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Predicting new and existing product sales in semiconductors using Amazon Forecast

AWS Machine Learning

For this engagement, they sought to generate monthly sales forecasts for new and existing products across different material groups and business lines. In this post, we demonstrate how the MLSL and NXP employed Amazon Forecast and other custom models for long-term sales predictions for various NXP products. “We

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How to win a hackathon: 7 lessons learned

Talkdesk

Back in 2011, this idea was as disruptive and new to the industry as the industry was new to me, but some years later, here I am, sharing with you the lessons learned on my journey from hackathon to unicorn. A winning team usually has people from all walks of life: design, frontend and backend development, marketing and sales, etc.

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Halo Smart Labs Develops a Smarter Smoke Alarm: IoT at It’s Best

Natalie Petouhof

Co-founder and CEO Ben Stagg questioned the effectiveness of tornado warning systems after his father was in Joplin, Missouri in 2011, when tornadoes hit the area and killed nearly 160 people. The disaster gave him the idea of using technology to increase human safety.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

This is achieved with the assistance of third-party APIs. Hence, APIs are ubiquitously used for most SaaS businesses. Transforming the design landscape since 2011, Sketch continuously upgrades itself for the newest technical environments. Source: Survey Sparrow. Customer Support. Salesforce. billion and $60m revenues.

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What is a citizen developer – and how can they liberate your contact center?

Babelforce

‘Software is eating the world’, wrote Mark Andreessen in the Wall Street journal in 2011. Instead of screws and bits of wood, the citizen developer has pre-built modules of software functionality (like API connectors, speech synthesis engines, automations that update databases, and more). In this article: What is a citizen developer?

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Use streaming ingestion with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store and Amazon MSK to make ML-backed decisions in near-real time

AWS Machine Learning

This model protects cardholders from fraud at the point of sale by detecting and blocking suspicious transactions before the payment can complete. In addition to creating a training dataset, we use the PutRecord API to put the 1-week feature aggregations into the online feature store nightly. 0 … 1248 Nov-02 12:14:31 32.45

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

Found by Manohar Chapalamadugu in 2013, Agile CRM is an Indian SaaS company known for its sales and marketing solutions designed for SMBs. The company aims at providing a single platform for automated marketing, sales, and other services. The sales team can concentrate on developing customer relationships and converting leads.

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