Category: Compute

Introduction Silicon designers are creating increasingly complex designs to address ever-increasing demand from customers. Increased complexity poses challenges to electronic design automation (EDA) applications that help with manufacturability and functionality of the designs on silicon. Physical verification is an integral part of the silicon design system that identifies design layout issues prior to its production […]

The importance of asset tracking Every day, Amazon.com receives millions of shipments from suppliers. A purchase order from Amazon to a supplier typically includes a large quantity of shipping containers, or assets, that will be delivered to various Amazon warehouses at different times. To determine if items are lost or misplaced in the large, complicated […]

Overview The agricultural industry faces a significant challenge supplying a growing population with the healthiest and most ethical foods possible. The world’s population is expected to reach close to 10B people by 2050 and the arable land utilized to feed this population is on the decline. The farming industry has been functioning near peak efficiency […]

Grocery retailers typically operate high-volume, low-margin business models. All the retailer’s resources need to be deployed in a way to maximize productivity and minimize cost. This isn’t a simple ask because the majority of applications in the industry have grown organically over a long period of time. In the UK, the top five grocers—with the […]

Communication service providers (CSPs) are transforming their IT capabilities for Business Support Systems (BSS) to the promising economics of 5G, IoT, Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), and Ultra Low Latency Gaming Applications. This transformation means that CSPs plan to achieve operational agility, reduce their time to market and operational cost, increase efficiency, and innovate faster. […]

Introduction Hot work is defined as any operation that could be an origin of ignition in an environment with flammable materials. According to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), hot work is one of the most common causes of worker death. It is also leading cause of industrial fires. A hot work […]

Large industrial enterprises in manufacturing, oil and gas, and electric transmission and distribution collect operational technology (OT) data from millions of sensors. Much of this valuable data remains unused, sitting in OSIsoft PI Historians, with 80% of the world’s largest oil and gas companies and 65% of the industrial companies in the Fortune 500 relying […]

A lot of the changes triggered by the pandemic are here to stay, and businesses must think on their feet to meet changing demands successfully. Ecommerce has exploded, growing two to five times faster than pre-pandemic levels, according to this McKinsey report. Like all eruptions, this one too, unveiled a host of behind-the-scenes drama in […]

In our previous post How to Integrate Your Headless Commerce Retail Store With Commercetools—Part 1, we walked you through the process to integrate an ecommerce store front end with a backend retail microservice from the commercetools solution using commercetools’s APIs. Built in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, commercetools provides a set of flexible REST […]

Over the past year the industry has accelerated in an ecosystem approach to banking, and more broadly with financial services. Accenture estimates $416b in banking revenues is at stake as we shift to an open data economy. Although banks embarked on this journey with Open Banking as a catalyst, many have embraced the augmentation of […]