One of our clients is in the grocery business. They have a need to accept as input millions of grocery items (e.g. “1 quart” of “Sour Cream” from “Sysco”, item number “7074419”) and categorize them into a standard set of categories (e.g. Dairy, Produce, Beverage, Beer, etc.) Given the vast amount of data to be processed, they want to use machine learning in order to perform the category assignment. We have prototyped this process using the SageMaker software from Amazon. Here is an overview of the process.
Read morePROBLEM SOLVED: Replacement for Authorize.Net
One of our clients is switching from an in-house, home-grown ERP to NetSuite. Although their home-grown ERP supports Authorize.Net, NetSuite does not. They are therefore looking for an alternative solution for credit card processing. The alternative must work both NetSuite and the e-commerce software (a.k.a. “the system”) that Finite Wisdom has developed for them.
This is a review of potential replacement payment processors for Authorize.Net from a development perspective. It is in consideration of a change to a payment processor with a built-in integration to the NetSuite ERP. This review takes the approach of comparing the way these payment processors could work as compared to the way the current integration with Authorize.Net works.
Read moreProblem [Could Have Been] Solved
Earlier this year, one of our clients (I'll call them ACME Industries) approached us with the following problem: “We need 260,000 people to go online and select their size for a shirt. We need about 10,000 people to be able to select concurrently.” After a short conversation with the client, more detailed requirements were identified. Let's take a look at their both their requirements and our proposed solution.
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