Accenture Simplifies Analytics for Businesses with Cloud-Based Insights Platform

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) is launching the Accenture Insights Platform, a cloud-based, end-to-end analytics solution designed to simplify analytics and deliver real-time, actionable insights to businesses for a competitive advantage.

Accenture Launches Advanced Analytics Applications Platform

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is launching the Accenture Analytics Applications Platform to develop industry- and function-specific advanced analytics applications, delivering actionable insights to users that enable swift data-driven decisions that can create a competitive advantage or an improved bottom line.

The Rise of the Data Lake in Support of the Industrial Internet (Part 2)

The data lake (see Part 1 of this two part series) is a facilitator of another new movement in the big data industry – the Industrial Internet, a term coined by General Electric that refers to the integration of complex physical machinery with networked sensors and software.

A View from GridGain on Apache Ignite

In this special guest feature, Nikita Ivanov of GridGain discusses his company’s entry into the Apache Software Foundation’s incubator program with their in-memory data fabric technology stack as “Apache Ignite.” Nikita Ivanov is CTO of GridGain.

New Survey from GE and Accenture Finds Growing Urgency for Big Data Analytics

A new global study, “Industrial Internet Insights for 2015,” from GE (NYSE: GE) and Accenture (NYSE:ACN) reveals there is a growing urgency for organizations to embrace big data analytics to advance their Industrial Internet strategy.

Accenture Study Shows Satisfaction with Business Outcomes from Big Data

Ninety-two percent of executives from companies that are applying big data to their businesses said they are satisfied with the results, according to new research by Accenture (NYSE: ACN).

Accenture Positioned as Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Analytics Services

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has been named a “Leader” in independent analyst firm Gartner Inc.’s first “Magic Quadrant for Business Analytics, Worldwide”1 and was positioned furthest within the Leaders quadrant on the “completeness of vision” axis and highest on the “ability to execute” axis.

Accenture and Hortonworks Join Forces to Help Businesses Manage Big Data

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has entered into an alliance agreement with Hortonworks, a leading contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache™ Hadoop®, in a further strategic move to build its big data and digital capabilities and bring big outcomes from big data and analytics to its clients.

Accenture Partners with Cloudera to Empower Enterprises with Data as a Platform Offering

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has entered into an alliance agreement with Cloudera, a leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache™ Hadoop®, to give clients access to Cloudera’s enterprise data hub. This big data platform will help clients to better utilize their big data and compete in today’s increasingly digital world.

Interview: Accenture Looks to Gather and Analyze Data at the ‘Speed of Now’

“The Democratization of Analytics doesn’t mean that every individual is or should be a data scientist, mathematician or statistician. Our solutions, products and services intend to make analytics and analytic capabilities more understandable and more available to individuals across the enterprise so they can operate more effectively and execute accurately. The Democratization of Analytics means that the enterprise can deliver more impactful outcomes, faster.”