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Logistics: Disruption and Streamlining of the Freight and Shipping Industry

By Dick Weisinger

The automation of transportation and logistics is dramatically reshaping how goods are moved.  It’s being called Freight as a Service (FaaS) or a sort of Logistics 2.0.  It is the result of using new technology and reimagining how logistic services…

Search and Insight Engines: Enterprise Search Assistants for Navigating Business Content

By Dick Weisinger

Next-generation enterprise search engines are being called ‘insight engines’ by Gartner.  Insight engines provide “more-natural access to information for knowledge workers and other constituents in ways that enterprise search has not.” What makes Insight Engines better than the way enterprise search…

Bank Digitization: Traditional Banks Targeted by Tech Giants

By Dick Weisinger

Compared to industries like Transportation and Manufacturing, digitization is having far less impact on today’s banks.  Banking applications using new technologies like 3D printing and the Internet of Things (IoT) seem to still be a long ways off.  While there…

Manufacturing and Smart Factories: Products of the Digital Industrial Revolution

By Dick Weisinger

Manufacturers are reinventing their industries by applying new technology.  A report by CapGemini finds that new tech manufacturing in the form of smart factories will revolutionize manufacturing and by 2022 will drive productivity increases by as much as seven times.…

Data Capture: Real-Time Systems Hindered by Delays in Capturing Data via ETL

By Dick Weisinger

ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) is a data preparation technique for moving data from standard applications into a data warehouse or analytics system that specializes in translating and interpreting trends and meanings from the data.  The E-T-L of the name…