Category: Industries

A reliable and secure energy supply is at the heart of today’s world. Oil and gas companies are facing a perfect storm of operational and business challenges. Transition to renewable energy sources, volatile commodity prices, increasingly strict environmental regulations, increasing geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty, and all amidst pressure to sustainably find, produce and refine hydrocarbons […]

In the ever-evolving retail landscape, one crucial aspect often overlooked is the significant environmental impact of inefficient inventory management practices—contributing to pollution, resource depletion, and greenhouse gas emissions. Onebeat, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Retail Competency Partner offers an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered inventory optimization platform that addresses the sustainability challenge through a holistic approach to […]

As the largest and most comprehensive Amazon Web Services (AWS) event, AWS re:Invent 2023 brings together the cloud computing community to connect, collaborate, and learn. With hundreds of sessions, workshops, and labs, it’s the perfect place for telco professionals to explore how AWS can help transform their business. re:Invent offers an unparalleled opportunity to learn […]

Last week at GroceryShop, Scott Langdoc, Justin Honaman and I enjoyed seeing various members of the Grocery ecosystem (brands, retailers, solution providers and all of us as shoppers and consumers) come together to learn from each other. This week, reading everyone’s take on GroceryShop has proven to be as insightful as attending GroceryShop itself. Adding […]

Overview SGN is a UK gas distribution network operator that manages the distribution network for natural and green gas to almost six million homes and businesses across Northern Ireland, Scotland, and southern England. SGN not only provides the management of the gas network (the company owns and operates 74,000km of gas mains, including high-pressure [HP] […]

Bots. The internet is crawling with them, literally. Bots, short for robots, are software programs that can impersonate human interactions. While bots can be used for helpful activities (think about how chatbots have changed the way we interact with product support) they can have a much more sinister side. Bots are relentless, and they pose […]

With competition for customers, the user experience is critical to the success of a retail website. A great deal of time is spent tuning photos, the number of clicks, and looking at cart abandon rates. But what if you are losing customers before they even get through the front door? Set yourself apart by embracing […]

Forecasting is the key to maintaining an effective balance between meeting customer demand and effectively using your resources. An undersupply can lead to disappointed shoppers while an oversupply will sit on shelves until sold or discarded (if passed its useful shelf life). Businesses use everything from spreadsheets, workflows, to complex resource planning software to generate […]

The COVID pandemic accelerated the customer demand seeking hyper-connected digital experiences, which could cut even across other industries. We highlighted this trend in our “Banking on the Cloud” ebook. Banks are accelerating the development of their strategies and solutions to deliver banking as a service (BaaS) and ecosystem banking capabilities to their customers and partners. […]

One of the most frequent requests we hear from travel and hospitality (T&H) businesses and technology leaders is, “How can we use technology to optimize operations?” Optimizing operations is complex and if not done properly can lead to penalties, loss of yield, and the erosion of brand loyalty. In this blog, we’ll explore how travel […]