Category: Artificial Intelligence

Data is the key enabler to digital transformation and Industry 4.0. Manufacturers can use data to realize a single view of operations and derive operational insights. These insights can be used to improve production quality, make real-time prediction, and generate cost savings. Big Data analytics techniques can provide new capabilities related to measuring performance, maintenance, […]

I recently attended the CAPA Airline Leaders’ Summit – Airlines in Transition in Manchester, United Kingdom. As noted in my previous blog, I was thrilled to engage with my peers in person again and share my thoughts on how airlines are using digital transformation to prepare for the future and to optimize core operations. In […]

Deloitte’s Smart Factory Accelerator built on AWS contextualizes the factory of the future through immersive, sustainable experiential lab at Wichita State University’s Innovation Campus Making “factory of the future” a reality For years, the promise of the “factory of the future” was a distant dream; automated design, production, and delivery logistics all managed via a […]

In just a few years, the global retail industry was uprooted. Evolving customer demand, unprecedented supply chain delays, and staffing disruptions have fundamentally altered the retail landscape—likely for good. As companies adjust to these major shifts, one thing is abundantly clear: accurate business planning can make a tremendous difference. But building precise forecasts can be […]

The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented disruption to businesses and global markets. Although most of the world appears to be past the uncertainty and turbulence of the pandemic, companies, especially in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, continue to deal with major challenges. These include supply chain disruptions and labor shortages. Simultaneously, consumer buying patterns and […]

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 […]

COVID-19 closed stores and salons around the world, driving shoppers to the safety and convenience of ecommerce and simplified at home selfcare. While few consumers were interested in maintaining their complete beauty routines for Zoom meetings, the industry saw a steady surge in the demand for skincare, haircare and wellness products as the global consciousness […]

In recent years, many retailers have adopted new, modern ecommerce strategies as a point of differentiation by creating unique shopping experiences that reduce friction and increase customer engagement. Headless commerce is one approach that has gained a lot of traction because the storefront technology is decoupled from the backend commerce functionality. With headless commerce, you […]

Introduction Generation Z (Gen Z), the generation born between 1997 to 2012, includes 67 million individuals, or roughly 20 percent of the US population. Gen Z individuals spend more time texting, also known as short messaging service (SMS), on their mobile devices than any other demographic. The pandemic has galvanized most restaurants to add food […]

At this point it is safe to say that most of us are either familiar with or engaged in at least one loyalty program. Loyalty programs provide consumers with rewards for many of the products that they already purchase. These rewards take many forms, from product discounts to free trials and everything in between. What’s […]