O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

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.

Social Media 85

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 85

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). Performance improvement: Shift from process to practice. To accelerate learning, companies will need to unbundle.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

Tech News Gather

JUNE 30, 2023

Introduction In today’s data-driven world, Geographic Information System (GIS) technology plays a pivotal role in numerous industries, revolutionizing decision-making processes and providing valuable insights into spatial data. ESRI and its Pioneering Role ESRI, founded in 1969 by Jack Dangermond, has been a pioneer in the GIS industry.

Technology 52

Technology Technology Development Retail 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

For retailers, the countdown to the holidays has begun, even if it’s still six months away. Black Friday preparation is the culmination of retailers’ efforts to attract and sustain customer relationships during the holiday season and beyond. These loads potentially expose the weakest points in an organization’s digital infrastructure.

Retail 169

Retail Infrastructure Innovation Strategy 169

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Our experimentation and causal inference focused data scientists help shape business decisions, product innovations, and engineering improvements across our service. We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Roxy Du (Product Innovation) [Roxy D.]

Analytics 207

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Visionaries are hoping to leverage blockchains to provide a secure, universal data sharing infrastructure that can help solve decades-long problems endemic to the health care system. Their work could inspire innovations in other spaces with similar characteristics. But development has been underway for years already. Real estate.

Blockchain 64

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 64

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Not to mention, the acceleration of innovation - a WSJ article recently cited a McKinsey study that had suggested 10 years of innovation was compressed into a 3 month window - has created opportunities that were not practical just a year ago. Is brick-and-mortar retail dead? Are cities dead? Is cash dead? These are less useful.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail C++ Transportation 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

It makes use of the Eagle Genomics platform running on AWS, resulting in that Unilever’s digital data program now processes genetic sequences twenty times faster—without incurring higher compute costs. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell.

Cloud 130

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 130

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 193

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 193

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Digitizing internal processes can improve information flow and enhance collaboration among employees. However, digital transformation requires significant investment in technology infrastructure and processes. This keeps teams from falling into old habits and enables them to continually innovate and expand.

Strategy 177

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 177

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 195

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 195

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Maximiliano Firtman. Maximiliano Firtman.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This becomes an even more important lesson at scale: for example, as S3 processes trillions and trillions of storage transactions, anything that has even the slightest probability of error will become realistic. No gatekeepers” liberates the innovative processes and opens the door for many unexpected inventions, which are sure to follow.

AWS 147

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Orchestrate the processing flow across an end-to-end infrastructure. The tremendous growth in visual computing is fueled by the rapid increase in deployment of visual sensing (e.g. Generate interactive and immersive content.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Amazon ElastiCache embodies much of what makes fast data a reality for customers looking to process high volume data at incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. At Amazon, we have always focused on innovating on behalf of the customer.

Games 113

Games Retail Latency Education 113

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

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. GE created a business process outsourcer - Genpact - in the late 1990s, spinning them off as an independent company within 10 years. The research of the time supported this. This is beginning to change.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This process is often called “critical thinking,” but it goes a lot deeper: it requires scrutinizing every fact and every logical inference, even the most self-evident and obvious. Innovation in any technology, including training, entails risk. ” One part of a company’s responsibilities to its employees is paying a fair wage.

Education 73

Education Healthcare Media Systems 73