Competitive analysis is a critical part of any business. Product managers, sellers, and marketers spend time and resources scouring through an immense amount of online and offline content, aiming to discover what their competitors are doing in the marketplace to understand what type of threat they pose to their business' financial well-being. Currently, this process is time and labor-intensive, slow and costly. This paper presents Clarity, a data-driven unsupervised system for assessment of products, which is currently in deployment in the global technology company, IBM. Clarity has been running for more than a year and is used by over 4,500 people to perform over 200 competitive analyses involving over 1000 products.

Competitive analysis is a critical part of any business. Product managers, sellers, and marketers spend time and resources scouring through an immense amount of online and offline content, aiming to discover what their competitors are doing in the marketplace to understand what type of threat they pose to their business' financial well-being. Currently, this process is time and labor-intensive, slow and costly. This paper presents Clarity, a data-driven unsupervised system for assessment of products, which is currently in deployment in the global technology company, IBM. Clarity has been running for more than a year and is used by over 4,500 people to perform over 200 competitive analyses involving over 1000 products.

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The ongoing pandemic has forced designers to reimagine how they reveal their creations and Balenciaga has gone that extra mile to create an immersive experience. On December 6, the fashion house will debut its fall 2021 collection online in an original video game, Afterworld: The Age of Tomorrow. The game is an allegorical adventure set in the year 2031, exploring the collection's theme of destiny through'mythological pasts' and'projected futures.' In a statement, the Spanish label billed Afterworld as the'largest volumetric video project ever undertaken,' incorporating photogrammetry and cutting-edge computer technology. The game will be free and playable directly on Internet browsers.