Digital Transformation

Aspera's technology helps companies securely speed the movement of massive data files around the world.

Digital is blurring the boundaries between consumers, stores and consumer brands. This holds major opportunities for consumer facing brands prepared to radically reshape for the digital world and clear risks for those who fail to.

Be careful what you wish for. Weve all heard that cautionary tale at one time or another. Sometimes it was merited; sometimes not. With big data initiatives, truer words were never spoken.

As much as reputation leaders (most frequently the senior communicator, chief marketing officer or the head of business strategy) would like to be able to tell CEOs and board members that everything is under control, the fact is when it comes to stakeholder relationship management, everything is not under control. Although most companies agree that reputation management is important, relatively few have figured out what to do about it.

In order to address allergen management concerns, Kraft Foods Canada scans each label after it has been attached on the packaging line to ensure that it matches the package contents. But the laser scanner type ID readers used in the past to inspect the company' barbeque sauce products were subject to read failures. Find out how Kraft solved the problem by switching to image-based DataMan 300 ID readers.

Application Support and Maintenance (ASM) is quickly becoming an IT agenda, but probably not for the right reasons.

The Velocity service provides real-time visibility into retail performance, down to the retail store level by SKU and daily or weekly, for manufacturers running the SAP demand signal management software.

Until the results of Booz & Companys partner vote are known it will be business as usual, with both organizations staying fully focused on serving their stakeholders.