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Future Of Retail: Applying 2019 Business Insights (BI) Predictions To Retail

Forrester IT

To help retailers and brands plan for 2019, Researcher Claudia Tajima and I are interviewing experts within Forrester for our series, “Applying 2019 Predictions To Retail.” Last week, we spoke to Emily Collins about how loyalty trends will affect retailers this year. This week, Claudia interviewed Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.

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Cloud Powers Retail Through The Economic Slowdown

Forrester IT

You can find The State Of Cloud In Retail, 2023 on the Forrester website now. Unlike more highly regulated industries like healthcare and financial services, retail has leaned on cloud heavily since the early days to power blazing-fast websites […]

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Network-as-a-service lets a shoe retailer take steps toward Zero Trust

Network World

Nigel Williams-Lucas, director of Information Technology at Maryland-based footwear retailer DTLR, faced a challenge that most IT execs will recognize: the business was pushing hard on digital transformation, and the IT infrastructure was struggling to keep pace.

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AI at the retail edge: What’s new, and what’s coming soon

CIO Business Intelligence

Simultaneously, increases in compute power have made it easier to implement AI use cases at the retail edge. That’s a perfect opportunity for some long-awaited retail use cases to turn prime time. RFID has several other beneficial uses in clothing retail.

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Tibco: Business intelligence and analytics provider

CTOvision

Their solutions have served business users, including the more advanced statisticians and data scientists but also the average user. We track Tibco in our Disruptive IT Directory in the category of Business Intelligence and Analytics Companies. For more info see Tibco.com.

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Payment-processing outages at UK retailers raise reliability issues for cashless transactions

CIO Business Intelligence

Payment-processing failures at several high-profile retail brands in the UK over the past week disrupted on-site customer service and stirred speculation about the cause of the outages. The larger the merchant, the more complex it could be. I suspect the forensics will be done and someone will figure out where responsibility lies.”

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Supercharging retail with AI: Blending commerce and lifestyle

CIO Business Intelligence

Global events and changing consumer behaviors in the digital era are causing retailers to look toward the future with concern. In 2024, these pressures will drive businesses increasingly to ask: How can I increase sales without raising overhead? AI is set to level up the retail landscape.

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