AWS for Industries
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Underwriting at the speed of cloud – How life insurers can optimize underwriting using AWS
Life insurance underwriting is poised for significant transformation, driven by increasing customer expectations and enabled by the growing sophistication of technologies like data analytics, wearables, artificial intelligence (AI), and Generative AI. Modern insurers are leveraging these technologies to optimize their end-to-end underwriting processes. This article discusses the opportunity space and how AWS services facilitate substantial […]
How to Integrate Your Headless Commerce Retail Store With Commercetools—Part 2
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 […]
How Restaurants Can Win Over Generation Z With Text To Order
Introduction Generation Z (Gen Z), the generation born between 1997 to 2012, includes 67 million individuals, or roughly 20 percent of the US population. Gen Z individuals spend more time texting, also known as short messaging service (SMS), on their mobile devices than any other demographic. The pandemic has galvanized most restaurants to add food […]
Why Retailers Need a CDP to Power Their Customer 360 Strategy
With so many options to browse and discover products, consumers don’t shop linearly. Instead, they use many different, disparate channels along their shopping journey to discover and research products—from social media and websites, to email campaigns and targeted ads, as well as actually shopping in a brick-and-mortar store. Unfortunately, this disjointed approach obscures the shopper’s […]
Automate Product Inventory Updates to Customers Based on Their Interests
In this blog post, I’ll share a solution for automating the process of capturing your customers’ interests in a product category so you can tailor your marketing messages. I use a retail example to demonstrate how you can use AWS services to build sophisticated processes that generate relevant communications to your customers. This solution is […]
A How-to Guide for Deploying Amazon Interactive Video Service and Amazon Personalize in Retail
The ever-increasing popularity of live streaming is opening up new opportunities for online customer interactions. With live streaming providing engaging content, it can facilitate the flow of customers into online shopping, joining the shopping experience with other forms of online engagement. Personalized recommendations also allow online stores to pick the right products at the right […]
Multichannel customer engagement for financial services on AWS
Financial services organizations are facing challenges around loyalty, persistent churn, fragmented attention, and driving organic growth. There are external factors contributing to these challenges, such as the widespread adoption of mobile services, new digital native market entrants, adapting to generational shifts, and critical industry requirements around compliance and regulations that makes cumbersome to provide innovation […]
Calculating growing degree days using AWS Registry of Open Data
The selection of specific crops (corn, soybeans, wheat etc.) is dictated by the heat units and length of the growing season. This is commonly calculated as Growing Degree Units. The AWS Registry of Open Data contains global weather datasets dating back over 200 years enabling agricultural crop breeders in the seed/chemical/fertilizer business to optimize their […]
Building multilingual SMS chatbot campaigns to support COVID-19 patients remotely
The expansion of laboratory tests for COVID-19 have provided health systems with tools to screen for the coronavirus in their community. While some patients have tested positive for COVID-19 and were well enough to manage their symptoms and recover at home, healthcare providers have been challenged with identifying individuals who have waited longer than advisable […]
Planning for recovery: 5 trends to watch in travel and hospitality’s new normal
Previously, we have discussed how organizations have been stabilizing operations by aggressively optimizing costs, leveraging technology to support remote working, contact centers and ensuring both workforces and customers are safe. This is a complex and involved situation: ensuring maintaining a viable business, whilst balancing people and services, especially without a clear view of how and […]