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"What does the Australian supermarket chain Coles have in common with the CIA?
As of last week, both are clients of Palantir Technologies, a US tech company
“focused on creating the world’s best user experience for working with data”.
In a three-year deal, Coles plans to deploy Palantir’s tools across more than
840 supermarkets to cut costs and “redefine how we think about our workforce”.
The tech company, named after magical seeing stones from the
Lord of the
Rings, offers comprehensive software that collects, organises and visualises a
client’s data in “one platform to rule them all”. For an intelligence agency,
Palantir’s tools might help identify a terror cell through phone calls and
financial transactions; in a healthcare organisation, they might find ways to
save money by shortening emergency department stays.
For Coles, the goal is to “optimise its workforce” by analysing “over 10
billion rows of data, comprising each store, team member, shift and allocation
across all intervals in a day, every day”.
The announcement is linked to Coles’ plan to save a billion dollars over the
next four years, and follows a 2019 big data deal with Microsoft, an effort to
build robotic delivery centres, and the introduction of customer-tracking
cameras and other high-tech security measures."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
