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Trends Affecting Retail

On the Retail Customer Experience site, Chris Petersen takes a broader look at several trends we've been following that will greatly affect retail in the near future. As they say, the only constant is change, and most of these weren't on anyone's radar 3 years ago. Read more...

Same Day Delivery Research

Do your customers really need same-day delivery? Or is this just another passing fancy that'll go away if we ignore it. Well, there's been some research on the subject by BI Intelligence and, although there's not a huge amount in play yet, there will be over the next 4 years. Read more...

Big Data Drives Innovation

There's a connection between innovation, optimization, and disruption. If innovation is your goal, Big Data can help you optimize what needs to be optimized and disrupt what should be disrupted. That's no small feat. Read more...

Who Will Own the IoT?

There's a lot of discussion taking place over who will build and 'own' the top layer that the Internet of Things (IoT) will function underneath. On the Forbes site, Jon Bruner takes us through several of the opinions voiced by the smart tech people who've done some thinking on the subject. Read more...

IoT Risks

With all the excitement surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT), some really important topics can be overlooked. Risk is something that doesn't necessarily jump to the top-of-mind, but it should. Read more...

SAP Buys Concur

SAP has made another acquisition in their ongoing attempt to improve their cloud profile. Their purchase of Concur, a technology many of you have probably used, is viewed as one that may be good for certain investors, but not necessarily for the Concur user community. Read more...

Amazon On the Move

When a company like Amazon decides on a direction, they don't mess around. Since they're always in expansion mode and one of their key efforts is to ramp up overseas, they're going all-in on distribution centers (or fulfillment centers, in their parlance). Read more...

Macy Moves Along With Omnichannel

Macy's approach to addressing the omnichannel challenge is explained in a recent discussion article on the RetailWire site by George Anderson. They were one of the major retailers who moved early and it's interesting to see how far along they've come. Read more...

Key Trends Affecting Logistics

Every corner of the supply chain is under pressure just to keep up with change. The logistics process is a great example of an aspect of the supply chain that's coming to grip with macro changes that affect us all. Read more...

Hadoop It Up!

Almost everyone in the business world has heard the work 'Hadoop' in the last year, I'd bet. Do you know what it is and why it should mean something to you? Read more...

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