In early 2021, a wave of digital innovation in the African financial sector, born out of a response to the tight grip of the pandemic, fuelled services and applications that had the potential to really shake up the banking sector. Over the past year, that wave has continued to grow and swell, unleashing a flood…
Pallavi Katiyar began her career as an IT consultant, and today is leading a much broader portfolio as the CIO of Cyient. Throughout her professional journey, she has had opportunities to play different roles: “There has never been a dull moment,” she says. Over the past 22 years, Katiyar has worked in different domains, technologies,…
Recently, an increasing amount of hope is attached to edge computing. The industry is buzzing with bold ideas such as “the edge will eat the cloud” and real-time automation will spread across healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Experts agree that edge computing will play a key role in the digital transformation of almost every business. But…
Customers in the Middle East are becoming increasingly familiar with being greeted by friendly chatbots — virtual helpers that are available day or night for all kinds of burning questions. From Dubai’s sprawling malls to Cairo’s bustling hospitals, Arabic-speaking chatbots are streamlining the customer experience while offering lucrative growth opportunities to businesses that adopt them.…
Successful organizations do not merely move traditional data to cloud platforms to have better data access – they shift to the cloud by thinking differently, using the cloud as a tool to achieve business goals by implementing a strong cloud infrastructure. Cloud has become a key enabler for organizations to develop, grow and compete in…
Our world today is experiencing an extremely social, connected, competitive and technology-driven business environment. If anything, the past few years have shown us the levels of uncertainty we are facing. Predicting the next big threat or the next big opportunity is becoming increasingly difficult, especially when challenged by a plethora of technology options, fierce competition,…
For decades organizations chased the Holy Grail of a centralized data warehouse/lake strategy to support business intelligence and advanced analytics. Now, with processing power built out at the edge and with mounting demand for real-time insights, organizations are using decentralized data strategies to drive value and realize business outcomes. The proliferation of data at the…
Carsales’s Ajay Bhatia has resigned as managing director at the Melbourne-based organisation he has been part of for the past 13 years. Bhatia, who joined Carsales in 2008 as chief product and information officer, became managing director for consumer business in 2017 and in December 2019 was appointed the local managing director. Bhatia’s path to…
By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax I’ve been a data practitioner responsible for the delivery of data management strategies in financial services, online retail, and just about everything in between. In all of these roles, I’ve come across patterns that enable organizations to build faster business insights and innovation with data. These patterns encompass…
When the world learned that Russia had invaded Ukraine in late February, outside observers expected a heavy dose of cyberattacks to play out in the invasion’s tactics. But to many people’s surprise, the cyber-attacks have been limited and targeted rather than widespread. Russia certainly has demonstrated its cyber power and capabilities in the past; a key…