Amresh Singh - July 1, 2020 - 119 views

With more people working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses need to extend their help desk and IT field support from the office to the home and everywhere in-between. This is true not only for in-band (software-based, attended and powered) IT devices but also for out-of-band (hardware-based, non-attended and non-powered) devices. But with limited […]

Snjezana Cvoro-Begovic - June 30, 2020 - 61 views

In business as in life, it’s natural to set goals. Many of us establish goals based on what we can accomplish in the short term, given the needed resources, assets and time. Others also embrace stretch goals, which help encourage us to be ambitious and focus on what’s most important. On the personal side, maybe […]

Sudhakar ChinnaswamyKamalanathan - June 29, 2020 - 114 views

For more than 20 years, I’ve helped clients implement identity and access management (IAM) systems that ensure only the right users have the right access to the right applications and data. Over that time, I’ve also seen organizations struggle to create online user experiences that make it easy for consumers to get information, solve problems […]

Jack Leach - June 26, 2020 - 139 views

As someone who has spent his entire career in banking and financial services – and who currently lives in one of the largest U.S. banking markets – it’s good to see that banks are part of the solution for the $2.2 trillion (yes, trillion with a “T”) CARES Act for combating the adverse economic impact […]

Anbu Muppidathi - June 25, 2020 - 90 views

A global crisis reorders priorities everywhere. Take the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which is increasing demand for valuable resources across the board, including IT. The need for digital capabilities, already constrained pre-COVID, is (with minimal notice) causing a rapid expansion in IT backlogs, which threatens business continuity. For example,  take the growing backlog of legacy application […]

Bret Greenstein - June 24, 2020 - 220 views

What if we had better models for prescribing solutions to catastrophic events when they occur, or even before they struck? As a society, we could address a severe food shortage or calculate the supplies needed to treat victims of an oncoming natural disaster. It would certainly improve the ability to sustain life as we know […]

Amresh Singh - June 22, 2020 - 410 views

With the advent of COVID-19, organizations are adopting new measures to support their expanding remote workforce. Work from home, which hasn’t traditionally been embraced by most employers, has boosted employee productivity as high as 47% in one study. This introduces a new challenge to the workplace: providing seamless IT support to remote employees with zero […]

Shameka Young - June 18, 2020 - 268 views

I let out a whoop of excitement when I heard Cognizant would observe Juneteenth as a company holiday for U.S. associates.  Hailing from Texas, where the historic June 19 announcement of slavery’s end occurred in 1865, I’ve celebrated Juneteenth annually since I was a child. Honoring it today as a company holiday feels like part […]

Douglas McCuaig - June 17, 2020 - 217 views

Banks’ shift to work from home (WFH) was fast. But their return to the workplace won’t be. For one thing, employees won’t return to the office en masse anytime soon, with many banks indicating plans to adhere to social distancing and limit on-site employees to 40% to 50% of pre-shutdown levels. For another, employee and […]

Holly Camlin - June 15, 2020 - 324 views

Anxiety is as much a part of the pandemic as masks. But for those of us experiencing moments of fear and uncertainty during this time, anxiety can also be an opportunity to grow in new and unexpected ways. This outlook is an important step forward, especially in the workplace, where the fallout from COVID-19 is […]