Some people hunt for forgotten treasures at weekend yard sales. For Sarah Lukens, the hunt for hidden riches has become a day job. But Lukens, a data scientist at GE Digital in Roanoke, Virginia, is digging for digital gold. She is devising clever ways to sift through piles of industrial data and human knowledge to extract valuable insights. “The future of analytics and artificial intelligence in industry isn’t AI itself,” she says, “but how the data is used in industries by people and by domain experts.”
GE is changing the conversations with Industrial Internet. GE is connecting a network of intelligent machines which will transform businesses as dramatically as the consumer Internet has changed our lives. GE is bringing together industrial engineering with sensors, software and big data analytics to create brilliant machines.
GE recently announced the launch of Predictivity™, the company’s portfolio of Industrial Internet solutions to help customers across major industries in the Asia Pacific region reach new levels of productivity. As a showcase of continued commitment to the region, GE set-up its third oil and gas monitoring and diagnostics facility, the iCenter, in Kuala Lumpur.
Social media is continuously changing the way companies advertise in a bid to win the internet retail game. These days, hyper-personalization is intensifying the race to use data in every facet of a customer's life, according to Bala Ganesh, UPS senior director of marketing.
The raging battle for Internet supremacy — to keep eyeballs and content in one place — is changing the way social media and advertising are implemented in every industry.
And retail is no exception.