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Big Data: A Garage Full of Old Newspapers

Supply Chain Movement

I’m getting a little tired of articles about ‘big data’. So far, I’ve failed to discover the essence of big data. To me, big data is like a garage full of old newspapers: as long as you’ve got enough space available, it’s not a problem to keep them. Whitney Houston. ek Whitney Houston'

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Is It Time to Concentrate on Climate Adaptation?

Enterra Insights

we’d watch places like Houston, San Francisco, and New York City — not to mention the entire state of Florida — slowly disappear into the sea.” 7] Cashion East, “ With Sustainability Analytics, Big Data Can Save the World ,” insideBIGDATA, 22 November 2022. And in the U.S.,

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The Future Remains in the Clouds

Enterra Insights

According to tech journalist Antonio Regalado ( @antonioregalado ), “The term [‘cloud computing’ dates back] to late 1996, and to an office park outside Houston. 7] Staff, “ The importance of Big Data and Cloud Computing ,” DevOps Online, 18 May 2021. [8]

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SCRC Meeting Insights Part II: Management Principles for Executing Visibility Strategies

NC State SCRC

This mechanism must be driven not simply by external impacts, such as floods in Houston or explosions in Tianjin. The mechanism must be at a far more finite level to extract data showing events that impacts the overall efficiency and throughput of our supply chains.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

These technologies also contribute to a rise in big data and analytics in the logistics field. “Data science can bring great gains for…” Logistics efforts of retailers and manufacturers. Big data analytics is promising too: it enables predictive maintenance for better fleet management. jibestream.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 19-23, 2013)

Talking Logistics

For all the talk about Big Data, omni-channel fulfillment, and other sexy technology, at the end of the day, bad data (and in many cases, store-level execution) remains the Achilles heel of supply chain management. “For