AWS for Industries
Category: Kinesis Data Firehose
Financial Services Spotlight – Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations for customers who process and analyze streaming data on Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink: achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and access control/security. Across each area, we will examine specific guidance, suggested […]
Using Cloud Technology to Better Protect Power Grids from Physical Threats
When was the last time you thought about how the power stays on? Probably not since you lost power in a storm. We take it for granted that the electricity and natural gas will flow. In today’s world, electricity and gas are a core foundation of the economy and of society, making energy one of […]
Winning Back Customers and Growing Revenue with Abandoned Cart Recovery
One of the biggest challenges faced by online retailers is shopping cart abandonment, where customers add items to their shopping carts but ultimately leave the website without making a purchase. To overcome this hurdle and optimize sales opportunities, businesses must prioritize the implementation of efficient customer notification and insight strategies. These strategies play a vital […]
Capture clickstream data using AWS serverless services
Clickstream data refers to the collection of digital interactions that occur between a user and a website or mobile application. Capturing and creating usable insights from user data in real-time can be challenging. Amazon Web Services (AWS) serverless services can help by providing a scalable architecture to seamlessly capture, process, visualize and load clickstream data […]
Driving Business Outcomes with Clickstream Data
In today’s competitive world, customer obsession isn’t an option, it’s an imperative. Mastering customer obsession starts with data—demographics, psychographics, transactions, purchase records, support cases, product usage, shopping habits, content preferences, and more. According to Gartner report, less than 10% of companies have a 360-view of the consumer. Not because they don’t try, but because it […]
Enhancing Retail Store Inventory Management through RFID Technology & AWS
Guidance for RFID Store Inventory Management on AWS The need for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is growing. Retailers face many challenges in managing their inventory, including out-of-stock situations, misplaced items, and shrinkage. These challenges can impact the bottom line and hurt the customer experience. To address these issues, retailers are increasingly turning to RFID technologies. […]
How Vodafone is using AWS and Broadband Forum User Service Platform (USP) standard to re-architect the management of its Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) and become more adaptive to changes
Vodafone Group Plc [VOD] is a global communications company offering a combination of mobile, fixed, TV, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and cloud & security services to consumers and enterprises. With network presence in many countries worldwide, Vodafone serves more than 330M mobile subscribers and over 28M fixed broadband users in Europe. Like many other Telcos, Vodafone has […]
Geo-based real time marketing for Financial Services on AWS
Financial Services Institutions (FSIs) are looking for opportunities to exploit interoperability across a collaborative ecosystem to boost transactions through their channels, partners’ channels, and payment methods. From this post: “Forrester asserts that aggregators and intermediaries that create value across industries will become important agents in a diverse collaborative ecosystem. However, not all organizations have the […]
How Retailers Can Reduce Inventory Shrinkage With Automated Asset Tracking With Calamp and AWS
The importance of asset tracking Every day, Amazon.com receives millions of shipments from suppliers. A purchase order from Amazon to a supplier typically includes a large quantity of shipping containers, or assets, that will be delivered to various Amazon warehouses at different times. To determine if items are lost or misplaced in the large, complicated […]
Delivering CPG Demand Planning at Scale and Hyper-Speed With Samya’s Dynamic Demand AI on AWS
Opportunity at the intersection of demand and supply Complexity and volatility characterized the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and retail industries even before the pandemic impacted all of us. According to a Boston Consulting Group study, the associated opportunity loss due to complex and volatile business is estimated to be 8–10 percent, and poor anticipation of demand […]