Category: Compute

The finance industry is transforming with the creation of business platforms for the buy-side of wholesale finance (institutional managers), providing asset performance, risk, Solvency II compliance, and ESG scores. Such platforms can hold trillions of dollars of managed assets, and therefore mandate a high level of security and control for the exchange of asset information […]

Automotive Infotainment systems today are feature rich, connected and offer comfort, convenience and informational features to the driver and product usage insights to automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). OEMs are investing heavily to enhance end user experience with the Infotainment Head Units, also called as Digital Cockpits, being the center of the driver interaction universe. […]

As the retail industry tackles dramatic shifts in shopper behavior, broad changes in product assortments, and huge growth in digital orders, innovative merchants are responding to these market shifts with laser-focused, technology-driven customer experience initiatives. We wholeheartedly applaud these efforts. But it’s not enough. Retailers must also focus on back-office store operations to increase automation, […]

Financial institutions such as FINRA, Nasdaq, and National Australia Bank have built data lakes on AWS to collect, store, and analyze increasing amounts of data at speed and scale. A data lake allows organizations to break down data silos and store all of their data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured – in a centralized repository […]

Utility companies depend on enormous amounts of data to keep the lights on for their customers. But collecting, transcribing, storing, sharing, and analyzing information from a large service area is a challenge, especially when the teams who gather and use that data are dispersed across a wide geographic area. Whether they’re conducting vegetation management, pole […]

Overview There’s a global race underway to bring machine learning (ML) techniques to knowledge workers across every industry that extracts insights from data. Oil and gas is no exception. Many exploration and production (E&P) operators and service companies are exploring the technology to help illuminate patterns in seismic data where fuzzy pattern recognition is at […]

Consumer expectations are always changing, which means retailers are often playing catch-up to align their offerings with customers’ evolving behaviors. The pandemic illuminated the chasm between the retailers who have kept pace with market changes and those who have struggled. For a long time, we’ve seen ecommerce sites flex and stretch, while centralized systems and […]

This is a guest post from Chris Ratliff is the Senior Vice President, Digital Information & Technology for SP+. — SP+ facilitates the efficient movement of people, vehicles and personal belongings with the goal of enhancing the consumer experience while improving bottom line results for our clients. We are active in the travel and hospitality […]

In my last blog post (Three Steps for Modernizing Your DTC Ecommerce Website), I shared three strategies for modernizing your direct-to-consumer (DTC) ecommerce website: Lift and shift your DTC ecommerce website to AWS. Decompose your ecommerce website and rearchitect it with microservices. Move to serverless computing so you can focus on your business. Why Microservices […]

I’ve spent more than 15 years working with many of the most innovative consumer brands to help them architect their ecommerce platforms. At AWS, my focus is helping consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies enhance customer experiences and gain operational efficiencies, especially with their direct-to-consumer (DTC) ecommerce websites. CPG customers regularly ask how they can realize […]