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Evolve your applications with Aiven for AI
Reliably scale your business with open source data infrastructure to maximize efficiency and innovate with AI.
Retail is in the Detail
With Aiven's data and AI platform, retailers have a versatile, reliable, and cost-effective way to build solutions that make a tangible difference to the customer experience.
Inventory management
Every item, tracked and managed.
Customer accounts
Create hyper-personalized, omnichannel customer experiences.
Shopping recommendations
Based on knowing your customers.
Peak planning
Ramping capacity to meet demand.
Demand forecasting
Determining potential future demand.
Optimizing labor
Ensuring optimal production and profits.
Real-time data analytics
Capturing and analysing real-time data to remain competitive.
Secure transactions
Business critical security for customer peace of mind.
Freight and shipping
Managing stock, deliveries and returns.
Why Aiven?
Boost your business with a data platform that simplifies infrastructure, minimizes risk, and delivers faster results. Quickly deploy new data services to accelerate development, freeing your team to innovate instead of maintaining systems, and increase your bottom line.
Open Choice
Leverage popular open-source technology and access a vast talent pool to build top solutions while enjoying the freedom to use multiple clouds.
Deploy to any cloud
Leverage multiple clouds to maximize cost savings and govern data on a single platform. Enhance resiliency with cross-region and cross-cloud replication and disaster recovery.
Go Real Time
Boost engagement and satisfaction with event-driven architecture and real-time personalization. Delight shoppers with instant responses based on real-time events, enhancing user experience.
AI-driven optimization
Accelerate outcomes using Aiven's AI Database Optimizer to provide coding suggestions in minutes, enhance database performance, and resolve issues faster, saving time and resources.
How does it all work together
Integrate real-time data with AI
Enhanced Customer Experience: Enhance customer experiences and boost sales through personalized product recommendations, dynamic pricing, and targeted promotions.
Improved Operational Efficiency: Optimize supply chains through AI-powered demand forecasting, ensure efficient inventory management and reduce waste, and streamline store operations through better resource allocation for cost reduction.
Increased Sales and Revenue: Identify emerging trends and build targeted marketing campaigns for higher conversion rates and increase repeat purchases.
How?
- Perform real-time ML inference on your Kafka stream.
- Join data from external and internal sources while removing sensitive information to get a holistic view of your business
- Provide a layer of abstraction between data sources and the AI serving layer without changing the underlying data structure
Build a delightful search experience
Personalization: Leverage user behavior and preferences to deliver personalized product recommendations.
Enhanced User Engagement: Engage users on your site longer and encourage repeat visits with a more effective search function.
Handling Large Catalogs: Efficiently handle large and diverse product catalogs, making it easier for customers to find specific items even in extensive inventories.
How?
- Augment product catalogs on Aiven for Postgres with AI-driven search capabilities through pgvector.
Chatbots trained on your enterprise data
Handle Routine Inquiries: Free up human agents to deal with more complex issues by handling routine and repetitive questions.
Scale: Easily handle large volume of customer inquiries simultaneously during peak times without compromising on response time or quality.
Lower Operational Costs: Augment existing customer service experience through AI powered customer service agents.
How?
- Build data pipelines on Aiven for Apache Kafka to upload your enterprise data into Aiven vector databases
- Create GenAI customer agents that integrate your data with your preferred AI model
Personalize your customer outreach
Improved Click-Through Rates: Customized outreach that resonates with your customers’ interests increases customer engagement and satisfaction.
Scale: Effectively scale AI marketing campaigns across your entire customer base making it feasible to maintain personalized communication with everyone.
Cross-Selling and Upselling: Identify opportunities for cross-selling and upselling based on customer preferences and past purchases for AI marketing campaigns.
How?
- Build real-time clickstream ingestion pipelines with Aiven for Apache Kafka to collect user behavior on your website
- Build email generation pipelines leveraging real-time and historical data stored across Aiven databases to send personalized messages to your customers






