protection; and North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services adds to that growing list. “We started ...