data storage

The John Lewis Partnership creates new cloud-based business archive

The digital preservation platform will future-proof tens of thousands of unique heritage, brand, product design and corporate assets

The John Lewis Partnership, one of the UK’s leading retail businesses, has selected digital preservation specialist Preservica to build a secure cloud-based business archive. The John Lewis Partnership operates 50 John Lewis shops across the ...

More time for core business thanks to Digital Asset Management

The Hansgrohe Group perfectly manages product data

Marketing managers of international companies juggle a multitude of multimedia content on a daily basis. Content components like images, texts, and videos must be managed correctly and be available on demand. However, it’s a major challenge ...

Higher quality of product and customer data

Stibo Systems re-enters retail sector with STEP MDM platform

Stibo Systems, a market-leading provider of Master Data Management (MDM) solutions, will install its STEP MDM solution in Globus hypermarkets across Germany. Founded around 190 years ago, Saarland-based Globus currently operates 46 hypermarkets in ...

Enabling brands to bring together data about their customers’ behaviour

Multichannel optimisation platform Innometrics builds successful API

Cutting-edge consumer profiling platform Innometrics has adopted Basho Technologie's Riak KV database to power its Profile Cloud API.

Addressing each customer individually

Benefits and risks of big data in retail

Customer loyalty programs, mobile apps, and online ordering data are just some of the data sources retailers can use today to gain new insights into nearly every aspect of their business. “Big data” is the big buzzword here.

Improve sales forecasting with knowledge about the weather

MeteoGroup presents weather solutions for the retail industry at EuroCIS 2016

Weather is intrinsically linked to customer buying behaviour. MeteoGroup presents special solutions for analysis and optimization of weather dependent processes in the retail industry in hall 10 at stand 10E52.

"Knowing when 'power hours' occur is crucial for personnel planning"

Interview with Bill McCarthy, ShopperTrak and James Cook, Thomas Sabo

Store employees play a big role in ensuring that customers receive a superior shopping experience. This is why retailers need reliable shopper data to understand key shopping timeframes, including busy periods, and to adjust their staffing needs ...

Low levels of repeat buyers challenge new product success

Less than 1 percent of shoppers drives sales volume for the typical new CPG product

In the CPG industry, generally-recognized failure rates for new product launches range from 60 percent to 80 percent. Catalina released a new report, which demonstrates the critical importance of data-driven shopper engagement in growing the success ...

Puts weights to the test

The new checkweigher family by Bizerba for the food industry

Bizerba presents a new generation of checkweighers for checking the target weight of packaged products in the fresh and dry sector. The checkweighers in four different versions are not only suitable for dynamic weight checking of packaged products, ...

Epicor Retail unveils new point of sale in the cloud offering

Retailers benefit from accelerated deployment, flexibility, scalability and ease of integration

Epicor Software Corporation has unveiled its new Epicor Retail Store Point of Sale (POS) in the Cloud offering here at Insights, the company's annual user conference. The new POS in the Cloud solution brings a whole new level of ...

Peek&Cloppenburg Hamburg launches TXT Retail

Merchandise & assortment planning of stores and online

The Peek&Cloppenburg KG Group in Hamburg, Germany, a leading multi-label fashion retailer, has recently adopted TXTPlanning as its corporate merchandise planning platform. After having successfully deployed TXT’s Financial Merchandise ...

“You should never collect data you would need to keep secret from the customer“

Interview with Axel Jahn, Managing Director of Netpioneer GmbH

The increasing digitalization in retail helps retailers get to know their customers better. After all, the modern shopper leaves his/her data at every touchpoint – whether that’s in the online store, during mobile shopping or directly at ...

Report: How Big Data can help retailers

The impact of Big Data and analytics in brick-and-mortar and online retailing

The report "Big Data keeps online and brick-and-mortar retailers from hitting the wall" provides an analysis of the rapidly growing MRLA market as defined by Stratecast. It examines how retailers can harness the power of analytics ...

ShopperTrak to demonstrate latest in Location Based Analytics innovation at EuroCIS 2015

Understanding the customer journey

The latest Location Based Analytics technologies are enabling retailers to engage with their customers better than ever before. According to IDC “The most successful retailers will find opportunities by putting mobility, analytics, cloud and ...

Opportunities and Risks with the Cloud

Retail Processes Are Optimized By Cloud Computing

Cloud computing can – if used properly – also have a huge potential for retailers to create flexible systems by making information, important applications and even entire business processes available and usable in real-time via the ...

Lancope protects retailers from cyber-attacks during vulnerable holiday season

Advanced, context-aware security helps combat cyber-attacks that bypass conventional defenses

Lancope reminds retailers to remain vigilant with confidential data this holiday season. Last year, the weeks surrounding Thanksgiving were rife with high-profile attacks against retailers, including the largest retail hack in U.S. history. Due to ...

RetailNext hires Marc Dietz as Chief Marketing Officer

RetailNext Inc., the worldwide leader in applied Big Data for physical retail, announced the addition of Marc Dietz to its Leadership team in the role of chief marketing officer. Dietz comes to RetailNext most recently from IBM where he led ...

Significant updates to Data Model Standards

The Association for Retail Technology Standards announced the approval of the ARTS Operational Data Model version 7.0, and the ARTS Data Warehouse Model 3.0. “ARTS released its very first version of the Data Model for Retail in ...

Almost half of americans likely to avoid retailers affected by data breaches

Women, higher-income households least fazed

This holiday season, almost half of Americans are likely to avoid shopping at stores that were affected by data breaches over the past year, according to a new CreditCards.com report. This includes large retailers such as Target, Home Depot and ...

Industry must take on more responsibility for IT security

On the occasion of this year’s it-sa, eco – Association of the German Internet Industry e. V. (Hall 12/Booth 333) has introduced a 5-point plan on how companies can take the initiative with regard to IT security and data ...

Data-savings app for Android now available in Latin America

Using mobile data in Latin America just became much cheaper. Starting today, Latin Americans can download Opera Max, a free app for Android that provides data savings and management. This unique app gives users up to 50 percent more use out of their ...

“A professional concept for category and attribute management pays off“

Interview with Korhan Canbolat, Owner of Canbolat Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH

In 2009, Korhan Canbolat founded the Canbolat Vertriebsgesellschaft (English translation: Canbolat Distribution Company) and has turned it into an efficient and sustainably successful online retail company since then. With a wide range of goods in ...

Evolution in the supply chain: the barcode to the Internet of Things

Simon Walker, director of innovation at Stibo Systems

Changing shopping behaviours mean retailers are having to change how they engage with customers. As online mixes with the high street, shoppers are now browsing numerous channels, and they expect a consistent brand experience throughout that path to ...

Supervalu notifies customers of criminal computer intrusion at some of its owned and franchised stores

Supervalu announced that it experienced a criminal intrusion into the portion of its computer network that processes payment card transactions for some of its retail food stores, including some of its associated stand-alone liquor ...

Aimia launches strategic partnership with Portugal's leading retailer

Aimia Inc. has announced the launch of a strategic partnership with Continente, Portugal's leading retailer from Sonae Group, to support a deeper understanding of its customers. This partnership will provide Continente with the ability to ...

Top reasons why retailers cannot ignore Big Data captured in store

by Colm Roche, Sales Manager Central and Eastern Europe, ShopperTrak

Despite the fact that it could hold the key to the future of retail, many firms are still cautious when it comes to the concept of Big Data. According to PWC research, 62% of companies think Big Data could provide a competitive advantage for their ...

Smiffy’s dress to impress with fashion solution from K3 Retail

The global fancy dress retailer, has embarked on a business transformation project with K3 Retail

Through the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, inclusive of Pebblestone Fashion, Smiffy’s has integrated many business departments, from online to order management, the warehouse and finance, all delivering a plethora of new and rich ...

Casio DT-X8 - Smaller, more versatile and even more robust

  The new CASIO DT-X8 is considerably more compact (280g) than the tried-and-tested DT-X30 warehouse hand-held device and much tougher than the elegant DT-X7. With this new device, CASIO is once again making its mark with values that set ...

SECUMEM – 4GB USB stick with in-built shield against data manipulation - 10 years’ storage

The presentation of the SECUMEM stick for data security was a highlight among the products the QUAD GmbH was showing at this year’s EuroCIS – saving data – not deleting it! The stick stores data that, in contrast to standard ...

Casio: Robust tablet PC with professional features

Casio presents smart business tablet

Based on the "Smart and Tough" product concept, Casio Europe is presenting a completely new business support tablet with unique features for professional use. In addition to being drop-proof and resistant to external influences, the robust ...

Aldata Appoints Roy J. Simrell as President and CEO

Aldata Solution, a global leader in retail and distribution optimization software, today announced the appointment of Roy J. Simrell as the company’s president and CEO.

Aldata Appoints Roy J. Simrell as President and CEOMr. Simrell has 25 years of broad experience in retail technology, software development and IT services. Until recently, he was the President of the US Business unit of a global retail technology ...