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Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

All Things Distributed

For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit. APAC Summer Tour.

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Where Has All the Business Knowledge Gone?

The Agile Manager

The client in question purchased and warehoused perishable items, hundreds of thousands of different SKUs that they distributed to retailers ranging from tiny independents to large global chains. Cheap distribution keeps product prices down, which makes their retail clients more competitive.

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How companies can become magnets for digital talent

All Things Distributed

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. That might be a course, the opportunity to lead a project, or gaining new insights by working in another part of the company. Today, companies take their server capacity and software from the cloud.

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Accelerating digital transformation for financial services companies with a unified observability platform

Dynatrace

Banking customers now expect digital experiences on par with those delivered by leading e-commerce and technology companies, and emerging financial technology (fintech) companies are racing to provide these kinds of experiences. So are established competitors, which are investing in platform plays to boost market share.

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Microsoft and Skype: The Business Value of Protecting a (Cash-Gushing) Utility

The Agile Manager

Of course, this all assumes that these acquisitions succeed in protecting the core business. This makes clear three very important lessons in tech investing, be it developing custom software or acquiring a technology firm. Some to create efficiency. This episode offers us critical insight into the business of technology.

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

They are all likely to exist in some kind of silo that’s difficult to access from the outside the group that created the silo–and the reason for that difficulty may be political as well as technological. We can see what books and courses our customers are using, and for how long. That’s the bad news.

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Innovation Exhaustion

The Agile Manager

." -- 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.