Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 22 | Page 30

LATEST INTELLIGENCE LATEST REGIONAL PROJECT UPDATE UK In its quest to revolutionise how the world accesses coffee, Costa Coffee, a leading provider of premium quality drinks, alongside Eseye, the UK-based industrial IoT connectivity specialist, have announced a new partnership to enable Costa Express to deploy IoT-enabled vending machines around the world. SPAIN Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, and El Corte Inglés – the biggest department store group in Europe and Spain’s only remaining department store chain – have jointly announced that they are working together to accelerate El Corte Inglés’ Digital Transformation process with Alibaba Cloud’s Artificial Intelligence and cloud-driven retail solutions. 30 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com