The information technology aim at Union Pacific Railroad is to be leading edge, not bleeding edge, as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Lynden Tenni-son often says. Accordingly, there's "technology in every corner, every curve" of North America's largest freight railroad, another phrase that's part of the information technology (IT) vernacular at UP. But it's what Tennison and his team are trying to do with that technology - and how other railroad departments and customers ultimately use and benefit from it - that makes IT the driver of "next" at UP.
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