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Why “Cloud-native” is also “Green”
Cloud Computing, since the NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) definition in 2011 highlighted a deep innovations in IT, which until then had known at best Hosting and ASP … more
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From Machine Learning to Machine TEACHING
Imagine the day when chain store executives can focus on market positioning, what experiences to offer customers to stand out from the competition, how to motivate store staff to pursue … more
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Federated Learning in Retail
In the field of Artificial Intelligence and more precisely of Machine Learning (the mechanism by which machines learn from data), Federated Learning is a collaborative learning mechanism … more
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How Retail can help to mitigate Environmental drift
Climate change is under everyone's eyes and the scientific community confirms that it is a global drift very close to the point of no return.
The main responsibilities of these changes … more
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From Precision to Intelligent Retail
A company health in the mature and competitive Retail Industry rest on both vision and execution. The vision (or strategy in military terminology) consists in knowing one's own strengths … more
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Reinforcement Learning in Retail
Reinforcement Learnig (RL) is a family of Artificial Intelligence algorithms that, immersed in an environment, take decisions in order to maximize the cumulative reward. To give a … more
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Cloud Architectures and MicroServices.
Architecture, whether applied to software or buildings, is the link between aspirations and technology, both in continuous evolution. Internet and Cloud Computing have triggered a radical change in … more
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Artificial Intelligence: have Neural Networks won?
Pic credit: LinkedIn - Machine Learning vs Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a hot topic for mass media, despite being born in the 50s. From the beginning it has … more
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Circular Economy & Retail
The Circular Economy aims to improve environmental sustainability through processes and products redesign, reuse and recycling at the end of the life cycle, minimizing the consumption of new raw … more
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Intelligent Retail in China
The recent book by Chinese scientist and entrepreneur Kai-Fu Lee “AI super-powers. China, Silicon Valley and the new world order”clearly describes the current state of … more
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Intelligence at the Edge
Recent architectural trends defined, for example, "Intelligent Edges + Intelligent Cloud" by Microsoft and "Devices & Lambda @ Edge" by Amazon, highlight the benefit of native App … more
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Intelligent Audio in Retail
Digital technology is mature and cheap enough to go beyond InStore Radio. In text-to-speech, "robotic" voices are a memory of the past, and words recognition already matched human accuracy. Now … more
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What may have gone wrong in the first Amazon Go tests?
Anyone who deals with Retail has certainly heard of the new small format supermarket with no cashiers that Amazon is testing in Seattle and also that public opening has been postponed for … more
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From RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary) to Machine Learning
Introduction
Traditionally, the clustering of customers and the choice of the most relevant promotions are based on "RFM" parameters. Where R stands for Recency, i.e. how recent the last … more
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Intelli-tail: Artificial Intelligence for Retail
Introduction
The success of eCommerce world leaders, such as Amazon, is due not only to low prices, high quality and convenience of service, but also depends on a special ingredient: … more
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IT architectures for Retail in the Cloud age
Introduction
Even today, IT for Retail is struggling inside the dilemma between Centralized architectures, with a single database (db) to which all stores access in real time, and … more
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Real SaaS vs SoSaaS
SaaS(Software as a Service) is a well-known acronym for "Software provided from the Cloud, i.e. from centralized public resources, through the Internet”. Real or Cloud-native or Cloud-first … more
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Retail Management Software: Licence vs SaaS
A Retail Management Software covers the Front and Back Store areas (Point of Sale and Warehouse management, statistics and more) in stores independent or part of a chain. It can be … more
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POS software: is time for change?
Introduction
POS (Point of Sale) software, especially in chains, is considered a competitive factor and thus highly customized in order to differentiate from competition. Unfortunately, this … more
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aKite wins Assintel Award 2015
In October 23rd 2015 at MilanoCity Fairgrounds, during the tenth “Assintel Report” presentation, 3 excellences of Italian ICT has been awarded.
aKite won in the category & … more