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The fast track to intelligent retail modernization with TCS and Microsoft Cloud

CIO

Retail organizations face an urgent need to accelerate digital transformation efforts in response to economic insecurity, persistent inflation, and growing consumer price sensitivity. With cloud adoption, retailers have been successful and with emerging artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities on cloud, they can break the barriers.

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3 ways Generative AI is transforming the retail industry

CIO

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as Azure OpenAI have been drawing attention in recent months, and there is widespread consensus that these technologies can significantly transform the retail industry. How can Generative AI speed innovation in retail?

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3 technology trends set to revolutionize retail

CIO

Few verticals have undergone as massive a change as retail in the last couple of years. Driven by cutthroat competition and significant shifts in customer expectations, retail companies are striving to align themselves with the changing landscape, with IT playing a crucial role in their ability to achieve this.

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HUAWEI eKit makes digital business easy for distributors

CIO

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) aren’t just businesses; they’re the pillars that uphold the global economy, accounting for 50% of global GDP and 70% of jobs. SMEs generally have their hands full doing businesses, and often don’t have the dedicated teams to lead digital transformation projects on their behalf.

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Amazon downsizes AWS in a fresh cost-cutting round

CIO

However, the company faces intense competition in the cloud computing market, particularly from Microsoft, which has emerged as a formidable rival. These numbers underscore the intensifying competition in the cloud computing sector and hint at Amazon’s drastic decision to reduce its workforce to maintain profitability.

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Why business resilience depends on software agility

CIO

At the same time, ever-evolving macroeconomic conditions are pressuring leaders to drive business outcomes against tighter margins. While today’s business climate certainly feels like a test for the survival of the fittest, your goal should not be to just survive, but rather to thrive.

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What business executives don’t understand about IT

CIO

At that time, Sears was the world’s largest retailer and it was just beginning to use the new System 360 from IBM. IT was looked upon as a group of techies that performed some unexplainable job that was supposed to revolutionize the business. When I graduated from college, I worked as an assembler language programmer for Sears.

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