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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. While weather may have been the root cause, the 16,000 flights canceled between Dec. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts.

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B2B Travel Platform For Corporate Travel Management

Altexsoft

.” It has become an integral tool, ensuring the travelers’ comfort and the operations’ cost-effectiveness and efficiency. This guide delves deep into the specifics of building a custom B2B travel booking platform specifically tailored for corporate travel. Legacy GDS limitations. Different booking flow.

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How real-time operational insights drive superior tech platform development

CIO

So as organizations face evolving challenges and digitally transform, they offer advantages to make complex business operations more efficient, including flexibility and scalability, as well as advanced automation, collaborative communication, analytics, security, and compliance features. Cost overruns have been another significant concern.

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Supply Chain Control Tower: Enhancing Visibility and Resilience

Altexsoft

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.; “Control towers are the artificial intelligence (AI) of supply chain.

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Nym gets $6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a service

TechCrunch

But then came Bitcoin and the crypto boom and — also in 2013 — the Snowden revelations, which ripped the veil off the NSA’s “collect it all” mantra, as Booz Allen Hamilton sub-contractor Ed risked it all to dump data on his own (and other) governments’ mass surveillance programs. million seed round in 2019.

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Supply Chain Analytics: Opportunities in Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

Altexsoft

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.), Supply chain management process.

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Terminal Operating Systems: Main Features, Integration, and Providers Overview

Altexsoft

For example, in the US, the situation in the Port of Oakland is the worst with vessels taking an average of six days to unload and load (import containers are waiting for eleven days to get transported). connected inland transportation (arrangement of cargo movement). The ports of Los Angeles and New York are not far behind.