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Jobbio is seeking an Experienced Full Stack Python Web Developer to join our growing Engineering team in Dublin.  The role involves the design and development of software for our web sites and API services.

You will work closely with our Engineering and Product teams to build exciting web applications and integrations for the Jobbio Job Marketplace and Sales Channels.

The role involves a significant level of responsibility and we require a candidate with a strong level of proven commercial experience in the delivery of software for web services and applications.

Responsibilites

  • Work with the Engineering and Product Teams to discuss, design and deliver web applications and services
  • Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
  • Create technical documentation

Skills Required

  • Python (2 Years or more)
  • Django Framework (any experience of this or similar Frameworks is required)
  • EmberJS Front End Development, or similar
  • Web Design and Development (3 years or more)
  • Linux Server (e.g. Ubuntu, Red Hat/CentOS)
  • API and Integration Developments
  • Git or similar source control systems
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or an equivalent qualification or level of work experience

What We Offer

We’re an easy bunch to get on with and have fun as we grow! We are team oriented and can turn to each other for advice any time. We are a meritocracy with lots of opportunities to progress.

  • Competitive salary
  • Sponsored team events
  • Wellness Programme
  • Swift role progression
  • Generous WFH allowances
  • Opportunity to join a story which will be revolutionary on a global scale. Come and get involved if you’re up for a challenge!

Perks and Benefits

  • Enjoy summer get-togethers
  • Unlimited coffee and great banter
  • Uber cool office space
  • Enjoy working in a fast paced environment with a vibrant team
  • Great location with some select eateries nearby
  • This is an exciting role for someone who is eager to make a big step in their career

Apply today and join our expanding team!

About Jobbio

Jobbio is an employer branding and inbound hiring company that connects smart people to smart companies.

We’re an exciting Irish-founded startup with offices in Dublin, London and New York. Currently, we have 60 employees and promote a culture of collaboration, exploration and disruption.

The startup environment is fast-paced and ever changing, so if you’re a self-starter who is passionate about evolving technology, this is the place for you!

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What you’ll do

  • Work with the content team and various stakeholders to create content for web pages, support hubs, sales collateral and other product and marketing content.
  • Create B2B content for jobbio and partner sites with a focus on technology and HR.
  • Prepare copy for company briefs, presentations and reports.
  • Work with marketing and communications team to ensure optimisation and reach of published content.
  • Build articles in WordPress and any other blog platforms/sites as required.
  • Contribute to the creation of engaging taglines for social media and advertising campaigns.
  • Present complex information in a way that is succinct, easy to understand and in line with Jobbio’s tone of voice.
  • Source and work with experts and contributors to ensure well-rounded and highest quality content.
  • Explore current digital marketing/content trends and advise on best practice.

Who you are

  • 2-3 years experience in a similar role
  • Background in journalism or marketing with a focus on B2B strategy preferred
  • Experience working with WordPress and/or other CMS
  • Basic understanding of SEO
  • Experience writing for a product or technical publication would be an advantage
  • Ability to work to tight deadlines
  • Excellent attention to detail

What we can offer you

  • Work with the world’s most innovative companies
  • Centrally located office (baggot street) with loads of great food options around
  • Reekly yoga and gym classes
  • Relaxed / smart-casual dress code
  • Monthly team bonding activities

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We’re looking for a Digital Marketing Executive to build and manage our B2B campaigns in order to attract more businesses to use the Jobbio product. Working in a small marketing team, this role will be very important in helping Jobbio grow.

What You’ll do:
  • Building B2B acquisition campaigns across various online channels including Google, LinkedIn and Comparison sites
  • Managing the PPC Agency and providing feedback on strategy
  • Building landing pages for digital campaigns
  • Contributing to strategy and implementing campaigns to drive online conversions
  • A/B testing to improve conversion
  • Working with in house designers to brief in creative
  • Tracking, Measuring and Reporting on performance of campaigns through Google Analytics, Salesforce and Excel
  • Working across multiple acquisition campaigns you’ll identify the best performing lead generation channels and allocate budget accordingly
  • Assist other marketing channels, including email and jobs distribution
  • Working in a fast paced environment, you’ll contribute to the overall high performance of the marketing team
Who you are:
  • 2 to 3 years experience as a digital marketing executive or in a similar role
  • Knowledge of B2B digital marketing, including Linked In campaign management
  • Experience with PPC advertising – either in house or managing an agency
  • Good working knowledge of Google Analytics
  • Understanding of SEO and its concepts
  • Knowledge of social media marketing including Facebook, Twitter, and Linked In, particularly from a b2b point of view
  • Familiar with the world of job marketing – recruitment platforms, jobs boards and aggregators
  • WordPress knowledge
  • Relevant marketing qualification
  • Ability to work in a team and across departments including sales, account management and product
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Understanding of HTML would be a plus

What we can offer you?

  • Work with the world’s most innovative companies
  • Centrally located office (baggot street) with loads of great food options around
  • Reekly yoga and gym classes
  • Relaxed / smart-casual dress code
  • Monthly team bonding activities

Click HERE to apply for this job.

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Would it shock you if I told you that we’re ignoring our greatest creative resource every single day–even stifling it? What would you think if I told you that creative resource had nothing to do with what you do every day of your life?

For the sake of this article, let’s define creativity as the ability to solve problems in an unexpected or surprising way. Many of us may be in careers that are perceived as “creative”: designers, developers, writers, or entrepreneurs. But we don’t force ourselves regularly to solve problems that are clearly out of our areas of expertise. That’s where we’re squandering our greatest creative resource. With routine, people tend to get stuck in patterned forms of thought. By forcing our minds out of our comfort zones, we can become a part of a more intellectually diverse crowd that helps us continue to learn and challenge our own assumptions.Creativity Creativity Creativity Creativity Creativity

This concept has been called a lot of things, but one of my favorites is “the curse of knowledge.” As Chip and Dan Heath wrote, when we attempt to problem-solve within our own boundaries of expertise, even within our own companies, we assume others know what we do. Nothing is more dangerous. We become incapable of communicating clearly to others, and end up with an idea that goes nowhere.

So, how do we get out of our own way? By challenging ourselves to feel uncomfortable regularly, to solve problems we never would in our day jobs, or to take on projects where we really have no idea what we’re doing. In other words, make that uncomfortable feeling your new hobby. Sounds a little crazy, but other people and companies have experimented with this with great success.Creativity Creativity Creativity Creativity Creativity

For example, our team worked with Jonathon Parker, an MD/PhD student, on a design project for audio systems. He got a chance to collaborate with a group of mechanical engineers, designers, and artists (individuals he would have never been able to work with in the medical field) on a short-term idea-generation project. Jonathon humbly told us that he learned so much from the group, but he also provided key input on how the brain responded to audio signals–information they wouldn’t have thought of without his expertise. In this particular project, “wisdom of crowds” took on a whole new meaning.

Parker is a modern-day Renaissance Man. It’s easier than most of us think to become Renaissance Men and Women, even if the capacity to do out-of-bounds things doesn’t exist within our day jobs. It seems as if once every few months I see a new workout program that promises results within 30, 15, even 5 minutes of exercise. While I can’t attest to how effective these programs are for the body, the brain can be exercised in similar increments to challenge patterned forms of thought.

The web has an incredible capacity to connect all different kinds of creative people to form communities of diverse thinkers. As people who desire a greater connection with creativity, we can seek out these communities to do things we’d never expect to do–design the next package for a consumer good, write a jingle for a national ad campaign, or even re-sequence protein enzymes.

On the other end, as companies seeking out sources of creativity, we no longer have to resort to expensive focus groups and studies to test out concepts, or even come up with those concepts in the first place. If the web truly becomes a destination for all sorts of Renaissance Thinkers to exercise their creativity, there’s an amazing untapped creative resource just waiting to be challenged.Creativity Creativity Creativity Creativity Creativity

So, welcome to the 21st Century Renaissance Community, where your grandmother is learning to code and your colleague in accounting is inspiring the next beverage flavor. What are you doing to make yourself feel uncomfortable today?

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Being an ideas machine is one thing; giving your ideas the chance to be rediscovered and flourish is another.

Because let’s face it: Ideas are merely forgotten thoughts if they’re not recorded, organized, managed, and implemented. How many times have you heard of a new business and thought to yourself, “I totally came up with that idea years ago”? That’s proof that great ideas mean nothing if you don’t manage them for later expansion and implementation.Creativity Creativity Creativity Creativity Creativity

While dreamers often have the best ideas, it’s the doers who are getting things done. Below, five leaders share how they record, organize, and manage their ideas.

STAY OBJECTIVE AND GET FEEDBACK

Anne Raimondi, senior vice president of operations at Zendesk

To manage her ideas, Raimondi has a three-step process:

1. Stay objective. If you’re an ideas machine, it can be difficult to to decide which ones are worth filtering, editing, and revising, and which ones you need to let go of (at least for now). For Raimondi, continuously asking, “What problem am I trying to solve?” is crucial so that she doesn’t “fall in love with one idea and miss coming up with a better one.”Creativity Creativity Creativity Creativity Creativity

2. Ask for feedback. After coming up with a sketch of an idea, getting others to brainstorm with you is a great way to expand and build your nugget from something okay to something great.

Collaborating almost always makes an idea better.

Recently, Raimondi asked two colleagues to help her brainstorm for an upcoming event after she came up with a rough idea. “Including them in the conversation transformed it into something I could never have come up with on my own,” she says. “Collaborating almost always makes an idea better.”

3. Be patient and persevere. Sometimes, the best things take time to become a reality. When you know you have a big idea worth holding on to, don’t forget to take the time to revisit it every once in awhile. Raimondi’s big idea came nearly a decade ago:

Nine years ago, on a cross-country plane ride, while working together at a crazy startup, one of my best friends and I decided that someday, we wanted to build something together. We didn’t know what or when. We just knew it was a goal for us. Almost a decade later, we’re now forming a partnership to invest in talented entrepreneurs we’ve met and worked with over the last nine years. If not for the different journeys we’ve been on, and being patient, our idea wouldn’t be coming to fruition.

ALWAYS HAVE A NOTEBOOK AROUND

Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic

For Adams, who is the creator of Dilbert and has a handful of companies under his belt he’s either started or invested in, coming up with new, great ideas is crucial. He’s tried note apps, but finds them too slow. Instead, he has a system that enables him to record for revisiting later:

“I have a seven-second rule in my home,” he says. “I have to be able to reach a working pen and notepad or I risk being distracted and forgetting.”Creativity Creativity Creativity Creativity Creativity

He adds: “Smartphones and computers take longer than seven seconds and add distraction. I transfer them to a computer later.”

Additionally, Adams emails himself ideas using the same subject line for all of them.

“That makes it easy to search later,” says Adams when he’s ready to transfer his ideas to the computer for organizing and managing.

But Adams isn’t done managing his ideas: He has a whiteboard in his “man cave” to write ideas on, he starts draft blog posts and saves them in Tumblr, and for his movie script, he’s turned a room into a visual timeline of the film with notecards for scene ideas.

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The media and advertising industries are anxiously awaiting driverless cars because they’ll create more opportunities for people to view media content and advertising.

The bigger picture: With a finite amount of time in a day, the media industry is doing whatever it can to capture and monetize more of your attention. Driverless cars are supposed to free up hours for people who were previously spending their time behind the wheel.

Yes, but: It’s not clear whether people will be able to fully take their eyes off the road to consume more content.

  • Right now, driverless cars require drivers to pay attention. As they become more autonomous, the level of attention needed would likely change. The media industry is planning for all scenarios.
  • Most models have digital screens, but some are designed to help drivers pay more attention to the road by providing better directions, places to stop, etc.
  • “Others are built for passengers that don’t need to pay attention to driving whatsoever,” said Daniel Castro, vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

Driverless cars will dramatically change the way some industries think about marketing and serving content.

Billboards and terrestrial radio, for example, will need to focus their technologies on targeting less-distracted passengers and connecting drivers and passengers to the world around them with more dynamic ads that are targeted by location.

  • Andy Sriubas, CCO of Outfront, one of the largest billboard companies in the U.S., says these changes, and other changes in tech, have forced the billboard industry to adapt. “I don’t think of us as truly a billboard or transit company. We’re a location-based media company,” he said.

The video industry will reshape the way people consume TV and movies in cars. With 5G connectivity, streaming video will become a seamless experience.

“The question will be what the car company will control in terms of the viewing experiences versus what you can just access on the internet.”
— Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, Consumer Technology Association

For the $190 billion U.S. advertising industry, the opportunities are endless, but privacy around data-targeted ads remains a big concern.

“[P]eople should not ignore how the public will accept the privacy implications of these emerging data-driven technologies and ads.”
— Dan Jaffe, Group EVP government relations, Association of National Advertisers

Between the lines: The U.S. has fewer consumer data rules, so car companies, media companies and advertisers have a lot of room to experiment. Europe has strict data laws, making innovation in autonomous vehicles and the entertainment experience more difficult.

What’s next: Right now, drivers own their own data. But because cars will have different levels of driver participation, there’s no consensus around the future of data ownership.

  • In the future, the car company could own the data (think GM or Ford, who already ask consumers to opt-in so they can share their data with retailers). In the shared economy (think Uber or Lyft), the ride-sharing service could own it. If stricter privacy laws are enacted, the consumer could own it.

And tech companies that own autonomous vehicle firms are well-positioned to get into the advertising game because of their map data, says SafeSelfDrive founder Jim McPherson.

The bottom line: Whoever owns the data will ultimately decide who controls the content and ads — or at least who gets the revenue.

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Last year, Princeton researchers revealed a powerful new ad-blocking technique: perceptual ad-blocking uses a machine-learning model trained on images of pages with the ads identified to make predictions about which page elements are ads to block and which parts are not.

However, a new paper from a group of Stanford and CISPA Helmholtz Center researchers reveals a powerful machine learning countermeasure that, they say, will permanently tilt the advantage toward advertisers and away from ad-blockers.

The team revealed a set of eight techniques to generate adversarial examples of slightly modified ads that completely flummoxed the perceptual ad-blocker’s model: from overlaying a transparent image to modifying a few pixels in the logo used to demarcate an ad.

What’s more, the team showed that they could cause the perceptual blocker’s model to erroneously identify a page’s actual content as an ad and block it, while leaving the ads unblocked.

The team says that these techniques will always outrace the ability of perceptual blocking models to detect them, suggesting that perceptual blocking may be a dead letter.

We note that detection of adversarial examples [27, 47]—a simpler problem in principle but also one far from solved [14]— may not be applicable to ad-blockers. Indeed, ad-blockers face both adversarial false-positives and false-negatives, so merely detecting a perturbation does not help in decision-making. This challenging threat model also applies in part to ad-blockers based on non-visual cues, e.g., ML-based ad-blockers that use similar features as filter lists [11, 29, 36]. None of these have yet been evaluated against adaptive adversaries.

Moreover, by virtue of not relying on visual cues, these models are presumably easier to attack in ways that are fully transparent to users (e.g., switching ad domains)

Ad-versarial: Defeating Perceptual Ad-Blocking [Florian Tramèr, Pascal Dupré, Gili Rusak, Giancarlo Pellegrino and Dan Boneh/Arxiv]

Researchers Defeat Most Powerful Ad Blockers, Declare a ‘New Arms Race’ [Daniel Oberhaus/Motherboard]

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Customer reviews have become a major part of how consumers buy products — specifically high-dollar products that might have a manufacturer’s defect. Helpful reviews not only appear on the merchant’s website, but also on Yelp, YouTube and in a variety of forums.

For example, there is a forum about a defect in the Ford Explorer 2018. Sirius XM radio gets stuck on “acquiring signal,” sometimes for up to 20 minutes. Written conversations within the online forum point to a design change in Ford’s satellite antenna for the 2018 Explorer that now integrates the 4G modem for WiFi with the Sirius satellite antenna. Others point to an issue with the Ford Sync system.

But consumers really don’t really know the issue. Ford has not responded to any reviews in the forum, leaving some dealerships like Jackson Hole Ford to step up and play referee between the consumer and the manufacturer.

It’s not uncommon, said Josha Benner, cofounder of Uberall, which provides location marketing technology. Pointing to research about Chipotle and Burger King, where customers expressed concerns in reviews and forums about a variety of topics from restrooms to food ingredients, he said that “if the company looks at reviews in a timely manner the company can learn a lot about the product.”

While reviews are nothing new, it’s clear from Uberall’s study, released Thursday, that consumer want companies to personally address their issues and concerns.

The Customer Review Report analyzes how shoppers evaluate the responses of online reviews. This report specifically focuses on physical store reviews, but it makes sense their marketing department should also monitor and comment in forums.

In the Uberall-commissioned survey of more than 1,000 U.S. consumers conducted between October 1 and October 5, 2018, 74% of consumers cited personal reviews as either moderately important — 40% — or very important–34%. Just 20% said they were slightly important, and 6% said they were not important.

Some 65% of consumers said stores should respond to each customer service review, whether the review is positive or negative.

Some 18% believe they should respond only when the review is negative, while 10% feel they should never respond, and 6% think they should only respond when the review is positive.

In fact 86% said they would be more likely to shop at a store that responds to customer reviews. Of that group, 47% said they would be somewhat more likely, while 39% said they would be more likely. Only 8% said they would be somewhat less likely and 6% said they would be not likely.

About 29% of consumers responding to the survey think stores should personalize their response, while 49% think the response should be somewhat personal and 78% think it should include some personalization. Just 13% said the response should be “not very personalized” and 9% said not personalized.

When asked how often the survey’s respondents check customer reviews to help them figure out where to shop, 57% said they check occasionally, while 19% said all the time. Some 17% said they check rarely and 7% said very rarely.

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Every day, ads overrun us in our online journey. While this is necessary to keep many free services we constantly use in business, they are also heavily misaligned. We ignore most of the ads we see, find them intrusive, irrelevant and wasting our bandwidth. For the same reason, many companies are also spending ad dollars without seeing sufficient return.

But there are those who are benefiting from this model. After all, digital marketing has overtaken TV ads and it is a medium where marketers can measure the success of their campaigns and adjust accordingly. Google and Facebook are dominating the digital advertising industry. Amazon is currently in fifth place with nearly $2 billion in revenue for the first quarter of this year, but it is catching up fast as more advertisers turn to it.

Advertisers typically look for the company who can “get the word out” about them most efficiently, but they face a dilemma; most of them know by heart that many of the people they target really don’t need their products. However, they assume that if they just keep popping up all the time (and perhaps crack a joke or get undressed), eventually the consumer will surrender and buy. But here is the thing: if the consumer does not trust you, the impact will be minimal.

No one “hates” shopping –quite opposite, people love a good purchase. A good purchase requires knowledge of the products, but no one ever tells an advertiser that they are looking for a new car because they would instantly start spamming us. We prefer to keep that information private because we suspect it would be misused to sell us snake oil instead of really valuable products. In an era where consumers don’t trust advertisers, advertisers are forced to rely on middlemen like Google and Amazon to hint them at what could work best for them.

The reason is simple: Google knows the customers’ intent, Facebook knows the demographics and Amazon knows what many consider as the most important piece of the puzzle: what people buy. However, this puzzle still lacks one missing (and often overlooked) piece: the consumers. The current advertising business is primarily designed to serve the ad networks – not the companies or the clients. Here is where blockchain could help.

A new era

Blockchain is about decentralization and removing middle parties. There are four players in the digital advertising world: ad networks, companies, publishers and visitors. Companies are the ones who want to sell their products or services, and they do so via the “publishers.” The publishers, such as web admins, are the ones running a website and attract visitors, and the companies alike.

The ad networks sit between the companies and the publishers, match them up and take a huge cut in return. This is the player blockchain aims to remove and optimize the system to run only between companies, publishers and visitors.

By removing the ad networks, the cost for advertising will significantly drop for companies. Furthermore, there are no banks involved so transactions are much easier and faster, which is particularly important as advertisers target a global market. But this is not the only benefit.

Blockchain offers immutability, which essentially means a tamper-proof record of everything that has taken place on the network. This means everyone can track the customers’ journey: where and when they started interacting with an ad and what the results where. This also leads to transparency, as both the company and the publishers have correct metrics of the impressions and clicks.

Like always, specific blockchain projects add more features to these general concepts. For instance, BAT gives users full control of the ads they see and even pays them for the ads they watch. To track the watch time, the project collaborates with the Brave browser, which ironically comes with built-in ad blockers.

Adoption

No matter how promising, currently the digital advertising industry is dominated by centralized enterprises. This can eventually change, as more and more people turn to ad blockers and concerns around privacy and information tracking are beginning to rise. Eventually, the buyers are the people that are currently spammed so the ultimate winner would be the one that really takes the customers’ best interest into account. With blockchain, we are moving one step closer to giving power to the individuals.

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Ironically, while the Internet pervades our lives and sends a continual stream of information into an expanding digital, cloud-based, and data-driven world, the ability to make sense of this data is far from pervasive. In a previous post, I discussed how a recent global survey showed that 81% of senior business leaders want data analytics to be more widespread in their organizations, suggesting that it’s time for pervasive data intelligence to be the new enterprise standard.

Today, nearly every person’s role in a company involves drawing conclusions from data. Time and again, we’ve seen that when organizations make data scalable, frictionless, and available 24/7 to their employees, people across all functions and levels are better able to accomplish their daily work and generate positive business outcomes. And as businesses increasingly invest in augmented intelligence — which aims to tap the potential of humans and technology working together — ensuring a frictionless relationship between your people and your data is more important than ever.

Consider the impact of pervasive data intelligence on the data scientist, whose analysis is too often limited to data subsets due to time and technical constraints. Imagine the impact on the business if she could easily test her analytics in real time on 100 percent of the company’s data. And for the analyst streamlining business and IT processes, a flexible analytic environment supports the needs of various users and allows warehouse data to be combined with social media, IoT and SMS insights. This pervasive data intelligence system can grow with the business, reduce time to value and cost, and incorporate advanced technologies.

As businesses increasingly invest in augmented intelligence, ensuring a frictionless relationship between your people and your data is more important than ever.

The C-suite also benefits from the real-time, holistic view of the business that pervasive data intelligence provides. For example, the Chief Marketing Officer can leverage pervasive data intelligence to make planning decisions, test marketing strategies, measure deviance and ensure consistent customer experience across multiple channels. He can also better understand industry trends and competitors’ behavior to find ways to optimize campaigns, gain a competitive advantage, and provide effective and compelling value to customers.

As the manufacturer of over 600,000 installed medical equipment products, Siemens Healthcare has experienced the benefits of pervasive data intelligence firsthand. Siemens Healthineers use our cloud-based predictive platform Teradata Vantage to maintain and optimize 240,000 patient touchpoints an hour. Vantage translates these data points into intelligence through an automated process that Siemens Healthcare can scale throughout the global organization. Because this intelligence is delivered seamlessly and in real time, Siemens Healthcare can predict and prevent product maintenance and operational issues. This is vital when your products are responsible for over 70 percent of critical clinical decisions around the world.

“We want to have the right answer before our customers have even the question,” says Stefan Meiler, Head of Data Governance & Analytical Services at Siemens Healthcare.

Today organizations are making big bets that automation, artificial and augmented intelligence, and machine learning will give them a competitive edge. But without committing to “data science for all,” the enterprise will not reap the benefits from their human and technological investments. Ensuring pervasive data intelligence — where employees can seamlessly access relevant, real-time data at scale — will unleash innovation and allow technology to compound human expertise.

By Chris Twogood

Chris Twogood is Senior Vice President Global Marketing for Teradata Corporation. He is responsible for Teradata Brand, Influencer Relations, Content Marketing, Corporate Communications, Global Events, Demand Generation, Account Based Marketing and Digital for Teradata including Web and Social. Chris has thirty years of experience. Chris has extensive experience in the computer industry specializing in Data Warehousing, Decision Support, Customer Management and Analytics

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