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XP SP3 throws off AMD machines

News The company had to delay the release of the XP update after discovering at the 11th hour an incompatibility with Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, a retail chain management program for SMEs.

Tags: windows, sp3, xp

[14 May 2008]

Virgin Retail Saves 8.5 Hours a Week in Each Store With New Stock Solution

whitepaper Virgin Retail is a United Kingdom (U.K.success story. After researching a number of systems on the market, Virgin Retail chose Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 and worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Xavor to deploy the solution at its...

Tags: application servers

[14 May 2008]

Croatia-Based Oil Firm Enhances Operations, Achieves 100 Per Cent Accurate Retail Data

whitepaper Established in 1964, the company employs more than 15,000 people at its regional offices, and gas and retail stores. Until 2006, INA business and marketing teams relied on the sales data provided by gas and retail stores to manage stock and plan...

Tags: application servers

[14 May 2008]

New File Standard Is a Perfect Fit for Fashion House

whitepaper Paul Smith is one of the United Kingdom's most respected and commercially successful fashion houses, with retail stores as far afield as Tokyo, Paris and New York. At the beginning of 2007, Bingham started researching the likely future of file...

Tags: xml

[14 May 2008]

Korean Fashion and Discount Retailer Deploys 4 Terabyte Database on SQL Server 2005

whitepaper Based in Seoul, Korea, E.Land Group's Retail Division has become a major force in fashion and discount retailing, partly through its expertise in brand management and merchandising. E.Land Group has four product lines that it sells through 93 of...

Tags: monitoring systems

[14 May 2008]

IBM and MarCole Use 21st Century Technology to Speed Sales of Products Handmade in 19th Century Farmhouse

whitepaper For more than 20 years, MacKenzie-Childs has enjoyed an increasing business of creating handmade enamelware, ceramics, glassware, furniture and home accessories sold through its own retail stores and catalogue and at selected upscale retailers...

Tags: infrastructure management

[14 May 2008]

SAS Data Integration Server Performance on IBM Mainframe Running z/OS

whitepaper The SAS Data Integration benchmark scenario provides several retail-based tests and data that simulate real-world customer ETL processes. SAS and IBM have begun a series of performance test efforts of SAS products on z/OS.

Tags: application servers

[14 May 2008]

Ice Cream Shops Serve Up Super Server Reliability With One Directory "Flavor"

whitepaper The company operates more than 530 company and franchised restaurants and sells its ice cream through more than 4,500 retail locations. Since 1935, families in the northeastern United States have visited Friendly's restaurants for delicious hot...

Tags: netware

[14 May 2008]

Virgin Megastores Opens Music and Video Vault to Customers With New Digital Kiosk

whitepaper Seeking to lower life cycle costs for the device, Virgin selected Microsoft Windows Embedded for Point of Service, a retail-optimized operating system designed for easy setup, use, and service. Since its inception, Virgin Megastores has been viewed...

Tags: embedded systems

[14 May 2008]

I-Power and SAP Unite to Develop SAP NetWeaver Based Solutions

whitepaper With SAP now an ubiquitous part of enterprise systems in the manufacturing, retail, financial and government sectors, Chia concluded that SAP NetWeaver based solutions would play a key role in bringing I-Power to the next level of growth.

Tags: business intelligence - data warehousing

[14 May 2008]

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment After that she headed up project delivery for the bank's retail ecommerce business at the height of the dot com boom as well as a special project looking at the future of the financial services industry for the bank.

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

Is Your WLAN Putting Your PCI Compliance at Risk?

whitepaper PCI compliance is mandatory for all merchants that store, process or transmit credit card data through retail stores, mail order, telephone order and online sites. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard was created in 2004 by major...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Will consumers always want free banking?

Comment Because of the court case, consumers can expect greater transparency in bank charges, which will further increase competition in an already highly competitive retail banking market. The High Court has decided consumer contract law can be used to...

Tags: oft, free banking

[12 May 2008]

Bank Asya Accelerates ETL Processes by 400%

whitepaper Bank Asya provides a wide range of banking products and services to retail, corporate and commercial customers in Turkey. Bank Asya wanted to integrate multiple databases to create a single customer view and implement a platform-independent tool to...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[11 May 2008]

Wireless LAN Security Best Practices and PCI Compliance

whitepaper With a naturally mobile workforce, industries including retail, hospitality, gaming and restaurants were among the first to realize that a real-time network connection for roaming employees could bring greater efficiency.

Tags: wireless lan

[10 May 2008]

Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is to sell 50 per cent of its retail business to US retail giant Best Buy for £1.1bn - and plans to use the cash to grow its broadband business. Carphone Warehouse, which operates the 'free' broadband brand...

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

Childnet helps parents get web savvy

Case Study The best solution was to distribute a CD-ROM through schools.copies have been distributed through schools and another 200,000 have been pre-loaded onto PCs sold through the PC World retail chain. Internet awareness charity Childnet International...

Tags: parents, children, education

[08 May 2008]

Microsoft - halted Vista, XP updates resumed

News A week ago, Microsoft delayed the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a problem that could lead to data loss when running the XP update in conjunction with its Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System program.

Tags: windows, microsoft, xp, vista

[07 May 2008]

IT spend in retail slowing down?

News IT spending growth in the retail sector appears to have faltered, with many retailers trying to do more with the same money, according to the latest IT in Retail report. The report, now in its sixth year, is published by Martec International in...

Tags: online retail, torex

[07 May 2008]

Retail Services Provider Deploys 2.2-Terabyte Data Warehouse to Better Serve Clients

whitepaper Acosta provides retail sales and category management services to more than 1,000 manufacturers, including giants such as Clorox, Heinz, and Nestle. With offices in more than 60 cities in the United States and Canada, Acosta provides its services...

Tags: application servers

[06 May 2008]

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