The Digital Frontlines Blog
Connecting Data Sources for Sustainability
Sustainability may be agriculture’s biggest buzzword, but there’s a new sense of urgency. Everyone along the supply chain recognizes the need for data harmonization to grow more food, feed more people and slow climate change. For farmers to improve soil health,...
Requirements Gathering is a Team Sport
How to foster stakeholder consensus
Three colleagues walk into a bar. Sam from sales, Megan from customer service, and Nick, senior software developer. The conversation goes like this: “What do you think of this project to…
Invasive Species Awareness Week: What’s Lurking in our Waters?
Ever seen Water chestnut? Hydrilla? The Zebra mussel? They are just three of the hundreds of Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) lurking in our waters and spreading at an alarming rate along seashores, and in lakes, rivers, bays and streams. AIS cause an estimated $123...
Beware of these 5 Pitfalls with System Integration Services
The riskiest problems are those you don’t know to expect, and system integration services are rife with pitfalls that pose risks for the unprepared or inexperienced IT team. To save you from making the kind of mistakes that can derail your systems integration, we’re...
Climate Change and Disease: Is Agriculture Our Best Hope?
COVID-19 is a stark reminder that life on earth depends on life on earth. Cut down trees, and we destroy the habitat of the animals there. Burn down rainforests, and the birds, bats and insects migrate to new areas. Previously isolated species are suddenly moving in...
Growth Through Adversity: What we Learned When Our Office Exploded
In the south-west Pacific Ocean sits Kavachi, an active undersea volcano named by the islanders for a local sea god. When dormant, Kavachi’s geothermal warmth nurtures an abundant sea life, from starfish to stingrays and sharks. Sea life apparently can detect deadly...