Vikul Gupta - June 12, 2020 - 356 views

Over the last decade, DevOps has become the de facto model for software development. It fits well with the enterprise agenda of quickly delivering quality products and services and addressing customer expectations with frequent updates. With its use of automation, off-the-shelf tools and process orchestration, DevOps helps teams engineer quality from the ground-up, ensuring all […]

Edward Merchant - June 11, 2020 - 225 views

New norms borne of the COVID-19 pandemic – especially work from home and increased consumer use of digital channels – will change the nature of upcoming IT investments. Over the last few decades, I have led or advised on many technology projects triggered by shifts in political, regulatory, commercial or social norms. My observation is […]

Bruce J. Rogow - June 10, 2020 - 138 views

The current COVID-19 pause seems like a good time to assess what we mean when we talk about “disruption.” In my last blog, I suggested that much of the hype surrounding technology disruption was a red herring and that many of the usual suspects (Uber, Airbnb, Wayfair, etc.) actually reflect financial disruption within an industry […]

Hanadi Salameh - June 9, 2020 - 285 views

As pandemic lockdowns ease, companies are racing to modernize applications ahead of new waves of COVID-19 infections that could send developers home to work again. When application modernization is combined with the cloud, developers can work in “virtual teams” – at home or the office – to rapidly deliver quality software that meets evolving customer […]

Shelley Tiltman - June 8, 2020 - 596 views

You don’t come out just once – each time you change projects or teams, or start a new job, you come out all over again. And each time can feel just as scary as the one before. I’ve been out since I was 18. Yet when a client or someone outside of my team asks […]

Joe Haugh - June 5, 2020 - 324 views

2019 was a watershed year for life sciences manufacturing. It was a year when terms such as Industry 4.0, digitization, Internet of Things (IoT), advanced analytics and cybersecurity were at the forefront of all business discussions. As we moved into 2020, no one could have predicted the COVID-19 outbreak and lasting repercussions that have sent […]

Angela Merricks - June 5, 2020 - 213 views

When I started with this thing called “Agile,” it didn’t exist. At a time when it was barely gaining popularity, I was asked to learn more about this “method” so I could come back and teach my internal team the basics of being Agile. I took a class, and the rest is history – a […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted business across the globe. Retail stores, service centers and banks are closed or operating with new restrictions in place. Even as businesses begin a phased-in reopening, customers are relying on new channels to connect via voice, mobile, web, social and chat. Concurrently, organizations are finding it challenging to deliver the […]

Jennifer Green Godette - June 4, 2020 - 1587 views

As a diversity and inclusion (D&I) leader at Cognizant, I’m always planning for the next big D&I event. June, for instance, is filled with many Pride celebrations, virtual and otherwise. But instead of seeing coverage of upcoming LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations, I’m watching news coverage and having conversations with friends and family members about the senseless deaths of […]

Shantanu Chandra - June 3, 2020 - 479 views

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t new to the banking and financial services industry. Trades are executed by a robo-advisor; digital assistants answer queries on fixed-deposit interest rates via natural language processing; and credit scores for loan processing are tabulated within minutes by machine-learning algorithms. But as banks apply AI to make more informed and split-second business decisions, […]