Category: Database

Many consumer packaged goods (CPGs) companies have been eyeing a move into the direct-to-consumer (DTC) space as a way to boost sales, increase market share, and get closer to consumers. This shift to a DTC model means that most CPGs need to collect first-party data and, in many cases, overhaul or transform their website and […]

Historians have traced our practice of using the wind to power machines all the way back to first-century Alexandria. Since then, windmills have been helping people all over the world to get work done—from grinding corn and flour to pumping water. And we’ve been using wind turbines for generating electricity for over 130 years. Just […]

Picking up food at a drive thru provides speed and convenience—but it can sometimes be stressful. When it’s your turn to order, you have to choose from dozens of menu items, trying to find exactly what you want, as the line of hungry drivers grows longer (and more impatient) behind you. What if, when you […]

AWS and Noodle.ai are on a mission to help Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers solve the on time, in full (OTIF) dilemma that began in 2020. In our recent blog, How Retail/CPG Can Improve On-Time, In-Full (OTIF) Deliveries, we introduced the concept of OTIF and why it matters to CPGs. As put by Michael Connor, […]

Consumers are increasingly moving between physical and digital stores. It’s now mission-critical for retailers to deliver a seamless, unified, omnichannel experience to customers. The UK is one of the world’s most advanced digital markets, with 15% ecommerce penetration in grocery alone. Wanting to gain a foothold with digital consumers, Co-op, a leading food convenience retailer […]

This blog post is authored by AWS partner Advizzo. Since 2015, Advizzo’s behavioral science software and solutions have been empowering electricity, gas, and water customers around the globe to reduce their water and energy consumption and contribute to preserving the world’s natural resources. Today, over 1 million households use Advizzo’s solutions, powered by Amazon Web […]

Five was founded in Cambridge, England in 2015 to build a complete autonomous vehicle system. Its team of computer scientists, engineers, and roboticists built a Level 4 urban automated driving system which was demonstrated in London in 2019. Five took the lessons from that work and created a platform for the development and safety assurance […]

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 […]