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Accenture Helps Swisscom Advance Its Environmental Ambitions with Sustainability Roadmap

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Accenture Helps Swisscom Advance Its Environmental Ambitions with Sustainability Roadmap

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) collaborated with Swisscom (OTCMKTS: SCMWY) on a climate strategy to reduce the telecommunications company’s emissions and help its customers reduce their emissions by one million tons of carbon by 2025 — equal to 2% of Switzerland’s total carbon emissions.

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EY announces the acquisition of digital engineering consultancy Digital Detox

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EY announces the acquisition of digital engineering consultancy Digital Detox

EY has today announced the acquisition of Digital Detox Ventures Limited (Digital Detox), a UK-based digital engineering consultancy.

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Russell Taylor named telecoms sector leader at PwC

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Russell Taylor named telecoms sector leader at PwC

PwC UK has appointed Russell Taylor as its new telecoms sector leader.

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Booz Allen partners with Acalvio on cyber deception

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Booz Allen partners with Acalvio on cyber deception

Booz Allen Hamilton, a McLean VA-based management and technology consulting firm, has partnered with Acalvio to provide the Silicon Valley cybersecurity firm’s Shadowplex autonomous deception product to government and commercial clients.

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EY invests $500 million into oil and gas offering, appoints new global leader

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EY invests $500 million into oil and gas offering, appoints new global leader

EY Global has announced a $500-million investment to expand its oil and gas sector offering and has promoted Dubai-based Saulius Adomaitis to global leader of the sector.

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Bain & Company launches customer experience training program

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Bain & Company launches customer experience training program

Bain & Company has launched NPSx, a customer experience training and certification program based on the firm’s Net Promoter Score and Net Promoter System.

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Kimberly Johnston joins PA Consulting's energy practice as partner

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Kimberly Johnston joins PA Consulting's energy practice as partner

Kimberly Johnston has joined PA Consulting as a Houston-based partner in the energy and utilities practice.

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Saudi government selects IBM as partner for digital skills building

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Saudi government selects IBM as partner for digital skills building

Saudi Arabia is currently the world’s ninth most advanced country for digital skills, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Competitiveness Report. Keen to expand on its excellence, the country’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology is unrolling a range of key initiatives as part of a five-year roadmap.

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Metaverse gaining traction, says PwC

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Metaverse gaining traction, says PwC

US consumers and business leaders are moving quickly to capitalise on the metaverse, according to a recent survey from PwC.

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Qatar's Investment Promotion Agency inks double deal with PwC

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Qatar's Investment Promotion Agency inks double deal with PwC

The Investment Promotion Agency Qatar (IPA Qatar) has signed a double deal with PwC, which will see the accounting and consulting giant help the agency attract international investors and expand its own footprint in the country.

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KPMG: Technology governance in an evolving regulatory landscape

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KPMG: Technology governance in an evolving regulatory landscape

The advent of new and disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, decentralized ledger systems, machine learning, big data analytics, and high-speed connectivity has posed unprecedented opportunities and risk challenges to financial systems around the world. Fadi Al Sheikh, a leader at KPMG in the Middle East, outlines the state of technology governance for the Saudi market.

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Roland Berger strengthens team with acquisition of POLARIXPARTNER

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Roland Berger strengthens team with acquisition of POLARIXPARTNER

Roland Berger today announced the acquisition of Saarburg-based management consulting firm POLARIXPARTNER. The acquisition will further strengthen Roland Berger's team and its expertise in cost optimization.

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EY Strengthens Financial Services Technology Consulting Capabilities With Q4 Associates Addition

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EY Strengthens Financial Services Technology Consulting Capabilities With Q4 Associates Addition

Ernst & Young, New Zealand (“EY New Zealand”) is excited to announce that boutique technology consulting firm Q4 Associates Limited (Q4 Associates) has joined EY New Zealand effective from today, 1 August 2022. The Q4 Associates addition will enable EY New Zealand to better serve clients, particularly in the financial services sector, by strengthening its existing intelligent automation (IA) and robotics process automation (RPA) capabilities and bolstering EY New Zealand’s existing financial services technology consulting team.

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  Atos shares jump after it secures financing for turnaround plan

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Atos shares jump after it secures financing for turnaround plan

France's Atos said it had secured financing for a turnaround plan and forecast further improvement in sales in the second half, driving up shares in the loss-making IT consulting firm early on Wednesday.

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Accenture to Acquire Eclipse Automation to Help Clients Build Factories of the Future

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Accenture to Acquire Eclipse Automation to Help Clients Build Factories of the Future

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to acquire Eclipse Automation, a provider of customized manufacturing automation and robotics solutions headquartered in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

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BearingPoint adds business development expert Brian Knudson

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BearingPoint adds business development expert Brian Knudson

BearingPoint, an Amsterdam-headquartered management consulting firm, has hired Brian Knudson as senior manager of business development to help drive the company’s US growth.

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FTI Consulting Adds Team of Five to Global Aviation Practice

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FTI Consulting Adds Team of Five to Global Aviation Practice

FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN) today announced the appointment of five professionals to the global Aviation practice, who also will further enhance the firm’s human capital and business strategy offerings.

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Accenture Acquires Solvera Solutions to Grow Digital Transformation Capabilities in Western Canada

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Accenture Acquires Solvera Solutions to Grow Digital Transformation Capabilities in Western Canada

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired Solvera Solutions, a Regina-based company delivering platform-led digital transformation services across Western Canada. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed

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KPMG brings together tech partners for 'pioneering' data offering

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KPMG brings together tech partners for 'pioneering' data offering

KPMG has agreed expanded UAE-focused alliances with Informatica, Snowflake and Microsoft, ramping up how the consulting firm collaborates with the three major global technology houses to enhance its ‘enterprise data transformation’ services.

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Infosys buys 200-strong European life sciences consultancy Base

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Infosys buys 200-strong European life sciences consultancy Base

Global IT services company Infosys has beefed up its consulting arm in Europe with the acquisition of Base Life Science, a Danish-origin firm with around 200 consultants in seven countries.

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