Category: Industries

Introduction Businesses need a unified real-time planning environment to optimize planning and democratize decision-making across lines of business and business activities, from strategic to operational levels. Machine learning (ML) can help increase the planning forecast accuracy. However, ML model outputs are not yet easy to use directly in business planning organizations. In this blog for […]

Introduction This blog discusses the insights Ansys and AWS were able to gain by scaling Ansys RedHawk-SC on the AWS Cloud. The joint investigation outlines how to right-size AWS compute and storage resource for optimal price/performance results while running at scale. By combining the capabilities of Ansys RedHawk-SC with being able to scale compute resources […]

This is a guest post by Ido Bar Oz, Global Strategic Alliance Director at Braze. Braze is an AWS Travel and Hospitality Competency Partner. — After a year in which hotel rooms sat unused and flights were grounded around the globe, rising vacation rates suggest some travelers are ready to explore the world again. However, […]

In part one of this series of blog posts, Why CPGs and Logistics Vendors Need a Fleet Management Data Lake, we explained why CPGs and logistics vendors need a data lake for transportation and fleet management. To quickly recap, a data lake is an ideal way to store, manage, and analyze transportation and fleet data […]

We invite you to join us at the AWS Virtual Village from June 28 through July 1 at Mobile World Congress 2021. AWS is hosting a free, immersive virtual conference to bring you the latest insights into how the telecom industry is transforming. Together, we are reinventing communications and enabling communications service providers (CSPs) to […]

Introduction Keeping wind turbines operational also means keeping them well maintained. One of the steps in maintenance is regular visual inspection. Wind farm operation and maintenance companies started to utilize drones with attached cameras to perform visual inspections. According to a recent study, drone-based inspection reduces costs by up to 70% and decreases revenue lost […]

Demand disruption has been a huge challenge for consumer packaged goods (CPG) supply chain management in 2020, and it will continue to be a big issue going forward. As we discussed in an earlier blog post, Data-driven Demand Planning: Managing Disruption in CPG with ML and Demand Sensing, one part of solving supply-chain demand disruption […]

Mapbox is the platform for location – an AI map built from billions of sensors. Developers use Mapbox APIs and SDKs to add live location into their applications. This includes maps, navigation, and search services to mobile and web applications, logistics networks, and automotive navigation systems. The Mapbox AI-powered AWS Data Pipeline processes over 300 […]

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 […]