Category: Industries

In September 2022, Texas A&M University became the first higher education institution to launch Just Walk Out technology at its sports venue, Kyle Field. Three “March In, March Out” stores were installed, offering fans products like snacks, chips, soda, water, and alcoholic beverages. The stadium is one of the 10 highest capacity stadiums in the […]

Key questions and strategies to accelerate innovation with AWS Smart Store solutions The world of retail continues its digital transformation with the rise of ecommerce and the increasing prevalence of digital devices in the shopping experience. Furthermore, the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of retail digital tools, experiences, and technologies. Now that stores are re-opened […]

Order management & challenges Order management systems (OMS) are critical tools for retailers that want to optimize their supply chain operations and deliver exceptional customer experiences. These systems provide businesses with near real-time global inventory visibility, allowing them to make informed decisions about inventory replenishment, allocation, and fulfillment. Additionally, order allocation is another critical capability […]

Financial Services Institutions (FSIs) are looking for opportunities to exploit interoperability across a collaborative ecosystem to boost transactions through their channels, partners’ channels, and payment methods. From this post: “Forrester asserts that aggregators and intermediaries that create value across industries will become important agents in a diverse collaborative ecosystem. However, not all organizations have the […]

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has increased maximum sizing of global references per second (GRefs/s) for Epic on AWS customers.  AWS now supports operational database workloads of up to 42 million GRefs/s.  This represents a 61% GRefs/s increase from the previous AWS GRefs/s sizing announcement.  This step-change in scalability, delivered on the R6in instance, represents […]

Wind energy is a strategic industry central to Europe’s energy security strategy. Wind already meets 17% of Europe’s electricity demand today¹. The European Commission wants wind to be half of Europe’s electricity by 2050. This move to clean and renewable energy is critical to decarbonise Europe’s economy but the backlog in wind permitting across Europe […]

Introduction The purpose of this blog is to demonstrate one method of how effortlessly you can automate the data extraction, transformation, and building of an accurate power-demand forecasting pipeline using Amazon Web Services (AWS) services, such as Amazon Forecast, a time-series forecasting service based on machine learning (ML). This blog describes how Power Trading Corporation […]

EDF Energy (EDF) is one of the United Kingdom’s leading energy retailers, supplying over 3.5 million homes and businesses with low-carbon electricity and gas. EDF is on a mission to help Britain achieve net zero while being the United Kingdom’s biggest generator of zero-carbon electricity, with a mix of solar, wind, and nuclear generators. The […]

In an increasingly connected world, global consumer products company Helen of Troy saw an opportunity. By offering digital experiences, Helen of Troy could help customers get the most value out of physical products from many well-recognized and widely trusted brands, including Braun1, Vicks1, and Honeywell2. With a vision to innovate by enhancing the customer experience, […]

Introduction We often take for granted how easy it is to fly across the country or world on any given day. Yet, airlines face challenges, like unplanned weather events, wild fires, geopolitical events, logistical problems, and other external factors that impact their regular operations, more often than you’d expect. Such events lead to irregular operations, […]