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Supply Chain Control Tower: Enhancing Visibility and Resilience

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If we speak about end-to-end visibility, we mean that we should be able to have a granular view of all the main components of a supply chain: transportation – which entails control over the actual delivery process, tracking shipments , predicting ETA , etc.; The readings from IoT sensors and other connected devices (e.g.,

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

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With the uprise of internet-of-things (IoT) devices, overall data volume increase, and engineering advancements in this field led to new ways of collecting, processing, and analysing data. As a result, it became possible to provide real-time analytics by processing streamed data. Batch processing.

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Fleet Maintenance Software: Technology Behind Preventive and Predictive Vehicle Servicing

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Fleet owners in trucking , car rental , delivery, and other transportation companies know that poorly maintained vehicles burn more fuel, require frequent oiling, and go kaput every other mile. Data is gathered from connected sensors and analyzed so that predictions of possible failures can be generated.

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Data Collection for Machine Learning: Steps, Methods, and Best Practices

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Data collection is a methodical practice aimed at acquiring meaningful information to build a consistent and complete dataset for a specific business purpose — such as decision-making, answering research questions, or strategic planning. For this task, you need a dedicated specialist — a data engineer or ETL developer.

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Implementing a Data Management Strategy: Key Processes, Main Platforms, and Best Practices

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Data integration and interoperability: consolidating data into a single view. Specialist responsible for the area: data architect, data engineer, ETL developer. Scattered across different storages in various formats, data values don’t talk to each other. Snowflake data management processes.

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

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To understand Big Data, you need to get acquainted with its attributes known as the four V’s: Volume is what hides in the “big” part of Big Data. This relates to terabytes to petabytes of information coming from a range of sources such as IoT devices, social media, text files, business transactions, etc.