Category: Analytics

In today’s fast-paced world, mobile adoption is critical for any industry looking to stay ahead of the competition. The hotel industry is no exception. Guests want mobile options, and the benefits of mobile adoption for hotels are tenfold. Mobile adoption means fewer calls to the front desk and concierge, freeing up staff time to perform […]

Retailers have always been in a race to deliver an exceptional customer experience, and in the digital age, that race has only become more intense—particularly in physical stores. With consumers shopping again at brick-and-mortar stores, some key trends have emerged: Half of retail customers intend to still use digital, mobile, self-service, and contactless technologies adopted […]

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, which sell a vast number of products through Amazon.com, need scalable, cost-effective, and accessible data visibility into Amazon Seller and Vendor Central. This enables the management of orders, keeping product catalogs up-to-date, accessing inventory insights, and tracking sales, shipments, and payments. Over the past several years, CPG companies have outsourced […]

Ecommerce sites are supposed to be prompt, precise and above all, user-friendly. Yet, their search performance history reveals an unsatisfactory reality for shoppers and retailers. According to Baymard Institute, “61% of all ecommerce sites show search results that are misaligned to users’ searches,” forcing shoppers to either enter a new search or abandon their old […]

Energy companies are still using architectures based on monolithic systems when managing and billing energy service contracts. Architectures where the billing processes have been built using stored procedures inside a database are common. These architectures limit the capabilities of the business units to create, manage, and invoice contracts based on new products and services, especially […]

Today, AWS is announcing Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, a new capability that makes it simple to configure, run, and manage kdb Insights on AWS. KX Systems’ kdb Insights, a high-performance analytics engine, is optimized for analyzing real-time and multi-petabyte historical time series data. Kdb Insights is widely used in capital markets to power […]

There were a large number of new service announcements as well as partner and solution announcements that came out of AWS re:Invent 2022. To make it easy for advertising and marketing technology customers, we have identified a list of top announcements specific to this industry. Session summaries and access details to content on demand is […]

This is a guest post by Neil Brown, Chief Technology Officer for Arriva Group. Arriva, one of the leading providers of passenger transport in Europe, has long struggled to measure its business performance due to a lack of consistent and identifiable ways of sourcing data. Their businesses, including those in the UK, Denmark and Sweden, […]

The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented disruption to businesses and global markets. Now, most of the world appears to be past the uncertainty and turbulence of the pandemic. However, companies, especially in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, continue to deal with major challenges, like supply chain disruptions and labor shortages. At the same time, consumer […]

With 4,000 wells to manage and intelligent alerts to build and run, Marathon Oil decided to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve its alert development time from months to hours. With its existing environment, the team at Marathon Oil was developing on average four intelligent alerts per year. “We weren’t getting any traction because […]