Made essential in the aftermath of COVID-19, businesses in North America have few options but to modernize their data management and analytical models, suggests Bret Greenstein, SVP of Cognizant’s Global Data Practice.

India's brutal second wave of COVID-19 calls for urgent action. Companies are answering that call by supporting UNICEF's emergency response.

Modernize with technology, an eye toward safety, personalized customer experiences and better data interpretation.

Planning is tough. By the time you’ve made a plan, you can guarantee something important has changed – and your plan needs to as well. And that’s probably only going to get tougher if people don’t adopt new tools to act faster, especially as organizations of all sizes are modernizing to stay relevant.

COVID-19 pushed us deeper into our digital addictions. Internet use rose 70%, and social media traffic surged, in some cases by 50%, compared with pre-lockdown levels and Zooming became the new buzzword of 2020.