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Today, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are becoming essential for many businesses and domains. And although hospitality hasn’t made extensive use of these technologies so far, Accenture predicts it will be one of the industries to make the most of AI and ML by 2035. Read on to learn how.

Have you ever thought about what stands behind embedded devices’ capability to react to external conditions instantly? Why do the lights in a smart home turn on within a second, reacting to movement, or why does resuscitation equipment turn on within milliseconds, reacting to respiratory failure, cardiac arrest, or other changes of patients’ health conditions? […]

On March 5, the SaM Solutions team represented by Vadzim Papko, Vitali Taleika and me, Vadim Birkos, took part in the annual online event Sitecore Hackathon. In this article, I’ll talk about our experience of participating in this event and the technical result we managed to achieve.

Although many are puzzled by it, digital signage has become а phenomenon that we deal with daily. Now, in the era of the ‘new normal,’ the nature of our interactions has changed significantly, opening up a vast potential for this type of system. According to ReportLinker, the digital signage market is projected to reach $45 […]

For the last two decades, we’ve been witnessing the evolution of the retail industry from separate offline stores to distributed ecosystems comprising numerous sales channels. Today, retailers must provide an omnichannel customer experience and deliver personalization across all channels to be successful. They implement technologies such as the Internet of Things or ML and software […]

If you have a custom SOLR index in your Sitecore-based project and it becomes too big (more than 1 million documents), you may face a problem when the rebuild process times out because of the SOLR connection timeout exception. Today, I’ll tell you how we dealt with this issue.

The look and feel of your Sitecore-based solution largely depends on SXA themes — sets of assets, such as images, scripts, fonts and style sheets enabled by CSS and JavaScript. They aren’t closely tied to the content and functionality of the solution, and can be created separately from them. To provide the integrity and modularity of […]

Modern business operations involve huge amounts of data that are characterized by different degrees of complexity and processing, which encourages heavy use of machine learning (ML). Not surprisingly, ML systems and platforms are the most heavily funded in AI for 2020–2021, amounting to $42 billion according to FinancesOnline. What is so special about machine learning […]

The way we consume information has changed dramatically in recent times: we demand instant access to relevant data and facts, independent of time and location. But human assistants are physically unable to be at all the venues where people may need a consultation. This is the very situation that calls for information kiosks. Such digital […]