Monthly Archive:: August 2011
Does Accenture’s Acquisition of Zenta and Duck Creek Signal Industry Maturation?
On August 24, 2011 In Thought Leadership
In the last several days, Accenture – a firm that has largely focused on organic growth strategies and avoided significant inorganic expansion activities – announced two acquisitions: Zenta, a U.S. mortgage processing firm, and Duck Creek, a provider of software solutions for the property and casualty insurance industry. When Accenture does occasionally make acquisitions,
HP’s Strategic Decisions – What’s the Next Shoe to Drop?
On August 22, 2011 In Thought Leadership
In 1729, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and political pamphleteer Jonathan Swift penned a satirical paper suggesting that to prevent the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and to make them beneficial to the public, the Irish should eat their own children. Driving toward services leadership may
What If the Hackers Had Attacked Sony Through Microsoft Azure Instead of Amazon’s EC2?
On August 17, 2011 In Thought Leadership
There is widespread speculation that the recent attack on Sony was accomplished by utilizing credit card information stolen via compute resources purchased from Amazon’s EC2 cloud offering. This high profile incident has attracted attention in the mainstream press and in the blogosphere, underscoring the interconnected and anonymous nature of cloud computing, as well as