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/by Patrick Heffernan, Practice Manager and Principal AnalystFrom Products to Digital on Demand and ProEdge We reported this time last year that PwC Products completely shifted from being an old-school, white-shoe, tax- and audit-focused professional services firm from the previous age of the Big Eight to being a business solutions provider, with those “solutions” including SaaS, managed services and platforms. Now the […]
The state of crowdsourcing
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/by Bozhidar Hristov, Principal Analyst‘Leaders Wanted — Masters of Change at a Moment of Truth’ Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) recent virtual event to introduce its Accenture Technology Vision 2021 kicked off with a quick recap of the socioeconomic headwinds of 2020. These headwinds include four new concerns facing people personally and professionally: an increasing global population driving a need for […]
Who’s there?: The rise of multienterprise business networks
/by TBRNot everything about business is technology, but every business has to leverage technology everywhere Over the last few years, executives discussed redesigning their businesses for the safe, secure and accurate flow of actionable data with as little human involvement and oversight as possible, a change Google describes as removing the “human toil” from economic activity. […]
Complexity and trust: EY’s evolving approach to risk
/by Patrick Heffernan, Practice Manager and Principal AnalystInternal risk professionals may have the best internal intelligence Setting the stage for changes at EY and in the broader market, Frank Leenders, EY’s Digital & Innovation lead based in the Netherlands, explained that the firm helps clients “reframe the future” and focus on “trusted transformation,” which comes through six different lenses: Investor Trust, Organizational […]
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Partnership with Palantir further unlocks IBM’s AI value
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EY Blockchain Asia: The revolution starts now
/by Patrick Heffernan, Practice Manager and Principal AnalystEY’s blockchain world EY’s Asia-Pacific Blockchain Summit started with the firm’s Global Blockchain leader, Paul Brody, making three clear points. First, EY is committed to China and to the region, seeing huge potential for blockchain growth. Second, EY is committed to public blockchain as the long-term solution for most business and governments. Third, Brody’s concept […]
IBM unveils 5-year full-stack quantum road map
/by adminIBM’s quantum road map includes dynamic circuits in 2022 IBM (NYSE: IBM) spent the second half of the 2010s laying the foundation for its quantum business. This foundation predominantly focused on hardware development and hardening until the available quantum systems at IBM supported more sophisticated software capabilities. In the 2020s, IBM is now able to […]
Government stimulus and enterprise digital transformation will accelerate 5G deployments
/by Michael Soper, Senior AnalystGovernment stimulus will accelerate 5G rollouts An increasing number of governments worldwide are becoming directly and/or indirectly involved in ensuring new technologies, such as 5G, are widely deployed in their respective countries. This spend is, in many cases, tied to economic recovery packages to counter the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and is being justified […]