The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s electronic logging device mandate looked daunting when it was announced. But now that they’ve implemented the necessary hardware and software, many fleet owners have found the regulation delivers a silver lining in the form of reduced paperwork and more data to make informed business decisions. Phase 2 of the…

Using data to improve operations seems like a simple idea. But many organizations struggle to achieve this goal because they have trouble clearly understanding how operations perform when their data is scattered across multiple systems. Even when these systems have reporting built into them, their closed and static nature makes it difficult to find the…

I live in Fort Myers in Southwest Florida. Our area has been experiencing a worsening water quality situation that has recently resulted in what is widely termed an “ecological disaster.” Large outbreaks of harmful algal blooms in both freshwater and saltwater ecosystems have led to devastating marine life die-offs and negative effects on human health…

How much do you really know about your customers? The answer goes a long way toward determining how much money your business makes — or loses. That’s why banks and other financial services firms are increasingly using artificial intelligence to get deeper insights into customer needs, wants, habits, risks and more. The lessons learned —…

Amazon has excelled at three things retailers have always needed to excel at: understanding customers’ demands, quickly fulfilling those desires and keeping costs down. During their meteoric rise, Amazon and other online retailers have outperformed their brick-and-mortar competitors across these three disciplines because they operate in the cloud. This enables them to readily capture customer…

How many times have you or your team members tried to make sense of raw data in a large, ugly Excel spreadsheet, spending hours on that one pivot chart needed for the next quarterly meeting? Times have changed, and we need better ways to visualize raw data and run better analysis from different angles. Today,…