article thumbnail

Securing the Digital-First Model for Retail

CIO Business Intelligence

Retailers continue to adopt a digital-first approach to customer experience, both in-store and online. To meet the customer demands of a digital-first business model, retailers need to address their critical digital infrastructure and rethink network design and cybersecurity. Retail-specific vulnerabilities.

Retail 97
article thumbnail

Why business resilience depends on software agility

CIO Business Intelligence

In a world where companies are defined by the digital services they can deliver, software agility IS business agility, and in turn results in better business outcomes. The complexity of today’s digital systems has multiple points of friction that need to be addressed if we are to achieve true business agility.

Agile 95
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The fast track to intelligent retail modernization with TCS and Microsoft Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Retail organizations face an urgent need to accelerate digital transformation efforts in response to economic insecurity, persistent inflation, and growing consumer price sensitivity. With cloud adoption, retailers have been successful and with emerging artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities on cloud, they can break the barriers.

Retail 82
article thumbnail

Retail innovation playbook: Fast, economical transformation on Microsoft Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

All this while retailers are still dealing with pandemic-related disruptions to supply chains and consumer shopping habits. To win back consumers and protect profit margins, retailers need to optimize operations across the enterprise. Delays in getting data is one of the biggest challenges retailers currently face.”

Retail 82
article thumbnail

Top 10 Strategic CIO Priorities For 2020

CTOvision

For example, listen to how Sally Gilligan, CIO of clothing retailer Gap Inc., Read Rob Preston list 10 strategic priorities for CIOs for 2020 on Forbes : Speed. Innovation. Automation. These are the words leading CIOs keep coming back to when explaining their technology, business, and organizational priorities.

Agile 168
article thumbnail

Tractor Supply enlists AI to deliver ‘legendary’ customer service

CIO Business Intelligence

The rural lifestyle retailer, with more than 2,200 stores across the US, caters to the needs of rural residents with a wide variety of products on its shelves. The tech team is extremely agile.” It’s still difficult, although not impossible, to calculate the return on investment for AI use in retail, she says. Tractor Supply Co.

Retail 105
article thumbnail

The Role of SD-WAN in Securing the Expanding Network Perimeter

CIO Business Intelligence

More recently, SD-WAN has emerged as a key component for building more flexible, integrated security frameworks. Corporate devices can access the Internet via multiple endpoints, adding a layer of complexity to network security. Without SD-WAN, application-specific security for cloud-based applications can be complicated and expensive.

WAN 85