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Supply chain visibility in the energy and utilities industry

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For the energy and utilities industry (E&U), time is not on their side. Equipment-heavy and reliant on an aging infrastructure, E&U clients suffer from costly supply chain disruptions as wear, tear and time take their toll. Department of Energy estimates that outages cost the U.S. Visibility.

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Document Storage for the Energy Industry

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If you work in the energy industry, it comes as no surprise that it’s one of the most heavily regulated. To comply with government regulations, an energy company might have tens of thousands of documents that need to be physically stored, scanned or destroyed. Utilize a company that will inventory items with barcoding.

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Types of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems

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The benefits of ERP include built-in business intelligence and access to real-time data, along with integrated machine learning capabilities unlike a legacy system. Accessibility: The cloud-based structure allows for the ERP system to be run anywhere and at any time.

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Public cloud use cases: 10 ways organizations are leveraging public cloud

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Multi-tenant hosting allows cloud service providers to maximize utilization of their data centers and infrastructure resources to offer services at much lower costs than a company-owned, on-premises data center. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is on-demand access to ready-to-use, cloud-hosted application software. e-commerce flash sales).

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