6 Ways Cloud Technology and Big Data are Changing Supply Chain Management

How PepsiCo tamed big data and cut analysis time by 70%

PepsiCo relies on huge volumes of data to accurately supply its retailers in more than 200 countries to serve a billion customers every day. Supplying too much product results in wasted resources. Supplying too little means risking profit loss—and the company must reconcile with unhappy, empty-handed retailers. An empty shelf also risks consumers choosing a competitor's product, which has harmful, long-term effects on the brand.

How Big Data Can Improve Data Center Management

Leveraging big data analytics can give you vital insight for managing the lT lifecycle of your virtual data center.

Why Emerging Leaders Must Get to Know Big Data

Emerging leaders need to determine if there is value in doing big data analysis projects and to see how it will contribute to their value chain.

Why Cloud Computing Is Crucial For HR

HR is changing as rapidly as business itself. To keep up, IT must help HR move to the cloud.

How to plan for the cost of cloud computing

The cost of cloud computing is worth it if you do the research, choose the right services and commit for the appropriate length of time.

How to Overcome Cloud-Computing Jargon

Toyo Ito once said, “architects have made architecture too complex”, and highlighted the need “to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand”. This balance must be struck in…

Blurred lines: How cloud computing is reshaping the IT workforce

How cloud computing can transform the pharmaceutical industry

As you know, a number of significant trends have shaped the pharmaceutical ecosystem over the last few years. The increasing need to develop personalised medicines has added to the complexity of care. A flurry of mergers and acquisitions have created huge, competing conglomerates. And stringent regulation and tighter price controls have forced many firms

Why Switch To The Cloud? 20 Benefits of Cloud Computing

What exactly is Cloud Computing? At it’s core, cloud computing is accessing and storing your information on storage in an external location, rather than locally. In fact, you probably utilize c…

Why big data needs a soul

The technologies that handle big datasets generated by federal agencies are adequate, but federal agencies have to plumb the depths of data's soul to make it useful.

Five Cloud Computing Questions You Should Be Asking

Whether they know it or not a vast majority of organizations have already adopted a number of cloud computing solutions in their operations. The approximately three out of four (74%) business owners who already utilize smart phones to help conduct at least part of their work activities validate that fact, according to a recent technology …

What Big Data Means for Customer Loyalty

Only humans can fix broken policies or processes, but analytical tools can amplify their reach.

Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Most advanced corporations are moving towards becoming Sentient Enterprises – building a central nervous system for digital information, including IoT.

How cloud computing and the on-demand economy are remaking IT careers

New tech and innovative business models are changing the shape of tech employment.

What Is Quantum Cloud Computing and How Will It Change Government?

Promises of incredible computing power delivered via quantum cloud computing tantalize today’s technologist, and just might nourish and sculpt the govtech landscape within two presidential terms.

How to Tame the Big Data Beast

It is one of those topics we can't escape -- and with good reason.

Big Data Goes Mainstream: What Now?

Now that big data initiatives are going mainstream in Fortune 1000 companies, CIOs and other C-level executives are targeting the next frontier -- how to transform all that information into products and services -- according to a new report.

Why Small Banks Need Big Data

The sheer amount of data created in recent years has exploded, leaving banks with a tremendous amount of data sets to mine through. Community banks need to utilize analytics to stay competitive with their big-bank peers.

How Big Data is driving sustainability

From water-risk, to livestock health, to slavery in supply chains — new apps and digital platforms for monitoring sustainability are emerging.

Retail’s Really Big Data Mistake

It’s common knowledge that Kodak’s demise came at the hands of digital. But few know the whole story of why that happened. Kodak relied, too much it turns out, on a lot of bad data about how much of a threat digital was to its business. Kodak didn’t think it had much to worry about […]