To examine how carbon taxes and energy-saving products subsidies affect enterprises' operational decisions, this study considers a manufacturer retailer channel in which the manufacturer has the options to design a product to emit less carbon during production and use less energy when the product is consumed by customers.
Accel Partners has led a $4.5 million Series A funding round in a new Heidelberg, German-based startup Trufa, founded today (spun out of IT company VMS), which is focusing on improving enterprises operational efficiency using real-time analytics that tap into SAP-based ERP systems — and displaying the results via easy-to-digest tablet apps. .
To overcome these gaps in a cost-effective manner, enterprise leaders must consider a range of potential partners that can provide support across a wide range of functions - for example, helping to facilitate operational activities, providing access to financial and other resources, influencing supply and demand, or otherwise enhancing the context in which the enterprise operates.
Using algorithms, the service provides enterprises with operational and security insights from their log data in real time, at a massive scale.
Eliminating the need for a pricey, on premise-based log management application, the service uses complex algorithms to provide enterprises with operational and security insights from their log data in real time, at a massive scale.
Complex Event Processing (CEP) is considered as a promising technology for enabling the evolution of service-oriented enterprise systems towards operational aware systems.
Trufa, which developed its software by drawing on ERP and data analytics expertise from "seasoned industry veterans from Lawson, SAP and VMS AG", says its apps perform analytics of root/cause relationships between operation and financial metrics; allow enterprises to prioritise operational initiatives based on their financial impact; and measure their progress.
A management company, Digital First, was formed to run both enterprises in an operational merger, although both companies remain as separate entities.
The Vacutug is "a service affordable by the urban poor, with the capital cost affordable by entrepreneurs who can potentially develop a micro-enterprise, recovering the operational costs from the revenue generated," according to TVE. "It is capable of accessing some of the most densely populated urban areas, with narrow and bumpy lanes, where conventional systems are unable to penetrate.
