Usually the most underappreciated, hard-to-deliver, and flat-out-difficult of strategic activities in any major IT project is the integration of multiple systems or sources of data together to help ...

Most products travel a long and winding road from raw material to a customer's cart, and those materials pass through a lot of hands along the way. At each stage of this process, there's a company ...

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The energy industry is undergoing a major transformation. The push for transition, the rise of advanced technologies and the need for operational efficiency are reshaping the sector. At this ...

Plant owners and operators are always trying to do more with less, but finding solutions to the problems currently impacting manufacturing environments isn’t so simple. The reason is that ...

The system integration challenge is evolving, but existing tools and methods are not keeping up with the task. New tools and flows are needed to handle global concepts, such as power and thermal, that ...

Picture this: The CEO of a major corporation arrives early at his company's 40-story office building. He swipes his access card and the door from the underground parking garage immediately unlocks, ...

What happened to the days of overhead projectors and clambering under desks for VGA (video graphics array) cables to connect to a screen? They may still be around in places, but anyone visiting ...