Cloud

Woodward Inc., a $2.2B company with 42 facilities, began by focusing on its corporate procurement organization.

A medical device manufacturer ditched a clunky ERP module for quality inspection, opting instead for specialized statistical process control software.

The breach occurred through a third-party vendor hosting consumer data on a public cloud server.

Prediction: Analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions will increasingly help with better performance and real-time prediction.