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What Makes IT Operations More Effective?

When I started working with IT organizations, there were two centers of power: the VP of Applications and the VP of Operations. The exception, of course, was with...

Modern Companies Need a Customer Data Platform: Build or Buy?

In case you haven’t already been sold on the vision and promise of a customer data platform (CDP) by the two dozen-plus vendors pitching it, here is...

Building a Less Fragile, More Sustainable IT

The COVID crisis has challenged everyone involved in keeping their organizations running. CIOs and their teams clearly have been on the front lines and have shown us...

COVID-19: A Call for AI Powered Supply Chain Decision Making

“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times...” Charles Dickens could have very well said this about COVID-19. The pandemic is causing some strange...

The Data Center Strategy Rethought

By Myles Suer A lot of companies are focused on products and services that make it easier for organizations to build datacenters and implement internal, private clouds. The...

The Future of Data Science: From Data Cleansing to Schema Standardization

Quality data beats quality algorithms - this simple fact underscores the problem all data scientists know too well. Without high-quality data, their models are effectively useless. Unfortunately, their...

Managing IT During a Pandemic

Many midsize and enterprise companies are now tossing their business continuity plans out the window. Most companies can handle the one or two-day closures from a major storm or other natural disaster...

Keeping Machine Learning Algorithms Humble and Honest in the ‘Ethics-First’ Era

By Davide Zilli, Client Services Director at Mind Foundry Today in so many industries, from manufacturing and life sciences to financial services and retail, we rely on algorithms...

The Deepening Data Center Talent Crisis: Reasons and Remedies

This contributed article was written by David Coe, Senior Vice President of Strategic Programs at Orion Talent 2020 marks the start of a new decade but not the...

Three Tactics Hi-Tech Companies Can Leverage to Drive Growth

                The digital era brought tech-savvy consumers that expect newer versions at accelerated rates without compromising on the end-user experience. This puts pressure on the hi-tech industry to continuously offer new or upgraded...

Business Analytics in 2020: From BI to AI

Collectively, humans now generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data per day. The data we generate in a single year dwarfs every metric ever created between 2015...

Data Analytics: Operating with New Agility

This is the sixth article in a series from Accenture Applied Intelligence on Data Science Transformation. It focuses on how to ensure that data science can deliver...

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