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Employee Spotlight: Orlando Rodriguez, Customer Success Specialist

As we continue to grow, our partners’ success becomes an even more critical piece of the puzzle. That’s where Orlando comes in. This month, we chatted with him about his background, fostering trust and collaboration, and his secret to keeping customers coming back. Can you share a bit about your background and how it led […]

Machine VS the Intern

This doesn’t mean that our tasks are necessarily easy to execute, but rather that they are more efficiently facilitated by gadgetry. Being a young person in San Francisco, I exploit technology to exert as little effort towards any duty I need to manage on any given day. I am infantile...

Mike Neal, DecisionNext’s CEO & Co-Founder Weighs In On Improving Commodity Pricing Decisions

What’s the Biggest Decision-Making Challenge Facing Commodity Industries? Without a doubt, market volatility. And over the past decade, the volatility has only gotten greater. In the face of this uncertainty, commodity companies are routinely making multimillion-dollar decisions based on expected future prices with what amounts to gut feel and educated...

Three Reasons Why Iron Ore Prices Have Dropped So Dramatically

Here are the three key failings that led to this unwelcome surprise: 1. Forecasts didn’t stand up to even the simplest review When we look at Japan’s production, it peaked at ~110Mtpa of steel. China has just over 10 times the population of Japan, so 1.1 billion tonnes of production...

Welcome to the New DecisionNext Blog

We’re thrilled to launch this blog at a point when commodities-driven industries are on the verge of a sea change. Deep analytics has changed the landscape of industry after industry and is about to do the same in commodities. This change represents a chance to gain serious competitive advantage for...

Where Meat-Buying Intuition Meets Artificial Intelligence

DecisionNext has produced this whitepaper which focuses on how its patented machine-learning technology combines with your industry expertise to produce a competitive edge. In this case, we will dive into how today’s new tools build powerful forecast scenarios in order to nail the timing of a buy for holiday beef ribs in highly unpredictable market […]

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