CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2022

Two years ago, the consulting giant started shipping many of its recruits virtual reality headsets instead. At the same time, it created a virtual world or “metaverse” that enables employees to socialize, form teams, conduct training, and collaborate. “We More business applications are on the way. The Zoom fatigue factor.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

(Co-authored with Nancy Lin, Senior Associate) The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) recently announced 8 new virtual banking licenses in the market and their operators will all launch new digital-only banks there before or in early 2020.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 12, 2024

Last quarter delivered several shocks to the healthcare system, including a series of downturns for virtual care.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The purpose of customer service is no longer just to alleviate run-of-the-mill inconveniences; it is to provide fundamental and necessary services for consumers devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn how customer service will evolve in 2021.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2023

Thanks to cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G technologies, every link in the retail supply chain is becoming more tightly integrated. Shanthakumar, Solution Architect – IoT, Retail Business Unit, TCS. With 5G-enabled smart mirrors, a person can virtually try on apparel.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 20, 2023

Few verticals have undergone as massive a change as retail in the last couple of years. Driven by cutthroat competition and significant shifts in customer expectations, retail companies are striving to align themselves with the changing landscape, with IT playing a crucial role in their ability to achieve this.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2025

AI practitioners and industry leaders discussed these trends, shared best practices, and provided real-world use cases during EXLs recent virtual event, AI in Action: Driving the Shift to Scalable AI. Generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) are paving the way for this evolution. Its a driver of transformation.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 6, 2023

The device will retail at $3,499 and be available in early 2024. It is an augmented reality experiences with graduated immersive experiences that come very close to virtual reality at times. Apple has unveiled its highly anticipated next generation spatial computing device – the Vision Pro.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2025

In a world with thousands of categories, millions of products and hundreds of millions of consumers, when an individual walks into a virtual storefront, a company will be able to make remarkably specific predictions. And theyll get this level of granularity without needing a thousand-person operation or a billion-dollar data analytics budget.

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Forrester IT

JULY 29, 2020

Forrester’s view on the future of banking is here – examining the changes that we expect to play out over the next decade of retail banking. The drivers of the future are evolutions of the past – some playing out now, others that will be far more prominent by 2025 and table stakes by 2030. […].

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

Jay Gill, senior director of products and solutions, Pluribus Networks: Any virtualized network construct that is abstracted from underlying network infrastructure and provided by one entity to another, even within a single company, could be considered NaaS.

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Network World

MAY 23, 2016

baby retailer Kiddicare recently found out : The company used real customer names, delivery addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers on a test site, only to have the data extracted and used to send phishing text messages to customers. It’s also a significant security risk, as U.K.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

I was fortunate to participate in BigPanda's virtual roundtable that included leaders from the travel, retail, electrical utility, and gaming industries – in other words, industries dramatically impacted by COVID and its.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The entrance of new disruptors, including retail health clinics and direct-to-consumer virtual care services, is increasing competition and making it more difficult to attract and retain customers. Patients have a variety of choices, now more than ever, when it comes to seeking care.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

We may look back at 2024 as the year when LLMs became mainstream, every enterprise SaaS added copilot or virtual assistant capabilities, and many organizations got their first taste of agentic AI. CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI.

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Venture Beat

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In the retail metaverse, businesses with a great understanding of how to build experiences and foster community in-person could have a leg up. Read More.

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GeekWire

JUNE 26, 2020

Microsoft is shutting down its entire physical retail operation and instead will focus on its digital storefronts via Microsoft.com, as well as stores in Xbox and Windows. The company said its retail team members “will continue to serve customers from Microsoft corporate facilities and remotely providing sales, training, and support.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

The shift to personalized customer experiences will fuel investments in AI, logistics, and payment solutions in the retail sector. Government Services: AI chatbots and virtual assistants will streamline public services, improving citizen engagement and reducing administrative burdens.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

And for Shamim Mohammad, EVP and CITO at used car retailer CarMax, FinOps helps provide spend oversight. Financial services, technology, telecom, and retail firms are leading the way, according to the FinOps Foundation. CloudHealth has strong ties to virtualization and IT automation found in VMWare Cloud Foundation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Real-world example: A large automotive manufacturing giant in the US adopted a Cloud First strategy to migrate over 2,700 virtual machines to AWS cloud. This transformative approach enabled the organization to detect anomalies, generate detailed reports and derive actionable insights, positioning them as a leader in the retail industry.

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Forrester IT

JULY 27, 2017

Digital retail theater is becoming reality for consumers as retailers rush to find ways of attracting and retaining store customers. What is digital retail theater?

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Kitaboo

JULY 16, 2019

But with a team that is dispersed far and wide, sometimes in different cities and even countries, how is a manager supposed to execute a retail sales training program? Thanks to all the modern innovations, today it is quite easy and convenient to deliver retail sales training to a remote workforce. The answer again lies in technology.

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Network World

JUNE 17, 2024

Tech conferences – in person and virtual – give attendees a chance to access product demos, network with peers, earn continuing education credits, and catch a celebrity keynote or live entertainment (Elton John performed at this year’s Cisco Live event). Ready to travel to gain hands-on experience with new networking and infrastructure tools?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of waiting on hold or navigating through phone menus, customers can instantly get answers from a virtual agent that is far more engaging and knowledgeable than past generations of chatbots. Dynamic pricing Airlines, ride-sharing services, and online retailers have long used dynamic pricing to adjust to changing market conditions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

Theyve lived there since COVID legitimized the virtual workforce. They might not like living in the Land of Zoom (or Teams, or Meet), but not only do they interact there, theyre expected to figure out how to live and work there all on their own.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2021

The news: DevHub , the Seattle software-as-a-service startup that is used by more than 179 brands and/or their agencies to build websites and landing pages, has acquired New York-based Brickwork, a retail tech company that powers local consumer experiences for leading brands.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Stackline raised $50 million from Goldman Sachs Growth Equity to fuel its online retail intelligence platform as the e-commerce industry grows rapidly amid the pandemic. Some of the Stackline team, pre-pandemic. Stackline Photo). Stackline CEO Michael Lagoni. Stackline Photo). Stackline has 95 employees across three offices and is hiring. “E-commerce

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Network World

JULY 31, 2024

As per IDC, the financial sector is leading the charge in cloud adoption, with the three largest industries — banking, software and information services, and retail — projected to collectively spend $190 billion on public cloud services in 2024. Physical and virtual computing software will see the fastest growth among SIS products. “AI

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 27, 2024

Customer service, PDF extraction, drug discovery NVIDIA’s initial NIM Agent Blueprints offering covers three use cases: a digital human workflow for customer service, a multimodal PDF data extraction workflow for enterprise RAG, and a generative virtual screening workflow for computer-aided drug discovery. “We NIM microservices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2023

So it’s a completely virtual enterprise, and all efforts were made to maintain the close-knit culture Giant Eagle had, as well as transform the culture to one that’s more proactive and assertively aligned with business partners. Watch the full video below for more insights. She is very curious and takes a genuine interest in technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Retailers often use predictive models to forecast inventory requirements, manage shipping schedules, and configure store layouts to maximize sales. Predictive analytics use cases Organizations today use predictive analytics in a virtually endless number of ways. As such it can help adopters find ways to save and earn money.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In an effort to sell more goods from companies run by people of color, outdoor retailer REI is launching a program to support diverse entrepreneurs producing gear for camping, hiking, biking, skiing and related activities. According to REI, only 1% of retail brands are owned by people of color. REI Photo).

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

AI, security, energy-efficient computing , robotics, and virtual computing interactions are among the research firm’s top 10 strategic technology trends, which were unveiled at Gartner’s annual IT Symposium/XPO in Orlando. Agentic AI offers the promise of a virtual workforce that can offload and augment human work, Alvarez stated.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2022

Move over books and groceries, Amazon’s latest foray into physical retail is focused on fashion. The effort is the latest by the 27-year-old Seattle-based company to disrupt legacy, brick-and-mortar retail. 1 apparel retailer in the U.S., Inside Amazon Style, the tech giant’s first-ever physical fashion store.

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Network World

JULY 2, 2024

It also introduced new Fast Start services, some with broad appeal and some for extremely niche markets, including an AI-powered kiosk with a virtual employee to serve customers; a video-based analytics system for improving manufacturing efficiency and compliance; a video building block for self-checkout and retail loss prevention; and an AI-based (..)

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CTOvision

AUGUST 4, 2014

and Office 365; Optimizes Performance Running on Smaller Footprint Endpoints, Touchscreen Tablets and Virtual Desktops; and Supports Distributed Rollouts With Group Templates and CDN-Enabled Client Upgrades. Extends Platform Coverage to Windows 8.1 LAS VEGAS, NV and FAIRFAX, VA—August 4, 2014, Black Hat—Invincea, Inc.,

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