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Upcoming priorities include a focus on machine learning, this report suggests. Data scientists are considered to have the hottest job right now, but a new study suggests they’re little more than “digital janitors” who spend most of their time cleaning data to prepare it for analysis. That’s according to CrowdFlower, a crowdsourcing company, which surveyed [...]
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TCS has won top spot for European customer satisfaction for the third year running, according to Whitelane Research. Indian IT services supplier Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is judged to have provided the best customer satisfaction levels to European customers, according to the latest European outsourcing survey by Whitelane Research. TCS had a satisfaction score of [...]
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We are increasingly relying on our mobile gadgets to manage our lives, whether it is in business, the media, social networks and, of course, healthcare. The introduction of mobile applications to the medical industry has radically changed users’ views about how to monitor medical conditions, diet and nutrition quickly and effectively. In addition to simple [...]
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IT outsourcing is beneficial in a number of ways; cost reduction and improved focus being the most important of them all. Companies use outsourcing tool to gain specialization that they don’t have in house and to strengthen the specialization that exists in house. Outsourcing eliminates the cost of hiring employees and the cost associated with [...]
Continue reading 67% of organisations to increase spending on software-defined infrastructure in 2016
March 10, 2016 No Comment
Overall spending on software-defined infrastructure will increase by 14.4% in 2016 as the technology matures, says 451 Research. Two thirds of enterprises will increase spending on software-defined infrastructure (SDI) in 2016, according to 451 Research. This will result in a 14.4% increase in overall spend on SDI, which involves the virtualisation of all hardware resources, [...]
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DevOps is the computing philosophy that, through unified agile software development and business operations, you can improve your products and time to market. But does it actually improve information security? DevOps refers to the “integration of development, IT operations, security, and quality assurance under a single automated umbrella”. In short, it is a cross-business effort [...]
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Smartphones have been a huge success in connecting billions of people to the internet, but it may be much harder to bring the next 4bn online. Facebook’s State of Connectivity 2015 report explains the problems. It’s around 46 years since consumers first started to use online services, and 23 years since the NCSA Mosaic browser [...]
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Digital transformation is driving even smaller and shorter deals for IT service providers, but how low can providers go? IT and business process outsourcing deals have been getting smaller in dollar value and shorter in duration for some time. And, according to analysis of 2015’s deal activity, enterprise digitization is strengthening that trend. The number [...]
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4G connectivity hits a new milestone as mobile broadband momentum extends to the developing world. The number of 4G mobile connections worldwide has surpassed the 1 billion mark and is on track to account for a third of all mobile connections by 2020, according to a new study. The 2016 global edition of the GSMA’s [...]
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Everest Group’s inaugural service provider awards name Cognizant, Accenture and IBM the top three outsourcing providers. In addition, Accenture is highlighted as ‘leader of the year’ for continuing to transform itself and HCL as ‘star performer’ of the year for its embrace of innovative service models. Outsourcing consultancy and research firm Everest Group recently unveiled [...]
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