Japan Restricts Semiconductor Exports Amidst the US-China Chip War

Japan recently announced that it would restrict the exports of technological parts like semiconductors. Calling itself a technological nation, they claim to be fulfilling its responsibility toward global peace and stability. Given that we rely on these semiconductors for our daily needs and national security, these new policies can have significant implications for those importing …

INTEGRATING DATA ON THE FLY?

For a thousand reasons, data gallops around the corporation like a cackling wicked witch on Halloween that is on a caffeine high. Unintegrated data is everywhere and it needs to be integrated before it can become useful. If left unintegrated, the data will be interpreted and used improperly. So there is a question that naturally …

Data Integration in Business Intelligence

Business intelligence is among the most innovative technological solutions of our era. It converts raw, previously useless data into valuable, analytics-ready insights for decision-making and enterprise planning. It’s thus no surprise that the global BI market is set to attain a global market value of $42.95 billion by 2028. However, note that, although BI tools …

A Unique Approach to Data Governance

Albert Einstein once said that if he had an hour to solve a problem, he’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about the solution. Borrowing from the master, I’d suggest that if I had an hour to solve some data governance or data security task, I’d spend 55 minutes curating …

Crypto Compared to Gambling and Termed Dangerous by Web Inventor Berners-Lee

The inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW), Tim Berners-Lee, called cryptocurrency ‘dangerous, speculative, and a gamble’ in an episode of CNBC’s Beyond The Valley. As the co-founder of the startup Inrupt, Berners-Lee and John Bruce, have been speaking about reshaping the landscape of the internet. Berners-Lee has expressed his dissatisfaction with how the web …

The new era of chiplet-based semiconductor architecture is fueling automotive transformation

The semiconductor industry has entered a new era of chip design, moving from monolithic processors to multi-tile or chiplet packages. This kind of disaggregated architecture promises higher flexibility and time-to-market advantage while maintaining cost-effectiveness. This is a big shift not only in client devices and server processors, but I believe, in the automotive sector where …

5 Things to Know about Intel Partner Alliance

Intel® Partner Alliance is our unified program to provide partners and the ecosystem with impactful benefits and resources that empower them to grow their businesses. Following the initial launch in early 2021, we have been laser focused to drive a roadmap of ongoing improvements to deliver more value to our partners and continuously improve the …

Speeding up Contract Negotiations

Have you ever been sitting in an interminable negotiation meeting thinking “There must be a better way”? Companies are constantly seeking to improve efficiency in every aspect of their business but they often overlook the contracting process. Negotiating time has a real cost for a company (the salary cost of personnel devoted to the negotiation, …

Modernize Your Contract Negotiation Process

Doing things the old-fashioned way isn’t just slow, inefficient, and annoying. It’s harmful to your business. While money may be the blood of a company, contracts are definitely its bones: they are the structure that keeps it alive so that the money can flow through. A company’s greatest sources of value – its relationships and …

Contract Negotiations – how to prepare and execute Contracts as a Procurement Professional

Negotiating a Contract is often a major challenge in the area of Procurement, because of the complexity of the contract documentation, different stakeholders which need to be involved within the process and the duration when this needs to be executed, often in a 2 week time span. As a Service & IT Procurement Specialist I …