Cropin, an agritech startup backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Tuesday said that it was launching its industry cloud for agriculture, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Dubbed Cropin Cloud, the suite comes with the ability to ingest and process data, run machine learning models for quick analysis and decision making, and…
As the threat of climate change looms, organizations across every sector are focused on driving sustainable progress and innovation. Most of these organizations are measuring success based on their stated goals in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives and results. Now there is a way to quantify and verify those achievements. It’s called Project Alvarium…
Many people associate high-performance computing (HPC), also known as supercomputing, with far-reaching government-funded research or consortia-led efforts to map the human genome or to pursue the latest cancer cure. But HPC can also be tapped to advance more traditional business outcomes — from fraud detection and intelligent operations to helping advance digital transformation. The challenge:…
For materials technology company Umicore N.V., understanding the skills of its people is crucial to delivering on its sustainability goals. When workers are handling dangerous chemicals, specialist expertise and a thorough knowledge of health and safety processes is essential for employee welfare. Furthermore, a commitment to valuing people based on their skills is at the…
When Steve Pimblett joined The Very Group in October 2020 as chief data officer, reporting to the conglomerate’s CIO, his task was to help the enterprise uncover value in its rich data heritage. For a company that made its name in mail-order catalog sales, the idea of building an enterprise-wide data catalog seemed to be…
Business is business and IT is IT and never the twain shall meet. At least that’s the way it too often seems when a CIO attempts to show business management how a technology initiative can lead to tangible benefits. Helping enterprise business leaders, C-suite colleagues, and boards understand the value inherent in complex new technologies…
Many people associate high-performance computing (HPC), also known as supercomputing, with far-reaching government-funded research or consortia-led efforts to map the human genome or to pursue the latest cancer cure. But HPC can also be tapped to advance more traditional business outcomes — from fraud detection and intelligent operations to helping advance digital transformation. The challenge:…
It was only a few years ago when ‘digital transformation’ was on every CIO’s agenda, and businesses started to understand how cloud could deliver real value. They stopped asking whether they should move to the cloud and started asking what they needed to do to get there. This was the case for Murray & Roberts’…
Coforge, formerly known as NIIT Technologies, is a global digital services and solutions provider with a presence in 21 countries. The company has more than 20,000 employees, 250-plus customers, and 25 delivery centres spread across nine countries. However, as recently as three years back, these numbers didn’t look as good. “In 2018-19, the India-based company…
Xero Chief Technology Officer Mark Rees on being ‘Explainer-in-Chief’, the balancing act of knowing what can be done and what should be done, and building a culture of trust and open dialogue. Watch this episode: #id6314d39898e83 .jw-wrapper::before { content: “Mark Rees, Chief Technology Officer at Xero” !important; } CIO Leadership Live Read More from…