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Why Your Cold Chain Needs Real Time Control and Monitoring Solutions?

A recent survey by the Boston Consulting Group found that a staggering 2.1 billion tons of food worth $1.5 trillion would be wasted by 2030 across the fleet value chain. It becomes extremely acute for developing countries where maximum wastage occurs across the production and transportation cycle. For developed countries with a sophisticated cold chain infrastructure, the wastage is more focused at the consumption phase.

ACL Digital

September 27, 2017

Robotic Process Automation

What is Robotic Process Automation? RPA is performed by software “robots”. This is nothing but automating any large scale repetitive tasks being performed by humans. Such robots can be used to do workflow processes, business processes, infrastructure processes, back office transactional processes and many such functions which are labor intensive and error prone.

Veerappan P L

September 11, 2017

Top 4 Use Cases of Application Visibility and Control (AVC)

In today’s world when we seek for IoT, IoE, cloud computing, IaaS and various other things, being aware of application is a necessity. When we consider a network system to be deployed for home, enterprise or on a more global level as cloud services, one needs awareness about applications, traffic traveling across and user preferences. Awareness about the network and application visibility, its need, use cases and its future are few things going through everyone’s mind involved in the Networking ecosystem.

Yogesh Purohit

September 03, 2017

Top 10 Benefits of Implementing Chatbots in Retail

Time. Convenience. Value. The holy trinity for customers. Gone are the days when retail customers use to navigate through varied number of websites on computers and cellphones, the long wait to connect to a service representative through Interactive Voice Response systems & live chats. It’s time for traditional retailers to implement chatbots across their ecosystem to engage customers throughout the path to purchase journey with a human touch. By implementing chatbots in retail, customer satisfaction and engagement, and thereby revenue and gross margins can be improved.

Pooja Naik

August 14, 2017

5 Key Millennial Consumer Behaviors Retailers can’t Ignore for an Effective Web Strategy

The tech savvy, bargain buying and fugitive millennials are often a trending topic amongst retailers. Thus, they keep constant track of millennial consumer behaviors. According to Forbes– “There are eighty million millennials in America alone and they represent about a fourth of the entire population, with $200 billion in annual buying power”. This makes retailer think twice while strategizing their e-commerce website development or enhancement plan.

Meghamallar Paul

August 01, 2017

Understanding the Continuous DevOps Lifecycle

DevOps is an agile relationship between development and operations. It is a process practiced by the development as well as operations engineers right from the starting of the design to production support. Understanding DevOps is incomplete without understanding Devops lifecycle. Here is a brief depict of the Continuous DevOps lifecycle:

Madhushree Bharati

July 14, 2017

10 Best Practices to Set Foundation for Effective Retail Personalization

Every single day we would receive at least one promotional email or offer message, which would be about a particular set of products that we were wishing to buy. And we would be wondering ‘how did they know what I like?’. It is nothing but a well-planned marketing program that has an effective retail personalization. This personalization is not just a technological gimmick but a perfect execution of a multi-level plan. Targeting the right offer to the right customer is the key part of a marketing strategy, and to achieve that these 10 practices should be considered as important.

ACL Digital

July 14, 2017

Big Data Solutions to Improve Patient Care and Enhance Efficiency

It is estimated that worldwide healthcare data is expected to grow to 50 times the current total. A McKinsey Global Institute Analysis has identified the following four distinct Healthcare big data pools and recommended that the integration of these provides bigger opportunities for healthcare players.

Somnath Nag

July 14, 2017

Top 5 Applications of Geo-Fencing in Retail

With the advent of technology, retailers nowadays are adapting digitization to increase their loyal customer base. Improving customer engagement is a very important aspect for improving customer retention rate, which eventually leads to a wider customer base. Out of diverse ways of increasing customer engagement, one of the most important technique is geo-fencing.

ACL Digital

July 14, 2017

Top 5 Trends in Retail Point of Sale (POS)

Traditional brick and mortar stores, still latching on to obsolete technologies are gradually withering out from the retail market. As mentioned in my previous blog (How Retailers are Improving Customer Engagement with Digital In Store Experiences?), providing a highly engaging in-store experience is extremely essential for retailers to increase customer footfalls and sales. Hence, nowadays companies are adopting an aggressive digital strategy like using AI for personalization, innovating the retail point of sale systems, increase in usage of virtual mirrors etc.

ACL Digital

July 13, 2017

Top 3 Strategies for Retailers to Ensure Higher Conversion Rates over Mobile Apps

Businesses for Retailers from mobile applications is booming day by day. In this cut throat competition, the main challenge is to build a top retail mobile app. In my previous blog: 10-tips-retailers-develop-compelling-mobile-experience , I have already provided tips for retailers on how to develop a compelling mobile experience. Now to understand what it exactly takes to reach the top charts ensuring seamless user experience and higher conversion rates, I would like to discuss some of the key strategies and essential components of a retail mobile application.

Ankita Baldava

July 04, 2017

10 Tips for Retailers to Develop Compelling Mobile Experience

In the age of globalization with the changing technology and advancement, people have reduced the usage of computers and laptops and are more dependent on smartphones. Today we can access almost everything with the help of a smart phone. Now ordering groceries, booking a table at your favorite restaurant, shop for latest collection of dresses after virtual trial, is just a click away. The taste of mobile users has evolved over the time and they demand experiences that are more engaging but are constrained by limited screen real estate, time, and capabilities.

Ankita Baldava

June 16, 2017