NRF 07
I attended the Retail's BIG Show 2007 today at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in NY. The session started off with a keynote by Steve Ballmer. The Seattle Times covered the keynote today (link). The show was impressive and well attended as usual.
Highlights:
- Checked out interesting solutions based on Microsoft Platform, Sharepoint and Office:
- Accruents Real Estate Performance Management Solutions: This is an interesting solution based on Virtual Earth, Sharepoint 2007, Office 2007, .Net 3.0, WPF, Vista.
- K2 Workflow Software: Workflow software for Sharepoint that enables you to create complex workflow processes using drag and drop solution assembly.
- Akona Systems Store Execution Management System: This solution is built on Sharepoint and enables HQ to assign, monitor and manage tasks across stores.
- Wipro's Store Manager Workbench: This is a Sharepoint based solution designed to provide Store Managers with critical operational information in real time.
- SysRepublic's Real Time Retail Solutions including the Fraud Detection Framework: Tesco reported an estimated 725% ROI in the first year of operation.
- Microsoft Dynamics Point of Sale 2.0 for single store operations.
- Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System for small and mid market retailers.
- Getting Retail Organizations People-ready.
- Interview with David Gruehn, U.S. industry solutions director for Microsoft’s Retail & Hospitality Group.
- Microsoft and Terradata Collaborate: Microsoft Corp. and Teradata, a division of NCR Corp., today announced they are working together to optimize interoperability between Microsoft® business intelligence solutions and the Teradata® Enterprise Data Warehouse to help information workers gain access to, analyze and report on critical data more quickly, and help streamline the delivery of business intelligence applications.