“The marijuana business is making the leap from paper ledgers to the cloud and big data analytics, offering a provocative example for us all”

Andrew Oliver, President of Mammoth Data

Imagine an agribusiness that never had access to a modern commodities market and had never used any real information technology. Suddenly, it had the opportunity to leap into high tech and potentially enjoy whole new economies of scale — a pure greenfield proposition. What would happen?

With new international and state legalization, as well as a current moratorium on federal enforcement, marijuana is that agribusiness. Untouched by the traditions of an internal IT practice, it’s creating a road map for the future, charted almost entirely in the cloud.

Read Andrew Oliver’s “The big greenfield cannabis cloud”: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2982362/application-development/the-big-greenfield-cannabis-cloud.html

Published by NCV Newswire

The NCV Newswire by New Cannabis Ventures aims to curate high quality content and information about leading cannabis companies to help our readers filter out the noise and to stay on top of the most important cannabis business news. The NCV Newswire is hand-curated by an editor and not automated in anyway. Have a confidential news tip? Get in touch.