Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

This is typically the first thing that comes to mind for IT professionals working in the retail industry when evaluating holiday readiness. CEOs of hybrid retailers prioritize e-commerce growth over in-store shopping, investing heavily in their online storefronts. Technology to the rescue? Multi-channel logistics.

Retail 198

Retail Logistics Innovation Analytics 198

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. It’s difficult to argue with David Collingridge’s influential thesis that attempting to predict the risks posed by new technologies is a fool’s errand. But not all rents are bad.

Social Media 88

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Blockchains have a uniquely tumultuous early history for an enterprise technology—from a mysterious origin story, to a sensational first application in bitcoin, to a swift fall from a particularly frothy hype cycle. Blockchain technology provides the encrypted distributed ledger that made the first cryptocurrency, bitcoin, possible.

Blockchain 68

Blockchain IoT Logistics Internet 68

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This technology has brought a revolution in the field of healthcare. Artificial intelligence is one of the emerging technologies that is finding its way in all sectors of industry. While AI has been used for a while now, recent enhancement has made the technology much more innovative and adaptable.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. Another example is for tracking inventory in a vast logistics system, where only a subset of its locations is relevant for a specific item. Graph databases at Amazon.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

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