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Well you might be wondering where I disappeared since last year. I haven’t gone far from Retail, in fact I am now part of the innovative SmackShopping team. If you have not heard of it, please check out SmackShopping which is a unique way to buy products.
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ARTS (Association of Retail Technology Standards) is hosting the Retail Technology Summit 2007 in Brussles, Belgium on October 18th 2007. It is a good conference if you want to understand ARTS work in the Retail XML space and also to learn about SOA (Service
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I know its been a while since my last post. Unfortunately I was suffering with flu for a week. It was a nasty one which knocked me out for a week. Anyway's, lets get back to the topic on hand. During my tour of Indian retailers what I found is they have
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As I said in July, I spent 4 weeks in India. It was a great trip, mainly a personal one however I did take out some time to do some official work as well. I had the pleasure to visit Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai. Across all the metros, two
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There is an excellent interview with Kishore Biyani who is considered to be King of Indian retail. He recently spoke at the Indian Retail Forum. He is the founder of the Indian Retail chain, "big Bazaar", which is really doing well. According to him 2009
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PCI DSS deadlines are looming right around the corner. Retailers in general are rushing to get the compliance just in time to avoid any penalties. This just shows the importance and criticality of PCI in retail. It has become a huge business and security
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I'll be on vacation for next month, so you'll most likely not see much from me. While on vacation I'll be checking out the new phenomenon in India known as "Retail Boom'. From what I read India is going through a massive transition from the unorgnized
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I was at a roundtable discussion with some 20+ retaile VPs and CTOs. It was a very lively and interesting discussion. We were talking about challenges faced by the retailers in the stores. These were the top challenges in the stores, How to improve morale
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With the resurrection of internet bubble once again, which is affectionately called Web 2.0. There has been increasing focus on services. Everyone is talking about services, how they will revolutionalize the software industry, etc. In my humble opinion
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Recently I heard from my Chinese counterparts and they showed strong interest in my blog. They wanted to translate it to Chinese for local architects due to the demand. I'm very happy and honored to hear that and wanted to express my appreciation to you
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Microsoft today announced the availability of Office Business Application (OBA) Reference Architecture Pack (RAP) for Health Plans , also known as Consumer Engagement Reference Architecture (CERA) There is a white paper and two different presentation
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I don't mean to say PCI DSS regulation was on fine, but rather the session I was in, got fired down. As I indicated earlier I was on a panel discussion about PCI DSS at the ERIeChange conference in Boston. There were about 6 panelists and it was moderated
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PCI DSS is a hot topic. Every where you turn there are panel discussions, forums, sessions, surveys and solutions to deal with it. Yet, there seems to be lots of confusion and dilemma by the retailers to comply. I think the key to getting compliant is
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Microsoft today released an Office Business Applicaion (OBA) Reference Architecture Pack (RAP) for Price Management . This is a critical area in the industry and many enterprises struggle with communicating the pricing rules to their sales field. Price
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Earlier this week Association for Retail Technology Standards announced that it has launched the SOA Blueprint for Retail project, a program that will provide retail businesses with specific guidelines and best practices for implementing a service-oriented
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