12.10.18

It’s been an incredible year for Hortonworks, and it’s only been possible because of our customers! We’ve seen our customers accomplish remarkable achievements across every industry. Throughout the year, we’ve featured...

12.6.18

With millions of consumers searching for the ideal hotel room around the world, Hotels.com was finding it difficult to cope with the vast amounts of data coming from its search...

11.15.18

As a former merchandising executive working closely with data-driven leaders across retail organizations of all types and sizes, it occurs to me that some execs may be underestimating, and underinvesting...

The traditional retail business model is evolving rapidly right before our eyes, as early retail e-commerce sites once effectively emulated stores with the assumption that consumers would begin and end...

8.6.18

The traditional retail business model is evolving rapidly right before our eyes, as early retail e-commerce sites once effectively emulated stores with the assumption that consumers would begin and end...

Consumer needs, tastes, and buying habits shift constantly. Since their inception, consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies have faced the challenge of moving quickly enough to match their products to consumer...

3.26.18

We had a very successful DataWorks Summit Berlin, highlighted by a number of impressive keynote and breakout speakers. These speakers included Adrian Woodhead, Principal Engineer and Elliot West, Senior Engineer,...

1.4.18

IoT, the Internet of Things, has been a buzzword for the past five years. Literally everyone across all industries – business executives, line of business owners, operation staff, mechanical engineers,...

Only 23% of businesses can integrate customer insights in real-time; join us to hear how this global retail department store architected and implemented their successful solution. Retailers need to create...

8.28.17

The world is moving faster than ever before, and companies are finding themselves scrambling to keep up. Our society has become centered on convenience and everything happening in real time....

8.21.17

Late last year Amazon made waves when reports surfaced that they were testing out a new retail store location in downtown Seattle. Not only is the fact that Amazon is...

This paper explores the challenges the retail industry is facing with the advent of new technologies such as smart phones and digital e-commerce with specialty retail digital stores and huge...

7.19.17

With every swipe of a credit card, every social media interaction, and every opened email advertisement, businesses are continuously trying to gain a single view of customers. Along with this...

12.11.18

This is the third in a series of data engineering blogs that we plan to publish. The first blog outlined the data science and data engineering capabilities of Hortonworks Data...