data analysis

Salsify: Expansion of the GDSN data pool

Provider of the commerce experience management platform CommerceXM wants to fully meet requirements of the DACH region

Salsify’s GS1-certified GDSN data pool now provides full support for all target market validation requirements in the DACH region, which includes Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Products synchronized to trading partners in these ...

Insights on the 'Buy now, pay later' market in Latin America to 2028

The BNPL payment industry in Latin America has recorded strong growth over the last four quarters, supported by increased e-commerce penetration

The "Latin America Buy Now Pay Later Business and Investment Opportunities - 75+ KPIs on Buy Now Pay Later Trends by End-Use Sectors, Operational KPIs, Market Share, Retail Product Dynamics, and Consumer Demographics - Q3 2022 Update" ...

How to win the Amazon algorithm

Salsify webinar on 27th October 2022

Amazon’s data shows that 70 percent of Amazon customers never click past the first page of search results. But how can your brand’s products reach - and stay on - the first page of search results? Product content is a main component ...

Food and beverage prices remain elevated in September

IRI research reveals priceinflation slowed for first time in 2022

IRI’s latest insights on food inflation and impact on consumer shopping behavior illustrate relief consumers are finding in perimeter categories. ...

Domo releases annual “Data Never Sleeps” infographic

A decade of minute-by-minute data shows 1700% increase in digital engagement on some platforms

Domo has released the 10th edition of its Data Never Sleeps (DNS) infographic, the annual glimpse at how much data is generated on the internet every minute by the ways people interact online. Over the last decade of chronicling the world's data ...

#DWMF Europe for top-level digital marketing insights

DMWF Europe at the RAI in Amsterdam on 21-22 November

DMWF Europe returns to the RAI, Amsterdam on 21-22 November, for a must-see hybrid conference and exhibition bringing together the brightest minds in digital marketing. It’s three days of top-level strategic content, digital marketing ...

#DMWF returns to North America for a must-see hybrid conference and exhibition

Bringing together the brightest minds in digital marketing

With a new location for 2022, Digital Marketing World Forum (DMWF) will be taking over the Santa Clara Convention Center, California, on 5-6 October 2022; for two days of top-level strategic content and digital marketing insights, networking, and ...

Brave new last mile

A dilemma of digital transformation versus sustainability?

The pandemic has given an additional boost to online retail with its record volumes already recorded in previous years. As a result, last-mile delivery is bursting at the seams, especially in metropolitan areas. There are limits to the capacity of ...

EuroCIS 2022: Trending topics and innovations concerning Retail Technology

Customer Centricity, Analytics, Payment, Connected Retail and Seamless Store

EuroCIS, The Leading Trade Fair for Retail Technology, held from 31 May to 2 June 2022 in Halls 9 and 10 of Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre is the international communication forum for innovations and trend themes, especially for technology in the ...

SALTO acquires Cognitec Systems

The manufacturer of electronic access control solutions invests in one of the world's most important providers of automatic facial recognition solutions.

In recent years, we have experienced extraordinary change and evolution in digital transformation globally. Entire industries have been reimagined and people now increasingly use digital means to work, live, learn, and be entertained. Digital ...

Efficient and networked operations in e-commerce warehouses

Proactively preparing for seasonal peaks using big data

Digital shopping round the clock means particular service requirements for e-commerce retailers, e.g. providing maximum availability and meeting very short delivery deadlines. Due to the increasing complexity of processes related to warehousing and ...

Retail Supply Chain & Logistics Expo

2nd & 3rd March 2022 - ExCeL London

Retail Supply Chain & Logistics Expo is the ultimate hub for retailers to source the solutions that will ensure their supply chain is running as smoothly and efficiently as possible. Taking place at London’s ExCeL on the 2nd & 3rd ...

AI Counter tech: future of unmanned retail stores and ability to scan objects

INFINIQ reveals next-generation retail tech at CES 2022

INFINIQ, an artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous driving data service company, unveiled its autonomous driving and retail innovation technology at CES 2022 from Jan. 5-7, 2022 in Las Vegas.INFINIQ presents a self-checkout solution and CES ...

Finding the most efficient tools for data acquisition

Four in ten retail and e-commerce organisations struggle to find a suitable tool

More than 40 percent of retail and e-commerce organisations have struggled to find the most efficient tools or tech stack for data acquisition over the past 12 months to help them rapidly analyse data in real-time resulting in ...

Quick-Commerce: Cajoo chooses Alkemics for the collection of its product information

French food delivery service expands its offering to customers with supplier experience management platform

Cajoo, the French treasure in the express food delivery sector, who has recently joined forces with Carrefour and has raised 40 million dollars, has acquired the Alkemics platform to enable it to enhance the range of products offered to ...

Integrated shopping systems instead of data silos

How retailers can increase their efficiency in 2021

The new year started out with plenty of challenges for retailers. While over-the-counter retail is struggling with shop closures and a shortfall in sales in the second lockdown, online retail has to handle the increased volume of customer enquiries ...

Retail at the edge of change

The value of real-time data analytics for retailers

Seismic shifts in the retail sector in the last year have put unprecedented pressure on retailers to bounce back and make the most of the first half of 2021. With disruption expected to continue, retailers must also set themselves up for maximum ...

No business intelligence, no future

Why retailers should bet on data intelligence

Online store operators can track their visitors "at every click".  Many brick-and-mortar retailers, on the other hand, don't know much about their (potential) customers. Yet all industry experts agree: data is worth its weight in ...

How do technologies find their way into retail?

Rolf Schumann, CDO of the Schwarz Group, provides answers at the "Retail Innovation Days"

Tech is cool! Gimmicks, gadgets, gizmos – they impress and inspire quickly. However, it often takes much longer than technology experts and developers initially predict before the technologies actually arrive in everyday life and are used by ...

Navori Labs Unleashes AI Marketing Software

Navori expands into the AI-Computer Vision driven analytics world with Aquaji t ohelp retailers

With nearly 25 years of digital signage innovation, Navori expands into the AI-Computer Vision driven analytics world with Aquaji to help retailers, digitalout-of home (DOOH) networks and other physical businesses measure performance, strengthen ...

Guinea pig retail

RetailTech Lab in Denmark tests technologies for retailers

The brick-and-mortar retail did not have an easy time of it this year in large parts of Europe. It was high time to rethink it, try out innovations and further develop business models.This is exactly what has been happening in the RetailTech Lab in ...

AI in action: changing the future of customer experience

Interview with Prof. Dr. Jens Böcker, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences

The 34th Bonner Management Forum on November 5, 2019, at the Bonn International Science Forum (“Wissenschaftsforum”) centered on artificial intelligence (AI).Themed "Artificial Intelligence - New Age of Customer Experience", ...

Only 11 percent of brands can effectively use customer data

Independent study highlights the challenges of bringing together different data types to create a unified customer profile

Despite all the hype around customer data platforms (CDPs), a new study conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Oracle found that brands are struggling to create a unified view of customers. The November 2019 study, “Getting ...

Purchasing behavior: Live facial recognition analysis

Uncovering valuable data from video feed in real time

VR Office Place is offering live facial recognition extracted from video feeds such as continuous surveillance streams, which will allow analytics of person's social presence on the internet as well as their habits and preferences. The ...

Retail analytics: Breaking down data silos and improving operational efficiency

How comprehensive data usage led to higher revenue at Heine

“As a business with heritage in mail order, we used to have access to detailed reports about product performance in our catalogues. Once our digital presence grew, we had very limited information available that combined the KPIs for both our ...

APG: Managing cash drawer data with the SMARTtill Solution

APG at EuroCIS 2019

Advanced analytics and AI are key to improving planning decisions

Only 33 percent of retailers optimize their inventory by leveraging advanced analytics

According to BRP's 2018 Integrated Planning and Inventory Management Survey, most retailers (67 percent) are not leveraging advanced analytics to improve their planning decisions and optimize inventory. The importance of enhanced data and ...

retail trends 1/2019: focus "Retail Technology"

Omnichannel commerce, mobile shopping, seamless checkout – technology trends 2019

Would you like to find out about the latest retail technologies and hold something tangible in your hands at the same time?We'll be happy to send you a copy of our print edition retail trends: with the focus on "Retail Technology" ...

Using digital data to drive brick-and-mortar retail success

Advanced Outlet Analytics

When it comes to using and analyzing relevant data, brick-and-mortar retail lags behind its online competition. While e-commerce retailers use detailed data from web analytics, CRM, and Google searches to analyze user behavior and generate ...

Logistic data as solid ground for successful omnichannel commerce

Instagram, Twitter and Co.: New ways to customer loyalty

Instagram, Twitter and Co.: Retailers and brands must find new ways to get in touch with their customers and remain like that. With the right software, they can extract and use important information from all logistical processes.The contemporary ...

New data shines light on black holes of retail customer experience

Square Root unlocks potential for brands

Square Root, creators of CoEFFICIENT®, an enterprise SaaS platform that unlocks the power of data for the world's leading automotive and retail brands today announced findings from a new study that uncovers the growing importance of the ...

Innovation management: Don’t just collect data. Use it

Developing new services with BI analytics

It is widely known that the use of business intelligence (BI) supports process optimization and strategic decision-making. But BI can also be used to promote innovation processes. The pressure to innovate is intensifying, even in the retail ...

Business Intelligence: The single source of truth

How retailer use data analytics and BI to optimize the value chain

Hardly any business process is managed without the help of IT. That’s why the main task for retailers is not to gather data about business processes but to make the most of this data instead. Business Intelligence (BI) is the “secret ...

Retail assistance systems: Reducing employee stress

Interview with Andreas Starzmann, Director Digital Office at Wanzl

There are countless retail data collection technologies on the market. The challenge for the retail industry is to connect them all. The collected data then enables retailers to draw the right conclusions and plan their next steps. At EuroCIS ...

Psychographic targeting: fostering a personalized online customer approach

Interview with Professor Joost van Treeck, Consumer Psychologist at the University of Applied Sciences Fresenius in Hamburg

Target audiences are generally identified by sociodemographic factors such as age, gender, family status or place of residence. Psychographics now broadens the previously applied segmentation and adds two dimensions: the personality and behavior of ...

Data nomenclature for a central standard for reporting campaign performance metrics

OpenData 1.0, a technical specification offering a first-of-its-kind data nomenclature, by The IAB Technology Laboratory

The IAB Technology Laboratory today released for public comment OpenData 1.0, a technical specification offering a first-of-its-kind data nomenclature that establishes a central standard for reporting campaign performance metrics. Developed by the ...

Smart retail through use of sensor technology

How brick-and-mortar retail can catch up to the informational edge of e-commerce

E-commerce has a clear advantage over brick-and-mortar retail when it comes to subjects like big data, personalization, and automation. Every time search and buying processes take place online, information about customers practically collects ...

IAB clarifies processes for automated digital advertising

“An Evolving Framework for Advertising Automation” is to create clarity around programmatic functions and encourage more meaningful conversations among buyers, sellers, and technology vendors.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today released “An Evolving Framework for Advertising Automation” to create clarity around programmatic functions and encourage more meaningful conversations among buyers, sellers, and technology ...

prudsys Realtime Decisioning Engine (RDE)

Implement innovative real-time scenarios

We use the prudsys RDE to implement innovative real-time scenarios tailored 1:1 to the needs of our customers. The modular setup of the software allows to join together the components recommendations, marketing automation and dynamic pricing to ...

EuroShop 2017: real-time retail operations with smart cosmos solutions

smart cosmos at EuroShop 2017

smart cosmos shows how living product data connects the real world to the digital world. ...

VTT's spin off company to measure shopping intentions in physical stores

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a unique solution to measure in-store shopper's intentions

The implementation respects privacy - no identity information of shoppers is collected. The objective is to start commercial deliveries in spring 2017. "Until now it has been technically possible only to record how many people entered the ...