Accenture and Microsoft claim to have jointly completed one of the largest and most complex cloud migrations in the consumer goods space on behalf of Unilever. The 18-month project has seen the consumer goods giant transition into a cloud-only enterprise, with the bulk of its off-premise estate now being run on the Microsoft Azure public…
To improve IT energy efficiency and sustainability, IT leaders are often advised to keep hardware in use for as long as possible. This is because a significant proportion of the hardware’s lifetime carbon footprint is consumed prior to onsite deployment. Logically, extending the life of hardware reduces its lifetime carbon footprint, but according to Gartner…
The distance between digital and physical worlds will “collapse” over the next 10 years, with the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) accelerating change, according to Accenture’s latest report. A study of nearly 5,000 senior executives across the globe, part of Accenture’s technology vision report, When atoms meet bits: The foundations of our new reality,…
The UK government’s whitepaper on the regulation of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry confirms the sector’s growing importance. It employed more than 50,000 people and contributed £3.7bn to the economy last year and could add almost £1tn of economic value by 2035, according to some estimates. However, as its potential applications continue to evolve, and…
Accenture is cutting jobs thousands of jobs over the next 18 months and reducing office space as the IT services bellwether targets cost reductions. The IT services giant announced 19,000 job losses as the firm reported sales worth $15.8bn and a profit of $1.9bn in its second financial quarter. Accenture CEO, Julie Sweet, said the…
Nationwide Building Society has embarked on a project to move all of its payments onto a cloud-based platform in its latest “generational tech transformation”. In 2008, in the fall out of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which brought the global finance sector to its knees, Nationwide Building Society set out its stall to be a digital…
