Application rationalization: A powerful catalyst for IT consolidation

whitePaper | June 23, 2020

Modern organizations face unprecedented threats to their critical information assets and data. In previous years, the mindset of many cybersecurity professionals and business leaders was focused on avoiding attacks and building a strong perimeter to deflect them. However, more recently this approach has shifted, and these leaders now understand that attacks are inevitable. With this fundamental shift in thinking, cybersecurity professionals must build strong incident response programs that are capable of detecting threats in a timely manner and responding effectively when they occur.

whitePaper | November 15, 2019

The demands of running global supply chains can be unrelenting – perfection of operations, innovation in support of lastmile delivery, and assurances of sustainability in the pursuit of delivering the “perfect order” as promised. Now, transportation companies face the additional challenge of sharpening their core competencies while increasing the pace of innovation, adapting emerging technologies, and sharing data with their customers to improve transparency and efficiency. Long characterized by capital-intensive assets, forward-looking cargo companies are turning their attention to the data that comes from their own assets and infrastructure as well as from their customers. It is a complex transition, one that requires knowledge-based labor, automation, and predictive planning to turn transportation companies into digital platforms.

whitePaper | August 11, 2020

Today, customer experience (CX) is about so much more than straight-up service, polite cashiers, hold times, or the number of business days it takes for a product to arrive in the mail. CX involves feelings, emotions, and encompasses your customers’ entire journey - from the moment they step foot in a store or visit a website until the moment they purchase from you again, tweet a positive shout out, or, on the flip side, reach out with an issue.

whitePaper | August 30, 2022

Traditional database management systems have become more essential than ever, as data volume, velocity, and variety all increase at breakneck speed. But the harsh truth is that legacy database management systems were never designed for a digital-first business climate shaped by such factors as cloud computing, pervasive mobility, microservices, new data sources, and cloud-native application development.

whitePaper | June 28, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been accelerating across sectors. It has great potential to benefit society but the technology’s full potential can only be realized if it includes the diversity of the populations it represents throughout every step of its development. With growing concerns about bias, data privacy and lack of representation, it is critical to re-evaluate the way in which AI is both designed and deployed to ensure that all affected stakeholders and communities reap the benefits of the technology, rather than any harm.

whitePaper | January 28, 2022

Since more and more decisions that used to be made by humans are nowadays made either with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or by AI alone, it is essential that the AI algorithms are “fair.” In this whitepaper, we discuss issues surrounding the fairness of AI applications, with a special focus on how it can be assessed independently and subsequently certified. We explain why an AI application cannot be classified – and subsequently certified – as “fair” or “unfair” in a general sense and propose an approach that makes it possible to classify it as “fair” or “unfair” under the (application)-specific definition of fairness.