beacon technology needed time to mature and there
were a number of integration issues that had to be addressed before it could be
widely adopted
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Google Beacons: Is proximity marketing ready to take off in 2020? - 0 views
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One of the most ambitious use cases of beacons has got to be Amazon’s cashierless convenience stores, which have opened up across Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Amazon Go stores use beacons to remove the queues and checkouts from every day in-store purchases.
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Imagine tourists receiving notifications about the nearest landmarks as they travel around London or shoppers seeing a list of a shop’s best offers as they walk past the store. These are the kind of opportunities beacons make possible and there’s a lot of reason to be excited about this technology.
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sports brand uses more than 40 beacons across a 41,150 square-feet space in the famous Nanjing East Road shopping district to create a seamless shopping experience. The beacons allow customers to pay for goods using Instant Checkout spaces and collect reserved items from lockers at multiple locations.
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In a practical sense, this means developing apps with beacon integration quickly becomes unmanageable and this is one of the most important solutions Google Beacon Platform provides.
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As with any kind of marketing strategy, define what your goals are and then determine how you can use the tools at your disposal to achieve them.
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A Wait-and-See Approach to Technology Won't Work for Today's Retailers - 0 views
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The tendency may be to implement nothing and adopt a wait-and-see approach to determine what shakes out as the single, best way to engage shoppers and increase sales before making a move, but that attitude is a direct path to stagnation or, worse, extinction.
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This “try before you buy” technology is positioned to be a standard modus operandi for the online shopping industry, especially for home goods
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With geo-targeting technology, store beacons can track and send promotions to phones when customers are nearby,
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The latest and greatest retail technology won’t get you anywhere without the right tools in place to manage everything
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Make sure you're one step ahead of the consumer, instead of waiting until sales start declining before meeting their demands
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staying up-to-date on the latest retail trends and implementing technology that will benefit your customers
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Best Hotel Property Management Solutions (PMS) of 2020 | HotelMinder - 0 views
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Property Management Systems available online. With too many options, it can be difficult to make a choice!
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A PMS (Property Management Software) is an application to handle several operations of hotels, rental properties, residential housing, and other accommodation options.
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provides a centralized application to perform, schedule, and organize daily operations and transactions involved in the business.
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Global Distribution Systems in Present Times - Four Major GDS Systems; Amadeus, Galileo... - 0 views
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The travel marketplace is a global arena where millions of buyers (travel agents and the public) and sellers (hotels, airlines, car rental companies, etc.) work together to exchange travel services.
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Nearly 37 million of Americaÿfds more than 162-million active Internet users have already purchased travel online. Online travel bookings exceeded $23 billion in 2001, and are expected to reach $63 billion by 2005.
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GDSs were actually among the first e-commerce companies in the world facilitating B-2-B electronic commerce as early as the mid 1970s, when SABRE (owned by American Airline) and Apollo (United) began installing their propriety internal reservations systems in travel agencies.
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There are currently four major GDS systems: Amadeus Galileo Sabre Worldspan
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What is cloud computing? Everything you need to know about the cloud explained | ZDNet - 0 views
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t firms can avoid the upfront cost and complexity of owning and maintaining their own IT infrastructure, and instead simply pay for what they use, when they use it
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loud computing services cover a vast range of options now, from the basics of storage, networking, and processing power through to natural language processing and artificial intelligence as well as standard office applications.
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computing is becoming the default option for many apps: software vendors are increasingly offering their applications as services over the internet rather than standalone products as they try to switch to a subscription model
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he infrastructure to support cloud computing now accounts for more than a third of all IT spending worldwide,
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Research by Oracle found that two thirds of IaaS users said using online infrastructure makes it easier to innovate, had cut their time to deploy new applications and services and had significantly cut on-going maintenance costs.
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This may allow companies to avoid large increases in IT spending which would traditionally be seen with new projects
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ertainly many companies remain concerned about the security of cloud services, although breaches of security are rare. Ho
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5 Trends Making an Impact on the Hotel Industry - Hotel-Online - 0 views
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Use artificial intelligence, cloud-based technology and data to understand your guests and their preferences better. This will allow you to cater to their likes and dislikes.
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Offer them a self-check-in and check-out experience that minimizes waiting time at the reception. Face recognition, check-in via apps, smartphone keys or check-in wearable technology are some ideas that you can implement.
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The trend of customers using smartphones to book hotel rooms through online travel agencies will continue.
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The agencies take a reasonable percentage of commission from the hotels if the rooms are booked through them.
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Use hotel booking platforms and search engines to increase hotel exposure and bookings Analyze big data to understand the customer better and identify their preferences, which you can then offer as an add-on. This will encourage more customers to book with you instead of your competitors.