CIGNEX, Excellerent merge with Relevance Lab to form a global powerhouse in digital transformation & cloud services.

CIGNEX, Excellerent merge with Relevance Lab to form a global powerhouse in digital transformation & cloud services.

Global delivery footprint now spans India, North America & Ethiopia; combined entity to have 1500+ global employees with innovation centers in India across Bangalore, Delhi NCR & Ahmedabad; and Ethiopia.; Vasu Sarangapani, 30-year technology industry veteran to be the President & CEO of Relevance Lab January 30, 2023, Bangalore/Delhi/Ahmedabad: CIGNEX, and Excellerent today announced its merger with Relevance Lab, to become a global powerhouse in offering digital transformation and cloud services. With this merger, Relevance Lab, headquartered in Singapore, will have delivery presence across North America, India and Ethiopia and a global headcount of 1500+ employees. While Relevance Lab excels in DevOps/Automation on Infrastructure, Applications and Data, CIGNEX is a leader in Open-Source Technologies and Cloud that are used to engineer/deploy digital transformations & robotic process automation applications; and Excellerent, besides its Agile Engineering prowess, provides a unique differentiator with its development center in Ethiopia. The merger provides the platform to have economies of scale to have an integrated approach to address all the dimensions of digital transformation from its global development centers. The shareholders of CIGNEX and Excellerent rolled up their shares into Relevance Lab on a share swap basis. The incumbent management of the respective companies will […]

Digital Transformation in healthcare will accelerate investments in new technologies and R&D

Digital Transformation in healthcare will accelerate investments in new technologies and R&D

Vikram Thaploo The performance of almost all industries is significantly impacted by digital transformation, and healthcare is no exception. Today, it is crucial for the healthcare sector to offer better patient care digitally, irrespective of where the patient is located. Generally speaking, the adoption of cutting-edge technologies targeted at enhancing work efficiency in hospitals and elevating patient care to a whole new level is what digital transformation in the healthcare business is all about. In fact, there are a growing number of opportunities that appear today in the branch of digital transformation in the healthcare industry and in diagnostics. The increased digitization of healthcare in India is being stimulated by government initiatives, cost savings and innovations in technology. It is also being propelled by the need to enhance clinical outcomes and efficiency and improve communications among healthcare providers, patients and payers. Cloud-enabled data management platforms, Telemedicine, artificial intelligence (AI) assisted medical devices and Blockchain for electronic health records are some examples of digital transformation in healthcare. Healthcare Providers Accelerating Digital Investments to Meet Improve Operational Efficiencies and Patient Experience According to a recent analysis by Frost & Sullivan, the healthcare sector’s enhanced focus on meeting the ‘Quadruple Aim’ of […]

BMO Wealth Management picks FactSet as primary data provider

BMO Wealth Management picks FactSet as primary data provider

BMO’s wealth management division has chosen FactSet, a global financial digital platform, as its primary market data provider. FactSet is deploying its modern, flexible Advisor Workstation to BMO Wealth Management professionals across Canada to support its digital transformation objectives. The implementation equips advisors with FactSet’s industry-leading content and analytics within a comprehensive and intuitive web-based interface that enhances BMO Wealth Management’s broader technology ecosystem to drive advisor productivity and client engagement efforts. The expanded relationship with the firm represents another significant win in the wealth management sector, and confirms FactSet’s strategy to deliver flexible, robust, and differentiated solutions that power our clients’ digital transformation journeys across their enterprise. FactSet EVP and head of research and advisory solutions Goran Skoko said, “Our collaboration demonstrates how FactSet’s solutions enable enterprise-wide digital transformation and reinforces our commitment to the Canadian market. “We are thrilled to work with BMO, who are committed to implementing new technologies that will enhance communication, efficiency, and the advisor experience, and drive improved customer outcomes.” BMO Private Wealth COO Bruce Ferman remarked, “We are pleased to work with FactSet to help drive progress in BMO Wealth Management’s digital transformation journey. Together, BMO Wealth Management’s professionals will be equipped […]

Momenta acquires Digital Transformation Advisory firm Chakra

Momenta acquires Digital Transformation Advisory firm Chakra

Momenta, the leading Digital Industry value creation + venture capital firm, announced the acquisition of Chakra, an outcome-based digital transformation advisory firm in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 2019 by Luke Smaul , the team’s principals have led multinational digital transformation projects for Fortune 100 companies, including GE Digital. Deeply rooted in design thinking, Chakra uses applied strategy models to merge the digital world with the industrial one, creating new go-to-market, business models, and revenue growth across the full tech ecosystem. Manufacturing companies start out by investing in digital but often lose their way as they work through identifying ROI and impact in pursuit of scalable solutions. Traditional digital advisory offerings are not geared toward the needs of industrial companies and are not equipped to provide guidance on how these companies do and should operate. Chakra brought about a new way of thinking about digital and digital transformation, focusing on a 4-pillar transformation framework . "We’ve been impressed with the impact of Chakra’s team and tools on the digital transformation of industrial clients," said Doug Harp , Managing Partner of Momenta. "We believe this best-practice-based industry transformation capability complements Momenta’s position as the leading Digital Industry value creation + venture […]

C&S modernizes with wholesale shift to the cloud

C&S modernizes with wholesale shift to the cloud

Some CIOs approach technology modernization by deciding on a cloud platform, designing a blueprint, and executing it with their own IT staff, C-suite funding, and the hypervisor’s vertical industry experts. Other CIOs hand over most of the project to consulting firms: the old throat choke. [ Learn from your peers: Check out our State of the CIO report on the challenges and concerns of CIOs today. | Find out the 7 skills of successful digital leaders and the secrets of highly innovative CIOs . ] There is no right or wrong way to proceed. Whichever path is chosen, enterprises that are outsourcing their computing infrastructure to the cloud need a wide array of technical and business experts to exit the data center. The consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry is somewhat behind other industries in the race to modernize but supply chain bottlenecks and the pandemic’s unprecedented disruption have accelerated their need to digitally transform. Take C&S Wholesale Grocer, for example. The $27 billion, 100-year-old grocery wholesale distributor has seen the light on the importance of the cloud for modernizing its operations. And although C&S has a talented, ample staff of IT professionals, the distributor opted to last year to sign […]

Independent Research Firm Includes ValueBlue Among Top 12 Vendors in Enterprise Architecture Management Suites

Independent Research Firm Includes ValueBlue Among Top 12 Vendors in Enterprise Architecture Management Suites

Analyst report ranks ValueBlue’s BlueDolphin as a Contender in EAMS for the first time with the highest possible score in the Roadmap criterion within the strategy category. NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — ValueBlue ( www.valueblue.com ), creators of the BlueDolphin agile digital transformation collaboration platform, today announced that ValueBlue has been ranked among the top 12 vendors in the latest The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q1 2023. This is the first time ValueBlue has been included in a Forrester EAMS Wave report. In assessing BlueDolphin, the Forrester report says: Continue Reading ValueBlue "ValueBlue has a pragmatic and effective offering that will meet the needs of most EA professionals and is competitive in all criteria. It is strongest in supporting organization, sustainable, and resilient architecture use cases. ValueBlue has an effective strategy overall and is likely to improve its market position soon due to its strong roadmap." Conclusions from The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q1 2023 report include: "In Forrester’s Future Fit Survey, 2022, only 3% of respondents’ organizations were fully customer obsessed. These fully customer-obsessed organizations grew 1.8 times faster than the rest. However, to achieve customer obsession, their enterprise, technology, business, and […]

Cisco, Arravo Harp on Digital Transformation for Businesses

Cisco, Arravo Harp on Digital Transformation for Businesses

Emma Okonji Cisco, a network technology solution provider and its partner, Arravo, have stressed the need for small and large scale businesses to optimise their application experiences with Cisco’s ‘Full-Stack Obsevability’ solution that would enhance accelerated digital transformation. At a one day workshop organised for businesses, which held in Lagos last week, the Country Director for Cisco Nigeria, Mr. Sebastine Nzeadibe, said as a pioneer technology company, Cisco would continue to build network infrastructure for large enterprise and small businesses like Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that would enable them attain the full value of digital transformation. Nzeadibe said the Cisco Full-Stack Observability Solution was developed to identify challenges that could lead to downtime in business. According to him, once the challenge is identified by the solution, it will be quickly fixed before any escalation. “The Cisco ‘Full-Stack Observability’ solution is an end-to-end solution that creates visibility to identify any threat in the system, especially in large scale network infrastructure with several networks like software application, hardware application, and the user interface, in order to solve immediate challenges. The solution is part of the solutions that are driving digital transformation “An unidentified challenge in a large scale network infrastructure […]

CIO Spotlight: Darlene Williams, Rocket Software

CIO Spotlight: Darlene Williams, Rocket Software

Name: Darlene Williams Company: Rocket Software Job title: Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Date started current role: April 2022 Location: Waltham, Massachusetts As Chief Information Officer, Darlene Williams is responsible for developing and executing digital innovation transformation strategies essential to Rocket Software’s success. Williams has more than 20 years of experience in IT strategising and delivering large-scale business and technology transformations across multiple industries. She first joined Rocket Software in December 2021 as interim Chief Information Officer. Prior, Williams held technology leadership roles at Arisma Solutions LLC, serving large private equity firms. What was your first job? My first job was working for my dad at his food truck selling hot dogs, chips, and soda. Did you always want to work in IT? My first job out of college was with Xerox, a technology company. I find technology interesting. All of my jobs – across a variety of industries – have entailed a technology component. What was your education? Do you hold any certifications? What are they? I received my bachelor’s degree in business from Florida State University and an MBA in business administration from Nova Southeastern University. I hold a number of certifications, including: Prosci Methodology […]

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The Role Of Data In The Metaverse

The Role Of Data In The Metaverse

Vasudevan Swaminathan is the founder and CEO of Zuci Systems — a software firm specializing in digital transformation solutions. getty In his sci-fi novel Snow Crash , Neal Stephenson introduced the word “metaverse” all the way back in 1992. In the novel, the metaverse is a computer-generated universe for its protagonist Hiro, amplified by his goggles and headsets. And ever since Facebook changed its name to Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg effectively bet his company’s future on the metaverse, the hullabaloo surrounding the term only seems to be increasing daily. But what is the metaverse? The Covid-19 pandemic forced many of us to work from home, taking part in meetings via Zoom and interacting will our colleagues over Slack. But what if we can create a more immersive world? A world where we can teleport ourselves somewhere to interact with our friends, family and colleagues without physically being present there? Imagine being able to work, learn, play, shop, create and do so many other things that we cannot do just using our computers and mobile phones. I believe the next version of the internet will offer these experiences in a combined virtual space that is the metaverse. Now, metaverse […]