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Make 2016 the Year of the TMS

Talking Logistics

The shift from complicated, on-premise systems to hosted, SaaS-based solutions has made everything from procurement to implementation much simpler thanks to: Cost – No longer do you need to get buy-in from your bosses on the big capital outlays that come with on-premise solutions.

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

In 2006, Amazon ( AMZN ) started a revolution. Before the clouds appeared, building software required finding “on-premise” servers or databases with capacity for a new application or service, or it required a lengthy process of procurement, design, installation, and administration. Cloudy analytics with a chance of raining costs.