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Large retailers seeking ways to increase operational efficiency in their supply chain are forcing the logistics partners to innovate constantly. Charterers and brokers go through a lot of procedures that involve emails, phone calls to find out whether a cargo ship with adequate space is available from a port. OpenSea.pro, a ship chartering marketplace, gives instant visibility of suitable ships, and their supply and demand. As soon as you've placed a position, the web-application shows you suitable matching candidates.

The banking sector is one of the industries where the acquisition cost of a customer is significantly high. Acquiring new customers on average can cost five times more than retaining existing customers. Retention of customers in the banking sector has taken a passive approach.

Over the past few years, the growth of digital wallet apps has been phenomenal. Driven by the adoption rate of mobile apps to check last-minute deals on travel, buy movie tickets, or order food – the digital wallet companies have grown along. Early adopters of these digital wallets were often digitally-savvy millennials that swayed for features that offered lower transaction time and convenience.

Today’s citizen expects a modern, streamlined, and responsive citizen service experience across government institutions, comparable to leading private-sector organizations. An online web-based service ensures that citizens get consistent, accurate, and up-to-date answers regardless of who is at the service desk. Documenting the frequently asked questions and guiding citizens with helpful text on the website can help reduce the calls to the support desk.

This era is marked by a constant technological breakthrough that repeatedly disrupts the business world. Professionals constantly re-educate themselves to outdo competition at a workplace. More than ever, Universities are facing fierce competition from online learning platforms that offer short, stackable certificate programs; and or blended online courses of great value.

Today’s shoppers demand unified experience across channels. They wish to buy anywhere, receive anywhere, and return anywhere. If they bought it online, they want to return in-store. If an item is out-of-stock in-store, they want to see it on their mobile. They walk into the store and ask the in-store sales associate to order something online for them and wants to get it delivered at their residence.

Globally supply chain managers are constantly faced with the challenge of reducing variability about items procured from vendors. The problem of variability is far higher in the real world and an off-the-shelf ERP software does not provide meaningful support to handle this crisis.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Analytics have been evolving rapidly for quite some time now. Technology giants like Google and IBM have played a crucial role in democratizing it. Business organizations have started using AI based services massively for the betterment of their processes and improvement of efficiency. Right from marketing to operations management, AI based tools have started upending conventional tools. The insights delivered by Analytics help organizations in making crucial business decisions.

The 2018 DrupalCon is all set to start today at Music City, Nashville, Tennessee. The event will be flagged off by the customary keynote address by Drupal founder- Dries Buytaert. Zyxware’s founder and CTO, Anoop John will be attending the conference on behalf of the company.

If you are a Drupal enthusiast, business owner, consultant or anyone one who loves web technology, this infographic will be useful for you. It explains the capabilities of Drupal in various aspects like types of project, integration capabilities, database choices, and interoperability. This infographic can be used as a quick check sheet for driving conclusions on technology choices.

E-governance has grown and developed rapidly reflecting the social, economic, and cultural changes happening. The increased usage of the web by the citizens, the ease of use, the ubiquity of digital connectivity, IoT have allowed for the emergence of a number of applications for Government to Citizen, Government to Government, and Government to Business Services. Leveraging the web for citizen engagement, delivery of government services to citizens, businesses and inter-government departmental services is key to strengthening the e-governance capability of a government.

Having taken care of the nitty-gritty details related to search in the previous article Search in E Commerce: The Vital Little Details, it is time to concentrate on some of the other important aspects - ‘faceted search’ being one of them. In this article, we will be explaining how facets can be used to provide relevant search results and thereby increase the conversion rate.

Online merchandising has experienced a rapid growth over the past several years. This has lead to the emergence of a number of e-commerce systems that helps merchants to sell their products and services.

govCMS gives all department agencies access to a content management system that is highly secure, easy to use, flexible, stable, and above all open source. So instead of depending on proprietary software that would have made them vulnerable, government agencies now have a system that is flexible and responsive. The govCMS is developed as a cloud-based distribution of Drupal under a partnership between Acquia1 and the online services branch of the Department of Finance.

Just a week away from today Vienna, Austria is to play host to DrupalCon 2017, one of the major power-packed events of the Drupal Community. The DrupalCon to be held from September 26-29, 2017 will be at the Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Centre in Vienna, Austria.