Why Accenture moved into 3D visualization production by acquiring Mackevision

Accenture is getting serious about helping its clients move into immersive media. The company, whose workforce of 425,000 consultants spans the globe, last week acquired Mackevision, a 3D visualization and production house in Germany that is known for its work on the visual effects for Game of Thrones. If that sounds like a strange move, […]

DIGITAL HEALTH BRIEFING: Apple Watch adding EKG monitoring feature — Theranos gets $100 million in financing — Accenture and Roche partner to improve tumor board solution

Welcome to Digital Health Briefing, a new morning email providing the latest news, data, and insight on how digital technology is disrupting the healthcare ecosystem, produced by BI Intelligence. Sign up and receive Digital Health Briefing free to your inbox. Have feedback? We’d like to hear from you. Write me at: aaouad@businessinsider.com WHY APPLE IS LOOKING TO BUILD EKG MONITORING INTO WATCH: Apple is developing […]

Accenture predicts the top tech stories of CES 2018

Each year, tech consulting giant Accenture makes predictions about the kind of technology we’ll see at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. I interviewed Greg Roberts, managing director for Accenture’s North American high-tech industry practice, about the predictions for CES 2018, the big tech trade show that will take place in Las Vegas in the second week of […]

Accenture aims to take AR and VR commerce into the mainstream

Virtual reality may be stalled with consumers, but it might be catching on with enterprises. That’s one of the messages delivered recently by the “extended reality” team at Accenture, the big tech and business consulting company. Extended reality applies to augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality applications. To see a company like Accenture embracing […]

Accenture left four servers of sensitive data completely unprotected

UpGuard has yet again uncovered a trove of corporate data left unprotected, this time from major consulting and management firm Accenture. The data — contained on four cloud-based storage servers — were discovered by UpGuard Director of Cyber Risk Research Chris Vickery in mid-September and weren’t protected by a password. Anyone with the servers’ web […]

Accenture has acquired one of the biggest digital agencies in Germany (ACN)

Accenture Interactive announced on Monday it is acquiring 62% of the German digital agency SinnerSchrader. The agency, which went public in 1999, was ranked the sixth biggest digital agency in Germany last year by the advertising news website Horizont. SinnerSchrader has 448 employees and generated $ 47 million in revenue in 2016. Accenture’s offer of $ […]