Last week, a "system upgrade" caused problems in inventory deliveries to Jollibee stores, and even outright shutdown of 72 stores. Certainly, the defects in the current Jollibee project would have been cheaper had they been found during development, rather than during production, where they are now costing Jollibee millions of pesos a day.
Wave-1 of 802.11ac is here. With vendors promising 1.3 Gbps in 5 GHz and 1.75 Gbps aggregate per access point (AP), the industry is suddenly focused on the potential bottleneck of AP backhaul links.
Now more than ever, technology is driving businesses to create new products and channels to deliver accelerated growth. Yet, less than ten percent of organizations say they are fully prepared to address the explosive quantities of data.
Data analytics is not entirely new but its importance to business has been recently amplified. Our connected world has ushered in the era of Big Data. Thus, there is a need for approaches that can make this data work for business, health, and even defense.
Like it or not, the means of communication your children use have changed drastically over the past decade. They are far less eager to call or meet each other, but are constantly available online in social networks.
A successful cloud adoption requires partnership between the IT professionals and executive teams to develop a strategy that considers both technology and overall business objectives.
Banks are facing an identity crisis. For the last century, traditional financial services institutions ? banks, credit unions, savings and loans ? were largely the only game in town for consumers. Individuals often formed lifelong relationships with a single institution and accepted that the bank was the dominant partner in that union.
In today?s global markets, customer experience has become a key business differentiator ? yet delighting customers is not always easy. By taking a strategic, knowledge-based approach, and leveraging the best practices outlined above, organizations can truly enhance their customer experience and improve business performance.
For years, I?ve been fascinated by the promise and frustrated by the reality of 3D printing. Today, Autodesk is announcing two contributions to help make things better.
