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  • Accenture launches mobile wallet platform for businesses

    Accenture is extending its digital payments services with features integrating "big data" analytics capabilities and recommendation tools to allow its clients to build personalized, mobile e-commerce applications.

    Written by Marc Ferranti24 Feb. 14 12:55
  • How to Make Your Enterprise as Agile as a Startup

    The accepted wisdom is that startups are agile and innovative and large enterprises are followers. But these six IT trends may be changing all that, giving large enterprises the capability to compete as innovators.

    Written by Thor Olavsrud28 Jan. 14 22:53
  • How to ensure the ROI of your analytics implementation

    Although companies are increasingly investing in analytic capabilities, many fail
    to see a positive impact on the bottom-line. The good news is proven tactics exist to help businesses get it right. Here's how to overcome the five main challenges to achieving ROI from an analytics implementation.

    Written by Sajid Usman, global managing director for technology, Accenture Analytics15 Oct. 13 21:55
  • New SAP-Accenture partnership will give customers one throat to choke

    Long-time partners SAP and Accenture are deepening their relationship with a new offering that calls for Accenture to serve as a single point of contact on projects involving SAP's HANA in-memory database platform and Accenture's own intellectual property.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus05 Sept. 13 16:37
  • COBOL-based system for $160 billion pension fund is a political football

    A COBOL (common business oriented language)-based system used to support New York's US$160 billion state pension fund has become the subject of controversy, with some officials claiming it poses a potential security risk and others defending it as "battle-tested," albeit set to be replaced.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus27 Aug. 13 20:01
  • The business end of IT

    Keeping the customer front and centre has been at the heart of Foxtel’s IT strategy since the early days, says CIO Robyn Elliott.

    Written by Nadia Cameron11 June 13 13:35
  • CMOs and CIOs: Can this relationship be saved?

    A new report from the CMO Council and Accenture on the strategic relations between CIOs and CMOs offers a grim outlook: "Marketing and IT executives do not believe they are highly effective partners, as they struggle to achieve common goals in the race to adopt and keep pace with rapidly evolving digital marketing capabilities," notes the report.

    Written by Thomas Wailgum05 Oct. 10 03:21