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Editor's Notebook
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IBM Seeds The Cloud
By Matt Pillar, editor in chief
The migration of retail applications to the cloud has been a hit-and-miss proposition to date; the cloud has been a hit for applications with large, distributed user bases and which process somewhat benign data.
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Featured Integrated Solutions For Retailers Article
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La Vie En Rose Uses 3 Key Benchmarks For Store Ops Improvement
By Matt Pillar, editor in chief
Tenacious monitoring of associate scheduling, sales, and store traffic drives operations at la Vie en Rose, a 150-store Canadian retailer of lingerie and swimwear.
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Guest Expert Series
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How A "Video Context" Amplifies Your Business Intelligence
By Jackie Andersen, retail business development manager, Axis Communications
Integrating video surveillance data with your merchandising tools can add a whole new dimension to your understanding of everything from shopper behavior to floor layout and even conversion rates. You can still catch up with Part 1 of this series.
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Featured Articles
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Data Disparity: The Multichannel Customer Killer
Submitted by UTC RETAIL
Cross-channel data disparity will kill any effort toward multichannel customer centricity. So what are the keys to saving cross-channel customers?
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Mobility Is Exploding: Are You Ready?
Submitted by QlikView
After several decades of fits and starts, Apple's iPad succeeded where all others failed, ushering us into the era of mobile computing.
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3 Steps To Supply Chain Security
Submitted by Wren Solutions
The retail supply chain is subject to great vulnerability when it comes to potential losses.
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Receipt Printer Cuts Credit Card Fraud
By Erin Harris, associate editor
According to John Ellsworth, SelecTransportation's controller, in general, car and truck dealerships tend to lag behind most other types of retailers in
terms of technology adoption, even though their needs and business challenges are inherently the same.
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Featured Video
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| Optimize Every Leg Of Every Shipment |
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A state-of-the-art transportation management solution should have more than comprehensive functionality, a services-oriented architecture, and web deployment.
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Our Newest Advertiser
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Retail Solutions Online welcomes our newest advertiser, MegaPath, a network solution provider offering PCI-compliant security for credit card transactions and support for data communications for key retail applications. |
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Featured Upcoming Event
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| RILA Retail Sustainability Conference |
The Retail Sustainability Conference brings together executives involved in establishing environmental programs and integrating green practices into their companies.
October 12 to 14 | Peabody Orlando Hotel, Orlando
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