Tag: Retail

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Businesses around the world have been deploying an early adopter version of Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service, which becomes generally available today. The service allows organizations to easily build blockchain networks to drive more secure and efficient transactions and to track goods through supply chains on a global scale. Arab Jordan Investment Bank, CargoSmart, Certified Origins, Indian Oil, Intelipost, MTO, Neurosoft, Nigeria Customs, Sofbang, Solar Site Design and TradeFin are among the many global organizations that already have adopted Oracle’s blockchain platform. Blockchain has the power to fundamentally transform how every industry does business by making ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Charlotte Yarkoni. Next week in Last Vegas, we will be meeting with thousands of partners from all over the world at Microsoft Inspire. The event is a forum to reinforce our commitment to making partner business opportunities the centerpiece of our investments. We continue to extend our cloud marketplace, Azure Marketplace and AppSource, capabilities to make it the best place for partners of any type to be discovered, evaluated, and ultimately have their offerings purchased and deployed by our customer base. The event also gives us the opportunity to showcase the investments we’re making to ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. We are stepping into an avant-garde period, powered by advances in robotics, the adoption of smart home appliances, intelligent retail stores, self-driving car technology etc. Machine leaning is at the forefront of all these new-age technological advancements. The development of automated machines which have the capability match up to or maybe even surpass the human intelligence in the coming time. Machine learning is undoubtedly the next ‘big’ thing. And, it is believed that most of the future technologies will be hooked on to it. Why is machine ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Scott Hurff. Coming soon (source: Pixabay) This is Chapter 3 from "Designing Products People Love." Read the full book on O'Reilly's learning platform. Design is a process of making dreams come true. THE UNIVERSAL TRAVELER LET’S PLAY A GAME. (I’m imagining the computer voice from the movie WarGames. GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALKEN...SHALL WE PLAY A GAME? Alas, I digress.) How many people do you think are on the following product or feature teams? Apple’s iMovie and iPhoto Twitter Instagram Spotify Hint: the number is definitely smaller than you think. Apple’s iMovie and iPhoto: 3 and ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Below is going to read like doom and gloom on how AI and robotics will change so much of our jobs, our personal lives, and the modern enterprise. It's not. But it is a brass-tacks perspective on technologies that will bring incredible disruption to the “white collar” industry, to society and to us as individuals. With the breakthroughs in robotics and AI, in blockchain and the industry of distributed connectivity around the internet of things (IoT), we face an incredible, transformative and somewhat scary future. But we also see a future that offers the opportunity to increase ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Robert Hryniewicz. CEOs should know three things before they embark on an AI project.The hype around the use of artificial intelligence in decision-making might make you think it could pilot your company automatically, talk to your suppliers, chase late invoices, and open parcels arriving in the mail room, all while making you a nice cup of tea. In practice, AI is a precision tool that should be used judiciously to achieve specific goals. Implementing it takes foresight and a vision, along with a healthy understanding of the technology challenges involved. Until CEOs understand the ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mauricio González. Usted y su compañía lo hacen todos los días: toman decisiones vitales para responder y adaptarse al entorno en el que se mueven. Para hacerlo, desmenuzan y analizan una gran cantidad de información proveniente de todas las áreas de negocio. Actualmente, un número cada vez mayor de organizaciones aplica innovaciones para la gestión, forecasting  y gobierno de datos, tales como  Analítica, Big Data, Internet de las Cosas (IoT), Inteligencia Artificial (IA) y Machine Learning, que combinadas ofrecen un panorama más objetivo del rumbo que tomarán en el futuro. Hoy podemos hablar de una nueva ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Maxim Lukiyanov. Apache Spark 2.3.0 is now available for production use on the managed big data service Azure HDInsight. Ranging from bug fixes (more than 1400 tickets were fixed in this release) to new experimental features, Apache Spark 2.3.0 brings advancements and polish to all areas of its unified data platform. Data engineers relying on Python UDFs get 10 times to a 100 times more speed, thanks to revamped object serialization between Spark runtime and Python. Data Scientist will be delighted by better integration of Deep Learning frameworks like TensorFlow with Spark Machine Learning pipelines ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Today Oracle announced that ÏDKIDS COMMUNITY has selected Oracle Retail Planning and Optimization Cloud Services to gain better understanding of their customers and their behaviors. ÏDKIDS COMMUNITY specializes in children garments and toys and operates retail brands including Okaidi, Jacadi, Obaibi and Oxybul through a network of over 1300 stores in 53 countries. Through the implementation with Oracle Retail Merchandise Financial Planning Cloud Services and Oracle Retail Assortment Planning Cloud Services, ÏDKIDS COMMUNITY will improve the buying and planning of their inventory with a better understanding of their customer behavior and expedite return on technology ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview Azure Event Hubs and Service Bus VNET Service Endpoints in public preview - Azure Event Hubs and Service Bus joins the growing list of Azure services enabled for Virtual Network Service Endpoints. Virtual Network (VNet) service endpoints extend your virtual network private address space and the identity of your VNet to the Azure services, over a direct connection. Endpoints allow you to secure your critical Azure service resources to only your virtual networks. Traffic from your VNet to the Azure service always remains on the Microsoft Azure backbone network. IP ... Read More