All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Some of the Middle East's most established enterprises, such as Actel, Al Tayer Group, Batelco, flydubai, Hassan Allam, Middle East Broadcasting Center, Silah Gulf, Souq.com, Union Insurance, United Arab Shipping Company, and many others, are using AWS to drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time-to-market.

Cloud 154

Cloud Education Energy Government 154

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 28, 2021

Widely used to track ecommerce shopping carts, financial transactions, airline flights and much more, in-memory computing can quickly store, retrieve, and analyze large volumes of live data. Its two core competencies are speed and scalability.

Logistics 84

Logistics Airlines Analytics Ecommerce 84

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

We know that innovative technologies always take off whenever barriers to entry fall for market participants. In particular small and medium-sized companies with innovative strength can benefit. For the past 20 years, thousands of software engineers at Amazon have been working on ML. That is the case right now with AI and ML.

Artificial Intelligence 149

Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 149

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Each is a new take on an old theme, echoing one part of the contradiction that has riddled every business with a captive technology department: we want to minimize how much we spend on IT, and we want IT to be a source of innovation. Airlines are pursuing new revenue streams with captive in-flight technology.

Ecommerce 45

Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers. The airline has also been able to scale quickly to cope with spikes in seasonal traffic, cutting application latency and improving the overall customer experience.

AWS 117

AWS Airlines Latency Games 117

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

That involves regularly pruning features rather than adding them, continuously exploring common expectations and frequent frustrations, adding value by innovating where customers are most frustrated and establishing exposure hours with customers for the entire team. A must-read. Streamlining The Checkout Experience. A must-read.

Airlines 128

Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 128

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Airline crew pairing and composition problem is an area of deep research. For instance, if one of the pilots get sick, the airline still has to run flight by allowing a replacement pilot to take over. I also have a strong feeling that long-lived teams are not good for innovation and disruption.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

During the 1950's and 60's, companies also pursued conglomerate strategies: bringing seemingly unrelated businesses under one roof, sometimes seeking synergies (as Sears did owning a retail merchandiser and retail brokerage - "buy your stocks where you buy your socks"), and sometimes not (as LTV did owning a steel company and an airline).

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Still, this is more disruptive than developing technologies that mimic existing functionality in the same segment: being late to the game with a "me, too" strategy does not generate much in the way of behaviour change.

Social Media 40

Social Media Entertainment Airlines Media 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

Suppose that the operating company is in a firefight for market share, where the primary weapons are customer-facing technology (as is happening in retail, entertainment, and, to a lesser extent, airlines - all of which have capital intensive asset-cos side-by-side with cash generative op-cos.).

Airlines 40

Airlines Entertainment Retail Efficiency 40