Nearly two-thirds of companies with well-established advanced analytics strategies report operating margins and revenues of 15 percent or more, according to a report developed by Forbes Insights, in collaboration with Ernst & Young.

No matter what products they make, how many they make, or how often they make them, all U.S. manufacturers share a common goal: They need to get their products to their customers, on time, and the familiar litany of trucks-trains-boats-and-planes (and sometimes, pipelines) remains the way that goods get moved. At least that's the case in early 2017. Within a year or two, maybe not so much.

Google has turned a database service that it uses to run some of its mission-critical products into an offering for its public cloud customers.

Dynamox, a technology company in Florianopolis, Brazil, is marketing a new ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID-enabled data logger that serves as a low-cost option for tracking goods in a cold supply chain using RFID sensors.

Internet of Business spent five minutes with Mirko Senatore, director of the Network Solutions & Excellence Team EMEA (part of the Global Supply Chain organization) at Pfizer, to discuss digitizing the supply chain with IoT.