All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

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. blog comments powered by Disqus.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. To make this possible, a technology called in-memory computing can be used to track contacts and immediately alert all affected employees (and community touchpoints, such as restaurants) when anyone tests positive and alerts the system.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. To make this possible, a technology called in-memory computing can be used to track contacts and immediately alert all affected employees (and community touchpoints, such as restaurants) when anyone tests positive and alerts the system.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. To make this possible, a technology called in-memory computing can be used to track contacts and immediately alert all affected employees (and community touchpoints, such as restaurants) when anyone tests positive and alerts the system.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

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). Strategy: Shift from static to dynamic. Technology: Shift from tasks to learning.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Job openings for machine learning scientists, data analytics experts, IT security experts or developers are already difficult to fill, and the demand for this knowledge will increase significantly in the next few years as customers show their demand for digital engagements. Development will have to be customized for each individual.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Numerous big players have considered such an opinion and have recently implemented this technology. Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Large preview ).

Code 75

Code Cache Retail Mobile 75

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. Rachel Andrew. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

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).

Innovation 40

Innovation Retail Strategy Technology 40

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

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. Personal technology such as spreadsheets and smartphones empowers increasingly tech-savvy knowledge workers.

Ecommerce 45

Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

The Agile Manager

JULY 9, 2010

Retail banking serves largely a utilitarian purpose in an economy. They trade their client's capital as well as their own using complex strategies specifically to generate high yield. They're the information technology equivalent of electricity or tap water. These utilities don't provide return in and of themselves.

Retail 45

Retail Technology Technology Small Business 45

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

In particular, they cite the lack of breakthrough technologies - e.g, The productivity is there, and will intensify with technologies such as AI and ML; the instrumentation simply doesn't exist to measure it. In this definition, productivity through technology is a deflationary force that makes products more affordable.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Since its release in November 2022, almost everyone involved with technology has experimented with ChatGPT: students, faculty, and professionals in almost every discipline. Introducing new technology like AI doesn’t change a company’s basic responsibilities. Developing good prompts is serious work and it requires training.

Education 74

Education Healthcare Media Systems 74

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

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. The data available to our retail business is much more limited. Most real-world business lie somewhere between those extremes.

Games 120

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 120

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies. 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.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 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. Michael Porter argued in Competitive Strategy that vertical integration enabled cost leadership, which was more likely to win market share than a strategy of differentiation.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. More than one-third have adopted site reliability engineering (SRE); slightly less have developed production AI services. All told, we received 1,283 responses.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. The Dynamo paper was well-received and served as a catalyst to create the category of distributed database technologies commonly known today as "NoSQL."

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128