The Cloud Scares Me, Why Manufacturing Should Think and Work More Like Microsoft!!! Supply management and manufacturing is now about data, massive numbers of transactions created and shot through thousands of pathways around complex global information networks most wetware cannot, or would prefer not to imagine. Migraine city! Added to the ordinary business of running a company are the countless signals and communications around customer and producer activities – orders, IP such as drawings and concepts, RFQ’s, invoices, shipping documents, etc. It’s blinding, and it’s no wonder that so much fear surrounds the very word “Cloud.” In fact, that CIO
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Silly Businesses, Cloud Computing isn’t Just for Cost Savings Watching technology evolve is a beautiful, fascinating process. Take the telephone. The telephone initially was an improvement over the telegraph in the 1870s. It evolved into a household’s primary method of contact with the outside world and is now a personal device. Almost everyone you see out on the street has a personal device that they can use to call, email, text or even play video games. In just under 150 years, humanity witnessed a fundamental shift in the way humans communicate with one another through the persistent. A similar shift
