Some vendors’ AI and IoT offerings are comprised of tool sets (build-it-yourself) and/or obscure modeling systems usable only by experts. In contrast, SYSPRO’s latest ERP release includes pragmatic and ready-to-use AI and IoT applications for manufacturing.
Technology Marketing
Strategies, practices, and solutions for marketing technology solutions
Trends, Threats and Opportunities
We are rapidly approaching the 3rd decade in the 21st century. Is the singularity upon us? Autonomous robots and sensors. AI/analytics and IoT. What will these technologies along with the huge shift in worldwide population portend for our future? Will it be a world of insecurities and shortage or innovation and abundance?
LiveWorx 17
LiveWorx 17 continues to gain momentum as PTC’s premiere IoT event. PTC conferences have consistently drawn large crowds, but the IoT component has really taken off with both end users as well as partners.
Supply Chain Networks Are More Than Technology
Networks have been the focus on a revival in technology architecture for the last five years in supply chains. But not all networks are the same. The business partnerships and processes that are catalyzed by these federated models, create a profound path to business value.
The World of Integration – Part One: Necessary Nuisance or Enabler?
The topic of integration has been considered more of a hindrance, necessary evil, or afterthought in supply chain. Enterprise software companies who once pitched that you would “never need anything else” have also had to admit that, yes, integration is critical to the burgeoning portfolios they sell.
Transportation Management – Who Pays?
Understanding pricing in the transportation market is difficult for buyers. But the more sobering question is: will the TM market follow other sectors with giveaways and freeware?
Google and JDA Team Up
For decades, Demand Management and Retail have been begging for smarter customer segmentation and analytics. That day may have come…
RFID Journal Live: Hardware Evolves, but Software Leaps Forward
At RFID Journal Live last week, hardware continued to make incremental, if important advances, while software continued its headlong plunge into the future. We’ll cover readers in this issue and tag chips and software in the next one.
Technology Companies and IT Analyst Relations
Blog 3:
KEY MESSAGE: Technology Sales Move Faster with Third-Party (Analyst!) Validations.
Cultivating IT Analyst Relations
Blog 2:
KEY MESSAGE: Correct Setting of Expectations, Rules of Engagement and the People Factor.
How the Internet-of-Things is Transforming Mining
Heavy equipment manufacturers are deeply involved in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) phenomena. Here we examine the impact of IoT on mining equipment and operations.