Category: Amazon Comprehend

In today’s healthcare landscape, the burden of administrative tasks, particularly electronic health record (EHR) documentation, consumes an average of 4.5 hours per day for physicians. This time commitment detracts from patient care and is the number one driver of physician burnout—an issue affecting 48% of healthcare workers. It is leading to a projected shortage of […]

In the oil and gas industry, rig reports are essential for monitoring the performance and operations of drilling rigs. These reports contain a vast amount of unstructured data, including comments from rig personnel regarding rig activities such as drilling progress, equipment maintenance, process interruptions, and safety observations (Figure 1). In blog #1, we discussed a […]

The retail industry is facing numerous challenges in today’s dynamic landscape that are forcing them to rethink their strategies. Retailers must keep up with technological advancements, such as generative AI, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and ecommerce platforms, to remain competitive to retain customers and market share. Retailers face intense competition from both traditional […]

Ecommerce sites are supposed to be prompt, precise and above all, user-friendly. Yet, their search performance history reveals an unsatisfactory reality for shoppers and retailers. According to Baymard Institute, “61% of all ecommerce sites show search results that are misaligned to users’ searches,” forcing shoppers to either enter a new search or abandon their old […]

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 challenge and value of online discovery The power of cloud elasticity helps online retailers expose large volumes of digital content catalogs for shoppers to browse and purchase products. However, it’s a challenge for many retailers to manage their vast online catalogs. And at the same time, with so much content, customers can become overwhelmed […]

In our previous post How to Integrate Your Headless Commerce Retail Store With Commercetools—Part 1, we walked you through the process to integrate an ecommerce store front end with a backend retail microservice from the commercetools solution using commercetools’s APIs. Built in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, commercetools provides a set of flexible REST […]

In our previous blog, How to Build a Dynamic Supply Chain Platform: A Primer, we discussed how companies can proactively manage market events in a global supply chain using AWS. In this post, we will focus on how companies can manage customs clearance risk in the same supply chain by using AWS artificial intelligence and […]

Ecommerce sales are on the rise. In 2020, worldwide sales reached USD $4.2 trillion with projections estimating sales reaching USD $5.4 trillion by 2022. As retailers expand globally, their users are diversifying and language requirements are expanding in complexity. In turn, translating content such as product descriptions and reviews can be time-consuming and expensive. Consumers […]

How does a company build a solution to a complex business challenge when the required technology and skills are new to the organization? Global fintech company Broadridge Financial Solutions (Broadridge) faced this question as it considered how to improve the operational efficiency of its Proxy Policies and Insights (PPI) tool. Broadridge has used Amazon Web […]