When you are one of the ‘Big Four’ accounting firms, the stability, security and quality of your network matters a lot. Your customers expect a seamless experience with the ability to access their data at any time and from any location. There isn’t a scenario where it is ever acceptable to be offline or for data to be unavailable. One of the challenges for a global professional firm providing audit, tax, and advisory services is [...]

Today’s world is digital. Business requires more innovation, new ways to improve the customer experience, and the ability to access company data from any location, in real-time. With advanced digital technologies, businesses are transforming the way they operate. Central to business transformation is the emergence of company data as the most important asset. Digital Transformation and Data Digital transformation isn't an overnight event. It takes strategic planning, investment, and a focused effort on continually evolving [...]

In the previous posts in this series, we presented the basic cryptographic concepts and components of blockchain technologies, and also discussed the role blockchain plays in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. While the allure of cryptocurrencies has brought fervent public fascination to blockchain, almost all related claims of fantastical use cases for products and applications of “Blockchain” are attempts to exploit the mystique manufactured from Bitcoin hype. Our posts provided concrete, specific, and detailed explanations supporting [...]

In the previous article, we discussed the basics of blockchain – namely, the fundamental concepts of hashes, asymmetric cryptography, and digital signatures. Hopefully that helped to demystify the “blockchain,” a concept which has been around forever. Its mundane, lonely existence is like all the other useful, yet boring technologies that are largely known only to the ranks of self-proclaimed “geeks.” The difference here is that the explosive rise of Bitcoin pushed blockchain into the mainstream, [...]