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Supply chain traceability is as important as ever

The digital supply chain market is being disrupted rapidly. On November 14, 2022, Microsoft introduced its Supply Chain Platform enabling organizations such as Daimler to improve product traceability. Two weeks later, Amazon announced AWS Supply Chain as a response to [...]

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Bringing in reusability

Developing blockchains for supply chain applications isn’t always simple, especially when building everything from scratch. There isn’t a lot of reusable components and frameworks that exist in the Hyperledger ecosystem, as well as other platforms that enable developers to quickly create supply chain–centric solutions.

This is the particular problem, [...]

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More projects = more questions

According to the report delivered by Hired in Oct 2018, the demand for blockchain engineers has increased by 400% since 2017. With so many large enterprises and small businesses already investing in blockchain, other organizations are starting their own blockchain projects. However, adopting blockchain isn’t simple, [...]

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Fraud in retail

Fraud is one of the biggest challenges in the retail industry when it comes to both food and luxury goods. In 2016, PwC reported that food fraud is a $30–40 billion problem globally. Even more concerning is that contaminated food causes 420,000 fatalities annually, according to the World [...]

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Challenges in developing blockchain projects

When enterprises start adopting blockchain, typically, there arise problems from understanding blockchain itself to building an application. While blockchains can be associated with DApps, smart contracts, consensus mechanisms, ledgers, tokens, and shared business processes, not all blockchain applications require all of these things.

Once an enterprise figures [...]

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Dmitry Lavrenov

Security of sensitive data is a top priority and a major concern of software development today. In this article, Dmitry Lavrenov of Altoros explains how to prevent disclosure of sensitive data in case your machine is compromised and blockchain applications are executed in a trusted environment.

As an [...]

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Tracing one step at a time

Food safety has always been a global concern. According to the World Health Organization, about 420,000 people die each year due to food poisoning.

In the U.S. alone, the total cost caused by food-related concerns—spanning from medical costs to economic loss due to halted productivity—range from [...]

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Transformation with blockchain

In almost any industry, an organization’s bottom line is affected by the efficiency of its supply chain. The supply chain’s effectiveness, in turn, is then influenced by factors both predictable and unpredictable. Thus, an organization’s ability to manage and react to these events have a direct effect on [...]

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Why provenance matters

Leanne Kemp

The Easter weekend of April 2015 marks an event that many call one of Britain’s biggest robberies. Referred to as Hatton Garden heist, the robbery was successfully carried out by a gang of thieves, who made off with an estimated value of £200 million in [...]

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Notes from InterConnect 2017: Blockchain | Multi-Cloud | IoT

A secure enterprise-ready blockchain

IBM InterConnect 2017 has introduced many announcements from IBM and the company’s partners. Among the news was the reveal of IBM’s enterprise-grade blockchain service, which is based on the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric v1.0. Available in the IBM [...]

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