Bolick also cited the example of specialty-gas supplier Air Products, which has been able to save large amounts of energy by using analytics tools to monitor and predict consumer demand and thereby optimize timing and efficiency of delivery routes.
FORBES: The Corporate Sustainability Dilemma: Policy or Pragmatism?
The second reason for building the open cloud centers around the same motivators that bring enterprises to the cloud in the first place: cost efficiency, range of service delivery options, reduced overhead and better asset utilization.
For all retailers, efficiency is critical and speed of delivery is nearly as important as the cost of the goods sold.
"Due to the scale of the financial challenge facing the council next year and beyond means that we must continue to take a proactive approach to the delivery of efficiency savings to allow us to balance the budget and protect services in key priority areas, " he said.
Ashwin Navin, BitTorrent's co-founder and president, claims that the efficiency of peer-to-peer delivery will finally make online video profitable.
For example, supply chain managers are accountable for more than just delivering economy and efficiency to the sourcing of products and logistics of delivery.
Increasingly, supply chain managers are accountable for delivering more than economy and efficiency to the sourcing of products and to the logistics of delivery.
If nothing else, IDC's material underlines the enormous potential that exists for B2B Net use, the unfashionable business-to-business end of the market where community is less important than efficiency and delivery.
Macrocycles offer a number of advantages over bigger biologics, including better ligand efficiency, tissue penetration, delivery, and cost.
FORBES: Innovation Snapshot: Macrocyclic drugs to unlock new therapeutic targets
We see the standard being expanded horizontally to address the specific needs of new markets such as energy efficiency, in-car networking, data-center networking and content delivery.
ENGADGET: Ethernet gets new IEEE standard, still requires your thumbnail
应用推荐