The B2B eCommerce environment has developed significantly over the last decade or so. No matter what sector you focus on, more innovations have emerged that can help to make your business more efficient and effective. However, too many companies still insist on keeping hold of the manual processes, often through budgetary concerns. Yet, this can hold you back from effectively addressing some of the more difficult challenges you face. Adopting automated technology into your practices certainly requires mindful investment.

Abdallah Shanti, EVP & Group CIO of the Americas Region, Volkswagen AG [ETR:VOW3], Abdallah Shanti is Executive Vice President and Group Chief Information Officer for IT Region Americas. In this role, Shanti leads IT strategy, direct... The revolutionizing trends in the technological landscape--Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud-based applications, and IoT--have made our work more doable with minimum investment and easy implementation. Today, technology has paved the way for machine learning, imitating the intricate connections between our neurons, resulting in highly intelligent machines that can perceive things and convey information to us. With the dawn of unprecedented technologies, the "automotive industry" has undergone major transformation and is witnessing a deluge of sensor-based, Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered machines in recent times.