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Covid - the ultimate digital test?

Published in Digital Business

Rackspace Technology has published the results of a global survey revealing that 2020 drove a large-scale push for application modernization. As organizations scrambled to support fully distributed workforces and securely integrate new cloud-native data platforms and collaboration apps into already complex ecosystems, many cranked their existing application modernization efforts into overdrive.

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Significant disconnect between IT and the wider organisation exposed by the pandemic

Published in Digital Business

A longstanding disconnect between IT teams and the wider organisation means that EMEA public services organisations are both failing to adopt new technologies and potentially putting their long-term response to the pandemic in jeopardy, research from Insight has revealed. 71% of such organisations treat IT as a utility rather than a business enabler, and only a quarter (26%) give IT a seat on the board – despite IT’s importance for delivering organisations’ strategic objectives.

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NTT DATA launches NTT DATA EMEAL

Published in Digital Business

The new company brings everis (with a presence mainly in Europe, and Latin America) and NTT DATA EMEA (with a presence mainly in the UK, Italy, Germany, and Romania) under the same management, with 38,000 employees across 25 countries and a revenue of 3 billion euros.

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SAS expands free data skills training programme

Published in Big Data/Analytics-as-a-Service Compliance/Security Digital Business Infrastructure Software

The digital learning platform was originally launched to boost the UK and Ireland’s digital economies by offering in-demand data skills to thousands affected by the economic fallout from the global pandemic.

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Just 10% of global businesses are front-runners in inclusion and diversity practices

Published in Digital Business

For front-runners, inclusion and diversity practices constitute a source of innovation and differentiation (67%), increased revenue (56%), and enhanced customer satisfaction (51%).

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