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Kathryn Ashton
Kathryn Ashton

Using blockchain to combat counterfeiting in manufacturing

2021-05-06 Product authenticity plays a huge role in assuring consumer confidence for B2B and B2C businesses. Whether it’s COVID-19 vaccines, industrial goods, car parts or fair-trade chocolate, today consumers want assurance that the product they’ve purchased is genuine. Correspondingly, for manufacturers...

Andy Schmidt
Andy Schmidt

CGI-sponsored GTNews survey reveals major challenge for corporate banks—declining client satisfaction (part 2)

2020-02-27 This CGI blog post explores how technology can address declining corporate client satisfaction in banking.

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CGI’s Utilities Practice

Centralized vs. blockchain: A head-to-head comparison of storage requirements

2019-04-22 In an earlier blog post, we addressed blockchain energy dependency. This time we take a look at blockchain storage requirements. Indeed, blockchain’s distributed data structure results in a significantly higher storage demand compared to traditional centralized databases. However, central systems...

Nancy Amert

The blockchain bowling alley: How distributed ledger technology goes mainstream

2018-07-20 Many technologies have come and gone over the past decades. Some were hyped concepts that flopped (beenz, anyone?). Others that started from humble beginnings became ubiquitous. While every technology faces its own adoption trajectory, the majority go through fairly predictable...

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CGI’s Utilities Practice

Not all blockchains are created equal when it comes to energy consumption

2018-05-16 This blog shares how each blockchain/DLT platform has characteristics that support certain use cases better than others, and that require different levels of energy consumption.