What is zero-based budgeting?

Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) is like solving a financial puzzle. Instead of relying on the previous year’s budget, ZBB requires you to evaluate and justify every expense from the ground up, justifying its necessity and alignment with strategic goals. It’s like starting with a blank canvas and carefully selecting...

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OEE vs. TEEP: What’s the difference?

Breakdowns, equipment failure, outages and other shop floor disruptions can result in big losses for an organization. Production managers are tasked with ensuring that factories and other production lines are getting the most value out of their equipment and systems.Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and total effective equipment performance...

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How to modernize data lakes with a data lakehouse architecture

Data Lakes have been around for well over a decade now, supporting the analytic operations of some of the largest world corporations. Some argue though that the vast majority of these deployments have now become data “swamps”. Regardless of which side of this controversy you sit in, reality...

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Using the metadata service to identify disks in your VSI with IBM Cloud VPC

A common use case in the cloud is attaching/removing volumes dynamically. Identifying the attached disk device in the operating system of the VSI is not always obvious.In IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC, the disk that is attached to the VSI is identified by the volume attachment identifier....

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CMMS vs. EAM: Two asset management tools that work great together

Most organizations can’t run without physical assets. Machinery, equipment, facilities and vehicles provide economic value or benefit operations. In most cases, they are fundamental to the performance of the organization, regardless of whether they are small-scale laptop portfolios or vast transportation networks. Energy companies rely on uninterrupted power...

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