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1. Financial, M & A Updates...................................................................................................................................1
2. Solution Updates.................................................................................................................................................12
3. Rewards and Recognition Updates...................................................................................................................17
4. Customer Success Updates................................................................................................................................27
5. Partnership Ecosystem Updates.......................................................................................................................36
6. Environmental & Social Updates.....................................................................................................................54
7. Miscellaneous Updates......................................................................................................................................55

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Accenture Expands Cloud First Offerings and Engineering Capabilities in the UK
with Acquisition of Infinity Works
Accenture has acquired cloud and digital transformation consultancy Infinity Works.
The acquisition strengthens and expands the cloud delivery and engineering
capabilities of Accenture Cloud First in the UK. Terms of the acquisition were not
disclosed. With experience across multiple sectors from retail to financial services
and some of the largest digital-led projects in national government, Infinity Works
helps some of the country’s most recognised brands digitally transform. It provides a
range of value-adding services including cloud, data, design and research, mobile,
and full-stack engineering. Headquartered in Leeds, Infinity Works has offices across
the UK including Manchester, Edinburgh and London. Founded in 2014, Infinity
Works employs approximately 440 highly skilled people including experienced
software engineers, data engineers, cloud architects, and cloud certified specialists.
Infinity Works has deep relationships with key ecosystem players, including AWS,
and is recognised as an Advanced Consulting Partner in the AWS Partner Network.
Infinity Works is also an award-winning Elite Services Partner with Snowflake, the
data cloud platform — the first partner in the UK & Ireland to be awarded this status.
Executive Commentary
“Acquiring Infinity Works is a significant step in advancing our Accenture Cloud
First strategy and capabilities in the UK, and in achieving our purpose to deliver
on the promise of technology and human ingenuity,” said global lead of
Accenture Cloud First. “The Infinity Works team brings deep cloud and
engineering specialization and increases our ability to leverage cloud-native
architectures, applications and methods to help clients innovate and operate with
speed and flexibility at scale.”
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Accenture Acquires Edenhouse, Boosting SAP Cloud Capabilities and Leadership
in the UK
Accenture has acquired Edenhouse, a UK-based independent SAP partner. The
acquisition will further enhance Accenture’s capabilities to support clients in their
digital transformation journey. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded
in 2008 and an SAP platinum partner, Edenhouse specializes in the sale,
implementation, support, and hosting of SAP products and services to mid-sized
businesses. Edenhouse’s SAP specialists have a broad breadth of technical
knowledge, coupled with deep industry and line of business experience — spanning
on-premises and cloud-based solutions — to help clients unleash the full power of
SAP solutions and get increased value from their investments. Edenhouse has won a
number of awards since its inception, the most recent being the SAP EMEA North
Award for Partner Excellence 2021 for Top SME Cloud Performer. The acquisition
will scale Accenture’s capabilities in the UK to address accelerated demand for
SAP’s cloud-based solutions. Edenhouse’s team of 220 professionals will join
Accenture’s SAP Business Group in the UK to support the local business while
benefiting from access to global resources and skills.
“Now that Edenhouse is part of Accenture, we’re in an even stronger position in
the UK to help our clients harness change and accelerate their transformational
journeys,” said llingsen, Intelligent Platform Services Lead for the UK and
Ireland at Accenture. “The global pandemic has increased demand for SAP’s
cloud-based solutions and the additional skills we now have access to will enable
us to rapidly meet the needs of our clients, helping them to progress more quickly
on their path to value and become more sustainable businesses for the future.”
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Accenture Expands Change Management Capabilities by Acquiring Organizational
Transformation Consultancy Future State
Accenture has acquired Future State, a change management consulting firm headquartered in
Oakland, CA. Future State’s 75-person team joins the Talent & Organization / Human
Potential practice at Accenture, adding highly specialized expertise focused on agile business
transformation. Future State makes ideas and innovation real for clients within the life
sciences, CPG and technology industries, through expert planning, intuitive communication,
team coaching and empathy. This innovative approach — along with strong credentials in
product development enablement, business growth and post-merger integration — add new
methodologies that expand Accenture’s existing C-suite offerings. Future State, a certified B
Corp, is also widely recognized for its commitment to corporate social responsibility, and
was selected by B Lab as a “Best for the World Changemaker” honoree in 2019. For the past
40 years, Future State has helped some of the world’s leading life sciences and technology
companies with the change management expertise they require to thrive, particularly during
times of disruption. Future State complements Accenture’s most recent Talent &
Organization / Human Potential acquisition — Kates Kesler in 2020 — that aims to expand
client offerings and create new ways to deliver value with a deep understanding of client
needs and market challenges.
“As the ongoing health, economic and social crises have demonstrated, disruption is
constant and companies must adapt to thrive and grow,” said global lead for Accenture’s
Talent & Organization / Human Potential practice. “By adding the experience and talent
of Future State, Accenture is expanding its capabilities to help clients in their business
transformation journeys as they navigate a rapidly changing world.”
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Accenture to Acquire Imaginea to Accelerate Cloud Native Product and Platform
Engineering Services
Accenture has agreed to acquire Imaginea, a cloud native product and platform
engineering firm that helps companies drive innovation through disruptive
technologies to transform their businesses digitally and capture new opportunities.
Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., with offices in London and throughout
India, Imaginea excels in using its world-class product and platform engineering
skills and leads with a design-thinking approach steeped in innovation. The company
currently advises more than 200 global clients to deliver cloud-first transformations.
The acquisition adds approximately 1,350 cloud professionals to Accenture, bringing
a highly skilled, cloud native, full stack engineering team with cloud data and cloud
modernization skills across multiple platforms from Amazon Web Services, Azure
and Google Cloud Platform. Powered by 70,000 cloud professionals, and a $3 billion
investment over the next three years, the Accenture Cloud First group brings together
unmatched depth and breadth of cloud expertise, industry cloud solutions, ecosystem
partner capabilities, and assets that help clients realize greater value from cloud at
speed and scale.
“Imaginea will further enhance the global capabilities of Accenture Cloud First,
which was created to help clients across every industry become ‘cloud-first’
businesses,” said global lead for Accenture Cloud First. “Cloud is an essential
foundation of digital transformation. Leveraging cloud native capabilities helps
companies transform experiences, harness advances in technologies like AI,
robotics, edge computing and 5G, and break the limits on productivity and
innovation to create sustainable value.”
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Accenture Acquires Businet System to Help Clients Deliver Personalized and
Seamless Cloud-Based Ecommerce Experiences at Speed and Scale
Accenture has acquired Businet System, a leader in developing and operating
Salesforce Commerce Cloud-based ecommerce sites in Japan, with a proprietary
order management system (OMS) for the apparel and retail industries. As the world
of ecommerce has fundamentally shifted, companies are looking for a customized
and personalized experience for their customers powered by technology. Accenture’s
breadth of technological capabilities together with human ingenuity combined with
Businet System’s industry ecommerce capabilities will be a winning formula for
clients. Businet System’s 40 employees will join Accenture Interactive in Japan.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Since its founding in 1999, Businet
System has developed and operated ecommerce sites for more than 60 companies
mainly within the domestic apparel and retail industries. Businet System’s
proprietary OMS works seamlessly with Salesforce Commerce Cloud and has been
implemented at clients across industries. Combined with Accenture’s broader global
ecosystem, including its long-standing strategic relationship with Salesforce, this
acquisition will help clients reimagine their ecommerce business around delivering
exceptional experiences for their customers.
“Every investment we make is an investment in our clients’ future success,”
CEO, Accenture Interactive. “The acquisition of Businet System further
underscores our commitment to helping our clients navigate the complexities of
digital commerce today, which will continue to be of utmost importance for our
clients’ growth.”
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Atos completes the acquisition of leading cybersecurity services company
Motiv
Atos announced that it has completed the acquisition of Motiv ICT Security, the largest independent Managed Security
Services (MSS) provider in the Netherlands. This move reinforces Atos’s position as the 3rd worldwide Managed
Security Services provider by strengthening the Group’s local capabilities and bringing its recent investment in the
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) platform, AIsaac, to Dutch customers. In addition, Motiv’s sovereign Security
Operations Center (SOC), independently certified at the highest levels of maturity, further expands Atos’s extensive
network of global SOCs, a pivotal component of the Atos Prescriptive Security approach. This cybersecurity acquisition
joins those of Paladion, digital.security, SEC Consult and more recently In Fidem that were made over the past few
months in various countries. These acquisitions strengthen Atos’s position as the key trusted cybersecurity partner for
global organizations on their digital journey.
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Atos grows its Salesforce capabilities and completes the acquisition of Profit4SF
Atos announced that it has completed the acquisition of Profit4SF, a Dutch-based
technology and management consulting company specializing in Salesforce
enterprise implementations for its customers across the Netherlands. With this
transaction, Atos re-affirms its ambitions to grow its expertise on Salesforce
technologies across the globe, following the acquisitions of Eagle Creek and
Edifixio in 2020. On an operational level, the acquisition will enhance Atos’
Salesforce offering by bringing experienced consultants to the Atos team and
strengthening the Salesforce Global Practice created by Atos to bring customers
the full benefits of the world's first customer relationship management platform.
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Utrecht, Profit4SF has more than 30
employees, who collectively own more than 160 Salesforce certifications.
Recognized as a Platinum Salesforce Partner in the Netherlands, the company has
a proven track-record of successfully implementing Salesforce projects for its
customers, leveraging its wide portfolio of services from consulting to
development, integration and support.
“I am delighted to welcome Profit4SF into the Atos group. It fits perfectly
with our acquisition strategy and strengthens our position in Salesforce
expertise both in the Dutch region and globally. Combining Atos’ leadership
and comprehensive portfolio with Profit4SF’s strong mid-market experience
and solid customer base in the Netherlands will bring immediate value to our
customers, partners and teams”, said Head of Atos in The Netherlands
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BSI strengthens its healthcare business with the acquisition of Q-Audit
BSI, the business improvement company, announced the acquisition of Q-Audit,
a JAS-ANZ accredited healthcare auditing body based in Sydney, Australia and
Auckland, New Zealand. The deal will see Q-Audit become part of BSI’s
assurance business and from will operate under the BSI brand. The acquisition of
Q-Audit strengthens BSI’s expansion of its healthcare services certification
business in both the Australian and New Zealand market, supporting BSI’s
international growth strategy. This investment, combined with BSI’s recent
acquisition of HDANZ in August 2019, boosts the organization’s ambition to
become the principal certification body in both the New Zealand and Australian
Healthcare Services markets. Q-Audit began operating in 1993 under the name
Health Audit Group and rebranded in 2017 to reflect its mission to be true
‘Purveyors of Quality’. With clients across Australia and New Zealand, it
predominantly provides health services related to disability employment,
advocacy, mental health, private clinics, hospitals and other profit / not for profit
providers.
Chief Executive at BSI says, “This acquisition is reflective of our key
strategic aim – to build on our existing expertise in the region through our
services in Australia and New Zealand. It is a positive step towards achieving
our ambition of becoming the region’s leading provider in the healthcare
sector and BSI’s global expertise will perfectly complement Q-Audit’s
in-depth local knowledge. Crucially, the strategic fit between our two firms
will add value to our respective client bases, helping them unlock excellence
and become more resilient and trusted.”
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Cognizant Completes Acquisition of Magenic Technologies, Broadening Its
Global Software Product Engineering Network
Cognizant has completed the previously announced acquisition of Magenic Technologies, a privately held custom
software development services company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The acquisition expands
Cognizant’s software product engineering footprint, adding 475 employees in the U.S. across seven locations, and
more than 350 employees in Manila, Philippines. Working across a range of industries, Magenic provides Agile
software and cloud development, DevOps, experience design, and advisory services. Custom solutions for Fortune
500 clients and others include re-architecting and migrating products to the cloud, building customer-facing web apps,
creating APIs, and designing secure payment processing systems. Magenic is Cognizant's third acquisition in 2021,
and the 12th announced since January 2020, to expand in key strategic focus areas: digital engineering, data and
artificial intelligence, cloud, and the Internet of Things.
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Genpact Acquires Industry-Leading Data Engineering and Analytics Firm Enquero
to Drive the Next Generation of Enterprise Digital Transformation
Genpact a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital
transformation, announced that it has acquired Enquero, a firm that offers data
engineering and data-led digital transformation services. This acquisition comes
as businesses are contending with an ever-increasing volume and complexity of
data – external and internal, structured and unstructured. In an environment where
organizations across industries and geographies are experiencing unprecedented
volatility — from supply and demand challenges to seismic shifts in customer
expectations and business models – the smart use of data at the core of an
organization will be critical to business growth. With notable strengths in
industries such as high tech and consumer goods, Enquero extends Genpact's
strong foundation of existing capabilities in delivering end-to-end transformation
to enterprise clients. These capabilities make the acquisition of Enquero
especially timely as many businesses are looking to harness data, cloud
technologies, and analytics to drive growth and be more resilient, agile, and
connected.
" announcement increases the scale and depth of our data and analytics teams
and further enhances our capabilities to accelerate the digital transformation
journeys of our clients," said chief executive officer of Genpact. "I am excited
that Arvinder Pal Singh and the very talented Enquero team are joining
Genpact at a time when we are seeing strong demand from our clients for
exactly these types of solutions to help them navigate and win in challenging
markets."
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Baring Private Equity Asia Completes Acquisition of Virtusa
Baring Private Equity Asia and its affiliated funds announced that BPEA has
successfully completed the acquisition and privatization of Virtusa Corporation a
global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering, and IT services and
solutions that help clients change and disrupt markets through innovation
engineering. In conjunction with the closing, Virtusa’s common stock will cease
trading before the market opens on February 11, 2021 and the Company will no
longer be listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Virtusa will operate as a
privately held company. Following the take private, Virtusa’s strategy will remain
focused on building on its high performing technical talent base and investing in
new digital capabilities to enable clients to drive their cloud and digital
transformation agenda. Virtusa’s management team and its shareholders remain
committed to delivering innovative, high-quality technology outcomes for its
clients and maintaining the highest corporate governance standards.
Managing Director of BPEA, said, “Tech enablement is driving the evolution
and transformation of the global business environment at an unprecedented
pace, creating new opportunities as well as complexities. Virtusa’s global
team of talented professionals, deep domain expertise, and digital capabilities
provide a unique ability to help enterprises accelerate their most important
digital and cloud transformation initiatives. We are excited to partner with
Virtusa in the next phase of its evolution.”
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Atos and HDF energy to develop the first green hydrogen datacenter
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Atos and HDF Energy announce their plan to develop a complete end-to-end long-term solution to supply datacenters with green hydrogen
generated by renewable energy. The new solution by Atos and HDF will be the first available on the market for datacenters with heavy power
consuming workloads, with the aim to demonstrate, in 2023, a first full production center operated using green hydrogen. Atos will provide a
complete end-to-end green datacenter solution by designing and providing the hardware, software and integration services that make it possible to
exploit the electricity produced by green hydrogen so that it can be used in datacenters. This includes using the most advanced Artificial
Intelligence (AI) technologies to optimize energy consumption. HDF Energy will supply a power plant, which will provide predictable and firm
electricity thanks to its high-powered fuel cells. These cells will be powered by green hydrogen derived from photovoltaic or wind farms.
Datacenters have high energy needs, operate 24/7, 365 days a year, and cannot experience the slightest energy flaw. Therefore, the approach taken
by Atos and HDF is particularly ambitious, as by its very nature, solar or wind energy is clean but intermittent, variable in its production and
unpredictable, making it an unstable energy. At a time when datacenter energy consumption is becoming a key issue and it is essential to consider
new energy models, this new solution from Atos and HDF will enable datacenter operators and cloud operators to anticipate potential future
constraints set by regulation authorities and offer a sustainable but reliable solution to their customers, with no compromise on their business.

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New electric vehicle standards to advance UK battery manufacturing in
support of cleaner transport
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BSI, in its role as the UK National Standards Body, has published two standards as part of the Faraday Battery Challenge
Standardization Programme to help support the UK’s Electric Vehicle capability. The standards are an important step in
creating a sustainable UK battery manufacturing supply chain and will help prepare for the phasing out of diesel and petrol
vehicles by 2030. The new standards underpin innovation and enables consistent practices in the production of batteries
and the development of battery technology with guidance on health, safety and environmental considerations in battery
manufacturing and use. They will support the industry by providing good practice and efficiencies as it works towards its
self-sufficient battery manufacturing target in 2035, whilst supporting UK’s wider transport decarbonization and Net Zero
by 2050 ambitions.

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EY announces extension of blockchain solution deployment in China on Ethereum and Financial Blockchain
Shenzhen Consortium Blockchain Open-Source platform in cooperation with Blockchain Service Network.
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EY announces it has joined the Financial Blockchain Shenzhen Consortium (FISCO), a non-profit organization dedicated to the use of blockchain
for financial applications. EY teams will use Blockchain Service Network (BSN) to offer EY Blockchain Analyzer and EY OpsChain to users in
China and across the EY Asia-Pacific region on the FISCO BCOS platform. EY teams will also use BSN’s forthcoming controlled-access service
to help enable regulatory-compliant access to the Ethereum network in China. Decision-makers in China are prioritizing blockchain for digital
transformation – 73% of respondents say that blockchain will be very or extremely important for their firms’business and strategic priorities in the
next 12 months1. EY teams are leveraging the FISCO BCOS platform to broaden the availability of its blockchain solutions in the Chinese market.
BCOS runs on BSN, a global blockchain hosting and applications platform. EY OpsChain will be the first EY solution deployed on BSN, including
procurement and traceability functions for enterprise users. EY teams will use BSN to complete the integration and deployment of EY Blockchain
Analyzer for blockchain analytics and financial statement audit. Initial availability will focus on the planned open permissioned version of
Ethereum in China with a future extension to a controlled access version of the Ethereum network across the globe when it becomes available.
Service availability will be subject to regulatory approval. Once deployed, all services will be available through blockchain.ey.com.cn.

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Zensar launches integrated Digital XDR as a Service to counter new and
emerging threats
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Zensar, a leading digital solutions and technology services company, announced the launch of its integrated Digital XDR solution as
part of its Digital Foundation Services offerings. Due to the continued rise in remote working, there is a marked increase of security
and risk threats to enterprises globally. Zensar’s XDR solution provides organizations with adaptive expert intelligence and threat
prediction capabilities by prioritizing the business risk tailored to their environment. Zensar’s XDR as a Service is a fully managed
service model combining scalability with a strong and secure hosted service that can be delivered within hours, providing fast
detection and response against factors including Indicators of Compromise (IoC) and Indicators of Attack (IoA). XDR also provides
contextual, actionable alerts through a single pane of glass, offering a prioritized view of cybersecurity risk profile and compliance
status; as well as identifying incidents that pose the biggest threat. This offering eliminates the need for expensive hardware
appliances and provides usage-based threat detection and hunting services and generates audit reports allowing clients to pay based
on OPEX. As part of the offering, clients typically receive a custom playbook and industry-specific relevant use cases and threat
intelligence information with built-in hunting capabilities.

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CGI's Momentum® goes live at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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CGI announced the successful implementation of CGI's Momentum® Enterprise Solution at the U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA). The implementation is the first wave of VA's Financial Management Business Transformation (FMBT) program
that will modernize financial management and acquisitions throughout the Department. VA reached this critical
accomplishment through VA leadership and a talented, dedicated program team working in partnership with CGI, who
worked as the lead integrator leveraging their federal business process and organizational change management expertise.
Exclusively designed to support U.S. federal government clients, CGI's Momentum flexibly supports the full federal
financial, budget, asset and procurement management lifecycles. The FMBT program provides a modern, integrated solution
with transformative business processes and capabilities that enables VA to meet its goals and objectives in compliance with
legislation and directives. The first phase of this multi-year implementation began at the National Cemetery Administration
and will continue at the two other VAAdministrations and Staff Offices over the next seven years.

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BSI certifies first AIMD product to the Medical Devices Regulation
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BSI announced that it has certified its first Active Implantable Medical Device (AIMD) products, Abbott’s neuromodulation clinician
programmer app and its patient controller app for use on compatible personal Apple‡ smartphone devices, to the Medical Devices
Regulation (MDR) (EU 2017/745) via its Notified Body in The Netherlands (2797). All Active Implantable Medical Devices and their
accessories are classified as Class III and subject to the most rigorous regulatory controls. The BSI certificate is our first to meet the EU
Technical Documentation Assessment Certificate, Regulation (EU) 2017/745, Annex IX, Chapter II. Abbott’s Clinician Programmer app
enables clinicians to create customized therapy for neurological conditions, including chronic pain or movement disorders, and the
Patient Controller app helps patients manage their prescribed stimulation programs. This certification allows Abbott’s portfolio of
neuromodulation devices, including Infinity™ DBS System for patients with Parkinson's disease or disabling tremor, as well as Proclaim
™ XR SCS System and Proclaim™ DRG Neurostimulation System for patients living with chronic pain, to be controlled from a tablet
or mobile phone. This integration across all Abbott neuromodulation technologies will allow patients to more seamlessly interact with
their physicians, enabling enhanced communication and better management.
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Infosys Recognized as One of World's Most Ethical Companies by
Ethisphere Institute
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Infosys a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, announced that it has been recognized by
Ethisphere Institute, the global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices, as one of the
world’s most ethical companies for 2021. Infosys was distinguished for its undiluted commitment towards integrity and
making value-based decisions. Through this coveted recognition, Infosys has become one of only four honorees in the
Software & Services Industry globally, and one of the only three honorees in India. In 2021, 135 honorees were recognized
spanning 22 countries and 47 industries. This year, the process was streamlined, and question set expanded to gauge how
companies are adapting and responding to the global health pandemic, environmental, social and governance factors,
safety, equity, inclusion, and social justice. Infosys showcased a strong connection between ethical practices and solid
performance in the global market. The recognition additionally spotlighted Infosys in the areas of ethics and compliance,
diversity, governance, and social initiatives.
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Genpact Named One of World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
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Genpact a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, announced it has received one
of the 2021 World's Most Ethical Companies awards, presented by the Ethisphere Institute, a global leader in defining
and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. This is the third year that Ethisphere has recognized Genpact,
which is one of only four honorees in the consulting services category for 2021. The award emphasizes the quality of
Genpact's ethics and compliance program, organizational culture, corporate citizenship and responsibility, governance,
leadership, innovation, and reputation. Ethisphere also recognizes Genpact for demonstrating the connection between
good ethical practices and performance.
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HCL Technologies Named A Prestigious World’s Best Employer By
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HCL Technologies, (HCL), a leading global technology company, has been named by Forbes as one of The World’s Best Employers for
2020, honoring HCL among the top global employers in the world. In addition to being ranked number 30 on the list, HCL is recognized
as the only multinational company that is headquartered in India to be featured in the top 50. Forbes’ The World’s Best Employers for
2020 list recognizes the most admired workplaces around the world as voted by the people who know them best – their employees. HCL
is recognized for its outstanding work environment in every assessment category, including employee satisfaction with the company’s
COVID-19 response, as well as the company’s image, economic footprint, talent development and career opportunities, gender equality
and social responsibility. Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista to compile the ranking by surveying 160,000 full-time and
part-time workers from 58 countries that are working for businesses with operations in multiple nations or regions. Surveys were
conducted on a rolling basis from June to July 2020 and participants were asked to rate their willingness to recommend their own
employers to friends and family, while ranking their satisfaction with their employers in multiple categories that are important to today’s
modern and competitive work environment. The complete list features 750 global corporations headquartered in 45 countries.
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HCL Technologies Wins Prestigious Quality Award From Cisco
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HCL Technologies Ltd (HCL), a leading global technology company, announced it has been named a winner of the
prestigious Quality Award at the 2020 Annual Cisco Procurement Supplier Day. HCL was recognized for its
Engineering and R&D services provided to Cisco, including its execution, agility and highest quality delivered during
these difficult times. In addition to its services, HCL was awarded for its commitment and competencies as it quickly
scaled to ensure Cisco’s business continuity without any impact to Cisco’s product engineering roadmap during the
disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This recognition reinforces the deep trust that Cisco places in its
25-year partnership with HCL. Starting as a co-innovation and engineering services partner, HCL’s relationship with
Cisco has evolved to focus on value creation, jointly delivering next-generation engineering solutions and services
across multiple product lines.
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UST Named a Top Employer 2021 in Eight Countries
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UST, a leading digital transformation solutions company, has been certified as a Top Employer in the US, United Kingdom, Malaysia,
India, Mexico, Spain, Singapore, and the Philippines for 2021 by the Top Employers Institute (TEI), the global authority on
recognizing excellence in people practices in the workplace. The Top Employers Institute assesses HR best practices worldwide. It
recognizes the world’s leading employers to provide employees with the best working conditions and opportunities for personal and
professional development. The program has certified and recognized more than 1,600 Top Employers in 120 countries across five
continents since its establishment 30 years ago. Since first embarking on the annual certification program in 2018, UST has continued
to improve year-on-year across all measured criteria, including employee offerings around Talent Strategy, Leadership Development,
Workforce Planning, Career & Succession Management, On-Boarding, Compensation & Benefits, Learning & Development,
Culture, and Performance Management amongst others. In addition to the Top Employers certification, UST was also recognized by
Great Place to Work™, the world's foremost authority on workplace culture, in India, UK, and the US. The company was also
honored with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award, for being one of the Top 100 Best Places to Work in 2020.
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Zensar wins 2021 BIG Innovation Award for Technology
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Zensar Technologies, a leading digital solutions and technology services company, announced that it has been named a
winner in the 2021 BIG Innovation Awards for Technology. Its innovation hub, Zenlabs, has been recognized for its
client-centric solution accelerators. This annual business award recognizes organizations, products, and people bringing
new ideas to life in innovative ways. Zenlabs, which is the innovation research hub of Zensar, won this recognition for its
work on building client-focused solutions across next-generation technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), distributed
ledger technologies such as blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), augmented (AR), and virtual reality (VR). The team at
Zenlabs consists of PhDs, researchers, and scholars who work on applicative research, co-innovation, and accelerators to
scale these technologies. Zenlabs accelerators enable clients to co-create with the option to set up their own centers of
excellence. Clients can concentrate on the functional problems they are trying to solve using these technologies and
accelerate the implementation and discovery process.
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Wipro recognized as one of World’s Most Ethical Companies for the tenth
consecutive year
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Wipro Limited a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, announced that it has been recognized
by the Ethisphere Institute®, as one of the world’s most ethical companies for the tenth year in succession. The Ethisphere® Institute, the global
leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices, has announced the list of 135 companies representing 47 industries
from across 22 countries who have earned their place in the coveted 2021 World’s Most Ethical Companies® list. The World's Most Ethical
Companies honour is reserved for only those companies that prioritise ethical behaviour and understand the correlation between values-based
leadership and overall business success. The recognition is a testimony to the company’s unwavering commitment to integrity, fairness and
transparency backed by strong values which has made it a trusted global brand. The World’s Most Ethical Companies assessment is based upon
the Ethisphere Institute’s Ethics Quotient® (EQ) framework that analyses over 200 data points on parameters such as culture, environmental and
social practices, ethics and compliance activities, governance, diversity and initiatives to support a strong value chain. The process captures the
best practices of the global organizations and presents each company with a comprehensive analytical scorecard. This year, the process was
streamlined, and the question set expanded to gauge how applicants are adapting and responding to the global health pandemic, environmental,
social, and governance factors, safety, equity, and inclusion, and social justice.
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Wipro included in 2021 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index
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Wipro Limited a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company,
announced that it has been included in the 2021 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI). Wipro is one of 380
companies across 11 sectors included in the 2021 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI). This is the second
consecutive year that Wipro has been included in the Index. The GEI brings transparency to gender-related practices
and policies at publicly listed companies increasing the breadth of environmental, social, governance (ESG) data
available to investors. The comprehensive, transparent GEI scoring methodology allows investors to assess company
performance and compare across industry peer groups. The reference index measures gender equality across five
pillars: female leadership and talent pipeline, equal pay and gender pay parity, inclusive culture, sexual harassment
policies, and pro-women brand.
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Wipro recognized as Top Employer 2021 in Brazil
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Wipro Limited a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, announced
that it has been recognized by the Top Employers Institute as a Top Employer in Brazil, for 2021. The Top Employers
Institute program certifies organizations based on their HR Best Practices Survey covering six Human Resources
domains consisting of 20 topics such as People Strategy, Work Environment, Talent Acquisition, Learning, Well-being,
Diversity, Inclusion, and more. This certification showcases an organization’s dedication to a better world of work and
exhibition through excellent HR policies and people practices. Wipro has built a significant presence in Latin America
over 14 years with offices across seven countries in the region - Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and
Costa Rica. Wipro has been certified with a high score in People Management – which is pertinent to the company’s
commitment to provide the best of its global experience to talent and vision to grow operations in the region.
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Shiseido Selects Accenture to Help Accelerate Its Digital Transformation
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Accenture has agreed on a strategic partnership with Shiseido Group, a Japan-based multinational beauty company, to help Shiseido accelerate its digital
transformation so it can more quickly respond to rapidly changing customer and market demands. Accenture will help improve Shiseido’s digital business
model by providing a range of services designed to drive an enterprise-wide transformation of Shiseido, which operates in approximately 120 countries.
These include helping design, develop and implement a cloud-based global information and communications technology (ICT) system that makes data more
visible and accessible across the organization, supports innovation across the entire company, and enhances the digital capabilities of its workforce. The ICT
system will help Shiseido adopt processes that enable continuous financial reporting, better forecasting accuracy, and more precise inventory management
— all of which are essential for the realization of digital transformation and give the company the ability to adapt to fluctuations across its global supply
chain. As part of its work, Accenture will deliver state-of-the-art capabilities that combine its expertise in AI, analytics and automation to create new business
value for Shiseido. By reimagining Shiseido’s business to fuse online and offline experiences, Accenture will help Shiseido create personalized and seamless
customer experiences, such as product recommendations based on previous purchases. With an eye toward upskilling its future workforce, Accenture will
also conduct training sessions tailored to the skills and interests of Shiseido’s employees, drawing from its expertise in digital transformation management,
artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies to ensure that Shiseido’s workforce has the skills and agility needed in the digital era.
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Atos boosts supercomputing power by 10 for Spanish State Meteorological
Agency AEMET
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Atos announces that it has been selected by the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) to supply and install its
computing and storage technology, through the tender “Contracting of Supply through leasing without the option to
purchase a Supercomputing System for the AEMET”. Based on the BullSequana supercomputing architecture from Atos,
the new supercomputer will provide almost ten times more computing capacity than the current one which was installed
in the 2014. This new supercomputer will reinforce and expand AEMET’s current computing capabilities to boost research
in different areas such as weather forecasting, climate change, wave prediction and support its collaboration with
international organizations. Additionally, it supports AEMET meet the new strategic, technological and service provision
challenges, such as preparing, supplying and disseminating meteorological information and forecasts, in its 2019-21
Action Plan, thereby consolidating its presence as one of the main meteorological centers in Europe.
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Atos, Axione and Siemens to manage multi-service network and monitoring
of three new metro lines in Paris
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Atos, Axione and Siemens have been awarded the contract to supply, implement and maintain the multi-service network and video surveillance system for three
of the four future Parisian metro lines (15, 16 and 17) which are part of « Grand Paris Express », the largest urban transport project in Europe. The project includes
the construction of an automatic metro around Paris to avoid passing through the center of the French capital. The contract awarded to Atos, Axione and Siemens
is worth €153 million and will continue until the construction of the Grand Paris Express is completed. The new automatic metro lines (underground and
overground), which will span 129 km and have 49 stations, will serve not only business and residential districts and airports, but also numerous local amenities.
These transport lines will help create a new dynamic by increasing economic and social opportunities in the Paris region and beyond. For this ambitious project,
Atos, Axione and Siemens will bring together their industrial and technological expertise in the design, construction, implementation and deployment of the
network infrastructures, datacenters, and access control and intrusion detection technologies. They will also manage telephony, air quality monitoring and
intelligent video surveillance solutions. Finally, they will ensure the digital security of all systems. All these services will support the construction of the
infrastructure over a long-term period. The three companies are committed to supporting the Société du Grand Paris throughout the duration of the contract with
this proactive environmental approach to develop a modern and reliable public transportation network. This project shows how the expertise of the three companies
could also be used to benefit other local ecosystems, in the areas of mobility services, decarbonization policies or urban planning.
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Developing advanced military GPS receivers and chips
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BAE Systems received a $247 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center to design and manufacture an
advanced military GPS receiver and next-generation semiconductor. The technology will provide positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT)
capabilities to warfighters so they can execute missions in challenging electromagnetic environments. The Military GPS User Equipment
Increment 2 Miniature Serial Interface program will provide improved capabilities for size-constrained and power-constrained military GPS
applications, including precision-guided munitions and battery-powered handheld devices. The program will focus on the certification of an
advanced application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and the development of an ultra-small, low-power GPS module. Both products will work
with the next-generation military M-Code signal technology, which provides reliable GPS data with anti-jamming and anti-spoofing capabilities
to protect against electronic warfare threats. BAE Systems’ Precision Strike business has 45 years of military GPS experience and more than 1.5
million GPS devices on over 280 platforms around the world. The company is currently producing M-Code GPS receivers in multiple form factors,
including the lowest power, smallest form factor M-Code solution available on the market today. Additional prototypes are in development for
ground, weapons, and airborne mission applications, and the company’s M-Code GPS products are available to U.S. allies via Foreign Military
Sales.
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U.S. Marine Corps awards BAE Systems $184 million for additional
ACVs
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Amphibious Combat Vehicle swimming in front of ship during testing in Pacific Ocean. BAE Systems has received a $184 million contract option
from the U.S. Marine Corps for more Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV) under full-rate production. The order demonstrates the Marine Corps’
confidence in a program that is on track to deliver this critical capability to the Marines. This contract award will cover production, fielding, and
support costs for the ACV personnel carrier (ACV-P) variant. BAE Systems was awarded the first full-rate production contract option in December
for the first 36 vehicles. This option on that contract increases the total number of vehicles under full-rate production to 72, for a total value of $366
million. The ACV is a highly mobile, survivable, and adaptable platform for conducting rapid ship-to-shore operations and brings enhanced
combat power to the battlefield. BAE Systems is under contract to deliver two variants to the Marine Corps under the ACV Family of Vehicles
program: the ACV-P and the ACV command variant (ACV-C). A 30mm cannon (ACV-30) is currently under contract for design and development
and a recovery variant (ACV-R) is also planned. The Marine Corps selected BAE Systems along with teammate Iveco Defence Vehicles for the
ACV program in 2018 to replace its legacy fleet of Assault Amphibious Vehicles (AAV), also built by BAE Systems. BAE Systems was also
recently awarded an indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract worth up to $77 million for the ACV program that includes the
provision of spare and replacement parts, testing equipment, and other services.
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BAE Systems naval guns selected for Belgian and Dutch navies
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BAE Systems has been selected to supply 12 Bofors 40 Mk4 naval guns to the Belgian and Dutch navies as part of the Mine
Counter Measures Vessels (MCMV) program. The shipbuilding company Kership will install the guns on the fleet of 12 mine
hunting vessels – six for Belgium, six for the Netherlands – with the first ship scheduled for delivery to the Belgian Navy in 2024.
The Bofors 40 Mk4 is a flexible, highly versatile gun system designed to react quickly in coastal environments. Lightweight and
compact, the naval gun system combines long range and a high rate of fire, giving the mine hunting vessels a greater level of
defense against surface, air, and shore-based threats. Offering high survivability and tactical freedom at all levels of conflict, the
Bofors 40 Mk4 also provides optimized ammunition types, including the cost-efficient programmable 3P ammunition. The ability
to automatically switch between different types of ammunition gives a high level of combat flexibility in the face of new threats
such as UAVs. The Bofors 40 Mk4 naval gun is the latest generation in the 40mm family and is used by numerous navies and
coast guards around the world. The system was most recently selected by Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
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BAE Systems to sustain Air Traffic Control systems with $65.7 million
contract from the US Navy
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BAE Systems will provide lifecycle, engineering, and sustainment support to ensure precision approaches and further enhance the safety
of America’s warfighters. The U.S. Navy selected BAE Systems for a five-year $65.7 million single-award indefinite delivery, indefinite
quantity contract for air traffic control (ATC) platform sustainment and engineering services. The company will continue to utilize its
engineering, technical, and operational expertise to develop, produce, equip, test, evaluate, sustain, and update key expeditionary ATC
aviation systems for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s (NAWCAD) Webster Outlying Field (WOLF). This new contract
continues BAE Systems’ more than a decade of supporting critical work on key systems, including the Standard Terminal Automation
Replacement System (STARS); Air Traffic Navigation, Integration, and Coordination System (ATNAVICS); Airfield Mobile Tactical Air
Navigation System (AMTAC); and ATNAVICS Data Link System (ADLS). Under the contract, the company will develop and maintain
operational software and supporting test beds, field change programs, and supplies for ATC systems. These systems are integral ATC tools
that enhance platform flight safety, especially when end users are operating in new or rough terrain airfields with no existing military
base.
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DTRA awards Leidos project to conduct clinical trials for COVID-19
therapeutics
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Leidos a FORTUNE® 500 science and technology leader, was recently awarded a new project agreement by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
(DTRA) to conduct clinical studies of therapeutics for treating COVID-19. The cost-plus-fixed-fee agreement was awarded through the Medical
CBRN Defense Consortium. It holds a base value of $22 million and a base period of performance of 24 months. Through this contract, Leidos
will use a new clinical trial prototype to enable real-time data collection, which will support rapid initiation, amendment and evaluation of studies.
Leidos will use the prototype to simultaneously conduct two clinical studies using new drug combinations to treat COVID-19. The studies will
seek safe and effective doses and regimens for coronavirus patients. The trials will also pursue enhancements to military success by improving
long-term lung function and reducing neurocognitive deficits caused by COVID-19. The Leidos trial prototype aims to enable quicker evaluations
and improvements as the study evolves. It uses an electronic data capture system to collect, evaluate and assess symptom severity as well as clinical
outcomes in real-time for patients. This could enable the trial’s data and safety monitoring board to quickly evaluate potential safety signals or
evidence of efficacy. The prototype is also designed to analyze the need for additional patients to show statistical significance. These evaluations
could improve potential Phase 3 studies and demonstrate efficacy using the selected drug combination.
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Virtusa Achieves AWS Well-Architected Partner Status
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Virtusa Corporation a global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering, and IT services and solutions that help
clients change and disrupt markets through innovation engineering, announced it has achieved Amazon Web Services
(AWS) Well-Architected Partner status. AWS recognizes Virtusa’s expertise in delivering AWS Well-Architected
reviews for existing application workloads and new applications based on AWS’ best practices and guidelines. To
receive the designation, AWS Partners must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS. By
achieving the AWS Well-Architected Partner status, Virtusa differentiates itself as an AWS Partner Network (APN)
member that provides specialized technical proficiency and proven customer success in identifying whether or not a
customer’s workload meets the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF). In doing so, Virtusa helps
clients leverage highly reliable and secure infrastructure at optimized costs.
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Accenture and Microsoft Collaborate to Help Accelerate U.K.’s Transition to
Net-Zero Carbon Emissions
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Accenture and Microsoft are teaming to help speed up the U.K.’s low-carbon transition. The companies, in conjunction with their joint
venture, Avanade, will work together to help utility and energy companies transform the energy system and lower the cost of
decarbonizing the supply and demand of electricity in the U.K., underpinned by open data, artificial intelligence (AI) and a digital
workforce. The U.K. is the first G7 country to legislate for a net-zero target for carbon emissions by 2050. Accenture, Microsoft and
Avanade will combine their unique capabilities across cloud, data and AI, coupled with their experience with internet of things, digital
twins and industry transformation, to help utility and energy companies support the UK’s low-carbon ambition. SSE Renewables, a
leading developer and operator of renewable energy across the UK and Ireland, is working with the companies to apply technology to
reimagine its operations. Analytics, AI and data visualization capabilities are being deployed on Microsoft Azure for scalability and
speed, empowering the company to generate actionable operational and commercial insights from diverse data sets. This helps SSE
Renewables to be more cost effective and increase the reliability and life of its renewable generation assets. The company is also using
AI to ensure wildlife is not adversely affected by its new windfarms.
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CGI and FashionCube agree on a 10-year partnership for managed
IT services, including IT transformation
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CGI has signed a 10-year managed IT services contract with FashionCube, which unites six leading fashion brands in the European
market. Under this contract, CGI will manage all of FashionCube's IT activities with the aim of maximizing synergies and
accelerating the transformation of member brands. This contract has a potential value of 96 million euros. FashionCube is an
economic entity that brings together six fashion brands: Pimkie, Jules, Bizzbee, Orsay, Grain de Malice and Rouge Gorge. Created
in 2017, FashionCube is an ecosystem in which each brand shares resources, know-how and innovations to maximize value creation.
In a very competitive and constantly evolving environment, FashionCube aims to drive the in-depth transformation of its brands to
achieve "Positive Impact Fashion." FashionCube has entrusted CGI with the operational management of all its IT activities, including
user services, application maintenance and upgrades, and operations and infrastructure upgrades. In this context, 61 employees of the
six brands will join CGI in four countries (France, Germany, Spain and Poland). The partnership also covers the construction of a
FashionCube information systems organization in the next three years.
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Accenture Launches New Business Group with VMware to Help Organizations
Move to the Cloud Faster
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Accenture and VMware announced an expanded partnership and the launch of a dedicated business group that will help organizations
adopt a ‘cloud first’ strategy — accelerating migration to the cloud, building modern apps more rapidly, and using the cloud as a
foundation for innovation and new business models, ultimately realizing greater value. The Accenture VMware Business Group
represents a new multi-year, multi-million-dollar investment from the two companies, which have a relationship spanning more than
two decades. The new business group brings together dedicated professionals with deep expertise in hybrid cloud and cloud
migrations, cloud native and application modernization and security across key industries. Supported by approximately 2,000
Accenture cloud professionals trained in VMware products and services, the Accenture VMware Business Group will help clients tap
into the powerful capabilities and elasticity of the cloud — which has become essential to quickly scaling business services, operating
efficiently and enabling innovation at scale. The new business group is part of Accenture Cloud First, which Accenture launched in
2020 with a $3 billion investment in new capabilities, solutions, partnerships and client engagements to help clients shape, move and
operate their businesses in the cloud.
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Australian Institute of Marine Science and Accenture Join Forces to Advance
Coral Reef Monitoring and Conservation
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Australia’s tropical marine research agency, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and Accenture are working together to
accelerate global efforts to protect coral reefs. The collaboration supports AIMS’ wider coral reef monitoring efforts as the teams seek to
transform the technology used to monitor, collate and analyze data to help improve the sustainable management of these fragile marine
ecosystems. Following an initial phase of experimentation at The Dock, Accenture’s flagship R&D and global innovation center, the
project is focused on integrating cutting edge techniques in areas including cloud computing, artificial intelligence and data analytics into
the applications that AIMS uses to monitor coral reefs. This will enable reef scientists to share data faster, foster collaboration between
scientists and organizations across countries and regions, and ultimately assist in conservation efforts. Reefs worldwide are under
pressure. The condition of many coral reefs around the world has declined as a result of the cumulative effects of global and local
challenges, through extreme weather events like marine heatwaves, tropical storms, ocean acidification, and chronic pollution. With
predictions that about 75% of coral reef globally may be severely threatened, not only are the habitats of a quarter of all marine life at
risk, but so too are the food sources, incomes and livelihoods that are central to the economic future for one billion people globally.
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BSI announces new partnership with Edgescan
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The Consulting Services team at BSI has announced a new partnership with Edgescan, providers of the award winning
Fullstack Vulnerability Management™ range of services, that will enable BSI client organizations to get the most from
their vulnerability scanning and management intelligence to proactively secure their business. By partnering with
leading technical solutions, BSI consultants are advancing their clients’ cyber resilience, delivering continuous
vulnerability intelligence, accurately identifying vulnerabilities and exposures across systems. Threats are verified by
BSI’s cybersecurity experts, providing risk and remediation guidance to clients. As elite partners, the new alliance will
enable BSI to offer Edgescan’s Continuous Vulnerability Management, API Security Assessments and Application
Testing services and solutions that can be tailored to meet a range of client priorities.
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CGI and OP Financial Group Expand Partnership to Include Digital Services
for Insurance
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CGI and OP Financial Group have signed an agreement that deepens their long-term application development and
management partnership, dating back to 2013. CGI will be responsible for developing and delivering digital services
for OP Financial Group's insurance operations. Since 2013, the partnership between CGI and OP Financial Group has
grown to include more than 600 CGI professionals working for OP Financial Group. More than 300 of these
professionals work in close proximity with their OP counterparts in Finland, with the remaining supporting from CGI's
global delivery centers.
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CAE expands strategic partnership with CGI
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CGI announced the signing of a renewed ten-year contract for application development, operations and support
services with CAE, a high-technology global leader in training for the civil aviation, defence and security, and
healthcare markets. As a long-term strategic partner since 2014, CGI has played a key role in CAE's digital
transformation, including the evolution of CAE's ERP strategy, helping drive value across its lines of business by
increasing the security, compliance, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of its day-to-day IT operations. This new
agreement expands CGI's engagement by adding a range of services to further enhance CAE's business agility,
innovation, and operational excellence. CGI will support CAE's leading edge technology environment helping
optimize the performance and evolution of the company's mission-critical business applications, including the
implementation and deployment of Oracle ERP Cloud.
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Cognizant Tees Up Global Men's and Women's Golf Partnerships with PGA
TOUR and LPGA Tour
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Cognizant, one of the world's leading professional services companies, announced it has partnered with both the PGA
TOUR and LPGA Tour to become a Global Partner of the Presidents Cup and a title partner of the LPGA Tour's
Founders Cup. By partnering with the Presidents Cup and LPGA Tour, Cognizant will add support for both men's and
women's golf while increasing its global awareness as the leading technology services partner for its clients. Cognizant
will also receive several benefits tied to each tour, including hosting unique client experiences – providing the company
with new opportunities to engage with existing and prospective customers.
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Cyient and eolos Partner to Launch “Design for Circularity” Consulting and
Engineering Practice.
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Cyient, a global engineering, manufacturing, and digital transformation and technology solutions company, announced
that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Berlin-based industrial consultancy and investment firm, eolos. eolos
helps businesses shift toward a sustainable, circular economy. Cyient and eolos will co-develop an engineering practice to
support industries in transitioning toward greater sustainability. The engineering practice will address the needs of
industries facing the most stringent changes in their standards and regulations by offering solutions for traceability,
material engineering (reduction, re-use, and regeneration), obsolescence management, and supply chain (including
packaging, disposal, and waste management). The primary focus will be on the rail, automotive, aerospace, and med-tech
industries with the ambition to grow in the other sectors. Both companies see this as a timely partnership as companies
increasingly look to reduce their carbon footprint and industries start to see business viability in having more sustainable
practices across the value chain.
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Datamatics, System Soft Technologies Announce Strategic Partnership to
Strengthen North American Presence
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Datamatics a global Digital Solutions, Technology and BPM company, and System Soft Technologies (SSTech), a leader
in enterprise IT services, solutions and products, are pleased to announce that they have entered into a strategic partnership
covering the North American region. The distribution agreement gives SSTech access to Datamatics’ Intelligent
Automation (IA) suite of products including TruAI, TruCap+ and TruBot. SSTech will leverage Datamatics IA products
to deploy automation with speed and scale for its enterprise customers. Datamatics is aggressively investing in expanding
its partner network and has more than 170 strategic partners globally. The partnership with SSTech will allow Datamatics
to expand its presence and increase the sales momentum in the North American region. It will also lead to faster
implementation and superior product support. As a U.S. Preferred Partner, SSTech will have complete access to
Datamatics' various product modules, platforms, training and technical programs. SSTech will have the advantage of
delivering end-to-end automation, leveraging Datamatics IA products.
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Massmart and Genpact Partner to Transform Finance Operations Leveraging
Digital Technology and Analytics
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Genpact a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, announced it is partnering
with Massmart, a leading retailer in Africa, to transform Massmart's finance operations, leveraging digital technology
and analytics to drive competitive growth. Genpact will transform and manage Massmart's finance and accounting
(F&A) services, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, and defined activities in financial control, tax,
treasury, and financial planning and analysis. Genpact will combine its industry-leading F&A capabilities with its
digital technology, domain and process expertise in retail and consumer goods, and experience managing operations
for numerous Global Fortune 500 companies to standardize and automate Massmart's processes. Genpact will help
Massmart reimagine finance operations, enabling new levels of transparency and real-time visibility into critical
functions. As a result, Massmart can unlock savings to reinvest in growth and continued innovation.
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Spirit AeroSystems Collaborates with Infosys to Integrate the IT Infrastructure
of its Recently Acquired Businesses
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Infosys the global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, announced a strategic collaboration with
Spirit AeroSystems, a leading aero structures manufacturer. Spirit has chosen Infosys as its lead technology integration
partner to help drive and set up the end-to-end applications and infrastructure integration of a few of Bombardier’s
former aerostructures and aftermarket services assets, which have been recently acquired by Spirit. As the exclusive IT
partner, Infosys will leverage its system integration expertise, ecosystem partners, and extensive knowledge of the
aviation sector to develop a robust IT framework, which will be built on infrastructure solutions powered by Infosys
Cobalt. Seamless IT integration is imperative for successful mergers and acquisitions. The partnership will enable
Spirit AeroSystems to empower stakeholders by transforming business applications and facilitating agile, resilient
operations on the cloud.
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Infosys Collaborates with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy to Digitally
Transform its Operations by Implementing SAP S/4HANA in 50+ Countries
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Infosys the global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, has been selected by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
(SGRE), a global leader in the renewable energy industry, as a strategic partner for SAP S/4HANA implementation to deliver a
globally harmonized ERP system. The implementation will enable Siemens Gamesa to become an agile, global organization driving
digitalization, while enhancing its digital capabilities, offering, and competitive positioning. Infosys successfully implemented a
Greenfield SAP S/4HANA solution across 7 countries, replacing 2 legacy ERP systems. Infosys and Siemens Gamesa teams
co-engineered and built a solution template that helped reduce redundancy across business processes and technology landscapes in
record time. The solution is designed to enhance business efficiency across the value chain and reduce time-to-market. This
transformation will enable real-time reporting, a digitally enabled workforce, reduced go-to-market time and is the core of Siemens
Gamesa’s next-generation applications landscape. Siemens Gamesa has further engaged Infosys for an industrialized rollout across
50+ countries, 22 manufacturing plants covering all business units (including onshore, offshore, services and corporate functions),
leveraging Infosys Cobalt.
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IBM Unveils Elite Hybrid Cloud Build Team Dedicated to Accelerating
Modernization Across Partner Ecosystem
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IBM unveiled its highly specialized Hybrid Cloud Build Team to support the migration and modernization of ecosystem partner products, services, and other offerings across
open hybrid cloud environments. Following the successful model of the IBM Data Science and AI Elite Team and the recent introduction of the IBM AIOps Elite Team, both
focused on artificial intelligence, the Hybrid Cloud Build Team concentrates on helping partners update their workloads for deployment on premises, in the cloud, or any
environment of their choosing. A recent IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) study that included responses from over 5,000 executives globally across industries found that
the adoption of hybrid cloud – the combination of public clouds, private clouds, and on-premises IT – is expected to grow by 47% in the next three years and the average
organization will be using six hybrid clouds. The report notes that the value derived from a full hybrid, multicloud platform technology and operating model is 2.5 times the
value derived from a single platform, single cloud vendor approach. IBM’s Hybrid Cloud Build Team was created to help partners maximize the value of an open hybrid cloud.
The elite engagement team consists of over 100 cloud architects, data scientists, cloud developers, security specialists, and developer advocates who work on the agile
co-creation of advanced technology solutions for partners and their clients. The team also advises partners how they can best accelerate the transition of their products, services
and other offerings to open hybrid cloud environments, including those in some of the most highly regulated and sensitive industries like financial services and
telecommunications. With deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, AWS and many more environments, the IBM Hybrid Cloud Build Team helps its ecosystem partners
revamp workloads across all cloud platforms and providers while infusing new technologies like AI, 5G, Kubernetes, blockchain, and edge to optimize business operations and
improve client outcomes. This process includes reviewing use of IBM hybrid cloud software, built on Red Hat OpenShift and designed to run anywhere – on premises, at the
edge, and on any cloud – to unlock the power of AI for business and maximize partner goals.
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Mindtree Achieves Google Cloud Partner Specialization in Application
Development
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Mindtree, a leading digital transformation and technology services company, announced that it has achieved the Application,
Development Partner Specialization in the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program. This specialization highlights Mindtree’s
expertise and success in building customer solutions in application development using Google Cloud technology. The Google
Cloud Partner Advantage Program is designed to provide Google Cloud customers with qualified partners that have demonstrated
technical proficiency and proven success in specialized solution and service areas. Earning this recognition highlights Mindtree’s
ability to successfully drive digitalization from cloud migration to application usage and modernization. Mindtree is a premier
Google Cloud partner, offering clients a complete spectrum of cloud services, including big data services, migration and
transformation, implementing SAP, data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning services. Through collaboration
with Google Cloud, Mindtree has strengthened its position as the go-to-partner for its customers to help with architecture, design,
and building solutions or platforms that can deliver faster, resilient, and reliable systems with a quicker time to market.
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Persistent and FinMkt partner to bring point of sale digital lending solutions
to banks and credit unions
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FinMkt, a best-in-class loan origination and point of sale (POS) financing SaaS provider, has announced its partnership with Persistent,
a leading global solutions company that delivers digital business acceleration, enterprise modernization and next-generation product
engineering. The partnership will enable small and mid-sized financial institutions across the globe to accelerate their digital lending
strategies. Utilizing a powerful cloud-based digital banking solution will empower community banks and credit unions, enabling them to
seamlessly enter the POS lending market by directly originating loans or providing new POS capabilities for their merchant customers.
In 2020, FinMkt launched its award-winning multi-lender point of sale financing platform with second and third look waterfall
capabilities in home improvement, healthcare and retail. The technology has since been modularized to meet the varied needs of financial
institutions and enterprise partners. FinMkt’s proprietary and fully customizable Fintech as a Service offers end-to-end loan origination
technology including automated underwriting, compliance elements including KYC/AML and FCRA, loan allocation and credit
optimization engines as well as configurable risk models. FinMkt will also be ramping up its artificial intelligence and machine learning
(AI/ML) capabilities to provide financial institutions with valuable insights to better shape their credit policies.
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Wipro and Telefónica Germany / O2 Sign Radical IT Transformation
Partnership Agreement
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Wipro Limited a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company, announced a five-year
strategic partnership with Telefónica Germany / O2, a leading provider of mobile telecommunications, broadband and landline in
Germany. As a part of this contract, Wipro will work with Telefónica Germany / O2 and its wider ecosystem to transform its Business
Support Systems and associated Quality Assurance to enable superior customer experience and growth in the B2B market segment. This
Radical IT Transformation (RAITT) program brings Wipro and Telefónica Germany / O2 together to allow for risk-mitigated self-funded
transformation that will benefit both companies. The RAITT program will ensure that Telefónica Germany / O2 is well positioned to
modernise and launch a range of new offerings including 5G products and services. As 5G networks and new IoT connectivity solutions
start to roll out, this refresh provides not only an essential foundation for the new services but also enables new ways of work at a
significantly lower cost of ownership to Telefónica Germany / O2. Wipro will also invest in developing a state-of-the-art digital Business
Support platform that will fuel Telefónica Germany’s growth and provide the company with an outcome-based, committed plan.
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Kaiser Permanente Accelerates its Use of Cloud in Strategic Collaboration
with Accenture and Microsoft
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Kaiser Permanente is collaborating with Accenture and Microsoft Corp. to enhance its innovative, scalable hosted cloud
environment that supports its 12.4 million members and more than 85,000 clinicians. Together, these three companies will
accelerate Kaiser Permanente’s journey to improve their cloud capabilities. The work under this agreement will help Kaiser
Permanente continue to deliver relevant digital experiences for its members and clinicians. Digital health options are
expanding, and the need to quickly adapt to different patient expectations and new health challenges will guide the
collaboration. With stronger cloud computational power and data insights readily available to care teams, Kaiser Permanente
members will receive even more timely and personalized care, with data privacy and security continuing to be a top priority.
Kaiser Permanente will benefit from the well-established relationship between Microsoft and Accenture, as the two
companies have been working closely together for more than two decades to help organizations lead transformation in their
industries.
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Atos boosts its decarbonization ambition committing to Net Zero by 2028
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Atos announces that it is raising its decarbonization ambition to reach “net zero” by 2028. With this ambition, Atos is committing
to reducing the global carbon emissions under its control and influence by 50% by 2025[1] (scopes 1, 2, 3[2]), and to offset all its
residual emissions by 2028. Atos’ new trajectory is 22 years ahead of the 2050 target set by the Paris Agreement to limit global
warming to 2°C by 2050 above pre-industrial levels, and 7 years ahead of the target previously set by the Group. With this
ambition, Atos also commits to reach the SBTi target by 2025. The SBTi target on greenhouse gas emission reduction aims to
limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Atos’ target is 5 years ahead of both the most stringent SBTi
pathway and of the target previously set by the Group. The decision to raise its ambition was motivated by the success of Atos’
decarbonization plans, which have already materialized into a reduction of the Group’s global carbon emissions by 15% in
2020[3] (from 3.3 to 2.8 M Tons CO2), of which an estimated 10% is structural improvement in addition to the conjunctural
Covid-19 effect. It also reflects Atos’ commitment to further accelerate its customers’ digital decarbonization.
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Cyient Invests in AS9145 Supplier PPAP Platform to Support a Global Supply
Chain Rollout
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Cyient, a global engineering and digital technology solutions company, announced that it is investing in an AS9145 Supplier Production
Part Approval (PPAP) platform as part of its aerospace digitization offerings. Cyient will assist in selling, implementing, and supporting
the solution with the global rollout of the platform while also providing integration and customization services. The comprehensive effort
includes feet-on-the-street or Web meetings to help suppliers quickly understand the platform’s operational and financial benefits, as well
as the electronic submission of critical PPAP information. AS9145 establishes requirements for performing and documenting Advance
Product Quality Planning (APQP) and PPAP. APQP begins with conceptual product needs and extends through product definition,
production planning, product and process validation (i.e., PPAP), product use, and post-delivery service. The International Aerospace
Quality Group (IAQG) has published various spreadsheets to support the effort. The AS9145 supplier PPAP digitization effort is more
than a software effort; it is a comprehensive effort to help the aerospace industry understand why they need APQP when they have been
doing New Product Introduction (NPI) for a long time, and more recently, Zero Defects (ZD). And why they need to incur the cost of the
PPAP when First Article Inspection (FAI) has worked for decades.
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Health and social care to gain the most from 5G productivity and efficiency
gains, which will add US$1.3trillion to global GDP by 2030
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Productivity and efficiency gains enabled by 5G’s application will drive business, skills and service change worth US$1.3 trillion to
global GDP by 2030. In Powering Your Tomorrow, PwC quantifies for the first time, the economic impact of new and existing uses of 5G
in utilities, health and social care, consumer, media, and financial services across eight economies with advanced rollout: Australia,
China, Germany, India, Japan, South Korea, USA and the United Kingdom (UK). More than a faster version of mobile connectivity on
4G, 5G’s speed, reliability, reduced energy usage and massive connectivity will be transformative for businesses and wider society,
enabling ubiquitous access to super fast broadband. Used in combination with investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet
of things (IoT), 5G can be used as a platform to enable business and society to realise the full benefits of emerging technology advances.
Economic gains are projected across all economies assessed in the study, as 5G offers the potential to rethink business models, skills,
products and services, with the gains accelerating beginning in 2025 as 5G-enabled applications become more widespread, Based on the
study, the USA (US$484bn), China (US$220bn) and Japan (US$76bn) will experience the largest uplift as a result of 5G technology
applications, due to the size of their economies and strong modern industrial production sectors.
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