WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

The 2022 edition of the Marketplace 100 ranks the largest consumer-facing marketplace startups and analyzes the trends behind the next generation of marketplace giants.

The AI Index Report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data related to artificial intelligence. Its mission is to provide unbiased, rigorously vetted, and globally sourced data for policymakers, researchers, executives, journalists, and the general public to develop a more thorough and nuanced understanding of the complex field of AI. The report aims to be the world’s most credible and authoritative source for data and insights about AI.

Read the report to learn the critical advice IDC has for technology buyers and why VTEX is a Leader.

Hello, 2022! Following my wrap-up of martech from 2021 — tl;dr a year in digital marketing that was experienced like a Twitch stream at 1.5X speed — let's jump in to the martech topics I expect will shape 2022.

To succeed with data and analytics initiatives, enterprises need a comprehensive view of critical technology capabilities. We believe these Hype Cycles draw a holistic view of technologies — including the new addition of lakehouse architecture as a trigger, which can make data and analytics programs modern, broadly applied, richer in functionality and successful.

Get the report and gain insight into:
-Changes in this Hype Cycle — including the addition of Lakehouse
-The current state of data management maturity
-The Priority Matrix

2021 was the year of broken supply chains, Amazon aggregators, more advertising, Shopify's almost-marketplace, and one unanswered question - did the pandemic boost e-commerce after all? For now, the world of marketplaces revolves around Amazon - it has doubled in size in two years. No one will challenge it directly, but a different paradigm might.

Successful companies are meeting this challenge by taking a “customer-back” perspective. Based on a clear understanding of the skills, behaviors, and mindsets the organization requires, these companies identify capability gaps and improvement opportunities across their workforce. Then, instead of offering “one size fits all” training, they design their capability programs based on detailed analysis of the needs of individual learners—while instilling a culture that fosters learning throughout the organization. That involves the application of a few powerful principles.

In Santiment’s end-of-year digest, we look back at some of 2021’s most important market trends and what they tell us about the year ahead - all from the prism of on-chain, social and development activity.

“Self-hosting” is a practice that pretty much describes itself: running your own internet services, typically on hardware you own and have at home. This contrasts with relying on products from large tech companies, which the user has no direct involvement in. A self-hoster controls it all, from the hardware used to the configuration of the software.

While CDP vendors may claim to do everything, the fact is they can’t.

Emerging Technology Roadmap benchmark adoption plan, risk factors, and value drivers. Use this roadmap to help you make technology investment decisions for the coming 12- to 24-month time period.

This year's State of the API report covers the largest and most comprehensive survey on APIs, ever. More than 28,000 developers and API professionals shared their thoughts on a range of topics, including their organizations' development priorities, how they get their work done, and where they see the industry going. We combined this data with data we've observed on the Postman API Platform to build a robust picture of the current state—and the future—of APIs.

The Technology Radar is an opinionated guide to technology frontiers.

The 23rd edition of World Energy Markets Observatory (WEMO) research report reveals a world struggling to balance the critical need to accelerate energy transition while maintaining energy affordability.

Explore how advances in enabling technologies, new investments, and industry transformation have the potential to help mitigate the effects of climate change – and the steps that must be taken to turn possibility into impact.

Did Covid-19 destroy in-store shopping? Can retailers revitalize the brick-and-mortar experience to lure customers back to physical locations? The books explore lessons learned during the pandemic to demonstrate how successful stores and brands are tackling these challenges.

The CPaaS segment has progressed beyond the provision of a few voice and messaging APIs. Developers and enterprises demand a high level of reliability for phone numbers and messaging delivery, as well as vertical use case templates and tools for rapid onboarding and deployment.

Key attributes enterprises should consider when seeking a CPaaS provider:

• Carrier-grade network infrastructure
• Demonstrable use cases
• Software integrations
• Ancillary services

Investments in digital commerce continue to grow as companies adapt to new business models and sales processes prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This research evaluates the viability of 17 digital commerce platform vendors to help application leaders make informed decisions.

The ERP for product-centric enterprises market is accelerating its transition to cloud deployment models. ERP application leaders should use this Magic Quadrant to evaluate cloud ERP application suites as part of a composable ERP strategy.

Dans ce profil, vous trouverez :

1. Une revue historique de la position du Québec en matière d’intelligence artificielle;
2. Une définition de la main-d’œuvre du secteur;
3. Un portrait global de l’emploi ;
4. Une taxonomie des métiers de l’intelligence numérique – que nous définissons comme étant la main-d’œuvre spécialisée en intelligence artificielle ainsi que les métiers périphériques essentiels reliés ;
5. Des fiches métiers traitant de l’estimation du bassin de talents et incluant de multiples informations spécifiques salaires, tâches principales, référentiel de compétences techniques et transversales);
6. Une répartition industrielle des métiers de l’intelligence numérique
7. Un portrait de la demande de compétences et de la formation, incluant les forces et défis concernant ce profil  de talents qui change à une vitesse déstabilisante.
8. L’ensemble de nos données sur l’utilisation des outils numériques, sous la forme de matrices Emploi/Outils numériques et technologies, en annexe du document.

"Everything that should be happening over a five-, 10-year period is happening now," said Pete Madden, a director with AlixPartners. "It's a rethink, it's expensive, and it's on top of expense that has already happened."

Discover the trends and tech, from “waterless” beauty products to virtual try-on, that will continue to transform the beauty sector in 2021 and beyond.

This year is about drama: comedy, tragedy and satire. A connection with the human experience.

20 years ago Apple seized music, and turned it into a lever for its broader business. It failed to do the same to TV, and lost control of music, but won massively in games, where it now makes more money than the entire global digital music industry. Now, perhaps, it’s looking at advertising.

In this article, we walk you through the smart shelf technologies that are revolutionizing the way the retail industry delivers educational content, pricing, and in-store promotions, ratings, and reviews on the shelf.