An order administration system (OMS) helps all of the levels in an organization’s gross sales course of — from order creation to supply. It offers a single, centralized system for managing orders from a number of gross sales channels, together with brick-and-mortar areas, web sites, cellular orders (app), kiosks and extra. This additional simplifies the…
The automotive market is moving rapidly to make and sell autonomous vehicles, but the studies I’ve seen suggest that two out of three drivers don’t want them. I’ve seen this resistance to new technology several times over the years. In cars, we had the early voice technology that replaced idiot lights, automatic seatbelts that wrapped…
As if on-line distributors didn’t have sufficient modifications to deal with on this post-Covid advertising surroundings, the approaching lack of third-party digital cookies will quickly drive the e-commerce promoting trade to shift its methods quick. Third-party cookies will quickly be a factor of the previous. Inside the subsequent two years, Google will fully cease promoting…
The Inflection.io team, including co-founders Dave Rigotti (front, left), Vic Davis (fourth from left), and Aaron Bird (fifth from left). (Inflection.io Photo) Here’s our latest rundown on recent startup investment news in the Pacific Northwest. Inflection.io New funding: Inflection.io, a Seattle marketing automation startup, officially came out of stealth and announced a $5 million round…
The Field Day team, left to right: co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Jason LaPier, engineer Garrett Sparks, engineer Trevor Smith, marketing and community lead Catalin Wong, and co-founder and CEO Eli Blackman. (Field Day Photo) Since early 2020, the workplace has been turned upside down. First came COVID-19 work-from-home policies that isolated workers. Then the…
Sean McClain, Absci founder and CEO. (Absci Picture) Vancouver, Wash.-based drug design and growth firm Absci laid off workers Tuesday, just a little greater than a 12 months after going public. “The macro-economic situations of the previous couple of months prompted us to have interaction in a complete enterprise evaluation to focus the corporate on…
A solar panel installation sits in Ruicheng County in central China’s Shanxi Province, on Nov. 28, 2019. For countries to transition away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner energies like solar power, supply chains for components need to be more geographically diverse, officials said during a conference on solar energy in New Delhi said on…
This data visualization compares the land required for different kinds of power generation. Nuclear power, with its extremely energy-dense fuel, is the smallest by far. Credit: Good Energy Collective With no-wind-turbine signs on roadsides next to cornfields, it’s hardly surprising that land use is a thorny issue for renewables. But how much land do different…
Credit: Led Gapline/Shutterstock In the wake of Facebook rebranding as Meta, reflecting its focus on the “metaverse,” Microsoft has now announced it, too, will launch into this space. Meta has proposed that the metaverse will eventually allow us to engage across education, work and social contexts, while Microsoft looks to be focusing specifically on the…
Kohl’s has had an eventful year, yet not much has changed. The department store in 2022 has been preoccupied with financial maneuverings strongly suggested by activist investors. Just last week Macellum Advisors issued yet another open letter to Kohl’s shareholders calling for further shakeup of the board — the board that last month was forced to formally…