Tag: serverless

Upbound Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPBD) is an omnichannel-platform company headquartered in Plano, Texas. It’s committed to providing innovative, inclusive, and technology-driven financial solutions that address consumers’ evolving needs and aspirations. Upbound’s customer-facing operating units include industry-leading brands such as Rent-A-Center® and Acima®, which facilitate consumer transactions across various store-based and digital retail channels. Upbound has […]

Modern trucks come with a variety of equipment for the buyer to choose from. The truck configurator helps the seller to configure the truck with the right capabilities according to the customer’s needs. The configuration is a critical part of the sales process. In this blog, we explain how MAN Truck & Bus SE (MAN) […]

Background: Energy companies are seeking methods to run engineering software in the cloud, especially those that need a significant amount of computing and storage resources in short periods of time to bring about simulation capacity instantaneously and reduce project turnaround (for example, Florida-based utility runs PROMOD, Siemens Simcenter customers run CFD, Ansys LS-DYNA customers run […]

In the dynamic landscape of energy consumption, the ability to monitor and manage energy usage has become a critical need for consumers. At the heart of this evolution are Smart Metering Equipment Technical Specifications (SMETS) 2 meters. These sophisticated meters represent the second and more advanced generation of smart meters in the United Kingdom. Unlike […]

Accenture’s Water Management Platform helps our clients in the oil and gas industry to optimize water use and reuse in their operations. The solution aims to assist engineers and operators in making better and more informed water-use decisions, with a focus on three main goals: reducing water sourcing, reducing water disposal, and increasing water reuse. […]

Dunelm Group plc is the UK’s leading homewares retailer, with specialist offerings for customers across their superstores in the UK, and their digital platform. Dunelm’s website attracts over 400 million sessions every year and generates approximately 35% of the company’s revenue. When an organization starts to scale, it needs to reflect their growth on the […]

In 2020, the BMW Group (BMW) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a strategic collaboration aimed at accelerating BMW’s pace of innovation across all company processes, from vehicle development to after-sales services. In addition to novel use cases, the strategic collaboration addressed the cloud-driven transformation of business applications. In this blog post we discuss key […]

Consumers expect companies to engage with them in a highly relevant and personalized way regardless of channel. In a study done by Twilio, 60 percent of consumers say that they will make a repeat purchase after a personalized experience. A study from McKinsey & Company indicates that more than 70 percent of consumers expect a […]

In the energy and commodity trading industry, traders negotiate transactions with brokers and counterparties directly. These negotiated transactions are called over-the-counter (OTC) deals. Price discovery for OTC deals is unlike price discovery for common equity, options, and other financial instruments, where pricing information is generally market-efficient and available in near real time. In OTC trades, […]

The iFood finance department originally used a monolithic application, which was slow to develop new functionalities. Switching to an event-oriented architecture not only accelerated development but also added resilience and performance to its financial middleware. The iFood finance department has a platform called Digital by You (DBY) that helps food lovers (approximately 100,000 iFood employees) […]