Blog Entries: Cloud computing/SaaS

What’s the big deal about Big Data?

Dave Hale, Chief Information Officer, E2open - Thursday, May 03, 2012 - 0 Comments

Last week I attended The Cloud Analytics Summit in Mountain View, CA, taking with me a number of new insights on the increasingly buzz-worthy topic of Big Data. The discussions were exciting not so much because of the technologies or case studies presented, but because of the way Big Data was framed as a concept. More »
CIOs: Get a grip…on the cloud!

Dave Hale, Chief Information Officer, E2open - Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 0 Comments

A year ago, I attended a conference during which it was estimated that 60 percent of active IT projects were being implemented without engaging IT. How is this possible? Cloud services have allowed business users to go around IT when deploying new systems, and this trend continues to accelerate. More »
Big Data beckons…with a speed bump or two

Michael Schmitt, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, E2open - Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 0 Comments

There is a huge amount of data available in the global trading network, but where companies fall short is in making sense of and acting upon this data while it is still relevant. Companies will realize a strategic advantage if they are able to retain, maintain, and leverage the talent and expertise of analytical and data-savvy supply chain personnel to make timely decisions with this information. More »
Don’t believe the hype! The truth about supply chain control towers

Sean Rollings, Vice President, Product Marketing, E2open - Thursday, March 08, 2012 - 0 Comments

There are a lot of people talking about supply chain control towers lately – but what’s all the hype? And are we all talking about the same thing to begin with? Probably not. It’s easy enough to slap a “control tower” label on a piece of software, but actually delivering a more agile, intelligent control structure is quite a different feat. More »
Creating value: It’s more than penny pinching

Rob Schoenthaler, Senior Vice President, Deployment, E2open - Friday, October 14, 2011 - 0 Comments

In today’s marketplace, it’s no wonder that supply chain executives are talking a lot about cutting costs. And cutting costs is important, but I think that some of us have become so preoccupied with cost cutting and efficiency gains that we’ve forgotten what good supply chain management is all about: creating value. More »
Collaboration networks: Tackling the challenges of large-scale change

Cesare Rotundo, Director, Customer Solutions, E2open - Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 0 Comments

In the first blog of this series I positioned “rupture points” as key drivers of supply chain collaboration for today’s international manufacturers. Rupture points appear when competitive pressures force deep changes in the supply chain strategy. For this blog, I’ll focus on a rupture point caused by “vertical” motions developed across multiple tiers of outsourced trading partners. More »
As good as it gets? Notes from a CPG buff.

Bill Goodison, Vice President, Consumer Goods, E2open - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - 0 Comments

In my last blog post, I touched on some of the top supply chain challenges facing the CPG industry—and recommended that visibility and collaboration were the surest ways to get the CPG supply chain back on track. Today I want to take the conversation a bit further, and suggest that visibility and collaboration may also be the first stepping stones to something much larger and visionary—namely, a Supply Chain Control Tower... More »
The changing role of IT—services, not servers

Dave Hale, Chief Information Officer, E2open - Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 0 Comments

The role of “IT” within an organization has changed dramatically over the last decade or so—and continues to evolve. At the Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Management Summit in Orlando this past Monday, Gartner Research VP David Cappuccio described the role of IT in this way: “to provide a service to a customer, not a server.” Well put. More »
Outsourcing, cloud, and multi-tier visibility: Final thoughts from Scottsdale

Sean Rollings, Vice President, Product Marketing, E2open - Friday, June 03, 2011 - 0 Comments

Talk about closing with a bang! The final day – and a Friday, no less – of the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference was loaded with lots of great content. I walked away with a ton of notes, but there were three sessions on topics that I felt would resonate with the E2open community. Here were the highlights... More »
Supply chain visibility: Still king

Rich Becks, General Manager, High Technology, E2open - Friday, April 15, 2011 - 0 Comments

Inventory risk among manufacturers has been higher than ever before due to events that are outside our control – for example: the geopolitical instability in the Middle East; earthquake and tsunami in Japan; last year’s air traffic disruption in Europe due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland; and strikes all across Europe in September 2010. And while many companies continue to rely on Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) systems or better collaboration with customers... More »