retailing
RSS retailing'Cross-border shopping must be made easier'
News The EC has called for cross-border online shopping to be simplified, following research that found six out of 10 shoppers attempting cross-country purchases had their transactions blocked. The European Commission's research found... [26 Oct 2009]
Windows 7 to trump Snow Leopard?
Comment The software has been selling at twice the rate of its predecessor Leopard, although this is hardly surprising given it's been retailing at about $100 less. A revitalised Windows raises the bar for Apple's Snow Leopard,... [20 Oct 2009]
SAS Helps 1-800-Flowers.com Grow Deep Roots With Customers
White Paper 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is one of the best-known and most-successful brands in gift retailing - and it just keeps getting better. The challenge for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM needed to make decisions in real time to increase retention,... [19 Sep 2009]
8 Strategies to Transform the Economics of Retailing
White Paper Through creative strategies, enabled by powerful technology, retailers now have the unprecedented opportunity to transform the economics of their businesses. Download this FREE white paper to learn more about 8 business and technology... [30 Aug 2009]
Data Mining and Homeland Security: An Overview
White Paper Often used as a means for detecting fraud, assessing risk, and product retailing, data mining involves the use of data analysis tools to discover previously unknown, valid patterns and relationships in large data sets. [29 Aug 2009]
Spatial Data Mining for Retail Sales Forecasting
White Paper In particular, the data mining technique Support Vector Regression (SVR) is used to design a regression model to predict probable turnovers for potential outlet-sites of a big European food retailing company. [29 Aug 2009]
METRO Group Pioneers RFID, Reducing Losses Arising From Inaccurate Stock Replenishment in Retail Stores
White Paper METRO Group is one of the most important international retailing companies. The company wanted to reduce the amount of money lost through goods in stores being out of stock or not on shelf but in stock. [26 Jun 2009]
Simon Post
CIO Profile Technology is ever more critical for The Carphone Warehouse which has been expanding its mobile phone retailing remit for some years now and bundles free laptops with its broadband offerings. This is not the first time... [03 Jun 2009]
Making Demand Driven Retail a Reality
White Paper With the accurate single store forecast and calculated time-phased projected orders, and a comprehensive platform incorporating planning, exception processing, and execution, One Network will be instrumental in creating the next Toyota... [22 Apr 2009]
Overstock.com Looks to NeuStar's UltraDNS for Mission-Critical Infrastructure
White Paper Online retailing is extremely competitive. Overstock.com, a popular online closeout retailer, has traditionally hosted its public DNS infrastructure in-house. As a growing number of companies are discovering, however,... [16 Apr 2009]
Co-op Group kicks "server sprawl" into touch
Case Study The Group - whose businesses include food retailing, funeral parlours and financial services - was struggling with a creaking legacy infrastructure consisting of hundreds of servers, each requiring its own maintenance... [14 Apr 2009]
E-tailers: Be choosy overseas
Comment In the UK, the growth of broadband was a key driver in the increase of online retailing. In Saudi there are several barriers to the growth of internet retailing. Last year I wrote a column saying that... [24 Mar 2009]
Microsoft chasing Apple with branded shops
News Microsoft announced plans Thursday to open its own chain of branded stores as it looks to catch up with rival Apple's successful move into retailing. The world's largest software company, which also makes the Xbox video... [13 Feb 2009]
Play.com purchasing system boosted bumper Christmas
News Over the last year, retailing has seen a shift to online, especially over Christmas. A new purchasing platform helped online entertainment retailer Play.com to bumper sales this Christmas. Speaking to silicon.com, the... [27 Jan 2009]
Smartphone wars: Can Windows Mobile ever be sexy?
News If it's retailing at €200 it becomes more of an issue. If a handset is retailing at €450 then the OS licence fee is pretty insignificant. A war is going on in the smartphone market and unless... [16 Jan 2009]
