Author: Matt Michalewicz

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that it has been shortlisted as finalist for two international awards: 2020 SaaS Awards in the category Best SaaS for Improved Productivity, and 2020 ARN Innovation Awards in the category Emerging Technology – Digital Transformation. Complexica was also named the winner of a bronze Stevie® Award in the Innovation in Technology category.

Matt Michalewicz, Complexica CEO, said: “It is an honour to make the SaaS and ARN Awards shortlist and win a bronze Stevie. These awards recognise the hard work and commitment of the Complexica team in using SaaS technologies to continually innovate.”

About SaaS awards

Now in its fifth year of celebrating software innovation, the Software-as-a-Service Awards program accepts entries worldwide, including the North America, Canada, Australia, UK, Europe and the Middle East. Head of operations for the SaaS Awards, James Williams, said: “Software-as-a-service’s force for positive disruption never seems to abate, with seemingly unending solutions for modern business. This year is of course a special case, with SaaS not only at the forefront of remodelling existing business processes, but also agilely responding with pioneering solutions to unavoidable global disruptions. Indeed, SaaS technologies are now celebrated as providing new and inventive ways for organisations to perform what might have once seemed simple tasks in a changing international landscape. From fulfilling orders to arranging meetings, SaaS technologies are more important than ever”.

To view the full shortlist, please visit: https://www.cloud-awards.com/2020-software-awards-shortlist/

About ARN awards

ARN Innovation Awards have become the industry standard for celebrating and rewarding excellence in ICT. ARN has been tracking, reporting on and championing the Australian ICT channel for over 29 years, and the channel remains strong, dynamic and optimistic. Over 180 organisations submitted more than 400 nominations this year, with over 200 finalists across more than 130 organisations in the running to win in this year’s Awards, which play host to the most competitive and comprehensive selection of leading innovators across Australia.

To view the full list of finalists, please visit: https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/681737/arn-innovation-awards-2020-finalists/?pp=2

About Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards

The Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards are the only business awards program to recognise innovation in the workplace in all 29 nations of the Asia-Pacific region. The Stevie Awards are widely considered to be the world’s premier business awards, conferring recognition for achievement in programs such as The International Business Awards® for 18 years. More than 1,000 nominations from organisations across the Asia-Pacific region were considered this year. Complexica won Bronze in the Technology Innovation category and is one of the only two Australian companies to win an award in this category.

“We are delighted that the seventh edition of the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards attracted so many impressive nominations,” said Stevie Awards president Maggie Gallagher.  “This year’s winning nominations are testament to the resiliency and innovation of organisations in the region, many of which continue to succeed despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic”.

Details about the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards and the 22 September awards ceremony, and the list of Stevie Award winners, are available at https://asia.stevieawards.com/2020-stevie-winners#Technology

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that the company’s CEO – Matt Michalewicz – will present on the topic of sales & distribution optimisation at the upcoming FOMENT conference on 29th July. During his presentation, Matt will discuss the topics of pricing, trade promotions, in-field sales & distribution, as well as the role that Artificial Intelligence plays in these areas. Examples will be provided from the food & liquor industry, and for more information about the event, please click here. Current customers of Complexica in the food & beverage industry include Metcash, Pernod Ricard, PFD Foods, Costa Group, LMG, & Lion.

The FOMENT “Wine Meets Tech” Conference will explore the future of wine across four across areas over a four week period, enabling participants to listen to enablers, inventors, and early-adopters that will shape the industry. For more information about FOMENT, please visit: www.foment.com.au/

When Complexica was launched 2014, the company’s first two customers were in the food and beverage sector, with Artificial Intelligence being part of the founder’s life for many decades before that. They are astounded to see the hype around AI today, and how many small companies have been created to capitalise on its rise. “In all our years of experience we found that to deliver AI-based technology successfully the first rule is to make sure AI is really the right technology to solve the problem you are trying to solve. AI is just one component of an overall solution.”

For businesses wanting an AI solution, Complexica looks at the number of customers they have, the number of products they sell, and the complexity around how they make and/or deliver those products to customers.  Michalewicz explains it is the complexity of a business not its size that is key. “It is a well-suited solution when the complexity of a business’s operations begins to overpower the people working in it and they struggle to manage and stay on top of what needs to be done”.

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Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that the company’s CEO – Matt Michalewicz – will present on the topic of Artificial Intelligence at the upcoming Drinks Association event in Sydney on 24th March. During the keynote presentation, Matt will cover the difference between innovation and disruption, macro trends that are re-shaping industries, what Artificial Intelligence is and why it’s important, along with examples from the food & liquor industry. For more information about the event, please visit: www.drinkscentral.com.au/4751?Article=network-breakfast-rise-artificial-intelligence

The drinks association is a whole of industry trade association within the Australian drinks industry with the responsibility of informing, strengthening, connecting and promoting for the benefit of their Members and the Australian drinks industry as a whole. For more information about the Drinks Association, please visit: www.drinkscentral.com.au/drinksassociationWelcome

Current customers of Complexica in the food & beverage industry include Metcash, Pernod Ricard, PFD Foods, Costa Group, LMG, & Lion.

If Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around as a concept for 50 years, why is it only becoming prominent now? According to Complexica’s CEO, Matt Michalewicz, the two key drivers have been improvements in business and technology. Businesses have more digitalised processes than in the past, and this has assisted the growth of AI. Technologically, computer power has become cheaper, and the data to train AI is readily available with the explosion of the internet. The capabilities and algorithms of AI have improved to incorporate ‘deep learning’; considering what consumers see and what they say using their natural language, to recognise patterns in how they think. AI and machine learning automates analysis. It makes assumptions, assesses models and re-evaluates data to provide detailed predictions at speed and scale, without human intervention. It learns from itself, with predictions becoming increasingly accurate and more specific over time.

Matt Michalewicz sees the natural areas of AI application to retail as being areas of complexity and high value. These include customer communications personalisation, promotional planning, price optimisation, demand planning and forecasting, and optimising in-store inventory. Rod Pritchard provided an example of how ALM is applying AI. ALM’s retail network numbers 2,700 stores, 1,600 of which are aligned to banners and 1,300 of whom contribute sales data. ALM also has scan data along with other data sources and was finding the challenge not to be an absence of data but rather making meaning of the data already available. .

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Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that the company’s CEO – Matt Michalewicz – was featured in Toll Today, a monthly publication that goes to Toll’s top 200 customers, industry, government and 40,000 employees. Matt was the opening keynote speaker at Toll’s 2019 Future Logistics conference in Melbourne in August, where he presented on the differences between innovation & disruption, macro trends that are driving disruption and re-shaping customer expectations across various industries, the rise of Artificial Intelligence, and how to enable innovation from within and partner across silos, operating units, and businesses to generate greater win-win outcomes.

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