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• Artist: Steve Brady, with Ken Lyons and Jean Baptiste Perrin
• Title: Bitlogistics and VisibleLogistics.com
• Album: Supply Chain Innovations Today
• Track: 12
• Genre: Podcast
• Year: 2009
• Length: 27:37 minutes (25.28 MB)
• Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

I talk with Ken Lyon, Managing Director of Bit Logistics, and with Jean-Baptiste Perrin, responsible for Support and Marketing at BitLogistics. They share with us their approach to delivering what some call "Software as a Service" (SaaS), or software available "On-Demand". Solutions like this are one facet of the "Cloud Computing" phenomena and they explain that it enables supply chain partners to more readily share appropriate information in a timely way. Their software, VisibleLogistics, is still in beta, but they encourage you to go visit their site http://www.visiblelogistics.com and try out their beta.

A quick aside, Dell has on their community site a discussion about cloud computing, and how the Software as a Service approach may be good news in trying financial times. Go read over at: Cloud Computing - Dell

Let us know what you think of this podcast. Do you like the idea of supply chain collaboration "in the cloud?" What do you see as the future for supply chains in what is becoming a very turbulent economy? Share your thoughts as a comment, or in the forums!