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How Agile is Your Big Data?

Just because you have a mountain of data, it doesn't follow that you'll be able to use it effectively. One of the keys to leveraging Big Data is agility, or the ability to make the data actionable in responding to changes in the business environment. Read more...

Trying to Explain the Cloud

When someone mentions 'the cloud', what are they actually talking about? To an IT architect, it's one thing, to a user another, and a vendor may have an entirely different description altogether. Read more...

The New Champion

Spend Matters, and in particular its founder Jason Busch, has been studying procurement forever. Jason thinks it's time to call cloud eprocurement the new standard for the process. Read more...

The Old Ball & Chain

Is legacy thinking holding back your supply chain? The Supply Chain Shaman thinks so. Read more...

Supply Chain Visibility Demanded

Customers are demanding better visibility into your supply chain. If you don't give it to them, be prepared to face the consequences: questions, lengthy investigations, lawsuits, and other PR disasters. Read more...

On-Line Ordering Impact

Of all the changes resulting from the shift in consumer buying toward ecommerce, there's one I hadn't really considered that may be driving other developments. The increase of small shipments is overloading the physical and administrative capabilities of university dorms and multi-tenant buildings. Read more...

New Roles in IT

Let's say you want to be doing something 'cutting edge' in your company, or maybe you see the writing on the wall and your position may not be there in the future. Are there roles that you should be considering in IT? Read more...

The Business Support Platform

The discussion about ERP vs. best-of-breed has been going on forever. For quite awhile, it seemed like the 'good enough' functionality of the ERP would win out, but times have changed. Read more...

Big Data Metaphors

Big Data has become a Big Deal for supply chains. But is it 'all that'? The terms 'tsunami' and 'deluge' are being thrown about, but they may be overstating the issue. Read more...

Consumer IoT Security Concerns

Well, this isn't exactly what I had in mind... As the IoT continues to make inroads into the consumer world, it's become apparent that consumers have become not only users, but targets as well.  Read more...

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