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How Walgreens Uses AI to Boost Customer Satisfaction and In-Stock Availability

One highlight of NRF 2023 was our well-received co-presentation with Walgreens Group VP Andy Kettlewell, joining our CEO, Sivakumar Lakshmanan to discuss Walgreens’ landmark AI demand planning transformation—serving 9 million daily customers’ health and wellness needs across almost 9,000 stores nationwide.

How to Perform Packet Loss Tests to Prevent Network Issues

As businesses continue to rely heavily on network connectivity to stay connected and productive, network performance has become an essential component for successful operations. However, one of the most common issues that IT professionals face is packet loss, which can significantly impact network performance.

Quarkus vs. Spring Boot

In modern application development and architecture, there has been a big push from monolithic, large applications that can do everything a product would need, to many smaller services that have a specific purpose. This onset has brought on the age of microservice frameworks (micro-frameworks), with the goal of making it easier to prototype, build, and design applications in this paradigm.

Are VMWare snapshots backups?

A VMware snapshot is a point-in-time copy of the virtual machine’s disk files and memory state. These snapshots are used to capture the state of a virtual machine at a specific point in time and allow users to revert to a previous state if necessary. They are commonly used for testing, patching, recovery, or rollback, but can also be used for taking backups of virtual machines.

Workforce Performance Secrets Every HR Manager Must Know

Workforce performance is one of the most crucial concerns for HR managers, regardless of the size and scale of the company. After all, your job does not end with bringing the best resources on board. You must also ensure they deliver top-notch performance, efficiency, and productivity. A robust onboarding process gives you a good start with ensuring these parameters. Likewise, you can give a gentle push to employees with training and development initiatives. But you must think outside the box to build a consistently high-performing team. Here are a few workforce performance secrets that every HR manager must know.

Keeping It Interesting - 4 Tips For Writing A Great Personal Financial Survey

If you are in the process of creating a personal financial survey for your respondents, you will have to tread very carefully. This is wafer-thin ice that you are walking on. The golden rule is to remember that not all of your respondents are going to be completely comfortable disclosing their financial preferences, budget, or even their annual income. Therefore, avoid making the mistakes that are mentioned in this blog. Let's discuss them right away.

Five worthy reads: The future of work, metaverse style

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we have discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore the impending impact of the metaverse on the future (or now) of work and productivity. Illustration by Akshaya Maheswaran Imagine a world where you can work from anywhere, collaborate with colleagues from around the globe, and attend meetings in virtual reality (VR) conference rooms.

Tools To Make Your Remote Work Presentation Better

As a remote worker, you might have to give presentations to your colleagues or your customers in the office. These presentations are usually made to demonstrate or explain something. As such, it is crucial that you not only make your presentation exciting but also easy to understand. A good presentation can help you make an impact, but a bad one will leave people confused or even uninterested in what you have to say. Here are some of the tools that will help improve your presentation skills.