Standard AI shifts focus from autonomous checkout to AI-powered vision analytics, aiming to help retailers gain actionable insights into shopper behavior, optimize store performance, and drive immediate ROI while protecting customer privacy.
Four years ago, Cincinnati-based Chiquita Brands International Inc. launched an ambitious, multimillion-dollar effort to consolidate its financial accounting systems and create a centralized budget planning and forecasting system. The company has three semi-autonomous units -- bananas, salads and other food products -- each of which has multiple lines of business worldwide.
Husqvarna Group, the Swedish-based maker of outdoor lawn and garden equipment, is powering up an updated e-commerce network designed to better share business information with tens of thousands of trading partners around the world and facilitate order fulfillment with the company's factories.
Information-technology complexity is often cited as a major concern for IT executives. In response to the challenge of managing increasingly complex data centers, many vendors are talking about “self-healing,” “autonomous” and “adaptive” data centers. Regardless of which marketing term is used, the concept is to design and build data centers that require less management, maintenance and troubleshooting. While a truly autonomous data center is at least a few years away, there are some important
To continue doing business with Wal-Mart, manufacturer Murray, Inc., needed to upgrade its e-commerce infrastructure. The pressure was welcome, says Tim Bolton, electronic data interchange manager at the Brentwood, Tenn., builder of snowblowers, lawn mowers and recreational gear.
Transportation technology is advancing quickly and will soon change the way we get from point A to point B. Here are the most promising advances, from hyperloops to autonomous vehicles to re-imagined personal transport devices.
Intel will mark its 35th birthday on Friday, but about 200 employees gathered on the front lawn of the company's Santa Clara, California campus this Tuesday to mark the anniversary by burying a time capsule containing, among other things, an Itanium 2 processor, chopsticks donated by Intel's Malaysian subsidiary, and a copy of Time Magazine featuring Intel co-founder and Chairman Andy Grove on the cover.
IT leaders will need to work closely with business managers to successfully implement business process fusion, according to Gartner. Business process fusion is the transformation of business activities achieved by integrating previously autonomous business processes.
There is a dizzying array of Cisco products that span both lightweight (thin-AP) and autonomous (thick-AP) wireless LAN environments. What follows here and in the next newsletter is a kind of cheat sheet to help you keep it all straight.
There's always a better way to cut a lawn. And the engineers at John Deere are using some of the same technology used by NASA, the Department of Defense and the Human Genome Project to figure it out.
If your company uses Cisco’s legacy wireless LAN components - autonomous access points that run Cisco IOS Software - and you want the benefits of the unified wired-wireless security system Cisco is building, you’d best be thinking about migrating to the company’s thin-AP, controller-based architecture.
Late on the night of Sept. 30, 1997, a group of Microsoft employees strategically placed a large metal likeness of the Internet Explorer logo on the front lawn at Netscape Communications in Mountain View, Calif. – a signal that the browser war was fully ignited.
Toyota is partnering with Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to research artificial intelligence and robotics, work they say will lead to autonomous cars.
Nvidia's new GPUs called the Tesla P40 and P4 are built for those kind of deep-learning systems that aid in correlation and classification of data. The P4 -- which is based on the Pascal architecture -- is designed for use in servers or computers that will drive autonomous cars.