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Covisint Teams With FreightVerify for In-Transit Inventory Tracking

October 14, 2015

Covisint Corp. has joined with FreightVerify to offer an initiative for tracking in-transit inventory.

Stuck With Cloud Provider That May Not Be Your Long-term Choice?

September 2, 2015

In 2010, when Netflix was still early into its shift from DVD rentals to online movies and shows, it started using Amazon Web Services, the retailer's cloud computing division. Now that Netflix streams 100 million-plus hours of video every day, it's sticking with Amazon partly because of Amazon's scale and features, and partly because switching vendors "would be a significant multi-year effort," says Yury Izrailevsky, Netflix's vice president for cloud and platform engineering.

Animal Health Products Maker's Supply Chain Gets Shot in the Arm

August 11, 2015

SupplyChainBrain

Moving from manual spreadsheets to a global planning execution control tower solution brings major operational improvements to complex animal pharmaceuticals supply chain.

Oracle Creates Cloud-Based Apps for Order Management & Promising

July 21, 2015

Oracle Corp.

Oracle Corp. has enhanced the Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud with a pair of new products, Oracle Order Management Cloud and Oracle Global Order Promising Cloud.

Hitachi Consulting Launches Cloud Outsourcing Service

June 29, 2015

Hitachi Consulting

Hitachi Consulting has enhanced its Hitachi Cloud Framework portfolio with the launch of a private, public and hybrid cloud platform.

The Job of the Chief Information Officer in Manufacturing Is Evolving Greatly

June 29, 2015

Verizon Enterprise

The manufacturing CIO has long been associated with managing new technology implementation, strategic IT planning and keeping tabs on the latest solutions that could boost productivity. The job entails much more than that today.

RFID Gets Renewed Focus as Enabler of Internet of Things

June 9, 2015

FierceRetailIT

An old killer app rides again. Radio frequency identification will become a key component of the Internet of Things because it bridges the physical and digital worlds, enabling the identification of objects and linking them to the internet.

Internet of Things to Enhance Building Management Systems, Report Says

June 9, 2015

ABI Research

More than eight million building management systems (BMS) will be integrated with some form of Internet of Things (IoT) platform, application or service by 2020, according to an ABI Research report. However, like many suppliers in established markets today, commercial building management system vendors face both opportunities and threats when navigating the emerging IoT ecosystem.

How Do You Mine Value From Tons of IoT-Generated Data?

June 4, 2015

ChainLink Research

IoT generates a tremendous amount of data - much more than people generate manually with their keyboards and cameras. And the volume of IoT data being generated will continue to increase at an exponential pace. How can companies extract the maximum value from that data? How should they think about it?

MercuryGate Launches Multimodal Global Freight Rate Index

June 3, 2015

MercuryGate International Inc.

MercuryGate International Inc., a provider of cloud-based transportation-management system (TMS) software, has launched RateFriend, a freight index providing global rate data for road, air, ocean, rail and intermodal transportation.