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| | CLOUD LEADER | | News and Analysis to Guide Your Strategy |
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| | Editor's Note |  | Unkink Your Supply Chain
Investment is flowing into Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, especially in the manufacturing sector. That's likely to accelerate, as evidenced by a recent survey that found that the majority of manufacturers don't have an IoT solution in operation but are looking into those possibilities in the next year.
But getting the results they need from IoT hinges on having a solid strategy and choosing the right technology. That's why Oracle's Bhagat Nainani, group vice president of IoT Applications Development, recommends that manufacturers focus their IoT initiatives on four specific areas to get the greatest benefit: fleet management, asset tracking, maintenance and utilization, and production monitoring. Get the whole story. | — Margaret Harrist, Director of Content Strategy and Implementation, Oracle
Tony's Chocolonely's Supply Chain Strategy to Avoid Slave-Labor Products | | |
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| | More Cloud News | | Researchers Turn to Cloud for High-Capacity Computing
As high-performance computing becomes essential to many more fields of university research, Penn State is turning to the cloud. Here's one example: researchers combine real-time physical data, provided via fitness trackers, with data that participants report about their emotions and stress. This could lead to an app that predicts emotional states—and offers real-time interventions. How the cloud meets the computing demand. | Three Steps to a More Efficient Finance Organization
The first step: develop your roadmap. Every company will have a unique path. Some start with a division or an operating unit, others with a finance application such as planning and budgeting, and others with a general ledger. To develop the right roadmap, you need to bring finance and IT together. What are the next two steps? | Oracle Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
As more companies embrace a multicloud strategy, Oracle has joined the CNCF as a Platinum member to help its customers who want an open, cloud-neutral, and community-driven container-native technology stack. It shows Oracle doubling down on its support for the Kubernetes container orchestration tool, which it already backs with development talent and open source contributions. What it means for cloud developers. | Four Ways Legacy Supply Chain Systems Can Cost You Money
Got agility problems? The problem could come from running on disconnected, inflexible systems and using outdated business processes—preventing companies from seeing problems and getting teams within the supply chain to shift gears and address issues quickly. The other three ways. |
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