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Business

Data Science

Using Big Data analytics and Advanced Reporting in retail: A game-changer for convenience stores

In the fast-paced world of retail, convenience stores face many daily challenges: managing inventory, staying competitive, meeting customer demands, and adapting to changing market trends. In this article, we’ll explore the benefits (and challenges) of a data-driven approach to retail and use cases.

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Jun 22, 2023

AIDA

Cloud

8 common challenges of AI adoption and how to solve them in one month

Before your organization adopts AI, it needs a data strategy. Yet, only 32% of companies have it, which is concerning. Download our whitepaper to find out more about AIDA from a technical perspective or schedule a demo with our business analyst. At the very least, you’d get a feeling there are simple solutions to seemingly complex problems.

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Apr 25, 2023

Business

Martech

Hyper-personalization: What is it and why does your business need it?

Hyper-personalization is a process of using data analytics and collection tools, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning algorithms to process that data and automate experience creation, tailored to customers’ needs, in real-time.

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May 13, 2022

Business

Martech

Proptech

MarTech 101: What is it and why do you need it

MarTech isn’t going anywhere. Our mindset is shifting. We should start thinking about technology as a tool, not as an end-goal. In our vast industry experience, companies tend to integrate technology, and then base their strategies around them, when it should be vice-versa – create a strategy and then pick tools that help you achieve your business objectives.

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Apr 21, 2022

Business

Company Culture

After a mile in your own shoes

This article is people-focused. SmartCat is a small group of people. These are simply rare to find. And this basic trait is the first thing we check for. This is why we are proud of who we are. This why we are not afraid of admitting our mistakes and challenging each other’s ideas. This why we are a no-bullshit-company.

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Jul 09, 2021

Data Science

How big is the impact of AI technologies in Fintech?

The impact of AI on the global economy is unquestionable. The AI investments are increasing worldwide, while some experts think it will increase even more. In the FinTech industry, the key areas where AI can cause the highest impact are personalization and automation of decision-making processes.

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Jun 16, 2021

Business

Freedom vs. Structure (and impact on performance)

Everyone in the organization must be transparent, committed to goals, and “sprinting” to achieve them. Without equal rules for all, the buy-in of employees is not possible and thus motivation will be affected, resulting in bad performance and missed goals.

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Mar 30, 2021

Data Engineering

Apache Cassandra and ALLOW FILTERING

Prologue Aspiring Cassandra engineer-apprentice was fiddling with Cassandra cluster trying to fetch the data he needed. For a while, he was receiving strange responses from the server. But after hacking his way through the CQL, he finally received the response he was looking for. He felt so proud… For a moment. Then, out of nowhere, a senior […]

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Sep 20, 2020

Data Engineering

Spring batch as framework for system integration 

We had finished up the first set of requirements for some project and obtained a fully working application. It was an application for retail industry which stores article information and it was cloud based, where each company paid for subscription, uploaded data and gained access to all kinds of statistics. There was only one problem, […]

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Sep 20, 2020

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