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Indian Retailer Figures Optimizes Hyperlocal Delivery to Increase Customer Experience
Anyone who follows the Indian e-commerce scene knows that one of the largest challenges these companies face is hyperlocal delivery.
That was a problem facing Wellness Forever, a retail chain of pharmacies with 150-plus stores across India.
“Exactly a year ago, we started our journey of hyperlocal deliveries. This optimization was a big time challenge for us to understand how to optimize this,” Palani Subbiah, CTO, Wellness Forever.
The problem in front of Wellness Forever was to identify which customer could can be sold from which store, so that a delivery could be made within 90 minutes.
“We handle a large amount of customer data and we wanted to use insights to help and improve the customer satisfaction index,” says Subbiah.
To do that Wellness Forever leveraged Google Big Query to run massive amount of data to come up with the operational insights. They also used Firebase and Google Maps.
“By 2021, we are going to have about 450 stores. Those stores are going to be not only a physical store, which is a digital store.
Customer Voices: How Firms from Across Industries Leverage Google Cloud
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From powering everyday operations and accelerating application innovation, to providing tools for specific business needs and executing on big ideas, to advancing the security of technology solutions, companies from across industries have leveraged Google Cloud for business benefits.
Companies from across industries have turned to Google Cloud for transforming their business, modernizing their infrastructure, and gleaning intelligence from data. For instance:
- Johnson & Johnson achieved a 41% increase in search results from high-quality job applicants, significantly improving the company’s ability to quickly hire top talent.
- Sony Network Communications now processes 10 billion monthly queries faster, which advances data analysis.
- University College Dublin saw significant 6-figure savings by eliminating legacy hardware, software, and maintenance.
And there are many such examples. Read the collection of case studies to find out how companies from across industries and geographies leveraged Google Cloud for measurable business benefits and for solving complex problems.
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Google had Enough of Flooding in India. Here’s What It Did About It
Over the last century, floods have become the most common and deadly natural disaster on the planet.
Many countries currently lack effective early warning systems and alerts. Today, 20 percent of flood fatalities occur in India.
To help, Google sent a team to study the Ghaghara River, near Patna.
“In India, where we’re running our first pilot program, the government has thousands of people who measure water levels, every hour, in rivers across India, with what is effectively very long measuring sticks. They are called stream gauges. This allows them to know whether the river will overflow and flood. But it doesn’t yet allow them to understand exactly what areas are going to be affected, what neighborhoods, or even what villages,” says Sella Nevo, Tech Lead, Google Flood Forecasting.
“The big technical question was: Do we have enough information to try to do forecasting that would be accurate enough to make a difference?” says Yossi Matias, VP of Engineering and Crisis Response Lead, Google.
This is their incredible story. It includes collecting thousands of satellite images and generating hundreds of thousands of simulations of how a river could possibly behave.
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Google Cloud Accelerates Financial Organizations’ Journey towards Digital Transformation
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When I reflect back on the past year and the pandemic, I’m struck by how the reliance on remote work and operations has changed the fundamentals of business forever. For the financial services industry, this rings particularly true. Many conversations I’m having right now with organizations revolve around embracing a transformation cloud, and thinking of cloud computing not just as an infrastructure decision, but also as the locus for transformation throughout the company.
Today, as we welcome the industry to our Financial Services Summit, we’ll demonstrate just how Google Cloud accelerates a financial organization’s digital transformation through app and infrastructure modernization, data democratization, people connections, and trusted transactions. We hope you’ll join us.
How we’re helping financial services firms build their transformation clouds
At Google Cloud, we continue to focus on areas where we can bring the best of our capabilities to banking, capital markets, insurance, and payments customers around the world. Our work with financial services industry customers has given us a deep understanding of the real-world, specific use cases that matter most to them. This groundwork led us to engineer products and solutions that are open and flexible, not ones that force them to rip out existing investments in ERP or other early IaaS cloud implementations.
It’s why we’ve engineered solutions such as Lending DocAI, Open Banking with Apigee, and Datashare for financial services to help transform the industry. These solutions were created with our customers’ security and compliance top-of-mind and are built at the intersection of user-optimized experience, technology, and sovereignty.
At their core, financial institutions want to drive growth, reduce costs, mitigate risk, stay compliant, and increase efficiency. As a result, when we partner with them on their transformation journeys, we consider three essential focus areas:
- Enabling the human experience and connected interactions
- Building an open and intelligent data foundation for better insights
- Providing the most trusted and secure cloud in the industry
Enabling humans and connected interactions
A company’s transformation is about more than technology; people and culture ultimately drive change. HSBC, for example, recognized its business users would benefit from guided answers to common questions around risk policy compliance, and turned to Google Cloud to leverage AI and machine learning bots to assist employees, ease the burden on policy experts, and improve the user experience. Using Dialogflow, a core component of Contact Center AI, HSBC was able to build a conversational platform that quickly and accurately addresses user needs at scale.
Another example is Equifax, which used Google Workspace to support collaboration not only internally between employees, but also externally with customers. Customers can use Google Cloud solutions for financial services to build these sorts of technology-enabled human interactions quickly and easily—supporting organizational change at scale.
Building an open and intelligent data foundation for smarter, faster insights
The real impact of Google Cloud solutions for financial services comes when the whole company has access to the right information at the right time, and can act more intelligently on that data. Our solutions help businesses safely leverage their data and get a complete 360-degree view of their customers’ information, which can often be scattered across multiple systems (CRM, lending, credit, etc.). This helps financial institutions improve the overall customer experience—and sometimes even develop new products quickly.
Indeed, all financial institutions are looking for ways to grow revenue and reduce expenses, and data can be a critical ingredient to doing both effectively. As daily transactions rise, so does the volume and complexity of data. But to implement new customer experience innovations (and new revenue streams), financial institutions must first capture data effectively. This is why AXA Switzerland, for example, uses real-time analytics on Google Cloud to gain cross-industry insights about future trends and customer preferences.
Financial services organizations also need the confidence of building on a platform that provides choice, flexibility, and agility to move fast. It’s why we have an open cloud approach that allows Google Cloud services to run in different physical locations such as on-premises, other public clouds, and the edge. Customers can also harness the power of data and AI through our open APIs, machine-learning services, and analytics engines on any major cloud platform. This is why companies like Macquarie Bank are taking advantage of Google Cloud’s open, hybrid architecture to modernize and empower its developers.
Compliant and secure to address risk and regulatory needs
As a highly regulated industry, financial services is focused on security and compliance, risk and regulations, and fraud detection and prevention. Google Cloud offers unique capabilities to earn customers’ trust as part of our continuing work to be the most trusted cloud in the industry. Google Cloud provides a secure foundation that you can verify and independently control. Our cloud technology reduces risk and data loss, because it is built on comprehensive zero-trust architecture. Finally, we offer a shared-fate model built on best practices in risk management via automation, guidance, and insurance. This is why customers like BBVA have confidence anywhere their systems may operate.
On the regulatory front, global legislators and regulators continue to focus on the stability of the industry that only a decade ago went through one of the biggest liquidity crises in history. With this oversight comes strong expectations of risk mitigation. Google Cloud offers a single, global set of controls, reviewed by financial institutions and regulators around the world, and verified in collaborative audits—making compliance simpler and less costly for our customers.
Finally, Google Cloud allows financial services firms to operate confidently with advanced security tools that help protect data, applications, and infrastructure, as well as their customers from fraudulent activity, spam, and abuse. We help protect your data against threats, using the same infrastructure and security services we use for our own operations, ensuring you never have to trade-off between ease of use and security. Google Cloud encrypts data at-rest and in-transit. And we now also offer the ability to encrypt data-in use, while it’s being processed for customer VM and container workloads.
Let us help you with your transformation cloud journey
We’ve seen leading financial services companies embrace Google Cloud to help them move beyond infrastructure toward the next phase of their cloud evolution. This is an era where no company is better positioned to lead than Google Cloud, and we’re excited to help you with your journey.
Learn more about Google Cloud for financial services.
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New Capabilities in Google Cloud Dataprep: A Must-Read for Data Teams
In this video, Bertrand Cariou, Sr. Director Product Marketing, Trifacta and Sean Ma, Sr. Director, Product Management, Trifacta take a deep dive into new capabilities for Cloud Dataprep.
They walk us through several new features to enable a wider range of use cases with Cloud Dataprep; and, major enhancements to existing features asked for by enterprises.
Some of the new capabilities include:
- New connectivity with Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and Salesforce
- New Data Pipeline Orchestration & Alerting
- Advanced Performance Optimization
- Fine Grain Data Access through OAuth
The walkthrough will also host a demonstration that exemplifies the new capabilities in the product itself.
Finally, Bertrand and Sean show an end-to-end data pipeline example that connects diverse data sources from multiple flows into a sequence that can be designed in Cloud Dataprep and integrated with Cloud Functions.
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