Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

If the mantra in sales is “Always be closing,” the mantra for online retail storefronts is “Always be online.”. As Alois Reitbauer, chief technology strategist at Dynatrace, noted in 2020, organizations shouldn’t be caught off guard during Black Friday and other high-volume times. What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic?

Traffic 197

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 197

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This data overload also prevents customer-centric pricing models as users consider cost-effective technology platforms. retail giant, initially tied to an ingest-centric pricing vendor, found itself manually curbing costs by limiting daily log ingestion to 3 TB and reducing retention periods. A prominent U.S. 1 million in savings.

Retail 242

Retail Storage Best Practices Architecture 242

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. It’s difficult to argue with David Collingridge’s influential thesis that attempting to predict the risks posed by new technologies is a fool’s errand.

Social Media 87

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 87

Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2019

Let me start by clarifying that the transformation I’m focused on isn’t the transformation involved in moving from one business to another (let’s say, moving from being a retailer to becoming a clothing manufacturer). Technology: Shift from tasks to learning. To accelerate learning, companies will need to unbundle.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

." -- Ned Flanders' mom, "The Simpsons", season 8 episode 8: Hurricane Neddy We're constantly being told by the popular business press that we live in an "ideas economy," where survival is a function of disruption because consumer behaviors and emerging technologies are conspiring to obsolete the economics of established businesses.

Innovation 40

Innovation Retail Blockchain Transportation 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. The British Government is also helping to drive innovation and has embraced a cloud-first policy for technology adoption.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Although blockchain technology is still in its early days, momentum has been building in the enterprise. Their work could inspire innovations in other spaces with similar characteristics. They are using the technology to record, track, and transfer land titles, deed, and liens, and to facilitate payments, leasing, and sales.

Blockchain 63

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 63

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

In particular, they cite the lack of breakthrough technologies - e.g, There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. The bigger the tech economy, the better off everybody is.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. Comments (). APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Developers need efficient methods to store, traverse, and query these relationships. In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. They need to find allies who possess enough digital know-how to ensure the company can take advantage of the opportunities that stem from new technologies. Wanted: Employees with a mixed skill set.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Such innovation in AI algorithms and approaches results in an increase in model size, exponential growth in the compute needs, caching of temporal states, and multiple models to run simultaneously. Generative and Interactive Visual Workloads.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

The thinking was that by owning the supply chain from raw materials to retail outlets, a firm had direct control over its entire cost structure, making it better able to squeeze efficiencies out of it and being less susceptible to supply shocks. As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This technology has brought a revolution in the field of healthcare. Artificial intelligence is one of the emerging technologies that is finding its way in all sectors of industry. While AI has been used for a while now, recent enhancement has made the technology much more innovative and adaptable.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

Orders duplicated across multiple intermediaries meant that even the smartest algorithms and the fastest technology would provide only a fleeting edge as competitors would quickly catch up. An intermediary couldn't crush the competition with customer love, innovation, tech firepower, or scale.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In the 1970s, the predominant business strategy was vertical integration: own the value chain from raw materials to retail outlets. In technology, cloud computing extends this story arc. Cloud, Saas, and BYOD allow firms to rent technology rather than own it. The research of the time supported this. This is beginning to change.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

There isn't much you can do to squeeze operating cash flow efficiency from the asset-heavy business, aside from minimizing overhead costs associated with investing activity. But you can squeeze the operating company for efficiencies, reducing total labor costs with things such as customer self-service. The operating company is, though.

Airlines 40

Airlines Entertainment Retail Efficiency 40

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

Although this may be the case, generally speaking a business is less effective if it's primary labor force consists of people who are concrete thinkers, and it is less efficient if its secondary labor are abstract thinkers. The economics of this arrangement favor the few who design over the many who build.

Software 49

Software Software Development Retail 49