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Breaking the Deadlock Between User Experience and Developer Experience

A List Apart

Even in developed nations, people on mobile devices see spotty coverage, flaky wifi connections, and coverage interruptions (like train tunnels or country roads). In early 2013, less than 14% of all web traffic came from mobile devices; today, that number has grown to 53%. UX and performance have issues in practice. My sister loves dogs.

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Estimated Time of Arrival: How to Approach ETA Calculations in Logistics

Altexsoft

It’s amazing how some people are so bad at time management while being so good at making up reasons for chronic lateness. How often do you have to wait for a friend who’s running late? In business, time is money. Just to illustrate the scale, remember Suez Canal blocked by the Ever Given containership in March 2021? ETA vs ETDel.

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How Retailers Use Artificial Intelligence to Innovate Customer Experience and Enhance Operations

Altexsoft

Forrester Consulting discovered that poor checkout experience and long lines are the third highest reason grocers would skip the line and shop in a different place. In-store cameras and sensors detect each product one takes from a shelf, and items are being added to a virtual cart while a customer proceeds.

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OTA Platform: How to Choose a White-Label Solution, and When to Go Custom

Altexsoft

White-label solutions make building an online travel agency or OTA extremely easy and fast. The simplicity of the launch attracts even non-travel players: Over the past two years , a number of financial companies, retailers, and loyal clubs have presented their branded booking platforms. The channel share in US travel as of 2022.

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Dynamic Pricing Explained: Use in Revenue Management and Pricing Optimization

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How would you price tickets not only to cover expenses for each route but also to achieve a certain level of revenue to be able to grow and develop your business? It’s commonly applied in various industries, for instance, travel and hospitality, transportation, eCommerce, electricity retailing, entertainment. Pricing automation.

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Telematics Systems: How Streaming Data is Used in Transportation

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Telematics emerged in the 1960s when the US Department of Defense together with the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University started the development of GPS (Global Positioning Systems) to keep track of military equipment and troops. Let’s take John, a truck driver who delivers cargo across the USA. What is Telematics?

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

Altexsoft

Travel plans screwed up. And that episode was not a one-off. It was just another reminder of overall aviation IT fragility, caused by different factors, from aging technologies to poor communication between different components to the introduction of immature solutions. Thousands of passengers stuck at airports.