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Five questions with Forrester Analyst: The state of the UK Retail landscape

Dynatrace

For retail, in particular, the crisis has forced many to accelerate the execution of strategic plans for digital customer experience and operational excellence. Consumers may be more likely to interact more “digitally” with brands going forward, and online sales are expected to make up a greater proportion of overall retail sales.

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Mythbusting the Analytics Journey

The Netflix TechBlog

Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix?—?and and what the role entails by Alex Diamond This Q&A aims to mythbust some common misconceptions about succeeding in analytics at a big tech company. After a few years of wearing many different proverbial hats, I put them all to use in the Analytics Engineer role here.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

If the mantra in sales is “Always be closing,” the mantra for online retail storefronts is “Always be online.”. Peak loads can overload and crash retailer websites and derail customer interactions. Customer experience has become paramount for retailers, as visitors demand instant responses — especially during times of high volume.

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Pioneering customer-centric pricing models: Decoding ingest-centric vs. answer-centric pricing

Dynatrace

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. Consequently, the company’s mean time to identify (MTTI) and mean time to resolve (MTTR) during peak retail seasons was too slow. A prominent U.S. Transparency.

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RSA Guide 2023: Cloud application security remains core challenge for organizations

Dynatrace

The CVE Program, which publishes vulnerabilities as they become known, reported a 25% increase in vulnerabilities between 2021 and 2022. 2022 CISO Report: Retail sector – report Dive deep into the state of runtime vulnerability management in retail and how to protect your brand.

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. The nightmare scenario for online retailers during peak periods, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is a system crash. With monitoring data consolidated into a single AI-enabled analytics platform, teams can automate operations and incident response.