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What is an Alexa Skill and 4 Tips on Creating Your Very Own
Amazon's popular Echo, Dot and Tap, powered by Alexa voice recognition software, are creating new ways of connecting customers with the things they love through Alexa Skills. CMSWire interviewed the experts to glean tips and best practices on getting started building your own.
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Will Indie Merchants Force Amazon to Loosen Its Grip on Ecommerce?
The upward trajectory of ecommerce parallels the growth of the world wide web, and more growth is in the forecast. Worldwide retail ecommerce sales are predicted to rise 23.2 percent in 2017 to $2.290 trillion. That means for the first time, ecommerce sales will account for one-tenth of total
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Larry Ellison Taunts Amazon, Reveals Cybersecurity Play at Oracle Open World
Oracle CTO Larry Ellison was in his element as he delivered the keynote address at his company's annual user conference Oracle Open World. The crowd of 60,000 who descended on San Francisco this week arrived eager to learn about the new innovations the Redwood City, Calif.
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Was Toys R Us Too Slow to the Digital Transformation Party?
Toys R Us, the iconic Wayne, NJ-based toy retailer, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States — and its historically lackluster attempt at digital transformation may be to blame. To understand Toys "R" Us’s current position, we have to go back to the year 2000.
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Larry Ellison Says Oracle Can Beat Amazon at Its Own Game
Forget the signature V-neck sweater, black turtleneck and trousers. Yesterday Oracle CTO Larry Ellison donned a new uniform of polo shirt, beat up blue jeans and running shoes to share a message with the masses. There was also a clicker involved, but we'll get to that later.
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The Whole Analytics Perspective on Amazon's Whole Foods Buy
Disruption — of industries, delivery channels and long-entrenched ways of doing business — has become such a familiar buzzword on the digital landscape these days that using it barely raises eyebrows anymore, much less makes any jaws drop. But last week’s $13.
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Is Amazon About to Buy Slack?
Amazon has reportedly approached enterprise darling Slack about a potential takeover, according to recent reports. Bloomberg financial news service reported the rumor based on "people with knowledge of the situation," but stated an agreement isn’t assured and discussions may not go any further. Both Seattle-based Amazon and San Francisco-based Slack
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How Amazon's Robot Army Is Driving Customer Experience
I bought a Fitbit Charge 2 last month from Amazon. As I researched models online, I received an offer for an Amazon Prime trial, including free shipping and more, so I signed up. The Fitbit shipped that day and arrived on my doorstep the next — talk about instant gratification.
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SAP Expands Cloud Partnership with Google, More from SAPPHIRE
ORLANDO, Fla. — SAP expanded its cloud partnership with Google with new certification of SAP technology and applications on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Company officials made the announcement this week at the company's 30,000-attendee SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference here at the Orange County Convention Center.
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Customer Obsession Defines Amazon and Digital
To stay relevant in the digital landscape, organizations must develop an obsessive customer focus. In the US, more stores are likely to close in 2017 than during the height of the great recession in 2008. Those retailers who have committed to digital are not finding it easy either.
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Are You Ready for Voice-Controlled Ecommerce?
With millions of Echo and Echo Dot devices sold last holiday season, and a projected 10 million units in homes by the end of 2017, it’s clear that Amazon’s voice-activated personal assistant, Alexa, is rapidly gaining widespread consumer adoption.
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Microsoft Buys Deis to Add Container Muscle to Azure
Microsoft made another play yesterday to improve what Scott Guthrie, EVP for Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, describes as its “new cloud currency.
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Welcome Amazon Connect, the AWS Call Center Platform
Amazon Web Services (AWS) just released Amazon Connect — its "simple, scalable and reliable service" for running call centers. The service uses automatic speech recognition and artificial intelligence, some of the same technology used by Amazon.com’s own customer service system, to route and manage calls.
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Amazon Business Is Coming For You, Distributors
When Amazon debuted AmazonSupply in 2012, it was clear the company was looking to use B2B sales as a growth lever in its quest to dominate ecommerce. So it didn't come as much of a surprise when the company was selling over 2 million stock keeping units (SKU) by 2014.
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