August 2006 - Posts
Click Here Date: Tuesday August 29, 2006 Time: 2:00 pm ET/11:00 am PT Duration: 1 hour
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From Defining a good retail service experience is a challenge...especially in the store of the future. Find out how emerging technologies will translate into consumer satisfaction in the coming years, and why the cost-benefit analysis of certain technologies
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Market Basket Analysis is an algorithm that examines a long list of transactions in order to determine which items are most frequently purchased together. It takes its name from the idea of a person in a supermarket throwing all of their items into a
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From Without utilizing the powers of analytics, the ROIon the large amounts of data collected will always be suboptimal. Analytics goes beyond the preformatted logic in BI tools by analyzing the problem in a given context and then using as large an element
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I received an email today from the RainMaker Group with information of their offering for the Retail Industry: Accelerated Analytics , a Point of Sale data analysis tool. Retailers and suppliers have struggled for years with working together to optimize
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From It looks almost like any other shopping cart, except sensors allow it to follow the shopper around the supermarket and slow down when needed so items can be placed in it, and it never crashes into anyone's heels. Gregory Garcia dreamed up the robotic
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Microsoft has partnered with luminaries from academia and industry to develop exclusive thought-leadership and best-practice insights delivered through unique experiences, resources and connections : Efficiency is Overrated Delighting customers is just
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If asked, many retail executives cannot fully quantify the effect one department’s actions and activities have on another within their particular enterprise. This unfortunate situation is a consequence of a company having multiple sets of business analytics,
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A planogram is a diagram of fixtures and products that illustrates how and where retail products should be displayed, usually on a store shelf in order to increase customer purchases. A planogram is often received before a product reaches a store, and
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Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. is taking impulse shopping one step farther with technology that allows passersby to purchase clothing they see in the windows of one of its New York stores by tapping on the glass. From SelfService.Org A projector beams the images
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Lowe's has hired Acorn Systems , a profit solution provider, which the retailer said it will use to make "faster" and "more effective" business decisions, regarding costs and profits. Acorn's Microsoft-based platform meets the scale and speed needed for
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Beyond the confines of your cube is a big world. It's full of charities waiting to benefit from a technology solution designed by you. Help an organization that's close to your heart (maybe one you started). Or search for a cause near home or across the
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Videos 2007 Office System Video: Windows SharePoint Services Platform Download this series of developer-oriented videos to view conference breakout sessions that give you the comprehensive baseline needed 2007 Office System Video: Collaboration Download
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A new kind of floor covering has been invented at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan that determines the weight, age, and sex of the individuals strolling across. Aside from allowing hiring managers to make snap
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