STREETSHOPS – The High Street Digitally Remastered. STREETSHOPS: New Digital Tools Inspire New Shopper Journeys We are on a mission to deliver discoverable, personalised, and digitally accessible high streets. STREETSHOPS™ is being developed with the philosophy of re-igniting the High Street, by connecting the 2018 online-focused consumer via one unified, extendable platform. A platform with

Chatbots with AWS Next Generation Cloud Services: Get to know your customer, through chatbots integrated with AWS next generation cloud services. Chatbots technology took a big step forward with the recent release of AWS services to handle Text-to-Speech (AWS Polly) and Speech Recognition (AWS Lex). Both tools are underpinned with AWS AI for language understanding,

Mobile Integration: The smartphone is ubiquitous, addictive and transformative. THE dawn of the planet of the smartphones came in January 2007, when Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, in front of a rapt audience of Apple acolytes, brandished a slab of plastic, metal and silicon not much bigger than a Kit Kat. The Economic Feb 2015

Monolithic to Microservices: eCommerce products were traditionally offered as all encompassing complete systems for presentation, product catalogue, payment handling, and customer record.  However, many of the retailers who took advantage of these early systems to 'go online' now find themselves stifled, unable to partition and extend those monolithic software structures. Retail eCommerce now stretches across multi-channels,

Go Serverless: Amazon took the serverless paradigm to another level when they announced AWS Lambda back in 2014, introducing a new system architecture for applications running in the cloud. There is no perpetual process running on a server and waiting for HTTP requests or API calls, but an event mechanism that triggers the execution of

Pace of Innovation: The range and depth of the AWS feature set presents significant challenges for businesses looking to learn and make use of them.  Keeping abreast of the AWS development capability means that the business must spend significant time in research and development, a distraction from their core business activity.  Yet, there is great potential