Corporate Vision January 2017
Pro-active Approach to Problem Solving ## Company: Eka Name: Michael Schwartz Email:
[email protected] Web Address: www.ekaplus.com g As well as technology, staff also play an important role at Eka. Michael describes the firms approach to ensuring they hire the right staff who share the firm’s goals and mentality. “Eka has offices all over the world where we adopt leading edge technology in each region. We have a strong team of industry experts focused on innovation, customer satisfaction, and new opportunities. Eka fosters an entrepreneurial mind set, encouraging creativity and a proactive approach to problem solving. Collaboration is the norm, with employees reaching out to team members around the world to help solve problems. Team building goes beyond working together, and frequent after hours gatherings foster networking and camaraderie. “Eka hires innovators, perfectionists with eagle eyes, and technologists with a keen interest in the making commodity value chains more efficient. We offer exciting opportunities to be part of new technology in a growing industry. Our employees are members of a team of highly energized, enthusiastic and focused individuals working on challenging and exciting projects and innovative technology.” Moving forward, Michael outlines the developments he foresees in the technology industry, as well as telling us how Eka will adapt to these changes. “We have entered the fourth industrial age, the age of the SMAC stack. Unlike the smokestacks of manufacturing plants, the SMAC stack is all about technology - social networks, mobile apps and machine-to-machine connectivity, advanced analytics driven by big data, and cloud-enabled technology. In 2017, companies’ big gains in efficiency and productivity will come from advances in the SMAC stack. Advances like artificial intelligence will enable companies to analyse more data faster, enabling even better decision making. “Many of Commodity Analytics Cloud’s core principles leverage the SMAC stack. Commodity Analytics Cloud is a cloud-based solution that can be accessed on mobile devices. Its analytics engine is driven by advanced algorithms and machine learning, and the cloud-based platform collects and processes the volume and velocity of data generated throughout the value chain each day. The proliferation of mobile includes the rapidly expanding number of devices connected through the Internet of Things. This machine-to- machine communication enables real-time data to be captured and processed by Eka’s solution from even the remotest or most hazardous locations in the supply chain.” Michael concludes the interview by telling us all about how their willingness to embrace technology and their experience in commodity markets will bring about continued success in the future. “Commodity markets will remain volatile with tight margins and commodity trading companies will continue to seek ways to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Eka’s solutions deliver results and demand for our products is growing. In the fourth quarter alone, we opened three new offices in Europe and North America to support rapid growth in those regions. We will continue to embrace new technology to enhance commodity planning, including accessing data from the Internet of Things and developing artificial intelligence to improve our commodity intelligence engine. “Eka leveraged our expertise in commodity markets to create an analytics platform that answers commodity trading companies’ most important questions. Commodity Analytics Cloud collects and analyses data from disparate systems and this technology has applications beyond commodity value chains. In the future, I could see expanding our analytics cloud offering to all companies with complex value chains.”
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