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Know Your Customer, Grow Your Business: The Significance of Customer Strategy and Segmentation in Retail

Perficient

Despite surviving both the Great Depression and the Great Recession, not even enduring luxury retail giant Nieman Marcus could escape COVID-19’s interruption of indoor shopping. The 115-year-old luxury retailer would laser-focus on their most profitable market: millionaires.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

TechCrunch

” Several expressed genuine uncertainty about the future of offices, but most were bullish about prospects for remote work, the rebirth of physical retail and the emergence of “third spaces” that will fill the gap between work and home. 10 proptech investors see better era for residential and retail after pandemic.

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Microsoft announces Syntex, a set of automated document and data processing services

TechCrunch

A 2021 survey from Dimensional Research found that more than two-thirds of companies leave valuable data untapped, largely because of problems building pipelines to access that data. “Virtually any industry with large scale content and processes will see benefits from adopting Microsoft Syntex.

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Tive, a startup developing supply chain visibility tools, raises $54M

TechCrunch

Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S. Census survey reporting that they’ve experienced delays with domestic suppliers. This has been costly. But according to Komoni, most tracking is done manually via loose systems of emails, spreadsheets and phone calls.

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Core technologies and tools for AI, big data, and cloud computing

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This concurs with survey results we plan to release over the next few months. In a forthcoming survey, “Evolving Data Infrastructure,” we found strong interest in machine learning (ML) among respondents across geographic regions. With that said, important challenges remain. AI and machine learning in the enterprise.

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How to take machine learning from exploration to implementation

O'Reilly Media - Data

The results of a recent survey we conducted (with 11,000+ respondents, a full report is forthcoming) bears this out—only about 15% of respondents worked for companies that have extensive experience using ML in production: In this post, I’ll describe how one can go from “exploration and evaluation” to actual “implementation” of ML technologies.

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Asset Tracking in Logistics: When and Which Technologies to Implement

Altexsoft

To get an idea of the scale, retail shrink now reaches almost $100 billion, as reported in the 2022 National Retail Federation’s Security Survey. Barcode tags are mostly used in retail, warehousing , and manufacturing for inventory counts. And it’s not only about shoplifting small items: Even forklifts get stolen !