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

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

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

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

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 (AI) is becoming a hot topic for mass media, despite being born in the 50s. From the beginning it has … more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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