When the concept of EDI (electronic data interchange) was first introduced in the 1960s, the stage was set for commerce to develop into the online shopping reality we have today. Now, e-commerce is so embedded in our society that we cannot imagine living without it.

In today's market, the online retail industry is growing quickly. Merely selling products online is no longer enough to guarantee success. Instead, online retailers have to consider how to optimize discounts, flash sales, and promotional events while adapting to consumer demand. 

If you work with Agile development, you probably know how difficult it is to find the right project pace so that your software engineering team and UX design team can work together to deliver software increments.

Your product roadmap is a powerful tool for showing  where you want to take your product and how you plan to achieve your goals. Creating an effective roadmap, however, is not an easy task, especially in an Agile environment where circumstances and ideas rapidly change.

In this post, we will briefly introduce Serverless architecture and discuss how it is an optimal solution for handling event-driven processing.

Today, we'll discuss the ways in which ETL tools can connect, consolidate, and sync data between OLTP and OLAP systems. We'll begin by defining the uses of OLTP and OLAP systems and then explore how ETL tools can connect them.

Kristen Stewart is Head of Ecommerce & Digital Marketing at Cushnie et Ochs, a luxury womenswear retailer that has come of age in the digital era. We were captivated by her talk at Luxury Interactive in October, and thrilled when she agreed to let us interview to learn more.