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Economy Minister Simon Hamilton has welcomed the launch of Deloitte’s first Salesforce Academy.
Salesforce is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system and is one of the biggest, exciting and fast growing areas in Cloud based technologies today.
Large political events such as Brexit and the US elections are starting to have knock on effects on economic performance, in particular in the regions most exposed to the Anglo-Saxon powerhouses.
Sports-related businesses in South-east Asia (SEA) can now tap the expertise of professional services firm Deloitte, which officially launched its sports business practice in the region yesterday.
JetBlue has extended on its three year working relationship with Tata Consultancy Services. The firm, besides its role in business development and assurance, has been tasked with expanding JetBlue’s IT platform with new analytics, customer service and operational agility capabilities.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has, as part of its REV Connect initiative, hired Navigant and a consortium of other players to support the delivery of a new distributed energy marketplace. The project is part of New York’s plan to overhaul its energy market.
To support businesses, governments and society deal with the ever increasing cost of cyber security breaches, the MSc in Security and Management at the University of Warwick Cyber Security Centre was developed. In a bid to defend businesses, the CSC has partnered with IBM to deliver a module aimed at developing the technical and managerial skills to effectively develop and implement strategies to mitigate and prevent today- and tomorrow’s cyber intrusions.
The Irish network member of PwC has launched a new Cyber Centre, focused on supporting clients meet their cyber security needs. The new centre deploys ‘ethical’ hackers as well as forensic services to investigate defences and instances of penetration.
London certainly deserves the status of the best city in the world but UK’s vote to exit from the EU puts the capital’s stellar image in jeopardy even if no drastic changes happen immediately.
Global professional services company Accenture announced recently that it has acquired Allen International, a design consultancy organisation that helps banks digitally transform their branch networks.
The Dutch arm of the Air France–KLM Group, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, has signed a five-year outsourcing contract with Unisys for the delivery of onsite IT services.. Unisys takes over the role from Fujitsu, who has provided the service for the airline since 2000. The new IT contract aims at bringing down service-delivery costs while improving customer satisfaction, staff productivity and drive innovation.
InvestCloud, LLC, the world’s largest Digital Applet Platform specifically designed to meet the needs of all types of financial services organizations, today announced that it has entered into a non-exclusive joint business relationship with PwC designed to accelerate adoption and implementation of the InvestCloud Digital Applet Platform.
PwC will be a preferred implementation and strategy partner of InvestCloud focused on enterprise delivery and innovative development of new financial applet capabilities.
“InvestCloud has built an innovative and one-of-a-kind digital applet platform leveraged by 660 independent and institutional clients globally with over $1.5 trillion in assets on the platform,” said John Wise, CEO and Co-Founder of InvestCloud. “PwC is one of the largest strategic consulting organizations in the world, and has an excellent track record of connecting scalable innovative solutions like InvestCloud with some of the world’s largest financial brands. We are thrilled to partner with them to support our continued growth across the globe.
InvestCloud’s Digital Applets are used across the financial services eco-system to deliver intuitively designed digital solutions for clients, advisors, and operations. The leader in digital client communications, management, and automation, InvestCloud empowers financial institutions to deliver digital differentiation and automation capabilities to internal users and external clients and partners.
InvestCloud’s patented PWP (Programs-Writing-Programs) platform allows firms to leverage business users and designers to create production ready applets that can be deployed to solve the financial services industry’s most common and complex data and user engagement problems. PwC will deliver custom digital wealth management capabilities globally using PWP tools combined with PwC’s leading practices.
“Digital transformation is no longer optional for financial institutions,” said Michael Raneri, Managing Director Advisory. “InvestCloud’s digital applet approach allows PwC to implement leading strategies with enterprise applet modules designed for every financial firm, from the world’s largest banks, to emerging fintech platforms and advisory firms. InvestCloud’s extensible and scalable Digital Applet Platform is directly in line with PwC’s focus to help institutions modernize their infrastructure and compete on a global scale.”
PwC has implemented a global delivery model to support the growing demand for InvestCloud’s multi-lingual, multi-currency, digital applet solutions. InvestCloud recently announced the launch of a series of Innovation Centers where clients, InvestCloud experts, and PwC can co-design, build, and deploy leading solutions. “We are excited to add InvestCloud to our @scale portfolio where we find the most innovative companies in the world and match them with our clients most pressing priorities,” said Dean Nicolacakis, PwC US FinTech Co-lead. PwC’s innovation teams are available in Los Angeles and San Francisco, with upcoming expansions planned for New York, London, and Chicago with global delivery teams available for remote client engagements.
McKinsey & Company has launched an Experience Studio in Toronto, with a second studio in New York set to be inaugurated within months. With the Experience Studios, the firm wants to provide clients with space outside, and relatively free, from their everyday management context to inspire, educate, and make the connections needed for the next bold move.
The daily rate paid to interim management consultants remains about the same as last quarter with just a tiny 0.1% increase across the board. This in our opinion is due for an upwards correction during the next 2 quarters because of the increased demand for talent and the global shortage of appropriately skilled and qualified consultants.
Stephanie Hyde, head of regions at PwC, detailed the firm's determination to increase diversity in the profession during a visit to Newcastle
Financial services firm PwC has launched a new team in Birmingham which is aiming to support international companies doing business and investing in the Midlands.
It's October 2016 and our regular Bonus Report / Index is now available.
We monitor the reported bonus payments of management consultant around the globe and compile them in a (hopefully) easy to read snapshot of the market as it stands today (21 Oct 2016).
By 2030, technology will have made banks and banking invisible to customers, hidden by Siri-like personal assistants that cull data from our connected lives to fulfil daily personal and financial obligations, claims KPMG.
CoinDesk is thrilled to welcome back Deloitte as a title sponsor for Consensus 2017, our third annual blockchain technology summit.
PwC has lost its title as the world’s biggest professional services firm despite its revenues growing by 7pc to $35.9bn during the past year
The digital transformation of government is already underway, and governments must embrace it or risk being left behind, according to McKinsey & Company's global digital services lead Martin Lundqvist.
