Category Archives for Manufacturing – News

Four Ways Machine Learning Will Disrupt Your Business

We are entering the era of the machine learning enterprise, in which this subset of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities will revolutionize operating models, shake up staffing methods, upend business models, and potentially alter the nature…

Three Ways To Implement AI For Business

Rivers of digital ink have been spilled on the new opportunities of artificial intelligence and machine learning. A lot of the coverage has been thought-provoking pieces on the long-term possibilities for “cognitive computing,” which allows…

Nearly all global online shoppers flock to online marketplaces

More shoppers worldwide are shopping on mobile devices and online marketplaces, according to a UPS and comScore study of online shoppers. An increasing number of global consumers are shopping on smartphones, on online marketplaces and…

Blockchain: A Study Rooted in Reality

A new study from SAP sends this message to the business community about blockchain: It’s time to get real. The distributed ledger technology blockchain is in the early stages of an adoption cycle where its…

Six Ways Customer Service Can Transform Customer Experience

“Customer service is the way to change your customer experience.” I lost count of the number of times I heard people saying that at Customer Contact Week (CCW) Europe, an event that attracted dozens of…

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Technology is already more advanced than humans in some areas. But how can businesses benefit from this? One term you frequently hear in this context is artificial intelligence (AI). Machine learning is a form of…

Leverage The Internet Of Things To Deliver New Customer Experiences

Digitization is changing our world and our customer’s experience expectations. It’s expected that by 2020, IoT devices will increase from 6.4 billion to more than 50 billion. This pervasiveness of technology means many more data points…

Using The Cloud To Accelerate Your Intelligent ERP Journey

Ask any tech pundit, and you’ll doubtless hear without hesitation that the cloud should be your top IT priority. Wherever you may be with your deployment strategy right now, everyone’s pretty sure that we’ll soon…

Meet machine learning, your new favorite colleague

What if you had a colleague who would take care of all the dull, routine tasks without complaining? A colleague who lets you do interesting and challenging tasks, helps you solve them, then happily lets…

How Digital Natives Are Changing B2B Purchasing

The cartoon of business-to-business (B2B) buyers depicts gray-haired executives and purchasing agents in meetings, on the phone and lunching with their vendors. Conversations focus mainly on negotiating price and payment terms. But along with fax…