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How we use Technology from AWS to Provide Business Value For ISL.
Here at Cucumber we have been working with ISL for many years, helping them along their journey to digitisation and cloud technology. For more information about their journey and business needs, please see this blog post. This article will talk about the technology we have used in building their application, and how the technology from AWS has greatly contributed to the success of the project.
Exploring environmental innovation at Matariki X
At the end of July I attended the Environmental Innovation Masterclass at Matariki X with our partner Scion.
This was an opportunity to learn how New Zealand businesses can become leaders in our transition towards a circular economy.
Groundswell 2019
At the time of writing, it is just 3 weeks until Groundswell 2019, the 3rd edition of the Tauranga Festival of Innovation. This year, the festival is longer and has more events and there are sure to be a few events that you will want to attend.
TechWeek 2018
The opportunity to explore the industry and meet colleagues right in my own backyard was certainly convenient. The first thing that became apparent is that NZ agritech is a buzz of excitement.
Google Search Console 101 part 1 - Performance Reports
This article looks at Google Tag Manager trigger groups and gives an example of one way a trigger group can be used to report on page engagement.
Tauranga City Council's Asset Planning: From Spreadsheet to Enterprise System
Cucumber’s Craig Cleary talks about his amazing journey implementing enterprise asset planning software at Tauranga City Council
Internal Search Terms into a Word Cloud
I recently discovered this neat solution to the following problem
How do you make sense of thousands of unique search terms?
Young Innovators Visit Cucumber
Last week, Cucumber had the pleasure of hosting 2 winners from the Young Innovators Awards 2018. They were spending time with us as their winning ideas were an app and a website and the goal was to help them develop their idea further over the 2 days they were here.
Growing Organic Search with Content is Like Planting a Fruit Tree
All websites want their traffic to increase. This can be achieved with email marketing, social media (paid or organic). Google Ads or other types of ads.
Why is my Bounce Rate so High?
For those who don't know, a bounce occurs when a web session consists of a single pageview. The bounce rate is the percentage of sessions that bounce.
Firstly what is a good bounce rate? Luckily I came across a website with that very answer the other day.
Human-Digital Collaboration: Enhancing our Uniquely Human Capabilities
The deeper context of “digital technology” was first presented to me, in a very analogue way, by Nicholas Negroponte’s book Being Digital (1995). The MIT Media Lab, founded by Negroponte, had always been a source of information, as well as inspiration and fascination, for my business endeavours, for what at that time was called new media.
Sitecore Symposium 2018 – Elevate the Experience
The Sitecore Symosium 2018 was recently held in Orlando, Florida and I attended to represent Cucumber. Many of you will be aware that Cucumber has been a partner of Sitecore since 2011. We could see the benefits of Sitecore’s vision to help personalise customer experiences even then and we have followed their progress and worked on their platform ever since.
Cucumber And Contact Energy Win 2018 Sitecore Experience Award
Cucumber and Contact Energy are delighted to have been chosen for the 2018 Sitecore Experience Awards as Australia & New Zealand regional winner in the category for Best Use of Personalisation.
Cucumber AI in Action
Cucumber's long-term client Independent Stevedoring Ltd (ISL) initially engaged with us in 2016 as they required a new mobile logistics solution to replace their legacy system used to validate, track and load logs onto ships.
My Cucumber Experience
I can hardly believe it’s only been 3 months since I stepped off the plane at Tauranga airport. It took me exactly 5 minutes to get from the plane, pick up my luggage and get to the parking lot.
The Face Behind Agile 2018
The Agile Conference is back for a second year and Carol Machaj from Cucumber is the passionate organiser behind this event.
Auckland MeasureCamp 2018
MeasureCamp Auckland was held on Saturday 16 June 2018 at the TVNZ Televison Centre. It was advertised with this byline :-