Research & Insight

Cloud

Why Financial Regulations Drive Big Data

Outsourcing Center, Staff Writer

How do financial regulations drive big data? Between asset bubbles and other threats, new regulations force financial institutions to do everything from vetting counterparties against “black lists” of banned entities to real-time global fraud detection. Paper-based processing, siloed product and customer information, manual workflows, and hard-coded business rules can’t keep up. Achieving and proving compliance …

Privacy Concerns and the Monetization of Big Data

Outsourcing Center, Patti Putnicki, Business Writer

It is easy to get caught up in the greatness of Big Data analytics. It’s a marketer’s dream: tracking customer activity; understanding what he or she is thinking, doing—using this information to transform every interaction into unexpected delight. To know the customer is to love the customer, and companies everywhere are showing that love through …

Can You Really Turn a Marketing Manager into a Data Scientist?

Debbie Fisher, Business Writer, Outsourcing Center

You knew John Smith was a great fit to energize your marketing organization. But can a few tools turn him into a data scientist? If you think so, you may be kidding yourself. Worse yet, without exploring new cloud business intelligence (CBI) tools you may be shortchanging your organization from obtaining rich insights to help …

Stay Healthy with Robotics in the Cloud!

Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer

The healthcare industry may have been cautious to a fault until recently, but it is readily embracing new technologies including the cloud to serve customers better. Welcome to the era of cloud robotics. Recently, articles have popped up highlighting how robots will help with procedures connected to hair transplants. While helping people look good is …

Storage Solutions Go from Deadly Dull to Dynamic (No Kidding)

Outsourcing Center, Patti Putnicki, Business Writer

It’s hard to look at what’s happened to enterprise technology over the past few years and not feel a bit of an adrenaline rush. Cloud computing, mobility and data analytics are pretty sexy stuff—full of excitement, packed with benefits and changing the way we do darn near everything. While this triad of technological wonderment has …

Disrupter Turned Destroyer: How Mobility is Killing Corporate Productivity

Outsourcing Center, Patti Putnicki, Business Writer

Please silence your smartphone and give this article your full attention. For most people these days, that’s easier said than done, with the normalization of mobility tools. Although the proliferation of mobility has untethered global employees from their desks, provided anytime access to the information they need to do their jobs, and given workforces newfound …

Faking the Big SEO

Outsourcing Center, Patti Putnicki, Business Writer

Your social media campaign not so well “liked?” Facebook friend-count a little sparse? Don’t despair. If you’ve got the money, somebody’s got the time to click, like and Friend away. Today, offshore click farms are popping up on every digital corner, ready to follow you, like you, link to you or provide any other form …

The Impact of Wearable Mobile on MDM Strategies

Outsourcing Center, Patti Putnicki, Business Writer

Move over, Rolex. Step aside, Armani. If the predictions hold true, tomorrow’s corporate climbers will all be ditching the designer accessories for the next big thing: namely, wearable computing devices. From smart watches to augmented reality glasses and contact lenses, today’s emerging tech toys have the potential to become tomorrow’s most valuable business tools. These …

How Workforce 2020 Will Change Outsourcing

Outsourcing Center, Patti Putnicki, Business Writer

There’s a reason the term is “outsourcing partner”. We’ve all heard it, or said it, a million times: Our outsourcing engagement works because of the relationship. It is a partnership, not a buyer-vendor arrangement. And for the most part, that statement has held true. Traditional outsourcing typically involved a 10-plus-year contract, along with a real …

Steering Through the Cloud

Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer

Those who thought cloud computing was just a passing fad are learning that it is made of more solid stuff. That said, severe competition could still rip a large hole through some clouds. Read on for some pointers to stay afloat. Even as we talk, the two companies that dwarf all other cloud providers, Amazon …

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