Category: Industries

High-end customers want a personalized experience when they shop. Why? Because of all the benefits digital technology delivered when the COVID-19 pandemic began. Staying safe was paramount but buying from the comforts of home, finding a wider array of options than in stores, and experiencing fast shipping contributed to online shopping mania. With customers stuck […]

Following the 8 June 2022 HM Treasury’s policy statement on critical third parties, on 21 July 2022, the UK regulatory authorities, the Bank of England (BoE), Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a joint discussion paper: Operational resilience: Critical third parties to the UK financial sector. The paper sets out detailed […]

Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) is transforming the mortgage industry and reimagining the home ownership journey for its customers by utilizing digital engagement, automation, and machine learning (ML). Black Knight Origination Technologies leverages AWS ML solutions to better standardize and validate bank statements, thereby increasing accuracy, reducing manual effort, and lowering costs. This is an example […]

Karen Miga, PhD, associate director of the University of California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, and Adam Phillippy, PhD, senior investigator at the National Human Genome Research Institute, join Ankit Malhotra, PhD, Genomics Lead, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services (AWS), to discuss how their team leveraged technological advancements to assemble the first complete human reference […]

A solution guidance to help direct store delivery, route sales, and field service teams take the fastest path Time spent in traffic is the penalty paid by all route sales representatives and field service technicians just to do their jobs. Saving drive time adds to employee morale, customer satisfaction, and company bottom lines. In this […]

Customer data platforms (CDPs) have become a widely adopted tool by marketers. And it’s no surprise, with its promise of unified customer data in an accessible and regularly updated solution, it meets many of today’s marketing and advertising needs including improving the customer experience by powering personalization at scale. The CDP feeds data from various […]

The importance of asset tracking Every day, Amazon.com receives millions of shipments from suppliers. A purchase order from Amazon to a supplier typically includes a large quantity of shipping containers, or assets, that will be delivered to various Amazon warehouses at different times. To determine if items are lost or misplaced in the large, complicated […]

According to one McKinsey Report, cash forecasting is cited among the most inefficient processes by small and large organizations alike. In turn, CFOs are seeking partners to help them navigate from reporting to predicting. Although corporate treasurers are challenged to achieve these efficiencies due to paper-based process (e.g., invoicing, wet signatures) and a lack of […]

Trends don’t just point us in generalized directions; they shape industries, change landscapes and most importantly, they inform businesses. To be brief, trends matter. Working in digital commerce, this is something an AWS Retail Competency Partner VTEX understands firsthand. At this year’s Industry Innovators virtual event, we welcomed VTEX’s Analyst in Residence Jordan Jewell to share […]

QR code menus have gained popularity due to the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, CNBC reported that Bitly, a link management service, saw a 750 percent increase in the number of QR code downloads in the past 18 months. There are many benefits to using QR code menus instead of printed menus. Restaurants […]