The growth of e-commerce continues to penetrate the market, especially given the COVID-19 restrictions. To adjust, people are finding new ways to shop. Shopping online for groceries at Wal-Mart, ordering food, or buying from Amazon now puts a customer’s wants just a click away. Who… Read More »Business Intelligence in E-Commerce
What are heuristics algorithms? While solving large scale linear/integer problems, it becomes extensively difficult to solve or even reach a feasible solution within the prescribed practical duration. To mitigate such issues, it is a common practice in optimization community to resort various heuristics algorithms and… Read More »Using a Genetic Algorithm for Traveling Salesman Problem in Python
In every business, there is some type of forecasting occurring. For example, Walmart recently ran demand prediction for more than 100,000 different products over 4,700 stores in the United States. Customer service centers may predict the demand of call volume every day or to optimize… Read More »Demand Forecasting in the Retail Industry
Probably the most explored and most favorable use case to explain the power of optimization, hence the need to adapt the mathematical in your organization for increased efficiency of your resources and cost savings. Problem Description Consider a company having to serve N customers. The… Read More »Vehicle Routing Problems – PuLP
Introduction Talking about the recent biggest event which single handedly made the world come to a standstill, COVID-19 pandemic, is slowly fading with the development of the relevant vaccine. The next major challenge left to overcome is the effective distribution of these vaccines. Without any… Read More »Vaccine Distribution Challenges
The continuous growth of many organizations adopting hybrid-cloud infrastructures provide many benefits, but face the imminent challenge of moving and exchanging their datasets and files. Using traditional transfer technologies is slow and outdated, as physical disk shipments cause more layover and entail security risks. IBM… Read More »Next-Generation Data Transfer with IBM Aspera
Set your companies financial operations on cruise control! Calm down, we aren’t saying that automated bots need to take your job. We are simply taking a load off your back. Financial Planning Automation (FPA) is here to stay, so why not let it help? The investment… Read More »Financial Planning with Bots
In the era of digital transformation, data exploration & discovery have become a vital role in self-service analytics tools. Self-service analytics allows business users to perform less intensive tasks to gain hidden insight. With the rise of data-driven organizations, any end-user within any department is… Read More »The Uprising of Self-Service Analytics
Cognos Analytics provides top-class self-service analytics. The transition from IBM Cognos BI v10 to Cognos Analytics v11 is quite simplistic in terms of implementation, being one of the fastest business intelligence tools to deploy at an enterprise level. We are looking at an intuitive user interface, themes & extensions, redesigned reporting, data… Read More »Cognos 10 vs 11
~3 minute read Statistical Pack for the Social Sciences, otherwise known as SPSS for short, has upgraded to the latest Statistics V27.0, long-awaited by data scientists. SPSS Statistics is a robust statistical analysis software platform. Keen to support a top-down hypothesis testing approach to your… Read More »SPSS Statistics Version 27.0 – What’s New?