AWS for Industries
Category: Amazon Comprehend
Intelligent rig operations classification with HITL on AWS
In the oil and gas industry, rig reports are essential for monitoring the performance and operations of drilling rigs. These reports contain a vast amount of unstructured data, including comments from rig personnel regarding rig activities such as drilling progress, equipment maintenance, process interruptions, and safety observations (Figure 1). In blog #1, we discussed a […]
Top 5 ways artificial intelligence and machine learning are changing retail
The retail industry is facing numerous challenges in today’s dynamic landscape that are forcing them to rethink their strategies. Retailers must keep up with technological advancements, such as generative AI, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and ecommerce platforms, to remain competitive to retain customers and market share. Retailers face intense competition from both traditional […]
Revive lost revenue from bad ecommerce search using Natural Language Processing
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 […]
Improving manufacturing field-distribution planning with a supply chain data lake
The Challenge Manufacturers that distribute products and manage inventory at many geographically dispersed sites struggle to predict replenishment timing and quantity accurately. For example, chemical manufacturers bound to vendor-managed inventory agreements make truck rolls to thousands of remote tank sites either when the tank is already empty (too late) or when the tank level is […]
Building Blocks for Modern Retail Ecommerce and Media Search With AWS
The challenge and value of online discovery The power of cloud elasticity helps online retailers expose large volumes of digital content catalogs for shoppers to browse and purchase products. However, it’s a challenge for many retailers to manage their vast online catalogs. And at the same time, with so much content, customers can become overwhelmed […]
How to Integrate Your Headless Commerce Retail Store With Commercetools—Part 2
In our previous post How to Integrate Your Headless Commerce Retail Store With Commercetools—Part 1, we walked you through the process to integrate an ecommerce store front end with a backend retail microservice from the commercetools solution using commercetools’s APIs. Built in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, commercetools provides a set of flexible REST […]
Managing Custom Clearance Risk in a Global Supply Chain
In our previous blog, How to Build a Dynamic Supply Chain Platform: A Primer, we discussed how companies can proactively manage market events in a global supply chain using AWS. In this post, we will focus on how companies can manage customs clearance risk in the same supply chain by using AWS artificial intelligence and […]
How to Localize Web Content and Detect Customer Sentiment More Effectively with AWS Solutions
Ecommerce sales are on the rise. In 2020, worldwide sales reached USD $4.2 trillion with projections estimating sales reaching USD $5.4 trillion by 2022. As retailers expand globally, their users are diversifying and language requirements are expanding in complexity. In turn, translating content such as product descriptions and reviews can be time-consuming and expensive. Consumers […]
Broadridge Advances the Proxy Voting Data Process Using Artificial Intelligence on AWS
How does a company build a solution to a complex business challenge when the required technology and skills are new to the organization? Global fintech company Broadridge Financial Solutions (Broadridge) faced this question as it considered how to improve the operational efficiency of its Proxy Policies and Insights (PPI) tool. Broadridge has used Amazon Web […]
FSI Service Spotlight: Featuring Amazon Comprehend
Editor’s note: This is the second in a monthly series for Financial Services Industry Service Spotlight. Read Part 1 discussing Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instances. — In this edition of Financial Services Industry (FSI) Service Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations of a particular service that FSI customers should focus on to help […]