Bank Millennium launches goodie – an innovative smart shopping platform
Bank Millennium has launched goodie – an intuitive smartly designed shopping platform open to all, which was created as an internal start-up. This is another step of the bank in implementation of the innovation strategy. In this new project the bank makes use of such technologies as artificial intelligence, image recognition and geolocation. The goodie platform also draws on the potential of Microsoft cloud computing.
Goodie gathers information about discounts, promotions and new shopping opportunities in shopping centres, online and traditional shops and in restaurants. Users will find shopping inspirations and promotional offers tailored to individual preferences and their specific location (e.g. in selected shopping centres). Goodie is also a new channel for communication of shops and shopping centres with customers, which will help them reach new consumer groups and to offer diversified discounts and special offers.
– The world of finance changes every day. The changes are driven by growing expectations of customers, the dynamic business environment as well as continuous development of technology. This is also why one of the strategic pillars of the bank’s development is now innovation and new technologies. Implementation of this strategy on such a competitive market, with FinTechs, HiTechs and telecoms around, requires us not only to keep developing internet and mobile banking services but also to be open to unconventional solutions. This is why we created an interdisciplinary team of people working together as a start-up. Thus goodie was created – a digital platform offering an ecosystem, in which merchants, customers and the bank through mutual interactions create value for all parties involved – Ricardo Campos, Director of the Electronic Banking Department in Bank Millennium said. – There are many scenarios of development of the sector. Perhaps in the near future banks will become integrators of non-banking services and in this way will find their place in the customer’s digital reality.
Creating goodie saw active involvement of Microsoft. Paweł Matulewicz, Senior Client Director at Microsoft Poland, Financial Services Industry – Working with such an innovative organisation as Bank Millennium is a special privilege. Our job was to help in translating the business concept of goodie to technical components of Microsoft Azure cloud. The purpose of the cooperation was to select the components in such a way so as to shorten the time to launch the app and to use possibly the latest available technologies.
Thanks to Microsoft support it became possible not only to build the platform on safe, flexible and scalable cloud-based infrastructure, but also to implement such functionalities as image recognition, machine learning – based recommendation engine or tools for multimedia management.
The current form of goodie is only the beginning of the project. Its further intensive development is planned i.a. based on such technologies as a chatbot, which chats using natural language.
– Designing and improving goodie we are trying to create new quality on the market i.a. by focusing on convenience of use and quality of the offers available on the platform, as well as creating new and as yet unavailable solutions and functionalities. We want goodie to become an inseparable shopping companion. Despite the development of e-commerce people in Poland still like to shop in shopping centres and thanks to goodie they can use new technologies for that purpose, combining convenience with good deals – Beata Krupińska, Member of the Management Board of goodie explained.
The goodie platform is available as an app for iOS and Android smartphones as well as an innovative internet platform on www.goodie.pl.
Bank Millennium launches goodie – an innovative smart shopping platform
Bank Millennium has launched goodie – an intuitive smartly designed shopping platform open to all, which was created as an internal start-up. This is another step of the bank in implementation of the innovation strategy. In this new project the bank makes use of such technologies as artificial intelligence, image recognition and geolocation. The goodie platform also draws on the potential of Microsoft cloud computing.
Goodie gathers information about discounts, promotions and new shopping opportunities in shopping centres, online and traditional shops and in restaurants. Users will find shopping inspirations and promotional offers tailored to individual preferences and their specific location (e.g. in selected shopping centres). Goodie is also a new channel for communication of shops and shopping centres with customers, which will help them reach new consumer groups and to offer diversified discounts and special offers.
– The world of finance changes every day. The changes are driven by growing expectations of customers, the dynamic business environment as well as continuous development of technology. This is also why one of the strategic pillars of the bank’s development is now innovation and new technologies. Implementation of this strategy on such a competitive market, with FinTechs, HiTechs and telecoms around, requires us not only to keep developing internet and mobile banking services but also to be open to unconventional solutions. This is why we created an interdisciplinary team of people working together as a start-up. Thus goodie was created – a digital platform offering an ecosystem, in which merchants, customers and the bank through mutual interactions create value for all parties involved – Ricardo Campos, Director of the Electronic Banking Department in Bank Millennium said. – There are many scenarios of development of the sector. Perhaps in the near future banks will become integrators of non-banking services and in this way will find their place in the customer’s digital reality.
Creating goodie saw active involvement of Microsoft. Paweł Matulewicz, Senior Client Director at Microsoft Poland, Financial Services Industry – Working with such an innovative organisation as Bank Millennium is a special privilege. Our job was to help in translating the business concept of goodie to technical components of Microsoft Azure cloud. The purpose of the cooperation was to select the components in such a way so as to shorten the time to launch the app and to use possibly the latest available technologies.
Thanks to Microsoft support it became possible not only to build the platform on safe, flexible and scalable cloud-based infrastructure, but also to implement such functionalities as image recognition, machine learning – based recommendation engine or tools for multimedia management.
The current form of goodie is only the beginning of the project. Its further intensive development is planned i.a. based on such technologies as a chatbot, which chats using natural language.
– Designing and improving goodie we are trying to create new quality on the market i.a. by focusing on convenience of use and quality of the offers available on the platform, as well as creating new and as yet unavailable solutions and functionalities. We want goodie to become an inseparable shopping companion. Despite the development of e-commerce people in Poland still like to shop in shopping centres and thanks to goodie they can use new technologies for that purpose, combining convenience with good deals – Beata Krupińska, Member of the Management Board of goodie explained.
The goodie platform is available as an app for iOS and Android smartphones as well as an innovative internet platform on www.goodie.pl.
CMS and DZP advised on the purchase of Sheraton Grand Kraków Hotel
CMS advised Invesco Real Estate, a global investment management firm, on the purchase of Wawel Holding Sp z o.o., the company owning the Sheraton Grand Kraków Hotel.\
DZP advised Algonquin, a pan-European hotel investor and operator , on the sale of Wawel Holding sp. z o.o.
The transaction closed on 28 February 2017for a total value of €70 million.
“The transaction was particularly interesting due to the significance of the Sheraton Grand Krakow Hotel for Krakow’s hospitality market.” said Wojciech Szybkowski and Adriana Andrzejewska from CMS, while Bartosz Marcinkowski and Marcin Kuliński from DZP stressed the complexity of the deal, not unusual in the hotel sector.
CMS’s work was coordinated by Wojciech Szybkowski, partner, and Adriana Andrzejewska, senior associate, working together with Piotr Przybylski, associate in the Real Estate Practice. Małgorzata Urbanska, partner, and Michal Derdak, senior associate, from the CMS Competition team, advised on antitrust clearance for the transaction. Konrad Werner, senior associate, from the Banking and Finance Practice was also involved in the project.
DZP’s work was led by Bartosz Marcinkowski, partner, and Marcin Kuliński, senior associate, assisted by Agata Iżyk, associate, all from DZP’s M&A & Corporate Practice, with key contributions from Magdalena Skowrońska, partner, Paulina Armada-Rudnik, associate, both from DZP’s Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Practice and Joanna Wierzejska, tax partner in DZP’s Tax Practice.
CMS and DZP advised on the purchase of Sheraton Grand Kraków Hotel
CMS advised Invesco Real Estate, a global investment management firm, on the purchase of Wawel Holding Sp z o.o., the company owning the Sheraton Grand Kraków Hotel.\
DZP advised Algonquin, a pan-European hotel investor and operator , on the sale of Wawel Holding sp. z o.o.
The transaction closed on 28 February 2017for a total value of €70 million.
“The transaction was particularly interesting due to the significance of the Sheraton Grand Krakow Hotel for Krakow’s hospitality market.” said Wojciech Szybkowski and Adriana Andrzejewska from CMS, while Bartosz Marcinkowski and Marcin Kuliński from DZP stressed the complexity of the deal, not unusual in the hotel sector.
CMS’s work was coordinated by Wojciech Szybkowski, partner, and Adriana Andrzejewska, senior associate, working together with Piotr Przybylski, associate in the Real Estate Practice. Małgorzata Urbanska, partner, and Michal Derdak, senior associate, from the CMS Competition team, advised on antitrust clearance for the transaction. Konrad Werner, senior associate, from the Banking and Finance Practice was also involved in the project.
DZP’s work was led by Bartosz Marcinkowski, partner, and Marcin Kuliński, senior associate, assisted by Agata Iżyk, associate, all from DZP’s M&A & Corporate Practice, with key contributions from Magdalena Skowrońska, partner, Paulina Armada-Rudnik, associate, both from DZP’s Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Practice and Joanna Wierzejska, tax partner in DZP’s Tax Practice.
Chef António Costa, from Portucale restaurant, featured in Portuguese TV show
Chef António Costa, Head Chef at Portucale Restaurant, a PPCC Member Company was featured in “Portuguese throughout the world”. This show airs on RTP (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal), and consists in interviews with Portuguese expats throughout the world. This particular show was dedicated to Portuguese Chefs working abroad.
Also featured on the show was Manuel Maioral, Atlantika and Portucale co-owner.
We invite to watch the show (in Portuguese), by clicking here, and strongly recommend you to visit Portucale restaurant and try Chef Costa’s fabulous dishes!
DZP Adviser of the Year in prestigious Infrastructure & Construction Diamonds contest
On 8 February in Warsaw INFRASTRUCTURE & CONSTRUCTION DIAMONDS were awarded for the second time. The contest committee awarded Domański Zakrzewski Palinka a prize in the Adviser of the Year category. Prizes were awarded for special achievements in the infrastructure & construction sector.
Statues were presented at a gala concluding the VIII Polish Infrastructure & Construction Conference, sponsored by the Polish Construction Engineers Chamber, the Polish Association of Construction Employers, the General Directorate of National Roads and Motorways, the European Council of Civil Engineers and the International Project Finance Association.
The Infrastructure & Construction Conference organised by the Executive Club is an annual meeting of prominent infrastructure leaders attended by representatives of the largest companies, renowned representatives of the sector from Poland and abroad.
“The Adviser of the Year award is confirmed by the DZP Infrastructure & Energy Practice’s solid position on the legal services market. This success is the outcome of the cooperation and involvement of all the members of our team, which is focused on finding effective solutions to our clients’ problems,” said Marcin Krakowiak, Partner and Head of Practice.
He added, “We would first of all like to thank our clients, who have trusted us to handle their most complex projects and matters, for this outstanding achievement”.
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