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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

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

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