Building a Retail Brand with Construction Software

April 16, 2020

A well-built store—one that is consistent with others under a retailer’s umbrella—is a powerful tool for communicating a brand. In fact, arguably nothing (beyond the product itself) is a more tangible signifier of the brand than the store environment. This puts the store planning team in the position of acting as brand managers and means that for the construction manager,
whether he/she is employed in house by the retail company or as a contractor specializing in retail construction, understanding the brand (the retailer’s goals, visions, and marketing strategies) is a cornerstone of day-to-day work.

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A New Technology Stack

whitePaper | November 23, 2022

Over the last four decades, the information technology industry has grown from about $50 billion globally in 1980 to more than $4 trillion. During this time, the IT industry has experienced the transition from mainframe computing to minicomputers, to personal computing, to internet computing, and to handheld computing.

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WHAT JOBS ARE AFFECTED BY AI?

whitePaper | December 15, 2019

The debate between experts over how automation will affect the future of work has been one of the most active cottage industries in labor economics in recent years. Numerous scholars forecast major disruptions of human work; others minimize those impacts. And yet, the field has nevertheless managed to generate a number of shared insights, with none more consistent than the finding that least welloff will suffer automation’s greatest shocks on the labor market.

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Getting Started with Data Acquisition Systems

whitePaper | August 6, 2020

The purpose of any data acquisition system is to gather useful measurement data for characterization, monitoring, or control. The specific parameters of your application will dictate the resolution, accuracy, channel count, and speed requirements of a data acquisition system. A wide assortment of data acquisition components and solutions is available on the market, including low-cost USB modules, benchtop data loggers, and large channel systems. Before you start your search for a data acquisition solution, carefully analyze your application requirements to understand how much capability and performance you need to purchase.

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Maximising theAI opportunity

whitePaper | November 1, 2019

Artificial Intelligence is becoming an ever more important part of our lives. Many of us are already familiar with its everyday applications, such as decluttering our inboxes with spam filters or receiving personalised shopping recommendations. Yet, whether it is powering a new generation of self-driving cars, guarding us against fraud or helping doctors better diagnose health conditions, AI’s transformational abilities are being felt in increasingly ubiquitous and innovative ways.

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Omdia Decision Matrix: Selecting a Multichannel Cloud Contact Center Solution

whitePaper | July 28, 2020

The penetration of cloud-based contact center solutions into the contact center market has been growing dramatically as enterprises continue to acquire new customer engagement solutions or replace their existing premises-based contact centers. Cloud solutions are growing in popularity and gaining an increasingly significant share of the market as their feature sets and flexibility begin to match or surpass those of legacy premises-based systems. Cloud contact center vendors are spending R&D dollars to further develop their solution capabilities internally while also making strategic acquisitions in the customer engagement market space to enhance and broaden their offerings.

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Implementation Challenges to Three Pillars of America’s AI Strategy

whitePaper | December 23, 2022

The transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) is a kind of truism. Seeking to capture the benefits of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” or “third wave of the digital revolution,” countries are prioritizing efforts to reorganize their public and private sectors, fund research and development (R&D), and establish structures and policies that unleash AI innovation.

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