Collaboration Poised to Transform Retail Ops and Deliver
AI-Powered Insights at Speed and Scale
REDMOND,
Wash., July 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/
-- Centific, a leading provider of enterprise AI platforms and
GenAI (Generative AI) data solutions, and Lenovo, a global
technology powerhouse, are collaborating to provide retailers with
turnkey edge compute options for quickly and easily deploying
Centific's flagship Retail Intelligence Platform, Pitaya.
Through the Lenovo AI Innovators program, Lenovo and NVIDIA
enable Centific customers to gain access to a simplified way to
adopt their powerful AI solution at scale, providing a combined
software and hardware system that is both easy to implement on
existing infrastructure and support.
Pitaya provides retailers with rapid ROI realization through
in-store and back-of-house insights without additional CAPEX and
optimized OPEX. Furthermore, by leveraging Generative AI, Pitaya
enables retailers to transform their terabytes of data, including
store footage, into direct actions for store associates. With
Pitaya, retailers will be able to tackle use cases such as loss
prevention (Self-Checkout and Assisted Checkout), inventory
management (Out of Stocks), .com-like customer journey analytics,
as well as warehouse optimization.
Featuring the ability to customize and integrate with both
enterprise systems and additional point-solutions, Pitaya's
scalability and adaptability make it suitable for businesses of all
sizes, ushering in an era of unparalleled efficiency and
profitability.
"Pitaya's modular solution empowers retailers to tailor the
platform to specific requirements and budgets, ensuring flexibility
and alignment with the unique needs of every business. Through this
partnership, Centific and Lenovo are pioneering the future of
retail intelligence, empowering retailers to thrive in an
increasingly digital world with one point of contact. Together, we
are shaping the future of retail, where AI-driven insights drive
innovation, enhance competitiveness, and exceed customer
expectations," said Robert Daigle,
Director of ISG Global AI Business at Lenovo.
The Lenovo AI Innovators partnership combined with Centific and
Lenovo's membership in the NVIDIA Metropolis vision AI
partner ecosystem, expedites the time-to-value for businesses,
helping to ensure rapid return on investment. Their shared ability
to act as a united single point of contact for customers will help
facilitate successful technology deployment and management,
simplifying communication, coordination, and issue resolution.
Additionally, access to Lenovo's powerful GPU-enabled computing
devices, specialized AI accelerators, and AI-focused software
frameworks will help further enhance the performance and
capabilities of Centific's Pitaya. Centific also leverages the
NVIDIA Metropolis suite of developer tools and frameworks for
vision AI app deployments.
Understanding massive amounts of visual data requires incredible
speed, storage, and performance – all the criteria that Lenovo
systems accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs provide. By leveraging
generative AI and Vision Language Models (VLM), Pitaya by Centific
empowers retailers to transform terabytes of data, including store
footage from Video Management Systems, into direct actions for
store associates.
"With Pitaya now certified on Lenovo's retail tech stack,
retailers gain access to a powerful, end-to-end retail intelligence
platform that unlocks valuable insights from store data. Whether
it's predicting customer preferences or optimizing asset protection
and inventory management, retailers can make data-driven decisions
in real time that drive growth and profitability," said
Jagadish Garimella, Head of Retail
and CPG Solutions at Centific. "This collaboration isn't merely
about tech — it's about sculpting a seamless, intuitive, and
revolutionary retail experience that resonates with all
stakeholders."
Lenovo's AI Innovators Program facilitates access to pre-built
enterprise AI solutions, streamlining deployment for faster, more
efficient operations. Partners of the Lenovo AI Innovators Program
get access to the Lenovo Responsible AI Committee, which evaluates
new technology and prioritizes diversity and inclusion,
transparency, sustainability, and security to help ensure AI
innovations are responsible, ethical, and human-centric. Through
the program, organizations can find business-ready generative AI
solutions that help improve their customer experience, increase
satisfaction and retention, reallocate resources, and enhance
decision-making by harnessing the value of their data.
This Vision AI aggregated solution is an easy-to-deploy platform
for system integrators and reseller partners and is exclusively
available for channel partners through TD SYNNEX as part
of its Destination AI program. "TD SYNNEX is committed to providing
partners with innovative AI solutions that accelerate growth for
their businesses and we are proud to bring this Vision AI solution
to our channel partners to provide advanced intelligence to their
retail customers," said Lisa
McGarvey, VP of Data/AI & Solutions at TD SYNNEX.
Centific's collaboration with Lenovo is part of a broader
ecosystem of partnerships aimed at transforming the retail
industry. Together with other strategic partners, Centific and
Lenovo are driving innovation and redefining the retail
landscape.
Fast Facts: Key Retailer Benefits
1. Safe Scalable
Deployment: Lenovo ThinkEdge servers include security
features that help to ensure uncompromised hardware protection with
zero trust deployment, facilitating direct factory-to-retail
location shipments.
2. Enhanced Data
Protection: Centific prioritizes robust data security
across all stages, from pre-AI data acquisition to post-AI
activities such as red teaming and HIL testing. Pitaya's compliance
with GDPR, CCPA, and PII standards underscores our commitment to
privacy.
3. Rapid ROI Realization: Pitaya
expedites ROI realization and resource optimization through:
- Flexibility: Address future business challenges with
agility and enhance solution value by easily adding and removing
use cases as business challenges and priorities evolve
- Integration with Existing Infrastructure: Seamlessly
integrate with IP cameras, Video Management Systems, and Enterprise
Systems.
- NVIDIA Technology: Benefit from best-in-class vision AI
and generative AI software development tools and frameworks with
the NVIDIA Metropolis and NVIDIA NeMo platforms.
- Accelerated ROI: With Lenovo ThinkEdge compute, deploy
new models out to multiple stores seamlessly and instantly for
powerful AI-optimized computing where and when it is needed.
For more information about Pitaya, Centific's Retail
Intelligence Platform, visit: https://pitaya.ai
About Centific
Centific is a frontier AI data foundry that curates diverse,
high-quality data, using our purpose-built technology platforms to
empower the Magnificent Seven and our enterprise clients with safe,
scalable AI deployment. Our team includes more than 150 PhDs and
data scientists, along with more than 4,000 AI practitioners and
engineers. We harness the power of an integrated solution
ecosystem—comprising industry-leading partnerships and 1.8 million
vertical domain experts in more than 230 markets—to create
contextual, multilingual, pre-trained datasets; fine-tuned,
industry-specific LLMs; and RAG pipelines supported by vector
databases. Our zero-distance innovation™ solutions for GenAI can
reduce GenAI costs by up to 80% and bring solutions to market 50%
faster.
Our mission is to bridge the gap between AI creators and
industry leaders by bringing best practices in GenAI to unicorn
innovators and enterprise customers. We aim to help these
organizations unlock significant business value by deploying GenAI
at scale, helping to ensure they stay at the forefront of
technological advancement and maintain a competitive edge in their
respective markets.
- To learn more about Pitaya.AI visit: http://pitaya.ai
- To learn more about Centific
visit: http://www.centific.com.
Press Contact:
Lynn Munroe
845-548-1211
https://www.centific.com/
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