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Building the Network of Networks. Call for Action. Want to Help?

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2002-2003, I fought a personal battle within internal walls of Gartner Group fighting a concept called ERP II. I believed that companies would use large data warehouses for storage, and new forms of collaborative applications and decision support would evolve to drive B2B connectivity. I lost the heated debates.

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Industry 3.X and TPM deciphered

KEPLER Consulting

The analysis of Big Data, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, and cyber-physical systems are considered the main levers of the next digital upgrade. Big Data analysis. The Internet of Things allows businesses to add transparency to processes and make it analytically measurable.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling & Logistics

In recent years, firms both large and small have launched new “Data Science” or similarly named groups. As the phenomenon of Big Data has taken hold in the private sector, many firms which as recently as 10 years ago devoted minimal resources to large scale database mining and analytics have reversed course.