The ShiSh List

Unified Communications in Retail from Clarity Consulting

shishirs — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:08:39 GMT

Excellent demo of a fully Hosted Customer Interaction Management Platform from Clarity Consulting: http://connect.claritycon.com/...(read more)

Moving from Notes to Microsoft Online

shishirs — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:31:53 GMT

In today's competitive global market, businesses need technology that cost-effectively enables flexibility and adds value to their organization. Business Productivity Online Standard Suite delivers hosted communication and collaboration tools that feature:...(read more)

Microsoft Online Dedicated Service Descriptions

shishirs — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:48:00 GMT

Microsoft Online Services provides dedicated, enterprise-level hosted solutions for e-mail, collaboration, instant messaging and Web conferencing. Services are delivered from a highly reliable network of Microsoft data centers on servers systems dedicated...(read more)

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance Planning Guide

shishirs — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:50:24 GMT

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance Planning Guide version 1.2 is targeted for merchants that accept payment cards, financial institutions that process payment card transactions, and service providers—third-party companies that...(read more)

Retail Industry News Sources that I read

shishirs — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:42:42 GMT

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Will you be attending NRFs Big Show in Jan 2010

shishirs — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:09:03 GMT

The National Retail Federation (NRF) is the world's largest retail trade association with membership that comprises all retail formats and channels of distribution. NRF 2010 is the most influential retailer event of the year. This high profile, in-depth...(read more)

Self Service BI in Retail

shishirs — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:10:10 GMT

I've been in several meetings with retailers where business users and IT have been at odds with each other over business intelligence and reporting. At many of the retailers, I have noticed that business groups tend to own a large part of the Business...(read more)

The latest issue of RetailSpeak is now online in digital format

shishirs — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:52:13 GMT

Look for my article on how retailers can leverage social media on page 41. I would love any feedback, thoughts or potential collaboration on other articles that I am working on around social media and retail....(read more)

Microsoft-Infosys Collaborative Supply Chain Solution

shishirs — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:39:40 GMT

The Infosys-Microsoft Supply Chain Center of Excellence aims to build an active community of supply chain decision makers, professionals and experts. The Center envisions a forum where the community shares supply chain trends, issues, and ideas. Engage...(read more)

Stories about SharePoint in Retail: Specialty Retailer Smoothes Operations for Improved Productivity and Future Profits

shishirs — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:32:56 GMT

Jamba Juice—a leading provider of healthy, on-the-go food and beverages—viewed the economic slowdown as an opportunity to assess its operations and improve efficiencies. The company decided to invest in integrated technology tools that would help its...(read more)

Stories about SharePoint in Retail: Craft Brewer Stays Connected with its Sales Force

shishirs — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:31:17 GMT

New Belgium Brewing, one of the most innovative and fastest-growing craft brewers in the United States, has long used information technology to help meet its commitments to environmental stewardship, employee empowerment, and the bottom line. To help...(read more)

Stories about SharePoint in Retail: Major Tire Company Adopts Collaboration System with Faster Search

shishirs — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:28:06 GMT

With over 5,500 employees at its corporate head office and 475 retail outlets nationwide, Canadian Tire was looking to refresh its Intranet site known as inTIREnet. The pre-existing site, hosted on a Lotus platform, was visually cluttered and staff complained...(read more)

Subscribe to the RSS Feed for Retail Case Studies

shishirs — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:30:04 GMT

The Case Studies website is at http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/ and is a great source for stories on how organizations solved challenging situations using Microsoft technology. Filtering on Retail Industry enables you to have a look at Retail Industry...(read more)

Technical Case Study: Supply-Chain Management Platform Supports Seamless Partner Collaboration

shishirs — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:47:12 GMT

This is an excellent whitepaper for understanding the challenges and solution for Supply Chain Collaboration as implemented by the Entertainment and Devices (EDD) division in Microsoft. EDD leverages a complex supply chain of over 300 partners, suppliers,...(read more)

Social Enabling Shopping Sites

shishirs — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:59:32 GMT

Shopping is undeniably a social activity. As more retailers realize the need to embrace social media, they're also recognizing that there are key loyalty differences between online and offline retail behavior: in the online world, retailers have to deal...(read more)