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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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Strategy

The Agile Manager

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.

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

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How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

And according to recent data from Enterprise Strategy Group, 59% of survey respondents indicated spending on public cloud applications would increase in 2023. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co. “We need to scale faster with shorter deployment times.

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Causal AI use cases for modern observability that can transform any business

Dynatrace

Marketers can use these insights to better understand which messages resonate with customers and tailor their marketing strategies accordingly. Software project managers can optimize development processes by analyzing workflow data, such as development time, code commits, and testing phases. Government.

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COVID-19 and Digital Services: An Action Plan for the Unexpected

Dynatrace

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. There are proven strategies for handling this.

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

Dynatrace

2022 CISO Report: Retail sector – report Dive deep into the state of runtime vulnerability management in retail and how to protect your brand. Shifting left is the practice of moving testing, quality, and performance evaluation early in the development process, often before code is written.

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