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Could Fully Automated Warehouses Be Closer Than You Think?

Nov 14,2018 / By / No Comment
robot automated warehouse

More than 3 years ago, I wrote a IDC Community post, “Using Robots to Curb Labor Shortage in Chinese Manufacturing” highlighting a factory in China that replaced 90% of the people in the factory with automation and robots. In that case the workforce was reduced from 650 employees down to only 60 people, those remaining were doing drastically different work than those jobs that were replaced. The jobs shifted from manual labor to oversight, maintenance, and support of the automation and robotics systems.

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IoT and the Edge

All I Want for the Holidays Is… a Wearable?

Nov 8,2018 / By / No Comment
wearables holiday 2018

With Halloween now firmly in the rear view mirror, I – along with numerous retailers – am turning my attention to holiday shopping. Naturally, the tech fan in me expects all number of smart compute devices to make it on many consumers’ lists from tablets to smartphones, from PC’s to smart speakers, and even some of the emerging products like AR/VR and drones.

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Cloud

Three Reasons Developers are Wary of Current PaaS Options

Nov 2,2018 / By / No Comment
PaaS for Developers

While Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is more than 10 years old, the technology has not captured a level of market success commensurate with its mindshare – and has indeed lagged either SaaS or IaaS in terms of market presence. Yet in spite of its slow market growth, PaaS technology has continued to diversify and evolve to support the intensifying developer need for agility and productivity, especially as developers have assumed a front seat at the enterprise digital transformation table.

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Business Leadership & Strategy

Customer Expectations: How to Turn a Threat into a Marketing Opportunity

Oct 18,2018 / By / No Comment
customer expectations

Digital transformation has been changing the global business landscape in several ways, but one of the most important for organizations is rising customer expectations. The ability to create and deliver digitally-enhanced experiences as well as products and services will be a critical component of an organization’s success.

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IoT and the Edge Markets and Trends

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Tech Spending

Oct 11,2018 / By / No Comment
ICT IT Spending

IDC has been tracking technology spending in the Worldwide Black Book since the 1980s, and you’d be forgiven for thinking there are fewer surprises and unexpected statistics today. The technology industry is now a much more mature sector of the global economy, even compared to as recently as the early 2000s.

Overall IT spending may be more predictable than in the past, as an increasing share of end-user tech spend moves from volatile Capex to relatively stable Opex thanks partly to the growth of cloud and mobile, but the key to gaining competitive advantage still lies in being first to recognise significant shifts, anomalies and surprising trends. Here are just five of them.

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