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This contributed article was written by David Coe, Senior Vice President of Strategic Programs at Orion Talent 2020 marks the start of a new decade but not the end of the talent shortage, which has data centers worldwide scrambling to find and retain skilled employees. It’s a skills crisis that will likely deepen throughout the […]

                The digital era brought tech-savvy consumers that expect newer versions at accelerated rates without compromising on the end-user experience. This puts pressure on the hi-tech industry to continuously offer new or upgraded products with tremendously short product lifespans. They also face stiff competition in this digital era […]

Collectively, humans now generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data per day. The data we generate in a single year dwarfs every metric ever created between 2015 and the beginning of recorded history. In other words, the BI tools of the past can hardly be expected to keep up with today’s demands. Not only is […]

This is the sixth article in a series from Accenture Applied Intelligence on Data Science Transformation. It focuses on how to ensure that data science can deliver the best value for an organization.The prior article in this series is Much More Than Toys – Why Organizations Need to Industrialize the Data Science Playground.   Many […]

Many companies are embarking on critical business transformations to increase their competitive advantage and profitability — these initiatives also require a data transformation to match their new business model, including establishing proper information governance to be successful. While the latest cloud, AI and BI tools can certainly help businesses get the upper hand on competition, […]

This is the fifth article in a series from Accenture Applied Intelligence on Data Science Transformation. It focuses on how to ensure that data science can deliver the best value for an organization.The prior article in this series is Unlock New Intelligence from Data. ‘Fail fast to succeed sooner’ is the key to disruptive ideas. […]

This is the fourth article in a series from Accenture Applied Intelligence on Data Science Transformation. It focuses on unlocking the value of data. The previous article in this series is Data Science: Integrate It. A company’s ability to unlock the value of data is crucial for sustaining or increasing a competitive edge. The key […]

Introducing ‘Observability’ Observability is the hot new buzzword in IT Operations, DevOps, Agile, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) communities. The concept of observability originally comes from the industrial world, and is defined in Wikipedia as: “A measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs.” For example, in […]

This article is part of a series on Data Science. See also Accenture’s Relying on Traditional HR Will Lose You the Analytics Talent Race. Most business leaders know that analytics is too valuable to be decoupled from the daily business of an organization. To achieve its promise, data science needs to be an integrated partner […]

This article is based on an upcoming book, Principles of Database Management: The Practical Guide to Storing, Managing and Analyzing Big and Small Data. Data management entails the proper management of data as well as the corresponding data definitions or metadata.  It aims at ensuring that (meta-) data is of good quality and thus a […]