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Part 2: Long-term trends We look ahead to survey the key trends that will be dominating quantum computing research in the new year and beyond. Part 2 focuses on the long-term trends In thisconcluding instalment of a two-part series on Quantum Computing trends, we discuss the mid- to long-term possibilities in the domain. Quantum trendsRead More

Business-to-business customer service expectations have undergone major changes over the past two years. First to digital-first is all that matters to stay competitive B2B (business-to-business) customer service organisations are noticing a major paradigm shift in the way business is conducted – customer service is gaining much more centrality than it ever did in the past.Read More

Economists have rather unceremoniously struggled with their forecasts. But can you really blame them? And in yet another rather dull revelation: economists have really struggled the past two years or so. Their forecasts have been all over the place, requiring constant revisions and almost never adequately hitting the mark. Truly, of all certainties, is thisRead More

New Accenture research finds it is now possible to identify the sourceof carbon emissions, enabling companies to take necessary actions Anything any company produces, in any part of the world, is most likely to have a natural resource component in it, that must be extracted from the planet – that is often the biggest sourceRead More

Edge AI use cases can help increase efficiency and reduce cost, making them a compelling place to focus new investments Supply chain challenges, labour shortages and economic uncertainty had companies re-evaluating their budgets for new technology. For many organizations, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is viewed as the solution to a lot of the uncertainty bringing improvedRead More

US-based video game developing giant EA Sports has now correctly predicted the winner of the FIFA World Cup the fourth time in a row. Coincidence or smart modelling? The good folk over at EA Sports do it by running thousands of simulations of the tournament games on its uber popular FIFA gaming franchise. But they’reRead More

Simulated meteorology and satellite dataprovide inputs for a recurrent neural network to accurately forecast up to twelve weeks into the future Up to 14 percent of cropland around the world has suffered from moderate to extreme levels of drought in 2022. This has had a significant effect on global agricultural supply chains, including decreased cropRead More

Part IV: Automation, AI and best practices This is the fourth and final article of a series on where data analytics stands today and what to look forward to in the coming year. Also read parts I, II and III for the types and key models. While most organisations today realise the value of dataRead More

Organisations must create risk mitigation strategies for the coming year, but at the same time be prepared for surprises that will need extreme agility to navigate The last two years have proved how resilient organisations have been. Most companies responded with great agility to a WFH (work-from-home) mode. Per a McKinsey survey, it took anRead More

Part 1: Near-term trends We look ahead to survey the key trends that will be dominating quantum computing research in the new year and beyond.Part 1 focuses on the near-term trends For the past couple of years, big names in the tech industry are in hot pursuit of quantum computing. Names like Airbus, Daimler, Google,Read More