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What’s ahead for DecisionNext and our customers in 2025

As we start the new year, we want to take a moment to reflect on a few of the important trends that shaped our industry over the last twelve months, and how they position DecisionNext and our customers and partners for an even stronger year ahead in 2025. Inflation continued to disrupt commodity markets, driving […]

Cloud Automation and Immutable Infrastructure

Modern DevOps tools and practices allow our team to focus on creating our software products rather than managing the servers on which they run. Back in my system administrator days, my team of 3 Unix professionals managed several dozen physical and virtual servers supporting student, staff, and faculty efforts at...

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...

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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