Tag: Retail

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) hosted a hackathon on January 22nd and February 5th. The hackathon provided AWS technologists and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners with a collaborative opportunity to contribute to the greater good, innovating to solve some of the challenges the charity currently faces with its operations and objectives. Like many charities, the BHF is entirely reliant on the public’s generosity to fund its lifesaving research and receives no government funding.  With around seven million people in the UK living with heart and circulatory ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . In September 2018, IBM announced a new product, IBM Db2 AI for z/OS. This artificial intelligence engine monitors data access patterns from executing SQL statements, uses machine learning algorithms to decide on optimal patterns and passes this information to the Db2 query optimizer for use by subsequent statements. Machine Learning on the IBM z Platform In May of 2018, IBM announced version 1.2 of its Machine Learning for z/OS (MLz) product. This is a hybrid zServer and cloud software suite that ingests performance data, analyzes and builds models that represent the health ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Baiju NT. Data is power and with that power comes great responsibility. One of the biggest obstacles in data is identifying duplicates and de-duping.The aim of data-deduplication is to eliminate any redundant data in your business. Duplicates are created in all areas of your business such as the sales rep inputting a new record without checking the database first, a marketer uploading a list of potential buyers without checking if the record exists and a customer who inputs their information again as they forgot they have an account with you already.Data deduplication ensures proper ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Greg Heidrick. This Is the third and final installment of a series of posts discussing promising use cases in retail and the benefits of adopting IoT technologies in 2019. What will be the ground-breaking new application of IoT and analytics that drives an epiphany and spurs widespread adoption? In previous posts, I discussed real-time customer experience optimization and supply chain transparency. A third and perhaps less flashy use case, cold chain management for grocery stores, was mentioned in the recent RSR Research IoT Benchmark study. The study discusses how IoT can be used to improve energy consumption in ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Andrew Bartels. Forrester has just published our 2019 industry outlook for US tech budgets, with forecasts for how firms in different industries will increase and allocate their spending this year (see the Forrester report “2019 US Tech Budgets: Industry Outlook: CIOs Should Make Their 2019 Plans With A Solid Understanding Of What’s Going On In Their Industry.“) Our overall forecast of growth of 6.1% for US business and government spending on tech goods, services and staff is only slightly slower than 2018. But this growth will be spread unevenly across industries due to imbalances in the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview Account failover now in public preview for Azure Storage If you want to control storage account failover so that you can determine when storage account write access is required and the secondary replication state is understood, account failover for geo-redundant storage (GRS) enabled storage accounts is now available in preview. If the primary region for your geo-redundant storage account becomes unavailable for an extended period of time, you can force an account failover. As is the case with most previews, account failover should not be used with production workloads. There ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sidney Higa. Promotional planning and demand forecasting are incredibly complex processes. Take something seemingly straight-forward, like planning the weekly flyer, and there are thousands of questions involving a multitude of teams just to decide what products to promote, and where to position the inventory to maximize sell-through. For example: What products do I promote? How do I feature these items in a store? (Planogram: end cap, shelf talkers, signage etc.) What pricing mechanic do I use? (% off, BOGO, multi-buy, $ off, loyalty offer, basket offer) How do the products I'm promoting contribute to my ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. To support growing customer demand in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oracle NetSuite has expanded its partner ecosystem in the region and introduced new innovations to help organizations gain the visibility and control needed to navigate change and accelerate growth. The new partnerships and innovations are designed to help UAE organizations drive growth, reduce costs and quickly and easily achieve the benefits of cloud computing. “The UAE is putting a huge focus on business growth and economic development and this is creating a unique opportunity for innovation,” said Nicky Tozer, VP of EMEA, Oracle NetSuite ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Thomas Husson. After New York City, San Francisco, Sydney, Singapore, and London, Forrester hosted its first event dedicated to customer experience in Paris, France. It was a great pleasure for me to host about 150 leaders in a unique venue, the Parc des Princes (PSG’s football stadium!!), for a networking event to discuss CX trends and best practices among CX peers. While it is difficult to summarize the event, here are some key takeaways from the Forrester representatives and external speakers: David Truog, VP and research director at Forrester, shared the results of our Customer Experience ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Igor Bobriakov. Majority of modern companies deal with processes which they want to be automated. This need can be caused by various reasons, in particular, due to the routine, repetitive and boring nature of manual processes. Another shortcoming is that such processes often require a lot of time and human resources; additionally, office processes are prone to input mistakes. As a result, the staff loses their motivation and the companies lose time and money. Everyone wants to build up an effective business that can be achieved by application of modern automation ... Read More