· Focus on European clients, enabling them to become global leaders
· Strengthening of innovative IP services focused on digitalization, regulation and analytics
· Expansion of partner ecosystem
· Proven BearingPoint executives in new leadership roles...

Swinburne University in Melbourne and global IT and consulting firm Wipro have established the institution`s first professorial chair of artificial intelligence to lead the further translational research into the field..

Putting flesh on the bones of technological change in auditing begins with talking to the people who will affect that change—and those most affected by it. To that end, one of the most important findings of the Forbes Insights/KPMG report “Audit 2025” is that four in five respondents—80%—say auditors should use bigger samples and more sophisticated technologies for gathering data and performing analysis in their daily work..

Machine learning systems can be trained to recognize emotional expressions from images of human faces, with a high degree of accuracy in many cases. However, implementation can be a complex and difficult task. The technology is at a relatively early stage. High quality datasets can be hard to find. And there are various pitfalls to avoid when designing new systems..

Accountancy giant PwC has launched a scheme that allows some new recruits to work the hours they want. PwC says the aim is to attract skilled people who don`t want to be tied to traditional 9-to-5 hours..

Big Four firm EY have appointed two new members, Christabel Cowling and Sue Dawe, to its UK Board, meaning five out of the ten positions are now held by women..

Read the latest edition of the Pulse of Fintech — a biannual report highlighting key activities and trends within the fintech market globally and in key regions around the world..

Four in five executives around the world (84%) report having blockchain initiatives underway, with a quarter of these having fully live blockchain implementations or pilot projects running. But despite the potential that blockchain holds, regulatory uncertainty and trust remain the biggest barriers to wider business adoption..

Blockchain is fundamentally a technology of trust, but transformative possibilities to benefit society more broadly are emerging. One exciting area of blockchain’s potential is helping capitalise on the $12 trillion opportunity of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)..

The new upstream methods are as expected triggering novel business models and altering the value chain. For instance, contractors and service providers are consolidating vertically to expand their offerings to provide proprietary, all-in-one solutions. In due time, legacy rig fleets will be rationalized and integrated across a holistic automation platform, which, in turn, will stoke industry demand for open systems architecture..

KPMG’s reverse mentoring scheme aims to enable those working at more senior levels to truly understand the challenges those from diverse backgrounds face in the workplace. How is the scheme going so far and what impact will it have on the culture at KPMG?.

Operational data recovery is often overlooked for disaster recovery, but it`s probably more important. If your organisation`s approach to everyday data recovery is "wing it," you`re doing it wrong..

When you`re selling the big cloud dream, it pays to come clean to customers about how and why things sometimes go pain fully wrong.

The customer-centric organisations of today are already keenly aware of the digital revolution, which has transformed conventional business models while empowering customers. Over the last decade, customer experience (CX) has drastically changed with the introduction of several opportunities for customers to interact, engage and transact with brands at their convenience across multiple channels..

Specialist Firm will Broaden Cognizant`s Digital Transformation Portfolio in India and Australia.

Big Innovation Centre and Deep Knowledge Analytics form strategic partnership to produce regular landscape overviews of UK Innovation Ecosystem and DeepTech industries.

Firm identifies a series of barriers that the growing medtech industry will need to address and says interoperability is the hardest..

The research firm believes that AI will end up in everyone`s hands sooner than we think..

Let’s take a closer look at five key trends..... Paul Cunningham, Chief Marketing Officer, Unify.

The investment further strengthens the current partnership and enables Insignary to meet the growing demand for its services in the EU, the US and Asia.

Walk down the main street in Noto, in south-eastern Sicily, and you’d be forgiven for thinking you’re in one of the Baroque capitals of Europe, not a relatively modest city of just 24,000 people, writes Fiona Czerniawska of Source Global Research.

Federal IT managers know it’s all about the data. It has the ability to transform the way Feds approach tasks from data entry to cybersecurity, and it stands to revolutionize constituent service and mission success..

Women today account for only 5.2 percent of the CEOs of S&P 500 companies and slightly more than 21 percent of their board seats. Why have these percentages remained virtually unchanged over the past several years? It’s not due to a lack of desire. A recent KPMG study found that the majority of women aspire to hold top leadership and board roles..

If you’re finding the job market a bit tight these days, you must not be in cybersecurity. As hackers ramp up attacks with increasingly sophisticated methods and tools that are readily available for purchase on the dark web, the "white hats" need all the help they can get..

As governments transform to better serve tech-savvy citizens, the need to modernize systems is paramount.

Today’s digital world has created new ways to keep us all informed and safe while automating our daily lives. Our phones send us alerts about weather hazards, traffic issues and lost children. We trust these systems since we have no reason not to — but that trust has been tested before..

A new artificial intelligence white paper, compiled by experts from industry, academia and politics, outlines the opportunities and challenges that AI presents for more efficient, effective and productive public services.

Award secures ISG`s role helping UK public sector drive cost savings for taxpayers.

Prentiss Donohue, senior vice president, professional services, OpenText outlines in Information Age the seven key steps to help AI and machine learning deliver on its full potential..

Technological changes will almost always precede cultural adjustments within an organization. To succeed, banks and credit unions must support the elimination of silos, be willing to embrace risk, and have an obsessive focus on the needs of the consumer..

We’ve talked before on these pages about the merits and limitations of sub-brands. While they may help to raise awareness of new capabilities, they may also underline that the sub-brand isn’t core to what the firm does. Nowhere is that debate more pressing than in a discussion about digital sub-brands. What’s next for those firms with separate digital sub-brands, if digital is becoming fundamental to everything clients do? - writes Alison Huntington of Source Global Research...

In a previous blog post we talked about the growing importance of artificial intelligence to companies’ operations, and the need for organizations to think bigger about how they can use AI to drive the fundamental transformation of key business processes to unlock exponentially greater value. In this post, we address another big question executives ask us: How do we get started using AI?...

Technology and what it will do to change how we work is the driving obsession of the moment. The truth is that nobody knows for sure what will happen – the only certainty is uncertainty. How then should we plan for the jobs that don’t yet exist?.

Two newly published patent applications from Microsoft suggest that the software giant is looking at the use of trusted execution environments, or TEEs, within its blockchain offerings. According to information gathered from two filings published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Thursday, a TEE is specified to store "a pre-determined type of blockchain or other security protocol code" in a "validation node.".

Digital customer experience technology has changed dramatically in the last four or five years. In 2014, in its first Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) Wave, Forrester cited three core capabilities which set DXPs apart: content, commerce and data..

Microsoft has never been backward in making global recommendations for improved cybersecurity. Its latest recommendations come in a paper titled, Cybersecurity Policy Framework -- A practical guide to the development of national cybersecurity policy. Its purpose is nothing short of providing a framework that all nations can follow in the formulation of their own national cybersecurity policies..

KPMG continues to build its Thames Valley and South Coast Corporate Finance team with its latest recruit of Gemma Legg. She joins the team as corporate finance associate director, based in Reading. A winner of the South East Young Dealmaker of the Year award, Legg was previously based at Grant Thornton..

The impact of technology on work has seen humans and machines collaborate, manual tasks automate, agility become the norm, and traditional career paths change. In the legal sector, this disruption presents vast challenges as firms struggle to move from traditional hierarchies, manual research requirements, time-based billing models, and other traditional ways of operating, into tech-empowered models fit for the future..

Depending on the industry, tenants should assume they will put 10 to 30 percent of their application workload in the cloud. When it comes to site selection for a colocation (colo) data center facility, the old saying “do your homework” rings true for companies large and small in all types of industries. Once the decision has been made to pursue a colo facility, it is important to understand that not all third-party colo data centers are created equal..

Blockchain euphoria is giving way to blockchain fatigue: Despite the hype, only 1% of executives in a survey reported deploying the technology at their firms. And while corporate management remains bullish about distributed ledgers, mentions of “blockchain” are on the decline during earnings conference calls. But IBM, which has roots going back more than 100 years, still thinks the technology that underpins bitcoin has untapped potential..

Infosys is eyeing a slice of $5-billion opportunity in offering cybersecurity solutions to its 2,000-plus enterprise customers, that is expected to grow 10-12% CAGR in the next five years..

Agile has gained momentum. In the last year, we’ve seen a staggering rise in organisations adopting Scaled Agile practices. They’re making Agile more than an IT delivery model based on Scrum teams. They’re using it to truly transform roles, processes, governance, mindsets and operating models..

Automation and AI already have several applications in banking and finance, and over the last few years, the fintech sector has been witnessing a spate of new artificial intelligence applications due to the availability of new data sources, and the proliferation artificial intelligence tools and techniques..

Our Infographic of the Week shows how different strands of thinking are coming together to accelerate the development of robotics and AI.

The automation of physical labour will not stop. The digital encoding of human cognition and decision-making is arriving parallel to it. Smart robots, sensors, digital agents and other technologies have brought a new vocabulary to human resources:.

A competitive landscape that identifies the major competitors of the global market and their Internet of Things Integration market share are highlighted in this research report.

Last week, German industrial group Siemens announced it was to acquire Mendix, a developer of a ‘low-code’ application development platform, designed to help business users build software without having to rely on IT experts.

Nearly one in five women will develop a mental illness during their pregnancy or in the first year after their baby is born (known as the perinatal period). That illness can be devastating for the women and their families – but specialist treatment can be highly effective..

Artificial intelligence receives a lot of hype, but that doesn`t mean there isn`t reality. There`s probably an application for AI if your business collects data..

The UK privacy watchdog – the Information Commissioner`s Office (ICO) – plans to fine Facebook £500,000 for its part in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. As the breach took place before the EU GDPR came into effect, this is the largest possible penalty. But if the scandal had hit today, the ICO could have fined Facebook four per cent of global turnover - that’s £1.6 billion..