Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2024

From new standards for automation and security convergence to redefining sustainability in IT, these shifts represent not just technological advancements but paradigm changes in how organizations operate, innovate, and compete. For example, a global retailer could leverage observability to track energy efficiency across its data centers.

Energy 241

Energy Logistics Healthcare Retail 241

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Through it all, best practices such as AIOps and DevSecOps have enabled IT teams to efficiently and securely transform. As the analyst firm noted, organizations increasingly realize that digital capability is at the heart of execution, whether that’s to offer new products and services, minimize risk, or improve operational efficiency.

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Strategy Artificial Intelligence Innovation Ecommerce 246

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Some of the benefits organizations seek from digital transformation journeys include the following: Increased DevOps automation and efficiency. Digital tools and technologies provide a more efficient way of doing things. This keeps teams from falling into old habits and enables them to continually innovate and expand.

Strategy 244

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 244

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This approach improves operational efficiency and resilience, though its not without flaws. This limitation highlights the importance of continuous innovation and adaptation in IT operations and AIOps strategies. “The shift from reactive to preventive operations represents the next evolution in AIOps.”

Retail 130

Retail Metrics Engineering Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Today, many global industries implement FinOps, including telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and energy conservation, as well as most Fortune 50 companies. Aligning technology and finance teams Engineers focus on cloud computing, innovation, and moving workloads to the cloud, while finance teams focus on minimizing costs.

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Cloud Strategy Retail Energy 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

retail giant, initially tied to an ingest-centric pricing vendor, found itself manually curbing costs by limiting daily log ingestion to 3 TB and reducing retention periods. Consequently, the company’s mean time to identify (MTTI) and mean time to resolve (MTTR) during peak retail seasons was too slow. A prominent U.S. Transparency.

Retail 264

Retail Storage Best Practices Architecture 264

Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2019

Let me start by clarifying that the transformation I’m focused on isn’t the transformation involved in moving from one business to another (let’s say, moving from being a retailer to becoming a clothing manufacturer). But the bottom line is that the scalable efficiency model is ultimately a diminishing returns model.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Mobile Efficiency 104

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. For more information about how customers are innovating using AWS, see All AWS Customer Stories.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 154

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Our experimentation and causal inference focused data scientists help shape business decisions, product innovations, and engineering improvements across our service. We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Roxy Du (Product Innovation) [Roxy D.]

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Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 216

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

Analytics 107

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 107

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

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. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. Comments ().

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 82

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. We’ll see more innovation if emerging AI tools are accessible to everyone, such that a dispersed ecosystem of new firms, start-ups, and AI tools can arise. But not all rents are bad.

Social Media 127

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 127

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Developers need efficient methods to store, traverse, and query these relationships. In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers.

Database 119

Database Logistics Availability Storage 119

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

There are plenty of examples - music publishing, mass-market retailing, local transportation - where new entrants have left a wake of creative destruction in their path. But even Amazon is showing signs of innovation fatigue. Innovation and productivity from disruptive ideas, while still present, will fall short of potential.

Innovation 40

Innovation Retail Blockchain Transportation 40

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This was a lesson we had already learned from our experiences with Amazon retail, but it became even more important for AWS’s API-centric business. No gatekeepers” liberates the innovative processes and opens the door for many unexpected inventions, which are sure to follow. APIs are forever.

AWS 126

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 126

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Their work could inspire innovations in other spaces with similar characteristics. More than 100 companies are involved with IBM’s Food Trust network, including many consumer packaged goods companies and grocery retailers. But it is also being explored as a key mechanism for innovative approaches to insurance. Real estate.

Blockchain 74

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 74

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

items that share the same hash value in their primary key): e.g. if there is a DynamoDB table with PlayerName as the hash key and GameStartTime as the range key, you can use local secondary indexes to run efficient queries on other attributes like “Score.” Efficient Queries. What are Global Secondary Indexes?

Games 106

Games Scalability Database Retail 106

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. But to thrive, innovations need a certain tension. How companies can prepare themselves to attract the best talents for shaping their digital business. That can be inconvenient.

Social Media 71

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 71

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. The argument for this invisible efficiency is that economic models have simply failed to change in ways that reflect this phenomenon.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Such innovation in AI algorithms and approaches results in an increase in model size, exponential growth in the compute needs, caching of temporal states, and multiple models to run simultaneously. Generative and Interactive Visual Workloads.

Wireless 55

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 55

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

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

Although this may be the case, generally speaking a business is less effective if it's primary labor force consists of people who are concrete thinkers, and it is less efficient if its secondary labor are abstract thinkers. The economics of this arrangement favor the few who design over the many who build.

Software 49

Software Software Development Retail 49

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In the 1970s, the predominant business strategy was vertical integration: own the value chain from raw materials to retail outlets. When companies first invested in computer technology by buying mainframes and hiring programmers, they did so to create efficiencies in their administrative operations.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

While AI has been used for a while now, recent enhancement has made the technology much more innovative and adaptable. Supply chain management consists of many people, including suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and customers. There are many business processes that can be optimized using artificial intelligence (AI).

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

An intermediary couldn't crush the competition with customer love, innovation, tech firepower, or scale. The Journal makes the point that the would-be disruptors in home meal kits have done more to disrupt one another than they have to established players in retail food, and that's an important point.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Paul Reed, Clean Energy & Sustainability, AWS Solutions, Amazon Web Services SUS101 | Advancing sustainable AWS infrastructure to power AI solutions In this session, learn how AWS is committed to innovating with data center efficiency and lowering its carbon footprint to build a more sustainable business.

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AWS Energy Lambda Government 98

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

There isn't much you can do to squeeze operating cash flow efficiency from the asset-heavy business, aside from minimizing overhead costs associated with investing activity. But you can squeeze the operating company for efficiencies, reducing total labor costs with things such as customer self-service. The operating company is, though.

Airlines 40

Airlines Entertainment Retail Engineering 40

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Causal AI: Think of a global retail chain instantly pinpointing the root cause of a checkout slowdown across thousands of stores. This means technical users and business leaders can be much more proactive and innovative in the face of constant change.

Strategy 262

Strategy Retail Analytics Innovation 262