Tag: Data Lake

Few companies break the mold in retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG). Even fewer are successful year after year, especially with global disruptions pressuring the industry for nearly three years and counting. What’s the secret to success? Recently, three leading industry analyst firms—Forrester, Gartner, and International Data Corporation (IDC)—have weighed in on this topic, citing Amazon Web […]

While industries are recovering from the disruptions created by the COVID-19 pandemic, consumer packaged goods (CPGs) continue to deal with major challenges like inflation, changing consumer preferences, and fluctuations in the oil and energy markets. A recently published McKinsey study shows that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, 75 percent of US consumers switched brands or stores […]

The Challenge Manufacturers that distribute products and manage inventory at many geographically dispersed sites struggle to predict replenishment timing and quantity accurately. For example, chemical manufacturers bound to vendor-managed inventory agreements make truck rolls to thousands of remote tank sites either when the tank is already empty (too late) or when the tank level is […]

Energy data and intelligence provider TGS wanted to innovate its energy data library by implementing data visualization capabilities and improving the delivery times of its products for its customers. To handle the demand of delivering large amounts of data, TGS wanted to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) solutions that would scale to large data requests […]

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 […]

If you consider the last few decades, the retail industry has gone through a massive transformation. From the corner drug store of yesteryear, to the massive malls of the 80s and 90s, and from online marketplaces to self-service kiosks and social media shopping, the retail landscape has evolved in ways that no one would’ve imagined. […]

WirelessCar worked alongside Amazon Web Services (AWS) to commoditize connected vehicle services and turn its data into insights, digital services, and revenue. Connected vehicle services in any vehicle— not just premium vehicles—is becoming a new normal. Vehicles are producing a huge amount of sensor and user pattern data, and there is a shift of user […]

This interview between Kim Macaulay, Head of Data, Quality and Governance, IATA and Sekhar Mallipeddi, WW Travel Tech Leader at AWS, is taken from the Travel and Hospitality issue of AWS Architecture Monthly. Be sure to check out the magazine for more customer stories, thought leadership, reference architecture and more. — Sekhar Mallipeddi: Please explain the […]

The key to meaningful progress in key global healthcare initiatives, like value-based care, reduction in costs, reduction of errors, and improving outcomes, lies within the vast quantity of data from sources ranging from medical imaging to electronic medical records. IDC projects the total universe of healthcare data to grow approximately 400% between 2020 and 2025, […]

No retailer would ever question the importance of data in daily operations. The evolution of operational data in retail decision making—from batch reporting to decision support to business intelligence systems—has been quite profound. Today, adaptive analytic platforms are driving industry innovation so retailers can: Detect critical business signals. Derive the current meaning and predictive insights […]