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 197

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 197

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In the past year, activist investors have pushed for retailers like Macy’s and Kohl’s to separate their eCommerce operations into separate listed entities. There are counter-arguments to making this separation, and not just that a growing eCommerce division covers up for a struggling traditional retail operation.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Retail Strategy Engineering 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. Cyberthreats are a common source of application disruptions and performance degradations.

Retail 171

Retail Infrastructure Innovation Strategy 171

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Digital transformation strategies are fundamentally changing how organizations operate and deliver value to customers. They help organizations streamline and automate complex and time-consuming procedures and improve overall performance. Improved customer experience. Competitive advantage. federal agency. federal agency.

Strategy 179

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 179

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. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Choose your monitoring strategy (i.e., Let’s take the example of a globally distributed retailer that collects revenue measurements every minute for all its shops worldwide. Here, too, you can select a threshold ( Monitoring strategy ) and provide a name and description for the alert.

Metrics 246

Metrics Analytics Storage Monitoring 246

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit.

AWS 106

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 106

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. We describe the problems one by one in separate sections.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

Successful implementation of a VR service could have massive implications for a number of industries, such as retail. Imagine virtual retail environments, where customers browse virtual shelves and products, and converse with customers who share interests and needs. This requires 1 ms network latency.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

Successful implementation of a VR service could have massive implications for a number of industries, such as retail. Imagine virtual retail environments, where customers browse virtual shelves and products, and converse with customers who share interests and needs. This requires 1 ms network latency.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Or are you an eCommerce retailer?” They quickly understood my point. Need for Alignment Between IT and Business KPIs.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Users who opened a PWA from a smartphone’s browser might even not be aware that they’re using a progressive web app, assuming that it’s just a well-performing site. Again, PWAs are sites that run in browsers. Large preview ).

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

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 metrics: Shift from financial results to addressing unmet needs. Strategy: Shift from static to dynamic.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Then we perform frequent batch ETL from application databases to a data warehouse. Big data frameworks such as Presto, Apache Spark, Apache Drill running on cloud virtual servers will enable you to perform the interactive or on-demand queries against your data lake. Classic ETL. Transformation is happening at a very late stage.

Big Data 40

Big Data Retail Storage Google 40

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. Immediately notifying and isolating all affected employees helps to limit the size of an outbreak, while analyzing the sources and evolution of incidents assists managers in the moment and as they develop new policies and strategies.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. Immediately notifying and isolating all affected employees helps to limit the size of an outbreak, while analyzing the sources and evolution of incidents assists managers in the moment and as they develop new policies and strategies.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. Immediately notifying and isolating all affected employees helps to limit the size of an outbreak, while analyzing the sources and evolution of incidents assists managers in the moment and as they develop new policies and strategies.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

But the performance was never all that impressive. There was a market, but no obvious winning strategy. The only strategy was to hope that your competitors ran out of cash before you did. Rather than taking a high-risk position well outside of a firm's comfort zone and competencies, patience can be a better strategy.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, someone might web scrape all the product pages of a competitor’s retail site to harvest information about products being offered and current pricing to try to gain a competitive edge. Some services deliver a web page in altered form for either improved performance or improved display characteristics. among many others).

Website 89

Website Analytics Google Cache 89

Dynatrace

APRIL 27, 2022

The continued growth of e-commerce has led to digital transformation moving at unprecedented speeds, as retailers compete for the attention of over 2.1 Retailers are increasingly adopting multicloud strategies to gain the agility required to succeed. billion online shoppers. The rise of cloud complexity.

Retail 225

Retail Cloud Speed Strategy 225

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Expanding customer value while reducing costs Further, the retail financial services landscape is increasingly competitive. Given current economic uncertainties, financial services firms must follow strategies that maximize their chances of growing revenue while reducing costs. Yet resources remain scarce.

FinTech 198

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 198

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As e-commerce experiences become more sophisticated and we all rely on them more and more, observability for e-commerce applications and the clouds they run on has become more critical than ever to retailers’ success. SAP makes observability a first-class citizen. He explained why observability for e-commerce is so central to his mission.

Retail 243

Retail Cloud Monitoring Hardware 243

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Of course, in the midst of a crisis, there are no models that forecast economic performance to any useful degree of certainty. retail square footage doesn't look like a good investment) to organizational dynamics (office square footage doesn't look like a good investment).

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Fashion magazines are launching electronic retail sites. More and more, we're seeing corporate eCommerce chiefs who are "digital asset investors", responsible for the digital strategy and assets of a business. It is most evident among firms such as publishers and retailers caught up in a technology arms race.

Ecommerce 45

Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

The Agile Manager

JULY 9, 2010

Retail banking serves largely a utilitarian purpose in an economy. They trade their client's capital as well as their own using complex strategies specifically to generate high yield. The remaining 30% of today's IT spend is investment into proprietary technology that amplifies the performance of the business to increase yield.

Retail 45

Retail Technology Technology Small Business 45

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. By investing in robust infrastructure and implementing a multi-CDN strategy, Netflix ensures the high availability of its streaming service across various devices and regions.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. By investing in robust infrastructure and implementing a multi-CDN strategy, Netflix ensures the high availability of its streaming service across various devices and regions.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

No matter if your metrics are directly related to application and service performance, or if you just want to support other data analytics use cases within your company, you can now use Dynatrace to collect and analyze every metric that’s important to the various departments of your enterprise.

Metrics 205

Metrics Retail Monitoring Analytics 205

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Performant – The service would need to be able to maintain consistent performance in the face of diverse customer workloads.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). And we need to have strategies in place to understand and manage our pages. I've been writing about page size and complexity for years. Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Office staff usually perform tasks like invoice processing by filling in a web form. Should it be? What’s required? That’s the bad news.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

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

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. In other words, images comprised almost 75% of the total page weight. More on that later.)

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As a result, many teams have 18 developers and only one QA,” said Heather Munoz, Head of the Retail Brokerage Practice at E*Trade, on a recent podcast interview. . A telecom giant was able to change its outsourcing strategy and renegotiate better terms with its managed service partners. E*Trade isn’t alone.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

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. Michael Porter argued in Competitive Strategy that vertical integration enabled cost leadership, which was more likely to win market share than a strategy of differentiation.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

Algorithms are cheaper than humans and can be networked to perform complex collections of tasks at a speed, and subsequently a scale, that humans cannot achieve. Even if real wages remain stagnant, the standard of living increases because people can afford more goods and services as they cost less today than they did yesterday.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Transportation 52