The Consulting Report

With worldwide spending on artificial intelligence projected to reach $2.52 trillion this year, the initial corporate fascination with chatbots and pilot programs has turned into a high-stakes reckoning over cost. Companies are facing a steep financial hurdle: buying cloud computing infrastructure or software licenses is a straightforward capital expense, but turning those to...

Sudeep George believes that effective technology leadership cannot happen from a distance. Across a career spanning more than two decades in computer vision, custom silicon, computational imaging, and sensor fusion, his work has been guided by a consistent principle that strategy must be grounded in how complex systems are actually built, operated, and improved. Now, as Chief...

Rohini Kasturi has spent his career moving between the technical and commercial sides of enterprise software. An inventor with more than 20 patents, he has built cloud and security products, founded a technology company, led product organizations, and helped scale SaaS businesses. As CEO of HG Insights, he now leads a company using data and AI to help B2B technology firms und...

Accenture has launched a dedicated business unit, named Accenture Edge, to deliver right-sized artificial intelligence and technology solutions to mid-market companies generating annual revenues between $300 million and $3 billion. The newly created entity targets a global total addressable market estimated at $240 billion, which is expanding at a high single-digit growth rat...

Booz Allen Hamilton has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Ultra I&C Mission Solutions business from Cobham Ultra Group, an Advent portfolio company, for $720 million. The transaction shifts the tactical encryption and edge-compute supplier into a wholly owned subsidiary of the defense contracting giant. Financial expectations released by the buyer point t...