Taming the Martech Beast: How to Avoid Building a Frankenstack

Marketing technology often starts with the best of intentions: businesses build their stacks piece by piece to improve efficiency, streamline workflows, and drive results. Over time, however, the stack grows—new tools are added, integrations multiply, and suddenly, what was once a well-organized system becomes something else entirely. Welcome to the Martech Monster, or as we like to call it—the Frankenstack.

Much like Dr. Frankenstein and his infamous creation, marketing operations teams often...

Fact vs. Fiction: 10 Things You May Not Know About CIQ

If you’re familiar with CIQ, you know that we’ve been making waves in the tech industry as the company supporting cutting-edge software infrastructure solutions. From Rocky Linux, the fastest-growing Enterprise Linux distribution, to Fuzzball, the next generation of High Performance Computing (HPC), we continually strive to innovate with both our technology and service offerings as well as our industry partnerships. But as with any rising innovator, there are often misconceptions that accompany...

Why Data and Context Are Essential for Supply-Chain Visibility

COVID-19 took the world by surprise, and has upended world economies, communities, schools, hospitals, businesses and supply chains. While the full impact of the virus is still unknown, it has had a major impact on global supply chains, from raw materials to finished products.

Because supply chains are often complex global networks and interlinked, they are particularly vulnerable to failure. This is especially true for businesses in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries that heavily rel...

Companies Are Dealing with Crippling Gaps in Their Supply Chain Visibility. AI Can Help. | The AI Journal

For companies with complex supply chains, 2020 has been a year of coming to terms with their blind spots, poor communication up and down the chain, and lack of resilience against challenges as they come up. Now, companies are dealing with how to recover from such historic supply chain shocks.  It’s no question that COVID-19 has jumpstarted the need for organizations to achieve greater visibility into their supply chains.


To gain a greater understanding of the biggest challenges facing organiz...

What’s Missing From Your Supply Chain Visibility is Soft Attribute Tracking

The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has had a major impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of supply chains across the world. Even before the arrival of COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain organizations struggled to manage the large workflow of interlinked processes that make up their end-to-end supply chain. In fact,  21% of supply chain professionals name visibility as their biggest challenge. The global, interlinked nature of supply chains makes them more vulnerable to many potential po...
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How to Monitor Supply Chain Compliance Issues With a Visibility Platform

The global landscape of compliance in supply chain management has changed dramatically over the last several years, with many companies facing heavy fines from non-compliance and delayed access to global markets due to difficult and complex international regulatory trade requirements, the increased pace of federal regulatory changes, changing trade agreements due to geopolitical reasons, and global logistics disruptions.

Supply Chain Lessons Learned from Post-Tsunami Japan

By Tim Harden
In 2011 the world saw how a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami devastated local production and power generation in Japan, causing massive supply chain disruptions for companies all around the world. There are lessons from that enormous natural disaster that we can use to mitigate the disruptions from today’s COVID-19 pandemic.  The current global pandemic is likely the “black swan event” that forces companies worldwide to transform their global supply chain model.
Here are some tips for...

Managing Complex Supply Chains Requires a Holistic View of Sourcing and Supplier Diversity

By Tim Harden
Supply chains have evolved rapidly over the past decade, from a static series of distinct functions to a full-blown dynamic web of complex networks that are flexible enough to rapidly respond to changing customer, stakeholder, economic, and environmental demands. The key to managing supply chains in such turbulent times is to have a foundation of supply chain visibility that fuels a complete, holistic focus that drives fast, data-driven decision making.
Here are some key componen...

Commentary: Coronavirus should inspire businesses to prepare their supply chains for the future

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Five examples where GPU databases are bringing ‘real-time’ to IoT analytics

If your organization manages large volumes of streaming IoT data, you’ll no doubt be familiar with some of the challenges of getting value and insight from these high volume, moving datasets.
Many companies have turned to Hadoop and other open source technologies to store and manage these IoT data feeds. This may typically involve “duct taping” a variety of tools together for a workable solution. Such methods are complex, take months to move to production, and may still process events in batches...

8 Trends in High-Performance Analytics - Insights from Forrester

Forrester, as a guest of Kinetica, held a webinar this month about how digital business is driving rapid expansion and sophistication of data and insight, and why it’s necessary to augment traditional CPU-bound analytics with GPUs, in-memory processing, and machine learning. Michele Goetz, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, and Kinetica’s Manan Goel, VP of Products at Kinetica, talked about this transformation in detail and how a modern GPU-accelerated, in-memory analytics database converg...

Hadoop and Spark: A Match Made in (Big Data) Heaven

If you listen in on what people are talking about at Big Data conferences, chances are you’ll hear a lot of buzz around Hadoop and Spark. People often think of Hadoop and Apache Spark as key tools for tackling a wide range of big data challenges, but they assume that they have to choose one tool over the other. However, these choices are not mutually exclusive; there are many situations where you are much better off if you are using both, as they complement each other in many situations. Let’s t...