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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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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. We’ll see more innovation if emerging AI tools are accessible to everyone, such that a dispersed ecosystem of new firms, start-ups, and AI tools can arise. But not all rents are bad.

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Institutional Innovation - I Have a Dream

Edge Perspectives

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). But the bottom line is that the scalable efficiency model is ultimately a diminishing returns model.

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5 industries that demonstrate how blockchains go beyond finance

O'Reilly

With its high bar for data privacy and security, lessons learned in health care could inform development and practice in government and other regulation-heavy industries. Their work could inspire innovations in other spaces with similar characteristics. Health care. Real estate. Advertising.

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Lost Productivity or Found Hyperefficiency?

The Agile Manager

There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. The argument for this invisible efficiency is that economic models have simply failed to change in ways that reflect this phenomenon.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. For more information about how customers are innovating using AWS, see All AWS Customer Stories.

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Knowledge Versus Wage Work in Software Development

The Agile Manager

Although this may be the case, generally speaking a business is less effective if it's primary labor force consists of people who are concrete thinkers, and it is less efficient if its secondary labor are abstract thinkers. It also offers greater individual freedom because it is governed more by principals than by rules.