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Echo Show devices can now add items to your shopping list by barcode

February 1, 2020 Big Data

If you manage your grocery list using Amazon’s Alexa, good news: It just became easier to add items in need of restocking. Amazon today announced that Alexa on select Echo smart displays — the Echo Show 5 and Echo Show 8 — can scan the barcodes of common grocery items to add to Alexa’s built-in shopping list.

The feature follows the rollout of Show and Tell, which helps blind and low vision customers with an Echo Show identify common pantry goods (like canned or boxed foods) that can be difficult to distinguish by touch. To get started with the barcode scanner, say, “Alexa, scan this to my shopping list.” If Alexa can’t recognize the barcode or the item doesn’t have a barcode, a voice command like “Alexa, add red onions to my list” will work instead.

Interestingly, it’s not Amazon’s first foray into barcode-scanning tech. In 2014, the ecommerce giant launched a physical scanner for Prime Fresh customers called the Dash Wand, which was refreshed in June 2017 with Alexa voice capabilities. It’s even possible that the Echo Show’s barcode scanner shares a codebase with the Amazon mobile app’s barcode-scanning tool, or with the company’s since-discontinued Firefly, an AI service capable of recognizing over 100 million items including products, CD and book covers, barcodes, QR codes, and more.

The motivation is somewhat obvious. According to a recent market research report from OC&C Strategy, shopping via voice will grow to a whopping $ 40 billion-plus in 2022, up from $ 2 billion in 2018 across the U.S. and the U.K. RBC Capital Markets predicts that Amazon alone will generate $ 10 to $ 11 billion in sales from Alexa devices — including device sales themselves and voice shopping — by the year 2020.

The Information disagreed with those projections last year, asserting that only 2% of Echo owners used one to purchase products. But an Adobe Digital Insights report that same year was much more optimistic, claiming that nearly half (47%) of smart speaker owners reported using a voice assistant to initiate product search and research and that 43% said they use them for creating shopping lists.

“I don’t think they are necessarily buying more yet because of [Alexa], but they are doing certain things in digital that leads to buying some more things,” Amazon devices chief Dave Limp told CNBC in an interview last year. “People are buying more of those because it’s easier to control with a voice interface.”

In unrelated news, Alexa this month gained the ability to set timers and alarms for a specific devices using voice. For example, you’re able to say to any device, “Alexa, set an alarm for 6 a.m. on my bedroom Echo” or “Alexa, set a five-minute timer on Kitchen Echo.”

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Managing Experience And Costs On Retail’s 2020 To-Do List

January 15, 2020 BI News and Info

Apparently, in the early 1900s, the various products of the earth could be ordered quite easily, if one were “of above-average capacity or character,” middle class, and happened to live in London. For recipients of my 2019 Christmas presents, the good news is that I could choose gifts originating far beyond the shores of the UK without a capacity, character, or class test.

Although this was good for my nearest and dearest (otherwise they might not have got so much as a tangerine), it’s not clear it was good for the UK’s retail sector. I haven’t seen any figures that go up to December 25, but it seems the Black Friday figures were pretty good – even for the High Street, at least in terms of volume. However, the travails of the UK retail sector are not demand but margin driven; demand remains reasonably buoyant. In October 2019, ONS reported that year-on-year growth in the quantity bought increased by 3.1%, with growth across all sectors except household goods stores.

However, McKinsey research has already shown that UK consumers are twice as likely to trade down – i.e., to buy a cheaper product – than trade up. Cost-cutting is just one weapon in the retailer’s armory in their fight for their share of consumer spending. The research suggests that savings from indirect procurement are an important source of margin improvement for retailers. In particular, marketing, private label packaging, and supplier managed costs are all identified as categories that can deliver double-digit savings. The strategy house also recommends retailers look to clean sheeting, consumer insights, and design to value combined with digital analytics to unlock value.

Retail products and product mix are also undergoing rapid change. Nielsen’s 2018 report the Rise and Rise Again of Private Label showcases an important component of that change. Getting private label right helped Tesco make the top 10 of Deloitte’s 2019 Global Powers of Retailing. In 2018, with the aim of cutting its own-label costs, the company announced a strategic partnership with Carrefour.

Innovation at pace and being able to scale what works also at a pace are, as Deloitte has highlighted, crucial for retailers. With this frenetic pace of activity, it is important not to evaluate products in a binary “ditch” / “scale” manner. Tracking a customer’s product experience journey can reap huge dividends helping organizations make changes to realize value without having to go back to the drawing board.

Learn how Belkin uses the Qualtrics XM Platform to track product insights in real-time across all stages of the customer journey, which enabled its product teams to intervene post-product launch and successfully close an $ 80 million gap against sales targets.

For more on how SAP Ariba supports retail, read my colleague Florian’s post, and see my colleague James’ post on the importance of being able to combine experience data with operational data.

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How to combine a lists of two lists with a list of two lists of lists of varying length?

January 10, 2020 BI News and Info

This is probably asked before but I don’t know how to begin searching for it.

Some context: I’m using TemporalData objects that share a number of common features but also have distinct characteristics. I use their MetaInformation to catalog these features for future reference. The output of the desired function will be used as the second argument in Rule[Metainformation, #].

I’m trying to accomplish the following: given a list of common keys and values (common:{keys_, values_}) and another list consisting of two elements namely a list of lists of distinct keys and another list of lists of their corresponding distinct values (unique:{allKeys_, allValues_}) I want to produce a list of lists of rules where all lists of rules will contain both the common and the corresponding distinctive features.

An example: Assuming f is the desired function, then

in = {
  { {"a","b","c"}, {1,2,3} },
  { {{"d"}, {"e","f"}, {"g","h","i"}}, {{4}, {5,6}, {7,8,9}} }
 };

f @@ in

is expected to produce out, where out is defined as follows:

out = {
  {"a"->1, "b"->2, "c"->3, "d"->4},
  {"a"->1, "b"->2, "c"->3, "e"->5, "f"->6},
  {"a"->1, "b"->2, "c"->3, "g"->7, "h"->8, "i"->9}
 }

(Please note that the number of elements in the lists of common and the corresponding elements in the lists of unique is expected to be random. I used the example above just for ease of exposition.)

I have developed 3 function versions that seem to do what I want but they all feel a bit clunky; also, I think they are too similar. Furthermore, only the second one is a proper function.

If there are any suggestions on the presented code or-better yet-if there are any other ideas on how to code f, that would be great!

Some `f`‘s

f[common:{keys_, values_}, unique:{allKeys_, allValues_}] := 
  h[Apply[g /* List, common], Thread[Apply[g, unique]]]

and

{out} === (f[Sequence @@ in] /. h[x__] :> 
 Outer[j /* (Thread[#, g] &), x] /. {j -> Join, g -> Rule /* Thread})

evaluates to

True

f[common:{keys_, values_}, unique:{allKeys_, allValues_}] := Outer[
  List /* Transpose /* Apply[Rule /* (Apply[Join, #, 1] &) /* Thread], 
    {common}, Transpose[unique], 1]

and

{out} == f @@ in

evaluates to

True

f[common:{keys_, values_}, unique:{allKeys_, allValues_}] := 
  Apply[Rule][Thread[g[common, unique]]]

and

out === (
  ( f @@ in /. g[x_, y_] :> ReleaseHold[
      Distribute[Hold[Join][{x}, y], List]
     ] ) // Thread /* Map[Thread]
 )

evaluates to

True

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how to write a condition for all elements of a list

November 28, 2019 BI News and Info

I have a list

a={no,no,no,no};

now I can want to an If so that if all elements of the above list are “yes” it does something for example printing sth, I tried

a[[All]]=yes;

If[a[[All]]==yes, Print["that's OK"]];

but I know my command is wrong, any idea?

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Refresh a Power BI dataset that feeds from SharePoint list automatically

October 30, 2019 Self-Service BI

The Power BI team recently shipped some cool new flow options and one of them is really cool. Many times I hear of reports and dataset that fully rely on SharePoint lists. These lists are used by business groups that don’t have the rights to spin up and Azure SQL database or just want to keep a simple list to store their dimensions. SharePoint lists are great for that.

The new flow option allows you to automatically update the dataset whenever a new item is added to the list, that is pretty cool.

Here is how it works. Start at your list in SharePoint and click automate and select create new flow:

Refresh a Power BI dataset that feeds from SharePoint list automatically

A new pane opens to the side, the flow we want is not part of the default list so we select “see your flows”

This opens flow where you can start a new automated flow which we need.

This opens a new flow, give it a name and choose “When an item is created” as trigger for the flow:

Nest pick the list you want to trigger on:

Then finally configure what happens when the trigger is fired. In this case we want to select “Refresh a dataset”.

Next you can select the dataset you want to refresh:

Now every time an item gets added to the SharePoint list the dataset gets updated with the new information. Very cool!

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adding some elements to a sublist of list of unequal length

October 2, 2019 BI News and Info

Complicated title for a simple problem:
I have list

a = {{1, 3, 5, 2}, {2, 6, 2}, {3, 5, 6, 1, 2}, {4, 2}}

In which the first element of each sublist is basically an index. The following values are the actual data.
Then I want to add data to this list, e.g.,:

b = {{2, 1}, {4, 3}}

Which means that to the list with the index ‘2’ the ‘1’ should be added and the list with the index ‘4’ the ‘3’ should be added, so the result reads:

{{1, 3, 5, 2}, {2, 6, 2, 1}, {3, 5, 6, 1, 2}, {4, 2, 3}}

I found a couple of rather complicated, i.e., time consuming solutions involving loops. However, the actual datset is huge and is part of a numerical simulation, i.e., this procedure needs to be very fast.

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Provide a list of colours for the points of ListPlot

September 19, 2019 BI News and Info

I want to colour the points in a ListPlot with a list of colours, i.e. something like

data = Table[Cos[x]^2, {x, 0, 10, 0.1}];
colourData = Table[Cos[x]^2, {x, 0, 10, 0.1}];
colours = (ColorData["TemperatureMap"][#] &) /@ colourData;
ListPlot[data,Joined->True (* Something like PlotStyle -> colours*)]

And I want an output that looks like this

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How to Grow Your Email Marketing List

September 13, 2019 CRM News and Info

3) Develop Great Content Marketing to Entice Your Audience

Nothing I’ve written so far is going to matter much if you’re not consistently pumping out great content that reflects your brand’s tone and positioning. This requires a proper SEO audit of your existing content across all of your digital properties to establish a baseline of your current state. Once that’s complete, continue to work with your in-house SEO specialist (or, if you don’t have an SEO pro on staff, check out Moz, SEMRush, and/or the Google Keyword Planner) to develop SEO campaigns that reflect your business direction and goals and that will facilitate the process of having your prospects find you (instead of the other way around).

Here are just a few ways you can spruce up your content to help grow your email marketing list:

Blogging About Thought Leadership and Product Features and Benefits

Your blog should be the sharpest tool in your inbound demand generation arsenal. It’s your best chance to get your organization out in front of the right audience by honing in on their primary interests and pain points — and shouldn’t be taken lightly. Each blog should follow a strict editorial process (from topic ideation through posting) and include:

High-Level SEO research
Editorial calendar creation
Topic-Specific SEO research
Drafting
Editing
Edit implementation
Staging
Final review
Posting
Social sharing
Email distribution

Don’t focus too much on your organization’s products or services. No one wants to be sold constantly. Instead, approach each topic from a thought leadership perspective and then gradually filter in content that explains how your company executes these best practices and innovative techniques.

Lastly, if you want to make serious SEO headway and attract new prospects to your blog to help grow your email marketing list, you should be posting at least two new blogs each week. Recent research suggests you should shoot for roughly 1,900 words in each blog to satisfy our Google overlords, but anything between 1,500 and 2,200 words should place your article in the sweet spot when search engines crawl your site.

Informative Webinars for Prospects and Customers Alike

Webinars are one of the most effective ways to build your organic email marketing list because they offer your prospects something substantial. You can promote upcoming webinars on your website, in your newsletters, and throughout your social media platforms. You can also create dedicated paid campaigns to attract more attendees. Not only that, but once you have this valuable contact information, you can place these potential prospects and existing customers into targeted trigger and nurture campaigns.

Best of all, after the webinar, you can continue to collect new contacts by repurposing these online events as on-demand webinars and promoting them across your site, social media platforms, newsletters… heck, you can even place them on your blogs and in your topic-based email campaigns. An extremely effective method of collecting information is by gating the webinar after a predetermined amount of time spent watching, thus leaving your audience wanting more and generating even more form conversions!

Webinars are such a dynamic content source. Make sure to leverage them to the fullest before, during, and after the fact!

eBooks, Infographics, and Datasheets… Oh, My!

Also known as marketing collateral, these content assets are the proverbial carrot to your list generating stick. These are the elements you’ll want to gate behind a contact form in order to build that list. But if your content isn’t up to par, no one is going to bother completing the form in the first place. Everything from your paid advertising copy, landing pages, subject lines, title, abstract, images, and design needs to be spot on.

To start, you need to go back to the SEO research you conducted for your blog, refocus your efforts on topic ideation, and then work on creating longer, more detailed assets to release as gated PDFs. These pieces should go through a rigorous editorial process similar to the one taken during blog creation and should have much more of a design elements with quotes, callouts, graphs, images, icons, etc. When finished, these eBooks should really shine and offer great information to move your prospects and customers through the sales funnel.

Again, the goal here is to educate, illuminate, and entertain — not to sell. People do not want to be sold to (at least not at this stage). They want the information they need to make informed decisions that eventually lead to more productive conversations with sales reps. So position yourself as a credible thought leader that also just so happens to solve your target audiences’ pain points.

By creating better, more engaging marketing collateral, prospects and customers will be more inclined to trust that you deliver awesome material and continue to complete more forms — giving your sales reps more detailed information to help them close the deal!

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ERP/CRM Software Blog Members on Digital Marketing Excellence 2019/20 List

July 20, 2019 Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Each year Fifty Five and Five, a leading B2B marketing agency with a focus on technology and IT companies, analyzes the marketing efforts of Microsoft partners to understand how the industry is developing and which factors are driving success. They recognize the creative ways partners have adopted content and inbound marketing methods to generate leads and grow their businesses.

Fifty Five and Five has just published it’s 5^th annual Digital Marketing Excellence report, and we’re delighted to see that five of our ERP/CRM Software Blog members were selected for this honor:

AKA Enterprise Solutions

ANEGIS Consulting

CAL Business Solutions

FMT Consultants

Ledgeview Partners

The companies listed (250 out of 39,000 examined), practice the very best digital marketing techniques across their websites, blogging output, and social activity. The report not only lists all those recognized, but it also provides a wealth of suggestions for all Microsoft partners.

Read the complete report here

Congratulations to all our hardworking partners.

By ERP Software Blog Writer, www.erpsoftwareblog.com

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FY20 Microsoft Business Applications Inner Circle Members List Includes 7 CRM Software Blog Members

July 19, 2019 CRM News and Info

Congratulations to the FY20 Microsoft Business Applications Inner Circle Members, including seven CRM Software Blog members.

According to Microsoft the Business Applications Inner Circle partners represent the top 1% of the total Business Applications ecosystem and drive more than 30% of the FY19 Worldwide Business Applications Cloud Revenue.

Inner Circle Winners – CRM Software Blog Members:

More Inner Circle Winners:

adesso AG
AlfaPeople
Alithya
Alterna
Annata
Arbela Technologies (ERP Software Blog member)
Armanino LLP
Avanade
Avtex Solutions, LLC
Axxon Consulting
Barhead Solutions
Blue Horseshoe
Capgemini
Capita
CEC
Cegeka
Columbus A/S (ERP Software Blog member)
Controles Empresariales
COSMO CONSULT Group
Delegate
Cy
DXC Technology
eCraft Oy Ab
eLogic
EOS Solutions Group
Experlogix, Inc.
EY
Fellowmind
Fusion5
Hitachi Solutions
HSO
Incremental Group
Intergen
ITVT Group
KPMG
LS Retail
MASAO
Mazik Global
MCA Connect
Mint Group
NTT Data & Sierra Systems
ORBIS AG
PowerObjects an HCL Technologies Company
PrenticeWorx
Prodware
PROS
PwC
QBS Group
QUANTIQ
Right Group
SAGlobal
Sikich
Sunrise Technologies (ERP Software Blog member)
Tectura Hong Kong Limited
Thinkmax Consulting Inc.
To-Increase (ERP Software Blog member)
Velrada
VeriPark
XPLUS

For the first time, to select the FY20 members of The Business Applications Inner Circle, Microsoft took into account only Cloud Billed Revenue (with the exception of top Business Central partners) and Dynamics 365 Customer Adds. Microsoft also took into consideration these partners’ adoption of the broader Microsoft Cloud portfolio (IoT, AI, etc.), the importance of these partners in their local market and their investments in differentiated solutions offerings.

We congratulate all of these companies on their accomplishment.

By CRM Software Blog Writer, www.crmsoftwareblog.com

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