Vending

Gimme moves to Google Cloud to improve vending operations

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March 16, 2022

Gimme, a provider of vending and retail software solutions, will migrate to Google Cloud to enable its vending management software to help warehouse staff and route drivers maintain accurate product inventories, according to a press release.

The migration, which will improve efficiencies and increase data handling to provide a better customer experience, will include:

• BigQuery. A serverless, scalable, multi-cloud data warehouse with built-in machine learning capabilities designed for business agility to provide Gimme customers faster report loading and seamless integrations, as well as third-party reporting tools.
• Managed DevOps. This will provide higher long-term uptime and stability.
• Google Kubernetes Engine. An open-source container orchestration system will automate computer application deployment, scaling and management.

"This move also allows us to use other Google Cloud products along our path of computer vision development, expanding the use of AI across our platform and increasing the speed in our data handling — which is a win for both us and our customer base," Cory Hewett, co-founder and CEO of Gimme, said in the press release

Designed to provide an easy transition from legacy VMS systems, Gimme VMS implements AI and computer vision to increase sales from optimized merchandising at the point of sale and reduce stockouts.