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Supply Chain Analytics: Opportunities in Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

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Supply chain practitioners and CEOs surveyed by 6river share that the main challenges of the industry are: keeping up with the rapidly changing customer demand, dealing with delays and disruptions, inefficient planning, lack of automation, rising costs (of transportation, labor, etc.), Analytics in logistics and transportation.

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The Good and the Bad of Hadoop Big Data Framework

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Depending on how you measure it, the answer will be 11 million newspaper pages or… just one Hadoop cluster and one tech specialist who can move 4 terabytes of textual data to a new location in 24 hours. Developed in 2006 by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella to run the web crawler Apache Nutch, it has become a standard for Big Data analytics.

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What is Streaming Analytics: Data Streaming, Stream Processing, and Real-time Analytics

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Please note: this topic requires some general understanding of analytics and data engineering, so we suggest you read the following articles if you’re new to the topic: Data engineering overview. A complete guide to business intelligence and analytics. The role of business intelligence developer.

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Logistics Management Systems: How Warehouse, Transportation, and Distribution Software Work

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Digitalization will allow warehousing and transportation operations to elevate customer experience, deliver more value to partners, and consequently – create an effective ecosystem of supply chain providers: manufacturers, carriers, freight forwarders, and more. Strategic transport planning. Connecting to the carrier network.

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Big Data Analytics: How It Works, Tools, and Real-Life Applications

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Big Data enjoys the hype around it and for a reason. But the understanding of the essence of Big Data and ways to analyze it is still blurred. This post will draw a full picture of what Big Data analytics is and how it works. Big Data and its main characteristics. Key Big Data characteristics.

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Making Sense of IoT Platforms: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBM vs Cisco

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Namely, these layers are: perception layer (hardware components such as sensors, actuators, and devices; transport layer (networks and gateway); processing layer (middleware or IoT platforms); application layer (software solutions for end users). Perception layer: IoT hardware. Transport layer: networks and gateways.

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The Good and the Bad of Docker Containers

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During shipment, goods are carried using different types of transport: trucks, cranes, forklifts, trains, ships, etc. What’s more, the goods come in different sizes and shapes and have different transportation requirements. Then came standardized intermodal containers that revolutionized the transportation industry.