Category: Amazon Athena

Energy companies are still using architectures based on monolithic systems when managing and billing energy service contracts. Architectures where the billing processes have been built using stored procedures inside a database are common. These architectures limit the capabilities of the business units to create, manage, and invoice contracts based on new products and services, especially […]

There were a large number of new service announcements as well as partner and solution announcements that came out of AWS re:Invent 2022. To make it easy for advertising and marketing technology customers, we have identified a list of top announcements specific to this industry. Session summaries and access details to content on demand is […]

Financial Services Institutions (FSIs) are looking for opportunities to exploit interoperability across a collaborative ecosystem to boost transactions through their channels, partners’ channels, and payment methods. From this post: “Forrester asserts that aggregators and intermediaries that create value across industries will become important agents in a diverse collaborative ecosystem. However, not all organizations have the […]

Industry challenge Every tax season, global financial technology company Intuit faces high demand from over 100 million customers seeking advice for preparing their taxes on its artificial intelligence (AI)–driven expert platform. To uphold its mission of powering prosperity around the world, Intuit transformed its systems and infrastructure using the latest technologies from Amazon Web Services […]

The Challenge Manufacturers that distribute products and manage inventory at many geographically dispersed sites struggle to predict replenishment timing and quantity accurately. For example, chemical manufacturers bound to vendor-managed inventory agreements make truck rolls to thousands of remote tank sites either when the tank is already empty (too late) or when the tank level is […]

The importance of asset tracking Every day, Amazon.com receives millions of shipments from suppliers. A purchase order from Amazon to a supplier typically includes a large quantity of shipping containers, or assets, that will be delivered to various Amazon warehouses at different times. To determine if items are lost or misplaced in the large, complicated […]

Grocery retailers typically operate high-volume, low-margin business models. All the retailer’s resources need to be deployed in a way to maximize productivity and minimize cost. This isn’t a simple ask because the majority of applications in the industry have grown organically over a long period of time. In the UK, the top five grocers—with the […]

Communications service providers (CSPs) often manage millions of customer premises equipment devices (CPEs) to provide services to their customers. These devices come in different types depending on the underlying communications technologies. Cable modems and xDSL modems, set-top boxes, and wireless routers are some examples of equipment types we see in customer environments. To manage those […]

Opportunity at the intersection of demand and supply Complexity and volatility characterized the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and retail industries even before the pandemic impacted all of us. According to a Boston Consulting Group study, the associated opportunity loss due to complex and volatile business is estimated to be 8–10 percent, and poor anticipation of demand […]

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are undergoing massive transformations on multiple fronts to cater to the demands of ever-changing consumer behavior, new supply chain practices, and increasing competition with new market entrants. A survey conducted by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) with global business leaders, whose companies underwent a transformation over the past five years, suggests […]