

Gary Flood

How Oxford University’s Saïd Business School used Zoom to deliver world-class education during COVID-19 This article is sponsored by:
Use of the Zoom platform proved a key defence against COVID-19 - with not a second of high-ticket teaching time lost, says the School’s CIO

B&Q launches Mirakl online marketplace to bring third party suppliers into the fold This article is sponsored by:
Mirakl’s enterprise marketplace platform has been key to B&Q onboarding thousands of new products from third parties into one integrated purchase

SAP - a bumpy road ahead for global supply chain management This article is sponsored by:
As firms give up on both just in time and globalization, is there a way to restructure procurement that doesn’t hurt the consumer or the bottom line? SAP thinks there just might be

Medical start-up uses AWS machine learning to turn 2D patient scans into 3D printed models This article is sponsored by:
axial3D is using AWS to build 3D models that are helping doctors reduce time in surgery and improve the patient experience

How Ocado migrated its on-premise robotic control system to AWS on Christmas Eve This article is sponsored by:
Project Tempest will see thousands of Ocado bots running in AWS cloud environments

Britvic taps into AWS stack to reinvent brand as a sustainable IoT water solution This article is sponsored by:
Britivic’s ‘Beyond The Bottle’ R&D unit pulled in everything from Amazon edge computing to Business Intelligence to produce the Aqua Libra Co Flavor Tap in just four weeks

Brazil’s largest retailer automates data quality checks to improve decision making This article is sponsored by:
The ‘Amazon of Brazil’, Lojas Americanas, says 51 million customers will benefit from the use of Soda’s data checking environment and SQL testing framework

US challenger bank Current uses Neo4j graph technology to build services centered around customer relationships This article is sponsored by:
Neo4j graph also central to New York-based Fintech Current’s move into blockchain based ‘hybrid’ finance

PURE the Winery pivots to direct-to-consumer during COVID-19 with Oracle NetSuite This article is sponsored by:
PURE’s move to online sales of its zero sugar wine was aided by Oracle NetSuite and has set the brand up for predicted 2022 sales of 1 million bottles.

Severn Trent Water’s new IoT smart metering system aims to reduce costs and CO2 footprint This article is sponsored by:
Severn Trent Water’s system is based on the LoRaWAN long range, wide area network protocol and will eventually have over 150,000 IoT devices attached

Scottish whisky leader Edrington upskills staff with AI-powered learning hub This article is sponsored by:
Combination of LearnUpon and Degreed at Edrington proves highly effective for new company-wide E-Academy

Deutsche Post DHL turns to machine learning to help find the skills of the future This article is sponsored by:
Cornerstone platform foundation of new internal skills ‘marketplace’ that helps Deutsche Post DHL’s 570,000 workforce get control of their own careers

Decathlon UK improves its customer experience by combining human expertize with conversational AI This article is sponsored by:
Heyday by Hootsuite allows sportswear specialist Decathlon UK easily to handle pandemic demand for home exercise kit