A German startup has bought a chunk of Uber

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A German startup has bought a chunk of Uber

Berlin-based startup Sennder has acquired Uber’s European freight business in an all-stock transaction that will see the freight forwarder extend its dominance in the European market.

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Why Jacobs Is Buying A Majority Stake In PA Consulting

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Why Jacobs Is Buying A Majority Stake In PA Consulting

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc and PA Consulting — a leading innovation and transformation consulting firm — announced recently that they will form a strategic partnership in which Jacobs will acquire a 65% stake in PA. This investment places an enterprise value of PA at £1.825 billion

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Guidehouse Lands DoD Financial Mgmt Support Contract

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Guidehouse Lands DoD Financial Mgmt Support Contract

The Department of Defense has awarded Guidehouse a five-year contract to help modernize DoD's financial management processes. Guidehouse said it will provide audit remediation, financial management improvement and data analysis to provide operations support to the deputy chief financial officer (DCFO).

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PA Consulting and Jacobs announce agreement

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PA Consulting and Jacobs announce agreement

PA Consulting (PA), the consultancy that's Bringing Ingenuity to Life, today announced that global technical and professional services leader, Jacobs (NYSE: J) has signed an agreement to invest in PA for a 65% shareholding in the company

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Emerging AI Will Drive The Next Wave Of Big Tech Monopolies

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Emerging AI Will Drive The Next Wave Of Big Tech Monopolies

In October 2020 the US House Antitrust Subcommittee, chaired by Congressman David Cicilline, published its report on competition in digital markets. It conducted a full review of the market from top to bottom, focusing on the dominance of the giants in the industry: Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google.

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IBM Acquires Instana To Advance Its Hybrid Cloud

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IBM Acquires Instana To Advance Its Hybrid Cloud

IBM is acquiring Instana, an applications performance management startup. The acquisition represents IBM's transitions from software and services to a company fully focussed on hybrid cloud management by focusing on hybrid cloud, big data, and AI capabilities.

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5G And AI: Complementary Technologies Now And Into The Future

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5G And AI: Complementary Technologies Now And Into The Future

There is a lot of buzz in the technology sector around AI and 5G and their transformative potential. What is interesting about both technologies is that they are universally applicable across many industries and are likely to change the way many of them operate.

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Teachable Machine From Google Makes It Easy To Train And Deploy ML Models

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Teachable Machine From Google Makes It Easy To Train And Deploy ML Models

Teachable Machine is an experiment from Google to bring a no-code and low-code approach to training AI models. Anyone with a modern browser and webcam can quickly train a model with no prior knowledge or experience with AI.

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Google And Intel Collaborate To Simplify Cloud Application Development

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Google And Intel Collaborate To Simplify Cloud Application Development

It is not uncommon for modern enterprise environments to have compute, storage and networking spread out across multiple public cloud environments, in addition to their own data centers. In today’s every-increasing cloud-first climate, developing applications with such a complex and diverse setup spread across multiple locations is exceedingly difficult.

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McKinsey & Company appoints five partners in France

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McKinsey & Company appoints five partners in France

Global strategy consulting firm McKinsey & Company has over the past period appointed five partners in its French team.

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TCS acquires 1500 employees

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TCS acquires 1500 employees

Tata Consultancy Services is to acquire the staff and select assets of Prudential's Irish IT subsidiary Pramerica Systems Ireland.

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Atos debuts OneCloud initiative

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Atos debuts OneCloud initiative

The French IT services company is billing the offering as a “one-stop shop” for enterprises that want to ramp up their use of private, public and hybrid cloud resources, with the firm set to draw on its long-standing partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google Cloud, IBM and others to deliver on its vision.

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How AI Can Change Customer Experience And Engagement

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How AI Can Change Customer Experience And Engagement

Often described as the emotional connection between a customer and a brand, customer engagement is far more than a transactional relationship. It’s no longer limited to sales, services and support and is an ongoing process where a company anticipates a customer’s needs and gains their loyalty.

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Oliver Wyman appoints five partners across German offices

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Oliver Wyman appoints five partners across German offices

Global strategy and management consulting Oliver Wyman has promoted five of its consultants in Germany to partner level.

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Three sectors set to win big with 5G

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Three sectors set to win big with 5G

It has the potential to impact almost every sector, but 5G is particularly important to industries where data is a critical resource

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Government taps consultants to consult on consultancy plans

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Government taps consultants to consult on consultancy plans

The Cabinet Office has called in management consultants to give advice on how government can reduce its reliance on consultants, it has been revealed.

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IBM New Zealand Establishes Cloud Advisory Practice

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IBM New Zealand Establishes Cloud Advisory Practice

IBM New Zealand has appointed Donald Long as a Senior Cloud Advisory Consultant and practice lead of its newly established Cloud Advisory Practice, which provides access to global resources and advice to clients undergoing digital transformation.

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LeasePlan incurs tech blow from failed SAP implementation

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LeasePlan incurs tech blow from failed SAP implementation

A year after Lidl’s SAP failure rocked the food retail landscape, another large ERP flop has now hit the automotive scene.

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The Rise of the Management Consultant

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The Rise of the Management Consultant

Management consultancy was originally set up to help businesses become more efficient and thus more successful.

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Infosys likely to win $1.3 billion Daimler deal

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Infosys likely to win $1.3 billion Daimler deal

Infosys has emerged as the front-runner for a multi-year $1.3 billion deal from German automotive major Daimler focused on infrastructure management services, networks and data centres, sources told TOI

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