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Demand for location services and location intelligence continues to expand across multiple sectors, including automotive, enterprise and IoT, mobility services, mobile apps and digital advertising. Location platforms which can meet the needs of key sectors and use-cases will be best placed placed for growth. 
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The next evolution of AWS Single Sign-On enables enterprises that use Azure AD to leverage their existing identity store with AWS Single Sign-On. Additionally, automatic synchronization of user identities, and groups, from Azure AD is also supported.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: this is huge for inter-system operability and improved management and user experience. It is now possible to single sign-on between Azure and AWS cloud computing platforms. This is a big deal for us geeks... ;-)
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The choice of identity resolution software vendor is a critical for marketers, as they work with this evolving technology to help optimize customer data management outcomes. Learn about the top 10 identity resolution software companies for 2020!
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: consolidation of customer data for reuse and syndication relies on tools called Identity Resolution that can map customer data from multiple sources to provide a true customer360 database and graph.
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Curious to know what technologies are used on your competitor’s website?
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: essential tools for any self-respecting geek. Easy to check this out, look in the extension toolbar of their chrome browser and you'll probably see BuiltWith... ;-)
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Compare the different marketing automation platforms in order to find out the most appropriate vendor for your business.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: useful comparison tool of 19 marketing automation solutions. Obviously biased in favor of Vbout but useful if you take it with the appropriate grain of salt.
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DropShipping is a direct to consumer retail fulfilment method where a seller does not hold stock.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: very interesting read that shows how much there is to consider for one small component of eCommerce, drop shipping. The larger point behind this post is that every feature of eCommerce solutions, from catalog, carts, payment, shipping, fulfillment, etc. are being unbundled into dedicated products. Here avasam provides services for dropshipping. This follows a larger trend of solutions as they mature: you start to see enough volume / complexity to warrant dedicated solutions. On the other end of the spectrum, there are platforms that try to integrate as many of these components into a single, integrated solution.
Some interesting posts on bundling/unbundling: - craigslist uunbundling: https://thegongshow.tumblr.com/post/345941486/the-spawn-of-craigslist-like-most-vcs-that-focus - search bundling in china: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/8/1/app-unbundling-search-and-discovery - productivity / excel unbundling: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/9/27/new-productivity
Lê Vĩnh Thiện's curator insight,
November 22, 2019 4:37 AM
Một xu hướng mới đáng để tham khảo và áp dụng trong mô hình hiện tại của các doanh nghiệp #DropShipping.
Không biết bao nhiêu lần mình mong muốn có một dịch vụ như vậy để đỡ tay xác nách mang cồng kềnh khi mua sắm, lại còn có thể đến tận cửa hàng để xem sản phẩm cho yên tâm!
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The most recent version of the dashboards and Business Intelligence tools list. Start here to understand the BI landscape, browse options and understand pricing.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: this reference of BI tools is quite impressive in its breadth and depth. Very useful.
freebme013@gmail.com's curator insight,
November 17, 2019 1:42 PM
BI Tools are the wave of the future.
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Observable is a web-first interactive notebook for data analysis, visualization, and exploration. By bringing data science from the command line to the web, we can make it more accessible, more collaborative, and more effective. We can equip the world’s largest developer community with the world’s most powerful medium for communication.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: now an essential tool in my box, I've been a fan of dynamic notebooks such as jupyter notebooks for python or even GIT-based collaborative documents. Try this one out, as javascript is very easy to learn and play with.
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Face detection is the ability of a computer program to identify and locate human faces in a digital image. Face detection is one of the most common applications of Artificial Intelligence. From camera applications in smartphones to Facebook’s tag suggestions, the use of face detection in applications is increasing every single day.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: few lines of code is all you need to do things that were considered impossible 5 years ago. With this powerful tool at their finger, expect pretty every website and system to include face detection and other image processing features to be included in the coming years. But few developers will know about the limitations of the technology, especially the biais that may exist in the training data. As in this example, you realize that the "confidence" has not been used in the example, but yet it seems to be an essential information to interpret the results. There will be many many errors due to this in the coming years before the technology really is fool proof.
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ImageNet Roulette uses a neural network trained on the “people” categories from the ImageNet dataset to classify pictures of people. It’s meant to be a peek into the politics of classifying humans in machine learning systems and the data they’re trained on.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: ImageNet has 14M pictures categorized in 32000 categories and is often used as the training dataset for image recognition neural networks. Here this website allows you to upload an image and see how the system would categorize you. It is interesting to play with different images to see what the system returns in order to get a sense of the huge amount of data that AI systems require in order to do a good job. We are far away from systems that can classify any image in any context but if you have a special niche with sufficient amount of data, it is quite impressive what can be done in a relatively short amount of time.
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Global companies, like Amazon, Coca Cola or Zalando are transforming their IT infrastructures into a microservice architecture. In addition to this, they are rebuilding their internal organizational structures and pushing their businesses ahead of the competition. We take a closer look at examples of microservice architecture in eCommerce.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: microservice is a core architecture pattern in today's eCommerce and cloud environments. This overview provides some insights into the most well known companies that have deployed their microservice architecture at scale.
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Implementing PIM solutions into existing B2B solutions can be extremely complex. It requires a great number of custom-made solutions, adjusting to specific business requirements, and matching the company’s structure. Here’s what we see as the biggest challenges, and how we overcame them!
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: the management of product, client and order data is central to delivering a unified ecommerce experience in an omni channel world. This paper sheds light into the reasons why a PIM is so important.
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We are going to have a look at the vital steps you have to take before submitting your item to a digital marketplace. As well as the vital marketing strategies that will help you achieve your first 100 sales. In this article we use our own marketplace, Codester, as an example.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: marketplaces are all the rage in the eCommerce world. I find this walkthrough interesting because it features digital goods (code, themes, etc.), something we don't think about enough - they are easy to ship! ;-)
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RPA is a software robot that mimics human actions, whereas AI is the simulation of human intelligence by machines. Many people often asked about the difference between Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Some even confused the two to be the same.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: a short article that explains clearly how you can leverage automation is companies today.
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Each year, we identify the top trends in SaaS spend and usage. This report takes a look at 2018 data from nearly a thousand companies and trends for 2019.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: this report on the use of software as a service in companies - think products like salesforce.com, office365, mailchimp and others. The data is clear: SaaS solutions are popular and no one seems to be in charge. This will have serious implications in terms of accountability, security, privacy, regulation compliance, economies of scale, etc. Who will manage that?
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An update on HubSpot App partners and integrations in 2019.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: software as a service or cloud based tools are often easy to connect. This example from Hubspot marketplace, with over 300 connections, is proof.
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By 2020, Gartner has predicted that more than 60% of online sellers will adopt a marketplace or include third-party sellers in their eCommerce ecosystems. Marketplaces are one of the platform model types that are transforming every industry. The platform model brings buyers and sellers together, helping businesses deliver a better customer experience while gathering customer insights. Data from McKinsey shows that companies that platform grow, and companies that don't platform don't grow. But where do you begin? Our guide will teach you how to define your platform strategy and get started. Read the eBook to learn: - The different types of platform models, and which are best suited for your business
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: this white paper explains the key elements to look for in a marketplace solution, whether you need to join one or create one of your own.
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New forms of automation (e.g., robotic process automation) and knowledge of the underlying processes/interactions are key to digital transformation. Process mining helps enterprise architecture and technology innovation leaders assess operations and performance, increasing these initiatives’ value.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: mapping processes is useful to craft a digital transformation that provides a seamless customer experience. Process mining tools help uncover issues by drawing insights from actual data extracted from call center logs, ERP transactions, etc.
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We applied the editing-publishing separation When content volume is low and only few trained people are responsible for content creation and maintenance, any added complexity of a two stack CMS isn't worthwhile. Such complexity makes it harder for content creators to learn how to use it and adds significant effort in system maintenance. (Although this may be mitigated by tools that are designed to work in this style.)
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: choosing a web content management solution is a pain in the neck. This approach does away with that altogether and builds its own versions. Very useful to understand the limitations of commercial CMS solutions.
Also read: edit-publish separation by Martin Fowler https://martinfowler.com/bliki/EditingPublishingSeparation.html
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Marketing leaders must boost scale, relevance and return on content marketing investments. To meet these needs, content marketing platform vendors provide ideation, editorial planning, content sourcing and analysis capabilities. Use this research to find a CMP that drives efficiency and results.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTER: if you manage a marketing team, the proliferation of channels and touchpoints that content marketing brings forwards means you now need tools to manage and coordinate your teams. Very much in line with my motto that digital transformation is equal parts technology, processes, and people...
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Frustrations with ESPs run high. Marketers told Litmus that limitations with their ESP was third on their list of biggest challenges for 2018. And 16% of brands said that changing ESPs was on their list of email marketing priorities for 2018. In our first-ever State of Email Service Providers report, we take a detailed look at the ESP marketplace to better understand:
Understand ESP industry consolidation, see the top ESPs by sector, and discover the most common ways to boost the functionality of an ESP.
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WHY IT MATTERS: emails remain a very important tool in the marketing tool belt. This survey provides insights into what is popular in Canada, US, UK and differentiates between industries and companies. Useful insight.
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Social media management tools allow you to manage your entire social media presence from a single interface. These services simplify every aspect of managing social media, from scheduling updates to generating reports and engaging with your audience. You can even isolate the most influential members of your community or industry and keep tabs on competitors. We put 30 of the best social media management software solutions to the test, and here we'll present the nine best.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: marketing automation requires tooling to manage workflows and ensure single version fo truth - this article lists a number of key tools for social media management.
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In this report, TDWI uncovers deeper insights that give users new perspectives on business questions. AI will transform BI and the way people make decisions and act. Rather than start with a hypothesis, data analysts will begin with an AI-driven insight. Instead of querying data to prove or disprove their hypothesis, users will query data to expand or validate a machine-generated insight or recommendation—or they might act on the AI-based insight at face value. But to get to that point, AI-infused BI tools will need to gain people's trust by consistently delivering accurate, relevant, and transparent insights within the context of a business user’s existing workflow.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: an interesting report that puts artificial intelligence (AI) tools as tools to augment Business Intelligence (BI) and evolve the field beyond analytics into prediction. Also provide some good reference diagrams as this one.
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Market Guide for Security Threat Intelligence Products and Services. Key Findings:
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: threat intelligence is a new field introduced by digital transformation. As more data is created and more processes are transferred to digital, the potential threats of fraud and other security breaches increases and requires new resources, new processes and new tools. This Gartner report provides a reference document to understand the field and help select partners.
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We’re rolling out two new features, Password Checkup and Cross Account Protection, to keep your information safe beyond Google’s sites and apps.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: this simple extension will inform you when your user-password has been stolen - prompting you to change your password or take action. Must have for everyone.
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WHY IT MATTERS: maps are and essential component for many digital transformation solutions. This detailed report provides a comparative study between the major providers. Sorry not to see openStreetMap or others.