Cognizant BrandVoice: Meet The New DIGITALL Stack

As advancements like digital humans, machine learning, robotic process automation and quantum computing fuse, captains of business will soon have the technological wherewithal to reach greater heights and fend off exogenous events says Ben Pring, chief futurist within Cognizant's Center for the Future of Work. The story of technology is the story of "stacks." From client/server and the Four Horsemen of the New Economy (Cisco, Sun, Oracle, EMC) to SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) to full stack, each wave of technology development and progress has been built on the interaction of different technologies that create something worth more than the sum of its parts. Now, a new stack is emerging with the potential to upend the IT industry again, in the way that new stacks always have, creating a new set of winners and losers in the process. The new stack -- DIGITALL -- is built on four key components: digital humans, machine learning, robotic process automation (RPA) and quantum computing.