Shopify focuses on AI, data, agility in uncertain economy
Can data, AI and agility enable merchants to navigate economic volatility and scattershot tariff policies? Shopify is betting on it.
Matrix Commerce analyzes the disruptive pressures influencing the commerce paradigm. Commerce faces rapidly changing business models and new payment options that are often misunderstood and poorly integrated.
Matrix commerce (TM) means the fusing of demand signals and supply chains in an increasingly complex world where buyers seek frictionless buying experiences. Friction in this new world originates from new regulatory requirements such as sustainability, taxation, and privacy.
As commerce continues to evolve around buyer preferences, channels, demand signals, supply chains, payment options, enablers, and big data will converge to create Matrix Commerce. Matrix Commerce spans across disciplines as people, process, and technologies continue to transform today's commerce models.
Can data, AI and agility enable merchants to navigate economic volatility and scattershot tariff policies? Shopify is betting on it.
Amazon Web Services delivered revenue of $29.3 billion, up 17% from a year ago. Parent Amazon reported better-than-expected first quarter results.
PayPal has big plans for transform from a payments company to a commerce platform that can carry out buying decisions. But first, the company is going to have to retire tech debt from acquisitions and a siloed data architecture.
In the Artificial Intelligence world, there's Ray's Law. AI capabilities double every 7 months. At this seven month doubling rate, in two years, this will be a 1500% increase. In six years, AI intelligence capability will be 10,0000%.
Google Cloud revenue was $12.26 billion, up 28% from $9.58 billion a year ago, with operating income of $2.18 billion.
C3 Transform Celebrates Real-World Enterprise AI
From March 18th-20th, 2025, C3 AI convened more than 650 attendees across 250 organizations and 50 partners for one of the world’s largest enterprise AI conferences, C3 Transform. The annual event, held at The Boca Raton, brought real AI practitioners together for intense knowledge sharing, hands-on training, and thought leadership in the critical field of enterprise AI.
Bank of America is infusing AI throughout its primary units--consumer banking, global wealth and investment management and global banking and markets--and plans to spend $4 billion on new projects as its digital engagement gained throughout 2024.
Walmart's move to common platforms that work across various functions, divisions and stores is enabling a data and AI flywheel that is paying off nicely in an uncertain economy.