Mr. Bloomberg is also carrying out a number of administrative reforms, including revising the city's computerized system for tracking vendors and contracts, called Vendex.
In October, IDC also noted Nokia's exit from its top five global smartphone vendors — the first time the Finnish company had dropped out of the top five since IDC started tracking vendors in 2004.
We're going to see the CRM technology, the marketing automation technology integrated into the DMP and the DSP and the attribution solutions, the tracking vendors, all coming together into one platform that makes it much easier for the marketers to execute multi-channel, orchestrated campaigns that take advantage of data.
Using beacon technology, retailers are also able to track vendor activity, monitor deliveries and ensure vendor compliance.
Carlson can't efficiently track vendor payment history; having that information on hand could allow it to extract better pricing and payment terms.
Currently, even major Fortune 500 companies still tend to use Excel spreadsheets to audit and track their vendors, which isn't exactly the most efficient way of doing this.
AfterShip, which TechCrunch first profiled last year, solves that hassle by enabling lets vendors track multiple shipments through different carriers on the same platform.
Sous is a mobile-first platform for professional kitchens that aims to help chefs more effectively manage their kitchen, from communicating with line cooks to sharing recipes to more easily purchasing and tracking goods from vendors.
This includes minimizing the danger of insider threats through meshing corporate and human resources policies, reviewing the cybersecurity track records of vendors and potential partners, as well as requiring NIST Framework compliance as a baseline standard.
And, of course, the IT systems-management vendors are tracking all sorts of configuration complexity and enforcement of security policies.
