Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

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.

Retail 164

Retail Infrastructure Innovation Cloud 164

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Comments ().

AWS 99

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 99

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

If the mantra in sales is “Always be closing,” the mantra for online retail storefronts is “Always be online.”. Peak loads can overload and crash retailer websites and derail customer interactions. Customer experience has become paramount for retailers, as visitors demand instant responses — especially during times of high volume.

Traffic 186

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 186

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Expanding customer value while reducing costs Further, the retail financial services landscape is increasingly competitive. Winning the loyalty of these increasingly fickle customers requires the right investments—in personalization, customer service, developing innovative products, and bringing them to market faster.

FinTech 188

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 188

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Each is a new take on an old theme, echoing one part of the contradiction that has riddled every business with a captive technology department: we want to minimize how much we spend on IT, and we want IT to be a source of innovation. The advent of cloud computing untethers customers, employees and even algorithms from captive ecosystems.

Ecommerce 45

Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

It often involves replacing legacy systems and workflows that have been in place for years or even decades. With Dynatrace Application Security , VA was able to immediately detect whether the vulnerability was present in any of its systems. Whether it’s cloud migration or monitoring, don’t be afraid to try something.

Strategy 171

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 171

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. These short sketches illustrate the power of the cloud for customers, but it is still early days.

AWS 165

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 165

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Each of these categories opens up challenging problems in AI/visual algorithms, high-density computing, bandwidth/latency, distributed systems. Such models for immersive content generation leads to research in novel system architectures.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Build evolvable systems. But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. We needed to build systems that embrace failure as a natural occurrence even if we did not know what the failure might be.

AWS 139

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 139

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 124

Internet Internet AWS Performance 124

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. Another example is for tracking inventory in a vast logistics system, where only a subset of its locations is relevant for a specific item. Graph databases at Amazon.

Database 131

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 131

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

The thinking was that by owning the supply chain from raw materials to retail outlets, a firm had direct control over its entire cost structure, making it better able to squeeze efficiencies out of it and being less susceptible to supply shocks. As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40