Daily Archives: August 9, 2016

Your Technology Skills Crisis – See It Before It’s Too Late

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Lots of companies perform “workforce analyses” when they believe there’s a growing skills gap between the technology they need and the skills and competencies of their technology teams. Is the gap real? Is it growing? I’ve discussed this before, but the gaps are widening and the pace is accelerating – at light speed.

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Electronic Arts’ Stock Up A Bit Post Earnings

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Electronic Arts’ stock has been up almost 5% since it released its Q1 fiscal 2017 results, despite some concerns surrounding its weaker-than-expected second quarter guidance. This can be attributed to the company’s promising results for the first quarter and the fact that the guidance for the second quarter was influenced by timing issues rather than business weakness. Though Electronic Arts reported a marginal decline in non-GAAP revenues and a significant fall in non-GAAP net income, its results were considerably ahead of the market expectations.

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The Rise of Distinctive Solutions to Improve eCommerce Shipping

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While robust parcel solutions offer workflow designed to prevent paying too much for a particular shipment, the workflows in the retail multicarrier solutions can be both more extensive and much more interesting. The Descartes Systems Group acquired a company called Oz DEVELOPMENT that is designed for small and medium sized retailers. Ken Wood, the Executive Vice President of Product Management at Descartes, explained that small and medium sized business may need to “touch multiple ecommerce sites, and order information also has to flow into accounting.” Despite being smaller shipper, their “volumes are big enough that they need some sort of automation and workflow.” This solution can route the order to a backend accounting system and then to a warehouse or a shipper’s 3PL fulfillment partner. “The workflows for the warehouse include light pick/pack/scan capability using smart phones.”  Then the solution offers a degree of compliance. “This is not deep compliance like for our parcel solution, but more for retailers that standardize on one carrier like UPS.”

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