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May 16, 2013
Swedish retailer taps Starcounter to power supply chain management application

Starcounter announced that its high performance in-memory NoSQL database powers the supply chain management application utilized by Gekas, a superstore in Sweden visited by 4.5 million customers each year.

Stockholm, Sweden -- Starcounter announced that its high performance in-memory NoSQL database powers the supply chain management application utilized by Gekas, a superstore in Sweden visited by 4.5 million customers each year. With 100,000 different products in stock and all items in its warehouse sold out more than three times per week, Gekas uses the low-cost system from Heads, a real-time retail application vendor, to integrate and streamline its entire supply chain, from procurement and its central warehouse to customer sales.
 

April 15, 2013
Harnessing Data Through Integrated Business Services Structure

By Paul Jeruchimowitz, Accenture

By Paul Jeruchimowitz, paul.e.jeruchimowitz@accenture.com

April 3, 2013
Wake Up, Retailers! Make Money From Your Big Data

By Greg Munves, 1010data

By Greg Munves, greg@1010data.com

If you’re like many mid-level or tier one retailers, online or brick-and-mortar, you’ve probably made a significant investment in Big Data, capturing and analyzing customer buying patterns across your business. You may not realize, however, that this huge IT investment can actually be a profit center, if you sell your data back upstream to your suppliers.
 

April 1, 2013
Container Store selects Talend Data to automate processes

Talend said Monday that The Container Store is deploying Talend Enterprise Data Integration to simplify, standardize and move data across multiple platforms.

Los Altos, Calif. -- Talend said Monday that The Container Store is deploying Talend Enterprise Data Integration to simplify, standardize and move data across multiple platforms.

With Talend, The Container Store now has cross-platform standardization, improved development times and automated processes that were previously done manually.

March 25, 2013
‘Big Data’ in HR Can Improve Retailers’ Profits

By Jason Taylor, Ph.D., PeopleAnswers

By Jason Taylor, Ph.D., jtaylor@peopleanswers.com

January 14, 2013
Hibbett Sports selects QuantiSense to improve local assortments

Retail analytics firm QuantiSense announced that Hibbett Sports has selected the QuantiSense Decision Orchestration Platform for its enterprise business intelligence solution.

Atlanta -- Retail analytics firm QuantiSense announced Monday that Hibbett Sports has selected the QuantiSense Decision Orchestration Platform for its enterprise business intelligence solution.

Hibbett Sports needed a single foundation for enterprise business intelligence that could satisfy current merchandising and store operations requirements and expand to other departments over time.
 

October 25, 2012
Focus on: Next-Generation Business Intelligence

Eager to make more effective business decisions, many retailers are reevaluating their business intelligence strategies. With a renewed focus on breaking down enterprise-wide silos, retailers are making a move to the next generation of BI, which includes giving line and store managers access to predictive analytics tools and multifunctional views of data.

October 25, 2012
Transparent Enterprise BI

Making better business decisions requires retailers to break down silos between company divisions, and deliver scalable predictive tools that allow managers enterprise-wide to sift through mission-critical information.

Chain Store Age talked with Andrea Morgan-Vandome, VP retail strategy and solution marketing, Oracle Retail, about the importance of business intelligence (BI).

What is the biggest change today related to retail analytics and BI? 

October 22, 2012
Japanese department store chain selects Teradata retail analytics

Analytic data solution-provider Teradata said that Takashimaya Co. has completed deployment of a Teradata data warehousing environment to serve as the primary data analytics system for centrally housing and managing its product and customer information.

Tokyo -- Analytic data solution-provider Teradata said Monday that Takashimaya Co. has completed deployment of a Teradata data warehousing environment to serve as the primary data analytics system for centrally housing and managing its product and customer information.

Takashimaya is one of the world's largest chains of department stores, and is the nucleus of the Takashimaya Group worldwide.

September 26, 2012
Beyond Sweaters and Ballet Shoes

By Sean Jackson, Actian

By Sean Jackson, Sean.Jackson@actian.com

In recent weeks, there have been some well-publicised examples of retail giants whose financial performance has been severely impacted by breakdowns in the supply chain. As salt in the wound to these behemoths of retail, there are just as many examples of organizations that have exceeded market expectations due to an ability to behave nimbly and respond quickly to changes in consumer demand.

October 18, 2011
Oracle to acquire Endeca Technologies

Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca Technologies, Cambridge, Mass., which provides an unstructured data management, web commerce and business intelligence technologies.

Redwood Shores, Calif. -- Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca Technologies, Cambridge, Mass., which provides an unstructured data management, web commerce and business intelligence technologies.

June 13, 2011
Chain Store Age webinar with Best Buy

Chain Store Age will hold a Webinar on Tuesday, June 14, at 2 p.m., ET (11 am PT) on how Best Buy has streamlined its business with the help of a master data management solution from IBM. Register today and take a chance to win a free iPad.

New York City -- Chain Store Age will hold a Webinar on Tuesday, June 14, at 2 p.m., ET (11 am PT) on how Best Buy has streamlined its business with the help of a master data management solution from IBM. Register today and take a chance to win a free iPad.

Learn from Best Buy how the company has realized several advantages, including ensuring that data is accurate and consistent across all selling channels and improved the customer experience across the same, by deploying the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) solution.

May 9, 2011
Business Intelligence Report

Find out how an integrated analytics model is driving retail success.

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May 3, 2011
CSA survey details retailers’ business intelligence capabilities

Clarity and ease of use are sticky points for retailers when it comes to implementing business intelligence, according to a recent survey on BI in retail by Chain Store Age.

New York City -- Clarity and ease of use are sticky points for retailers when it comes to implementing business intelligence, according to a recent survey on BI in retail by Chain Store Age. 

April 29, 2011
CSA survey details retailers’ BI capabilities

New York City -- Clarity and ease of use are sticky points for retailers when it comes to implementing business intelligence, according to a recent survey on BI in retail by Chain Store Age.

February 14, 2011
Helzberg Diamonds selects Information Builder’s BI platform

Information Builders, a provider of business intelligence solutions, announced that Helzberg Diamonds has standardized on the WebFocus BI platform to provide advanced analysis and reporting capabilities to managers at 230 stores across the United States.

New York City -- Information Builders, a provider of business intelligence solutions, announced that Helzberg Diamonds has standardized on the WebFocus BI platform to provide advanced analysis and reporting capabilities to managers at 230 stores across the United States.

January 26, 2011
Customer Growth Partners projects 5.1% retail growth in 2011

The retail industry will grow by 5.1% in 2011, the strongest growth in four years, according to Customer Growth Partners’ 2011 Forecast and Outlook.

New Canaan, Conn. -- The retail industry will grow by 5.1% in 2011, the strongest growth in four years, according to Customer Growth Partners’ 2011 Forecast and Outlook. The New Canaan, Conn.-based consulting and research firm projects that the industry will create over half a million new jobs in 2010, the most of any employment sector, and that retail sales will reach a record level of almost $2.9 trillion.

January 14, 2011
CSN enhances shopping experience with IBM data warehouse tool

CSN Stores, the third largest online retailer of home goods in the United States, has selected IBM's Netezza TwinFin appliance to quickly mine and analyze terabytes of business data flowing through the company every day.

Armonk, N.Y. -- CSN Stores, the third largest online retailer of home goods in the United States, has selected IBM's Netezza TwinFin appliance to quickly mine and analyze terabytes of business data flowing through the company every day.

The new tool will power CSN's business analytics platform to monitor trends related to profitability, customer satisfaction, customer retention, order fulfillment and supply chain. The company will use the data to drive organic growth initiatives and discover new ways to better serve their customers.

December 1, 2010
Unlocking Analytics in the Grocery Channel: How to Connect Data to Decisions and Reconnect with Consumers

Chain Store Age recently conducted a survey of leading grocery executives ...

Chain Store Age recently conducted a survey of leading grocery executives to find out how the industry perceives analytics and how they are using analytics models in key operational areas such as forecasting, price optimization, space planning, and customer marketing.

September 19, 2010
IBM to acquire Netezza for $1.7 billion

IBM said Monday it will acquire Marlborough, Mass.-based business analytics company Netezza Corp. for approximately...

August 30, 2010
Navy Exchange selects QuantiSense for retail analytics, business intelligence

QuantiSense announced that the Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) has selected its retail analytic and...

June 17, 2010
Ripley Chile selects Manthan Systems merchandising system

Business intelligence and analytics solution-provider Manthan Systems said Friday that Ripley Chile has selected its...

May 25, 2010
British retailer adopts Attunity Federate to reduce costs, enable retail-time business intelligence

Attunity Ltd., a leading provider of real-time data integration and event capture software, announced that...

January 12, 2010
Netezza’s retail analytic appliance premiers at NRF 2010

etezza Corp., the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances, announced the Netezza Retail...

October 19, 2009
Home Depot selects Teradata enterprise solution

Teradata Corp. said Tuesday that The Home Depot has selected the data warehousing and enterprise...