Philip Higginbotham, Grant Thornton’s national director of analytic services, has called on business leaders to “understand and implement a more sophisticated, forward-thinking form of analytics to get ahead.” Grant Thornton and the Financial Executives Research Foundation released on Tuesday a new report, which says organizations that adopt prescriptive data analytics improve their business performance. FERF and Grant Thornton conducted interviews with senior-level executives to […] More

Cisco has added at least 30 Intercloud Fabric partners and 250 data centers as the company pushes forward with its plans to build a global network of interconnected clouds to support the Internet of Everything. The company said Monday its partners – cloud providers, builders, aggregators and resellers as well as independent software vendors – deploy hybrid cloud infrastructure to support enterprise operations. Rob Lloyd, Cisco president […] More

Jose Molina, former managing director of Accenture‘s financial services industry practice, has been named a principal at Grant Thornton and head of the firm’s financial services advisory enterprise risk management practice. Molina’s appointment is part of Grant Thornton’s push to expand its financial services advisory practice, which also added former Bank of America executive Ilieva Ageenko as model risk management chief, the company said […] More

Creative Computing Solutions Inc., today announced it has been awarded a contract to support the Department of Veterans Affairs through the delivery of services to various offices across the nation. This task order is just one more award that CCSi has received under the VA’s Transformation Twenty-one Total Technology (T4) contract. “Veterans living in rural […] More

Deltek has named its GovCon Consulting Premier Partners and GovCon Services Premier Partners for 2014, the company’s highest classifications for its government contracting business partners providing sales, marketing and implementation support for Deltek solutions. The consulting firm said Friday its consulting partners have provided support in delivering Deltek’s enterprise resource planning solutions to government contractors, while the services partners have supported implementations of […] More

A new survey from Courion evaluated how the role of the information technology executive has changed and how the executive’s team tam function as a support system, Christopher Zannetos, president and CEO, said Tuesday. The report highlighted the multiple hats a chief information security officer wears as almost 60 percent of respondents see themselves as brand manager […] More

Neil Albert serves as vice chairman of MCR‘s board of directors where he oversees strategic growth, business development, community outreach and a number of other company functions. The 26-year company veteran is the former president and CEO and has served in many leadership roles at the McLean,Va.- based firm including VP and director. Albert caught […] More

Dr. Melvin Greer serves as senior fellow and chief strategist for service-oriented architecture and cloud computing at Lockheed Martin, where he brings more than 25 years of experience leading systems and software engineering efforts to the contractor’s advanced technology office. Greer is a principal investigator in advanced research studies, and has dedicated his efforts towards […] More

Grant Thornton has appointed three new partners to the firm’s partnership board and re-elected two other officials to continue their service on the board. The new partners and principals are Jeff Burgess, Nichole Jordan and Brad Preber, the company announced Tuesday. Burgess will serve as national managing partner of professional standards, while Jordan was appointed […] More