Blockchain was created as the public transaction ledger for the bitcoin cryptocurrency, but blockchain technology also has a variety of practical applications in enterprise business process scenarios. The beauty of blockchain is that virtually any type of data can be put into the distributed ledger. Each record or block contains a cryptographic hash of the […]
L’apprentissage automatique (ou machine learning) n’est plus une « technologie d’avenir ». Les entreprises allant du secteur minier à l’industrie manufacturière en passant par la médecine utilisent aujourd’hui l’apprentissage automatique pour mieux répondre aux besoin de leurs clients, doper leur R&D, ou transformer leurs modes opératoires. Voici quelques exemples : Activité minière L’intelligence artificielle (IA) et l’apprentissage […]
Machine learning no longer is a “future” technology. Organizations in industries from mining to manufacturing to medicine are using machine learning today to better serve customers, fuel research and product breakthroughs, and transform operations. Here are just a few examples: Mining Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are helping mining companies find minerals more efficiently […]
by Gireesh Gaonkar As a medicinal product moves from R&D into approval and manufacturing, it must deal with a complex and dispersed distribution network and a global network of manufacturing sites, some of which may be using old, noncomputer numerical control-enabled (non-CNC-enabled) machinery. Advances in technologies and the digital value chain create new pathways for […]
The advantage to being a blogger with a “diverse” background is the ability to be somewhat schizophrenic in one’s writing. As you may have sensed, my current professional career ranges from healthcare technology, enterprise IT, smart cites, global branding, international media, higher education, cross cultural business, and snowboard instruction. While many “predictions articles” focus on […]
With billions of smart phones, and even more IoT devices, blanketing the world and capable of transmitting location and other data, it is possible to track anyone and anything at any time. This puts presence technology – technology that has been around for decades – on steroids and gives companies access to all sorts of […]
Operations is the one part of your business consumers rarely see. That might be changing. In fact, retailers now need an optimized, innovative and lean approach to operations to meet the requirements of today’s customer-facing business. Operational efficiency is your new must-have, and not just for the cost-savings you’ve yearned to achieve in the past. […]
Now it is happening – banking is changing. Much more interesting than change, per se, is improvement, and improvement is what we will get in banking of the future and the new ecosystem it will yield. I have written three posts about the back-end-tech, front-end-tech and strengths and weaknesses of current actors. Now we come to […]
In an effort to better manage threats targeting the U.S. telecommunications, energy and financial industries, the U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Center is about to begin providing classified supply chain threat reports to these critical organizations. Threats to the acquisition supply chain have been discussed for years, and they have their own discipline, known as […]
Big data and analytics, e-health, next generation supply chain. These are some important developments that were high on the agenda at the annual DIA EuroMeeting in April 2016. The meeting dedicated a full track to big data and e-health with seven separate sessions held over 2 days. Each of these attracted huge interest with many […]
