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Innovation Versus Control

The Agile Manager

Firms in industries ranging from financial services to retail pharmacy to fast food aspire to be "platform companies." It is also a good story to tell Wall Street as it allows a firm to create the aura of being the technology leader in their space while trafficking in the success of companies like Amazon. lean and agile process).

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A wine tasting with a difference…automation and AI

Dynatrace

Wine expert, Grant Hedley, shared stories about how automation and technology are impacting how vineyards are tracking growth, temperatures, and soil health – the full works! Of course, the extent for each business varied; how much of the business was online; Was it optimized and prioritized internally; Were they prepared for such load?

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Intelligent, context-aware AI analytics for all your custom metrics

Dynatrace

A topological link to an entity only makes sense, of course, if the measurement that’s sent to Dynatrace has a semantic relationship to that entity. Let’s take the example of a globally distributed retailer that collects revenue measurements every minute for all its shops worldwide. Choose your monitoring strategy (i.e.,

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

All Things Distributed

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.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . By offloading the task of managing infrastructure to AWS Essent is able to spend more time on innovating on behalf of their customers to help them in their energy usage.

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The Agile Manager

Yet it isn’t the tech that disrupts, it’s socio-economic change that creates conditions that a technology can exploit. Is brick-and-mortar retail dead? One way its retail bank makes money by converting deposits into loans. Tech isn’t the catalyst , but it can be the beneficiary. Are cities dead? Is cash dead?

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How companies can become magnets for digital talent

All Things Distributed

And these talents are by no means coveted only by companies that always had a digital business model to begin with; suppliers to the automotive industry, financial services companies, and retailers also, urgently need product managers, and technical staff who can quickly make their organizations digitally attractive to their customers.