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Henkel embraces gen AI as enabler and strategic disruptor

CIO

Its industrial B2B arm focuses on adhesives technologies, like Loctite, while its B2C consumer goods arm owns brands such as Dial and Purex. At the time, the team was focusing on traditional AI, using machine learning capabilities to build a recommendation engine that could help end users perform TPO on the fly. “In

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Sysco’s recipe for growth centers on IT

CIO

Recipe for Growth, for which Sysco has earned a 2023 CIO 100 Award for innovation and IT leadership, is based on applying B2C principles to Sysco’s B2B business, and calls for the company to grow 1.5 times the size of the entire industry—estimated to be valued at $330 billion in the US alone, Peck says.

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Perficient’s Thoughts on use of GenAI in Commerce Solutions

Perficient

Revolutionizing B2C Commerce: The Impact of Generative AI In the dynamic landscape of commerce and consumer-driven markets, Business-to-Consumer (B2C) organizations are increasingly turning to generative AI to revolutionize their operations and enhance customer experiences.

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Nigeria’s Indicina raises $3M to help businesses offer credit to their customers at scale

TechCrunch

And as digital banking — which includes the provision of loans — began to take off in the country, she told TechCrunch that she saw an opportunity to start Indicina in 2019 to provide credit rails and financial analytics tools for these businesses. 3 billion (~$5 million) loans from 10,000 bank statements and disbursed over ?700

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Zilliz, the startup behind the Milvus open source vector database for AI apps, raises $60M, relocates to SF

TechCrunch

In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus , the popular open source vector database for similarity searches — raised $43 million to scale its business and prep the company to make a move into the U.S.

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Scandit snaps up $150M at a $1B+ valuation for its computer vision-based data capture technology

TechCrunch

Scandit — which uses computer vision to scan barcodes, text, ID cards or any physical object to trigger automated responses, provide analytics and more — has raised $150 million, a Series D that values the Swiss startup values at over $1 billion. Annual recurring revenues have doubled (it doesn’t disclose actual figures).

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Familia Torres apuesta por la tecnología para convertirse en una bodega de emisiones cero antes de 2040

CIO

La organización complementa estos procesos mediante algunos módulos CRM concretos y específicos de automatización de la fuerza de ventas, marketing digital y canales B2C y B2B de la mano de SAP, SalesForce y UVE Solutions.

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