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Five questions with Forrester Analyst: The state of the UK Retail landscape

Dynatrace

For retail, in particular, the crisis has forced many to accelerate the execution of strategic plans for digital customer experience and operational excellence. Consumers may be more likely to interact more “digitally” with brands going forward, and online sales are expected to make up a greater proportion of overall retail sales.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

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.

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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

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.

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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.

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RSA Guide 2023: Cloud application security remains core challenge for organizations

Dynatrace

The CVE Program, which publishes vulnerabilities as they become known, reported a 25% increase in vulnerabilities between 2021 and 2022. For example, in a recent study , 55% of security teams say they don’t trust developers, and 49% of developers perceive security teams as a blocker to innovation.

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Innovation Versus Control

The Agile Manager

Firms in industries ranging from financial services to retail pharmacy to fast food aspire to be "platform companies." This separates the sclerotic laggards from the adaptive innovators. Anyone touting the potential for innovation from a delivery team engaged in task execution is living in a world of make-believe.

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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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.]

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