A recent article takes a look at the role that the manufacturing industry is taking in the ‘Internet of Things.’ It states, “At its core, the whole idea of the ‘Internet of Things’ is to literally have everything imaginable connected to a network so that information from all these connected ‘things’ can be stored, transferred, analyzed and acted upon in new and, usually automated, ways via network connections with everything else… A lot of the groundwork supporting the potential for the Internet of Things is being laid in the manufacturing industries. Read more

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Over the past two years I’ve tried very hard to help define the potential application for this technology area in the context of Information Technology disciplines or problem spaces – out of those efforts has come a focus on:

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I was talking to a project manager within a large and very sophisticated enterprise this week about why her organization chose to go with an ERP-based implementation as opposed to a semantics-based implementation on a new master data system.  She was pushing for the semantic solution, but they weighed the pros and cons to each approach and came down in favor of the ERP system. 

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