The edge represents a fundamental shift in how data processing and compute infrastructure are evolving to create new business opportunities that reduce costs or generate new revenue for business trying to transform faster than their competition. Data at the edge holds the key to critical business insights about an organization’s customers, their environment, and processes.
In this blog you will find featured resources for use cases of how retailers, manufacturers, and logistics companies are taking advantage of edge computing to modernize their business, catch up to their data at the edge, and outpace their competition.
As retailers seek to provide more digital-first experiences to meet customer expectations, they are quickly having to integrate operational technology (OT) and enterprise-grade IT into a unified system where data can be captured and leveraged. This transition enables real-time decision-making for immediate actions, while autonomous operations enable retailers to offer modern experiences for customers. This unified system also helps to strengthen overall business resiliency with newfound operational resilience.
Growing retail use cases that are being optimized by edge computing include:
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In Next-generation infrastructure for the future of retail, you can learn more about these use cases, and how to overcome the challenges of managing a distributed infrastructure.
Manufacturers need seamless access to data across their operations to enhance decision-making speed, boost factory output, and deploy autonomous systems at the edge.
Edge computing offers manufacturers significant advantages through real-time data collection and analysis – at the source of the data – that can minimize production downtime, decrease waste, and improve efficiencies at every stage of production. Converging OT and IT resources facilitates quicker data analysis, eliminating the need to transmit data from sensors to distant cloud or core data centers, which is both expensive and time-intensive.
As manufacturing leaders transform, they are realizing opportunities across these three key edge use cases:
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Discover a more in-depth assessment of ways to disrupt and lead the future by reading Modern infrastructure for the manufacturing edge. Learn what compute platforms you can leverage to modernize at the edge.
Logistics firms face the challenge of swiftly transporting products while efficiently managing inventory to ensure safe and punctual deliveries. With rising consumer and business demands for faster delivery, logistics companies are enhancing visibility and control over goods throughout the supply chain. To meet these high expectations, they need robust IT capabilities to process and analyze vast data volumes at the edge, enabling real-time decision-making and instant action to ensure efficient, timely deliveries.
In many ways, logistics companies benefit from similar edge use cases as retailers and manufacturers.
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Learn how to establish a competitive edge in Edge infrastructure for next-generation logistics.
A new approach to edge computing is needed to gain operational resilience regardless of industry or company size.
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