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Sharepoint Conference 2008
The Microsoft SharePoint Conference will be held from March 2-6, 2008 at the Washington State Trade...
Author: S h i S h Date: 09/12/2007
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Shipped
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 builds upon the Business Process Management and SOA/ESB capabilities in prior...
Author: S h i S h Date: 09/12/2007
Mobile Coupons
Cellfire is a pretty neat way of accessing all the offers and coupons using a device that you carry...
Author: S h i S h Date: 09/11/2007
Mobile Shopping Lists
Wouldnt it be cool to have a shopping list that can be shared by everyone in the family and can be...
Author: S h i S h Date: 09/11/2007
SOA in Retail
The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) announced that it has launched the SOA...
Author: S h i S h Date: 09/07/2007
Mobile Retail Applications
Retail applications targeted at phones are far more accessible by a larger percentage of people...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/14/2007
Build OBA Solutions for Retail
The 2007 Microsoft Office system provides a comprehensive set of servers, clients, and tools to make...
Author: S h i S h Date: 07/24/2007
Environmental Sustainability
“Going green” is a hot issue in retail today and many retailers are getting in on the action....
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/28/2007
Pay By Voice
A new service, Voice Pay, lets users pay using Voice Recognition. The service uses biometric voice...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/21/2007
Net Usage Index for Retail
Akamai has an interesting site that enables users to monitor the world's online retail habits 24 x...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/12/2007
Wikis in Sharepoint
Figure 1 A Wiki, which in the Hawaiian language means “quick”, is a website that allows visitors to...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/31/2007
BI Virtual Labs
Try out a business intelligence virtual lab to test out the technology stack that Microsoft has...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/31/2007
Content from the BI Conference
Re-visit all the news, podcasts, webcasts, demos and other events at the first-ever BI Conference in...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/31/2007
WEPOS Interview on Channel 9
Interesting interview with the WEPOS team on Channel 9. This interview also covers writing...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/08/2007
RFID in Biztalk
For manufacturers and retailers, the business benefits of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) are...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/02/2007
Mobility in Retail
Articles covering Mobility in Retail: Beyond Wireless E-mail: Retailers are empowering roving...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/01/2007
Another interesting way to shop
ShopText provides a new way to impulse buy: using text messages from your phone. Ive always been...
Author: S h i S h Date: 04/24/2007
Retail Industry OBAs
Microsoft Office 2007 is a great application development platform that enables users to continue...
Author: S h i S h Date: 04/12/2007
Achieving Technology-Enabled Customer Centricity in the Store
Achieving Technology-Enabled Customer Centricity in the Store May 2, 2007The Four Seasons,...
Author: S h i S h Date: 04/12/2007
Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 in Retail
District sales managers and store managers spend a great deal of time on the phone—store managers...
Author: S h i S h Date: 04/10/2007
WPF/E for Point of Sale Devices
Interesting video on Tina Wood's blog about how Jeremy Mazner and David Shadle along with the Frog...
Author: S h i S h Date: 03/31/2007
Data Visualization for SharePoint using Dundas Charts
I just downloaded and installed the Dundas Chart for Sharepoint which is currently in Beta. I love...
Author: S h i S h Date: 03/10/2007
Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference
May 9-11, 2007 Seattle, WA Join us for the first-ever Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference...
Author: S h i S h Date: 03/10/2007
OTTO presents the next generation of online 3D shopping with Microsoft Windows Vista
At the NRF 07, I got a chance to look at the OTTO Store Application, a virtual store built using...
Author: S h i S h Date: 03/10/2007
WebCast: Empower Your Employees Through Information: The Business Intelligence Story
Event: Empower Your Employees Through Information: The Business Intelligence Story Date and Time:...
Author: S h i S h Date: 03/10/2007
Online Shopping Visualization
Online retail spending topped the $100 billion mark last year. According to comScore, the top ten...
Author: S h i S h Date: 02/23/2007
Webinar focused on BI in Retail
What: Webinar Focused on BI in Retail When: February 20th - 11 a.m. PST, 2 a.m. EST Who: Rob Garf –...
Author: S h i S h Date: 02/14/2007
WSS 3.0 Application Templates for Retail
Forty new application templates are scheduled to be made available soon for WSS 3.0. Among these...
Author: S h i S h Date: 01/22/2007
Shopping with Concierge
Integrated into the shopping cart handle, Concierge is an interactive touch-screen computer that...
Author: S h i S h Date: 01/22/2007
Interesting Signage Concept
The Jeep Waterfall is a 25-foot-high sheet of falling water that can display arbitrary bitmaps in...
Author: S h i S h Date: 01/20/2007
Windows Vista SideShow
Windows Vista SideShow technology enables laptop manufacturers to include a secondary or auxiliary...
Author: S h i S h Date: 01/18/2007
NFC in Retail
NFC (Near Field Communication) technology provides simplicity and ease of use. End users or...
Author: S h i S h Date: 01/18/2007
NRF 07
I attended the Retail's BIG Show 2007 today at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in NY. The session...
Author: S h i S h Date: 01/15/2007
Workforce Management using Data Mining
Wal-Mart unveils its new plan for a flexible workforce; the new plan will schedule workers to follow...
Author: S h i S h Date: 01/04/2007
Robot Cell Phone Retailer
The Age from Australia reports that a japanese job referral company has started renting out robots...
Author: S h i S h Date: 12/02/2006
Photo2Search for visual searches
Searching for information using images/photos will soon be a reality with the project that Microsoft...
Author: S h i S h Date: 11/29/2006
In-Store intelligence using VideoMining
VideoMining provides retail businesses with real-time customer intelligence for improving customer...
Author: S h i S h Date: 11/27/2006
XCelsius + Excel + MOSS 2007
Over the last few days, I was experimenting with ways to create a snazzy looking dashboard using...
Author: S h i S h Date: 11/27/2006
Office Accounting Express 2007
Microsoft® Office Accounting Express 2007 is a financial management software designed for early...
Author: S h i S h Date: 11/08/2006
Guide to Retail Industry Trends and News Sources
An interesting collection of resources to keep on top of Retail Industry Trends on Work.Com by...
Author: S h i S h Date: 11/06/2006
Reference Application Pack for Supply Chain Management
Download the OBA (Pffice Business Application) Reference Application Pack for SCM. You can use this...
Author: S h i S h Date: 10/12/2006
REI Improves Its Product Development Processes by Integrating Process and Project Management Tasks
REI needs to consistently develop high-quality products and decrease the time to market. REI is...
Author: S h i S h Date: 10/12/2006
.mobi registration is now open to everyone
With mobile phones being more prevalent than PCs, retailers would benefit from extending their web...
Author: S h i S h Date: 10/08/2006
PayPal Payment Wizard (for Outlook and Outlook Express)
Using the Payment Request Wizard for Outlook and Outlook Express, you can quickly add PayPal payment...
Author: S h i S h Date: 09/26/2006
CompUSA Gets a Business Intelligence Boost with ProClarity and Microsoft SQL Server 2005
CompUSA saw opportunity in the ability to be the first to recognize - and act on - fast-changing...
Author: S h i S h Date: 09/22/2006
BI Home Runs
ComputerWorld features a series of stories of 15 organizations that use BI to make better business...
Author: S h i S h Date: 09/22/2006
Store Surveilance
Inventory shrinkage, a combination of employee theft, shoplifting, vendor fraud and administrative...
Author: S h i S h Date: 09/14/2006
Smarter Shelf
Interesting article from RFID in Japan: The shelf monitors RFID tagged products and collects...
Author: S h i S h Date: 09/14/2006
TabletKiosk launches UMPC model
CPU Intel Pentium® M 1.0GHz w/ 2MB L2 cache System Memory 1 x SODIMM DDR2 Slot with 1024MB Hard...
Author: S h i S h Date: 09/11/2006
VoIP Meets RFID In a Japanese Dressing Room
From StorefrontBacktalk: Workers at the $8.5 billion retail Tokyo-based chain traditionally waited...
Author: S h i S h Date: 09/05/2006