How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

Facing the possibility of an economic recession, one of the world’s leading professional services companies felt the urgency to improve its grasp on spend management – the practice of fully understanding and managing supplier relations and company purchasing. With 738,000 employees and $3.8 billion in services contracts, it was crucial for Accenture to not only identify every…

Intel embraces SDN to modernize its chip factories

Until recently, software-defined networking (SDN) technologies have been limited to use in data centers — not manufacturing floors. But as part of Intel’s expansive plans to upgrade and build a new generation of chip factories in line with its Integrated Device Manufacturing (IDM) 2.0 blueprint, unveiled in 2021, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based semiconductor giant opted…