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 192

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 192

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. It’s no longer a one-day event. Increasingly, consumers want an omnichannel experience.

Retail 168

Retail Infrastructure Innovation Cloud 168

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

MAY 8, 2023

Digital transformation strategies are fundamentally changing how organizations operate and deliver value to customers. A comprehensive digital transformation strategy can help organizations better understand the market, reach customers more effectively, and respond to changing demand more quickly. Competitive advantage. federal agency.

Strategy 175

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 175

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 245

Metrics Analytics Storage Monitoring 245

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A few months ago I was asked to review a product strategy a team had put together. I had to give them the unfortunate feedback that what they had created was a document with a lot of words, but those words did not articulate a strategy. There is a formula for articulating strategy. The actions must be, well, actionable.

Strategy 89

Strategy Retail Operating System Programming 89

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. New initiatives and strategy bets are captured in memos for anyone in the company to read and engage in discourse. In my last role, I worked at a research think tank in the D.C.

Analytics 207

Analytics Innovation C++ Engineering 207

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

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 Storage 106

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. appeared first on VoltDB.

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. appeared first on VoltDB.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

And these talents are by no means coveted only by companies that always had a digital business model to begin with; suppliers to the automotive industry, financial services companies, and retailers also, urgently need product managers, and technical staff who can quickly make their organizations digitally attractive to their customers.

Social Media 85

Social Media Automotive Retail Innovation 85

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. appeared first on Rigor.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Managers can then investigate the source of the outbreak by department at this site: Not surprisingly, most cases are occurring in the Retail department, most likely because of its large number of interactions with customers, and this department needs to take additional steps to limit exposure.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Managers can then investigate the source of the outbreak by department at this site: Not surprisingly, most cases are occurring in the Retail department, most likely because of its large number of interactions with customers, and this department needs to take additional steps to limit exposure.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Managers can then investigate the source of the outbreak by department at this site: Not surprisingly, most cases are occurring in the Retail department, most likely because of its large number of interactions with customers, and this department needs to take additional steps to limit exposure.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Alibaba is one of the e-commerce giants that have “run the gamut” from a regular online retail store to a native application (created for mobile shopping purposes) and then on to a PWA. Do people use push notifications? Large preview ).

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

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. The Journal makes the point that the would-be disruptors in home meal kits have done more to disrupt one another than they have to established players in retail food, and that's an important point.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Food Trust is a blockchain ecosystem that covers more than 100 organizations, including Carrefour and the top four grocery retailers in the U.S. Where could blockchains influence business strategies? But how can organizations use blockchains to create new products, services, or even markets, together?

Blockchain 68

Blockchain IoT Logistics Internet 68

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 22, 2017

In our example retail organization, using data lake data scientists can perform analysis around product recommendations, customer propensity, pricing strategy, customer segmentation etc. This type of analysis is greatly eased by open source tools such RStudio, Jupyter, Zeppelin along with scripting languages R and Python.

Big Data 40

Big Data Storage Retail Google 40

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). Strategy: Shift from static to dynamic.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

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 221

Retail Cloud Speed Strategy 221

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Firms in industries ranging from financial services to retail pharmacy to fast food aspire to be "platform companies." The sooner we reach the inflection point where a body of feedback confirms or contradicts a strategic decision, the more quickly we can move on to the next phase of our strategy, or change course.

Innovation 40

Innovation Retail Strategy Technology 40

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 193

FinTech Innovation Retail Strategy 193

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. We think of web scraping as a tool used to harvest web content for information analysis purposes, sometimes to the detriment of the site owner.

Website 89

Website Analytics Google Cache 89

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

retail square footage doesn't look like a good investment) to organizational dynamics (office square footage doesn't look like a good investment). Refocus: pre-crisis, it was plausible in many industries to plot strategies that balanced the status quo against a digital future.

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

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. This is a real-time view, so customers can easily see what’s going on right now.”.

Retail 242

Retail Cloud Monitoring Hardware 242

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Open Source 89

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. Whether it's appropriate or not for banking isn't the purpose of this blog post.

Retail 45

Retail Technology Technology Small Business 45

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Retail investors have to put their money somewhere. They'll learn a lot and love you forever. Kubernetes should be an implementation detail at the tactical level to deal with the strategic imperative of solving the problems that are halting the flow of money. They’re currently putting it into traditional financial firms.

Internet 188

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 188

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

Let’s assume that your company operates hundreds of individual retail shops across the United States and you want those shops to report a selected set of business KPIs into your monitoring environment. One use case where more fine-grained access is necessary at the metric measurement level is the collection of company-wide business data.

Metrics 201

Metrics Retail Monitoring Analytics 201

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 Logistics 40

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 Innovation Metrics 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The data available to our retail business is much more limited. The online business is information-rich; the retail business is information-poor. What will cause those trends to end, and what strategies will the business need to adopt? New strategies are possible because you have information that you’ve never had before.

Games 115

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 115