Shipping group Maersk said on Thursday 94 companies and organizations have so far joined a blockchain platform developed with IBM aimed at boosting efficiency and limiting the enormous paper trail of global container shipping.

During the six-year lead-up to the May 25, 2018, effective date of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), much attention was focused on the onerous financial penalties for noncompliance.

Partnering with the right provider brought UTILCO data it had never seen before, which enabled better forecasting, smart equipment purchases, and quantifiable vendor performance management.

Dada-JD Daojia has raised $500m from existing backers JD.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. to quicken the growth of its delivery network across China.

Are businesses surfing the wave of big data? Or are they drowning in it?

The latest market share data from Gartner, Inc. shows that adoption of supply chain management (SCM) software accelerated significantly in 2017. Total worldwide market revenue grew 13.9 percent to reach a total of $12.2bn in 2017.

There has been more talk in recent years about how blockchain technology can change the world than actual projects showing what it can do.