All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

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 ().

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

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.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

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.

Traffic 188

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 188

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Expanding customer value while reducing costs Further, the retail financial services landscape is increasingly competitive. Winning the loyalty of these increasingly fickle customers requires the right investments—in personalization, customer service, developing innovative products, and bringing them to market faster.

FinTech 189

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 189

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Some of the benefits organizations seek from digital transformation journeys include the following: Increased DevOps automation and efficiency. Digital tools and technologies provide a more efficient way of doing things. This keeps teams from falling into old habits and enables them to continually innovate and expand.

Strategy 172

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 172

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The primary task machines can perform are learning, reasoning and perception. Also known as Weak AI, the machines are designed to perform a specific set of tasks. At this stage, the machine does not possess any thinking ability, they just perform a set of pre-defined functions. Artificial Narrow Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

But the performance was never all that impressive. An intermediary couldn't crush the competition with customer love, innovation, tech firepower, or scale. Clearly, Fintech has had an impact: things like loan origination are far more efficient at banks today than they were just a few years ago.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

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. Real-time monitoring and evaluation of events have led to a positive impact on performance or operations.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

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.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Developers need efficient methods to store, traverse, and query these relationships. In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Such innovation in AI algorithms and approaches results in an increase in model size, exponential growth in the compute needs, caching of temporal states, and multiple models to run simultaneously. Generative and Interactive Visual Workloads.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. A good litmus test has been that if you need to SSH into a server or an instance, you still have more to automate.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

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

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. When companies first invested in computer technology by buying mainframes and hiring programmers, they did so to create efficiencies in their administrative operations. This flatters the CEO and the CFO.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40