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The keys to helping retailers with Black Friday preparation for exceptional customer experiences

Dynatrace

For retailers, the countdown to the holidays has begun, even if it’s still six months away. Black Friday preparation is the culmination of retailers’ efforts to attract and sustain customer relationships during the holiday season and beyond. It’s no longer a one-day event. Increasingly, consumers want an omnichannel experience.

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. Downtime per year.

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Frictionless retail: A pandemic imperative for IT

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For most who work in the retail sector, the pandemic has been an unwelcome test of our ability to cope with disruption. In eight months, retailers offering curbside pickup increased from 7% to 44%, reflecting rapidly changing consumer preferences. Let’s illustrate a simple use case for a retail outlet. Dynatrace news.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

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Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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Leverage logs for an end-to-end view of your business processes via Dynatrace OpenPipeline

Dynatrace

Unrealized optimization potential of business processes due to monitoring gaps Imagine a retail company facing gaps in its business process monitoring due to disparate data sources. In our retail company example, older systems are involved in shipping the order. On top of that, the data sources are inconsistent.

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The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

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Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Readers who share our privacy concerns, please note, all the data we monitor is publicly available. . Monitoring with ?the

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LATAM COVID-19 readiness

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And, with an increased demand for products and services do customers know what’s available and in real-time? The provider is also monitoring the internal doctor and clinic appointments scheduling apps as well, to ensure application availability to both external and internal customers at a time when this is more critical than ever.

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