Food Safety
Why the Food Safety Industry Needs the Cloud
This is an excerpt from a piece we wrote and published in Food Safety Tech. You can read the full article here.
Cloud computing and storage, the breakthrough technology that once dominated headlines, conferences and CIOs’ strategic plans, is now commonplace in most industries. That is not to discount the journey it took to get here, though. This easy acceptance wasn’t always the case, and in fact, some of the world’s most important industries are lagging behind.
Food safety is one such industry that stands to gain the most from adopting cloud technology but continues to rely heavily on manual processes, paperwork, and cumbersome on-premise databases. These methods are seen as fail-safe, proven by history to be effective enough and compatible with the overarching goals of the industry.
We’re suffering from the age-old adage: If it isn’t broken, we don’t need to fix it.
While the food safety industry has good reasons for taking a more conservative approach to new technology, I’d argue that the most pressing risk to our industry is the failure to invest in innovation.
In our own attempts to avoid risk, we’re actually exposing ourselves to far greater losses both in protecting consumers and new opportunities.
To read the entire post and learn why and how the cloud can have massive ROI on our industry, click here.