How to Launch and Maintain Enterprise AI Products There is a significant disconnect between the perception and reality of how enterprise AI products are built.The narrative seems to be that given a business problem, the data science team sets about
Deriving Meaning through Machine Learning: The Next Chapter in Retail Three slides from Benedict Evans' brilliant talk, The End of the Beginning, really caught my attention.The Old and the NewAcross industries, machine learning is helping us get to successive levels of meaning
Running marketplaces is a cut-throat job. Who will survive? 2017 was the year of retail apocalypse. Now it looks like the worst has passed. The SPDR S&P Retail fund (XRT), a collection of traditional…
Brexit & trade wars are causing a customs crisis. What’s the solution? Answer: Broker expertise + technology
Product classification with AI: How machine learning sped up logistics for Aeropost Pasta. Have you ever thought about importing it? Artisanal pasta maybe?
Ecommerce marketplaces have a product content problem, and its killing them. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. At the point of writing, there are approximately 40–50 ecommerce marketplaces available…
PopShops API Migration guide: Here’s how you can migrate your product data feeds from Rakuten… So, in case you haven’t heard about it yet, Popshops API is shutting down. It’s kind of a big deal, especially since PopShops product data…
Rakuten PopShops is shutting down. Do you have an alternative? Try Semantics3’s Affiliate Feeds Solution!
Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl Performance Drives Pepsi’s Market Share To Surge Overnight Attribution is a BIG deal. It’s the reason that digital advertising has always had a leg up on traditional media.
Here’s our top retail tech prediction for 2018 What do the shopping season, the 2018 Tax Bill, Artificial Intelligence and Omnichannel all have in common?
Did a Garmin watch really need to be price optimized 129 times in 30 days? How we built a dashboard tracking tens of thousands of products over the Black Friday 2017 season.
engineering Engineering tales from Semantics3–2017 edition 2017 is fast drawing to a close. Holiday schedules, long-planned vacations, family gatherings and slower days. There is just something in…
Why is Amazon hiding its ownership of private labels? Brands have power and Amazon desperately want to harness it. Here’s how they’re going about it.
Where are the REAL deals this Thanksgiving? Announcing the 2017 Holiday Sales Dashboard, by Semantics3 & Slickdeals. Get the bird’s eye view to the best deals.
The “Amazon Amendment” could hand the retailer an unfair advantage in government procurement Section 801 of the National Defense Authorization Act is a sweetheart deal for Amazon and is unfair to the retail industry
Powering your ecommerce pricing strategy Let’s say you sell Glow Pets Pillow Sets on your ecommerce store.
Amazon is big. Omnichannel Amazon will be an even bigger, all-consuming giant. Amazon in 2017, is like Morgoth back in the day before Sauron turned up. A better, badder version of what might come next. Its laser sharp…
engineering Towards better code Let’s face it, we have have been writing software for decades now. We can no longer claim to be a new domain and pass-off nascency as an…
You can build it, doesn’t mean they will want it. Just ship it. Launch fast and iterate. Done is better than perfect.
Of ecommerce & false promises — How product matching can deliver on long forgotten promises. We were promised transparency and variety. Neither is a given.