Operate Smarter, Leaner Businesses with BI
Industry experts explain why business intelligence analytics help retailers endure a down economy and prepare for any holiday shopping season.
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The Millennial March into Retail
Millennials’ need to be heard, combined with their natural affinity for technology, is having far-reaching implications. As both their employers and their favorite place to spend, retailers must prepare for their impact.
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Leverage Technologies to Improve Performance
How retailers better leverage technology in today’s difficult and changing economic environment.
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Retail Industry Trends & Emerging Technologies – 2009
In 2009 retailers were reeling from an economic crash. Many retailers were curbing their IT investments as a survival tactic, but most leading-edge retailers viewed this as a time to further invest in an effort to steal market share. T
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Retailers Undergo Summer Makeover
Facing a tough economic climate, some packaged-media retailers are upgrading stores, displays, and product selections in an effort to improve customer satisfaction and transform back-to-school shoppers into fourth-quarter regulars.
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Empowered Consumers
Consumers’ newfound power stems from their ability, and increasing willingness, to walk away from retailers when their experience disappoints them. There isn’t necessarily the desire for loyalty anymore, and many consumers have taken a “What have you done for me lately” attitude.
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Microsoft’s Retail Innovation Outlook
Microsoft PressPass speaks with David Gruehn about the latest retail technology innovations at NRF’s Big Show 2007: Setting Retail in Motion.
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Retail Systems 2006: The CIO Summit
The CIO panel session at the Retail Systems 2006 trade show featured a candid, enlightening panel discussion among some of the industry’s top technology leaders.
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The Connected Customer
The retail industry is about to embark on yet another paradigm shift driven by consumer mobility.
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Betting on Microsoft Activestore
In the late ’90s Microsoft began making a play to make their Windows operating system and development tools a prominent player in the retail industry. I piloted their Activestore development environment while at Gadzooks in January 1999.
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