Big data: big opportunities or big problems?

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Few companies have achieved the true supply chain visibility that logistics providers have promised for so many years. An interesting new report from analyst Transport Intelligence says the problem lies with the capture of information by different systems, of varying age, controlled by different organisations. But today’s customers expect legacy systems to work just as easily as smartphone apps, leaving businesses with the difficult choice between throwing more investment at internal technology platforms or migrating to new solutions designed to ...