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Data Mining for the Retail Industry
Data Mining is frequently described as "the process of extracting valid, authentic, and actionable...
Author: S h i S h Date: 09/04/2006
Free Web Seminar: Key Data Visualization Techniques for Business Analysis with SQL Server 2005 and ProClarity
Click Here Date: Tuesday August 29, 2006 Time: 2:00 pm ET/11:00 am PT Duration: 1 hour
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/24/2006
Podcast: Store of the Future
From Defining a good retail service experience is a challenge...especially in the store of the...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/15/2006
Retail Industry Glossary: Market Basket Analysis
Market Basket Analysis is an algorithm that examines a long list of transactions in order to...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/15/2006
Competitive Advantage in Retail Through Analytics: Developing Insights, Creating Value
From Without utilizing the powers of analytics, the ROIon the large amounts of data collected will...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/15/2006
Accelelarated Analytics Solution for Retailers
I received an email today from the RainMaker Group with information of their offering for the Retail...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/15/2006
B.O.S.S. shopping cart follows you around
From It looks almost like any other shopping cart, except sensors allow it to follow the shopper...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/14/2006
Microsoft Executive Circle Resources for the Retail Industry
Microsoft has partnered with luminaries from academia and industry to develop exclusive...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/14/2006
Business intelligence in retail: Bringing cohesion to a fragmented enterprise
If asked, many retail executives cannot fully quantify the effect one department’s actions and...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/10/2006
Retail Glossary: Planogram
A planogram is a diagram of fixtures and products that illustrates how and where retail products...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/10/2006
An Idea from Minority Report
Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. is taking impulse shopping one step farther with technology that allows...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/09/2006
Lowe's implements new cost information provider
Lowe's has hired Acorn Systems, a profit solution provider, which the retailer said it will use to...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/01/2006
Develop without Borders Challenge
Beyond the confines of your cube is a big world. It's full of charities waiting to benefit from a...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/01/2006
Office 2007 Developer Conference Videos
Videos 2007 Office System Video: Windows SharePoint Services Platform Download this series of...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/01/2006
Intelligent carpet
A new kind of floor covering has been invented at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/01/2006
Self-Checkout Killing Impulse Items
An interesting article in eWeek focusing on how the introduction of technology such as self checkout...
Author: S h i S h Date: 08/01/2006
Integrating my smartphone into my day
I have been consciously finding ways of integrating my smartphone into my day. My typical day:...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/27/2006
Microsoft POS and Microsoft Retail Management System
Microsoft Point of Sale Demo Microsoft Retail Management System Demo Features and benefits Microsoft...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/25/2006
Retail Technology Jobs
From IT Spotlight: Retail Career Tracks in Retail
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/24/2006
Webcast Jun 22: 16th Annual Retail Technology Study Analysis
Event: 16th Annual Retail Technology Study Analysis: Committing to the Customer Date and Time:...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/22/2006
Understanding Retail Data
Interesting definitions of Retail Data used for reporting on Retail Stores from Activemedia-Guide...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/21/2006
From eWeek: Is the Cell Phone the Missing Link Between In-Store and Web Promotions?
I stumbled on this awesome technology for Retail in eWeek. NeoMedia is pushing its offering dubbed...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/20/2006
Retail and Hospitality Communique
Click here for June 2006 issue
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/17/2006
White papers about Microsoft technology in the Retail industry
It's a given that successful collaboration is essential to any well-functioning business enterprise,...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/17/2006
Microsoft in retail: Empowering people through technology
Around the globe, leading retailers are redefining the way they do business with their customers....
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/17/2006
Windows Embedded in Retail
Retail technology is evolving from "point of sale" to "point of service." The key difference is that...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/16/2006
Report: Netflix, Amazon tops among online retailers
From Computer World: For the second year in a row, Internet-only players Netflix and Amazon have...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/15/2006
Recorded event: Smarter Retailers Focus on Profitability Initiatives
Recorded event: Smarter Retailers Focus on Profitability Initiatives Date of recording: April 18,...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/15/2006
Project Real: Business Intelligence in Practice
Project REAL is an effort to discover best practices for creating business intelligence (BI)...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/13/2006
Mobile Device Loss Prevention
Most collaboration solutions for Retail involve the use of mobile devices so that the Store Manager...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/12/2006
K2.net 2003 in the US Retail Sector
I have worked with SourceCode for over 4 years and have been always impressed by their workflow...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/12/2006
Microsoft Office Live Meeting in the Retail Industry
Live Meeting gives you the power to work together with colleagues, customers, and suppliers, no...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/06/2006
A New Kind of Data Need for a New Kind of Retailer
eWeek has an interesting article about the challenges that manufacturers have in using granular POS...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/06/2006
Online Calendar for Retail
One of the key operational challenges a retail organization faces is ensuring consistent execution...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/05/2006
HITEC 2006 Jun 19-22
Join Microsoft, industry experts, and your peers at the 34th Annual Hospitality Industry Technology...
Author: S h i S h Date: 06/02/2006
Windows Live Local Add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook (Beta)
Download Map your appointment and meeting locations directly from within Microsoft® Office Outlook®....
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/27/2006
Real Time Traffic on Windows Live Local
I love the updates on Windows Live Local, especially the traffic updates for several cities. Other...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/27/2006
PayPal Mobile
PayPal today introduced PayPal Mobile, a text message-based service allowing consumers in the US and...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/27/2006
RFID successes highlighted at Mobile & Wireless World
Interesting look at possibilites for theft prevention of mobile devices in Retail Stores: "......
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/27/2006
Retail CIOs: It's not just about the technology
"There is a danger for a CIO to be seen as being too much associated with just technology," Jewett...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/27/2006
.mobi and the retail industry
Telephia, the leading provider of performance measurement information to the mobile industry,...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/25/2006
Microsoft Office 2007 Beta Preview
Evaluate the next release of Microsoft Office products for testing and planning purposes with 2007...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/23/2006
Video Moblogging
You can now upload videos directly from your phone or PDA to YouTube. All you need is a mobile...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/19/2006
Podcasting via Phone
I think podcasting via phone has a huge potential for communication in situations where access to...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/17/2006
Retail Industry Whitepapers on MSDN
RFID in Retail: This white paper provides a general introduction to Radio Frequency Identification...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/14/2006
Microsoft at Retail Systems 2006
The Extended Retail Industry, a key theme of this year’s Retail Systems, highlights the integral...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/14/2006
Corporate Podcasting
Podcasting is similar in nature to RSS, which allows subscribers to subscribe to a set of feeds to...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/13/2006
MapPoint 2006 with Voice Prompted Driving Guidance
I did a test run of the new GPS capabilities of MapPoint 2006 this morning and was pretty impressed...
Author: S h i S h Date: 05/13/2006