AWS for Industries
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How SGK reduced IT operating costs by 83% with NoOps and serverless microservices on AWS
SGK Inc. (SGK) provides packaging, ecommerce solutions, and brand experiences for more than 1,500 clients around the world. SGK’s products and services provide near-real-time asset management, workflow integrations, and analytics for brand strategy and omnichannel marketing as well as asset design and production. The analytics in particular drive supply chain and product management decisions. Overall, […]
CPG Companies: Improve Demand Forecasting to Boost Sales on Amazon
For consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies that sell finished goods on Amazon, improving demand forecasting can be a large step towards maximizing revenue. CPG companies must accurately forecast and anticipate variable product demand to provide sufficient time to manufacture and deliver products to Amazon’s fulfillment centers. Many CPG companies already use Amazon Vendor Central, yet […]
Experimenting with Bitcoin Blockchain on AWS
In this blog post, we experiment with the Bitcoin Blockchain on AWS and demonstrate how to set up a Bitcoin Node on AWS that can be used to send and receive bitcoin from an external wallet. Before we start with the technical setup, let’s go over the potential of this technology. The history and opportunity […]
Three Disruptive Technologies That CPG Fleet Management Teams Should Consider
In part two of this blog series, How CPGs and Logistics Vendors Can Optimize Fleet Management with an AWS Data Lake, we explained how fleet management teams for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies can create a highly scalable Amazon Web Services (AWS) data lake to gain actionable insights from real-time data, driver safety scores, and […]
Building a Scalable Standardized Pipeline for Automotive OTA on AWS
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In this blog, we’ll describe how Excelfore was able to use AWS Cloud services to deliver a scalable, secure and easy to manage OTA solution for automotive OEM, Maruti Suzuki. The demand for an intelligent, safer, and smarter vehicle is […]
Broadridge Advances the Proxy Voting Data Process Using Artificial Intelligence on AWS
How does a company build a solution to a complex business challenge when the required technology and skills are new to the organization? Global fintech company Broadridge Financial Solutions (Broadridge) faced this question as it considered how to improve the operational efficiency of its Proxy Policies and Insights (PPI) tool. Broadridge has used Amazon Web […]
How to Run What-if Scenarios for Trading Strategies with Amazon FinSpace
Introduction In an earlier blog post, we described an architecture for backtesting machine learning-based trading strategies on AWS. One of the key components in this architecture is the data management and analytics component. Depending on the specific use case, there are various options to implement this. Many companies adopt solutions based on data lakes and […]
Enabling efficient patient care using Amazon AI services
Artificial intelligence can speed up the development of new drug development, be a bridge to personalized medicine using the information of our genomes, and help address the problem of a chronic shortage of doctors (especially in countries where health services are underdeveloped). However, significant challenges remain before we can get there. The challenge The application […]
Improving fraud prevention in financial institutions by building a liveness detection architecture
Facial recognition is an important tool for identifying a person. Facial recognition systems are already popular worldwide and are used to prevent fraud, particularly in financial institutions such as banks and insurance companies. Although facial recognition systems are relatively new, counterfeiters have already developed ways to bypass them including impersonation, or with the use of […]
Four trends driving global utility digitization
The Power & Utilities industry has reached an inflection point in digitization as early adopters give way to early majority growth. Our utility customers have shared four trends that have accelerated their digitization plans enabled by cloud technology and services. Sustainability is imperative Utility stakeholders including regulators, customers, and investors are pressuring utilities to declare […]