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INDUSTRIESLOGISTICS, SHIPPING, TRANSPORTATIONROBOTICSTECH NEWSTOP STORIES OF THE WEEK

Logistics Majors in the GCC Region Leverage IoT and Robotics to Automate their Supply Chains

IoT is not a new technology in the logistics sector, and companies have been using it for years. Data-driven logistics improves the accuracy and speed of communicating information upstream and downstream in the supply chain. It also reduces human error in this communication.

When IoT sensor data is integrated with warehouse management systems, it offers better visibility of order fulfillment and inventory, allowing managers to process orders more efficiently.

Robotics in warehouses
CYBERSECURITYIoTTECH NEWSTOP STORIES OF THE WEEK

Skills Shortages, Project Complexities and Security Challenges Holding Back IoT Adoption: Microsoft Report

Microsoft has launched a new report – IoT Signals – that provides an industry pulse on the state of IoT adoption to help inform how the company can better serve its partners and customers, as well as help business leaders in development of their own IoT strategies. Microsoft surveyed more than 3,000 IoT decision-makers in enterprise organizations to give the industry a holistic, market-level view of the IoT ecosystem, including adoption rates, related technology trends, challenges and benefits of IoT.

The study found is that while IoT adoption is on the rise and opening the door to business transformation, companies are being held back by skills shortages, project complexity and security challenges.

IoT, Microsoft
OPEN SOURCETECH NEWSTOP STORIES OF THE WEEK

Red Hat Open Brand Project: New Hat, Same Soul

The Red Hat brand was once overshadowed by more prominent IT brands in a monopolistic technology industry. The brand is more prominent today and plays a vital role in the datacentre – so the brand logo had to keep up with that, and it was time for change. To do that, Red Hat announced the Open Brand Project at the end of 2016. In keeping with the open source community spirit of sharing and collaborating, it invited partners, customers, analysts, and media to participate in the redesign of its logo. Here’s how Red Hat worked with the community to make its old shadowman logo more prominent and vivid.

Red Hat logo