FoodChain: Cognizant’s Head of the Engineering and Manufacturing Solutions Practice Looks at the Future of F&B

In an article about the future of the Food & Beverage industry, Mahesh Venkateswaran writes, “Food safety, sustainability, and the informed consumer are going to be increasingly important focus areas for F&B companies globally as they gear up for a surging global demand already expected to touch $15 trillion by 2014. In leveraging the forces of globalization, millennial consumers, and new technologies such as Cloud computing and mobility, F&B companies have a great opportunity to enhance their competitiveness. Virtualization can help ensure that much of this becomes a non-disruptive layer that sits on top of existing infrastructure and IT systems. This can potentially open up new paradigms for the F&B industry to not just address the challenges emanating from evolving consumer and regulatory realities, but also turn them into opportunities and differentiators.”

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