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

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percent of all retail sales (2.3 eCommerce share of total retail sales worldwide from 2015 to 2021. To remain competitive, retailers must allow in-store customers to enjoy the benefits of online shopping. In 2017, global eCommerce sales accounted for 10.2 trillion US dollars). This figure is projected to reach 17.5

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Supply Chain Control Tower: Enhancing Visibility and Resilience

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Leading executives focus on building resilient and intelligent supply chains that can withstand the turmoil due to data-based proactive decisions. “Control towers are the artificial intelligence (AI) of supply chain. Everyone wants to have it, but nobody quite knows how it works.” Christian Titze, vice president analyst at Gartner.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

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It offers high throughput, low latency, and scalability that meets the requirements of Big Data. The technology was written in Java and Scala in LinkedIn to solve the internal problem of managing continuous data flows. What does the high-performance data project have to do with the real Franz Kafka’s heritage?