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Mobile and Tablet Shopping Demystified -- Adoption and the ROI Business Case

Kony is proud to sponsor Aberdeen's new report titled, "Mobile and Tablet Shopping Demystified -- Adoption and the ROI Business Case" by Principal Analyst, Sahir Anand. Between July and August 2011, Aberdeen surveyed 300 enterprises to assess the consumer, process and technology factors that are shaping the roll-out and gradual expansion of existing mobile and tablet shopping initiatives. This Analyst Insight details business and customer success cases, and forward-looking roadmaps that are likely to define this space in the coming months. Download Now

Is Your Commerce Platform Ready to Go Global?

Now that digital commerce has made it easy to reach shoppers virtually anywhere, international markets are a tempting target for multi-channel retailers. But before going global, it's wise to 'audit' your commerce platform to make sure it can support your planned expansion. Download this white paper to learn the four key functional areas to focus on. Download Now

Mobility Renews the Strength of Stores

Empowering store associates with mobile devices enhances the customer experience, improves decision-making and sharpens store execution. Download this white paper to learn how mobility can be a game-changer capable of transforming the shopper’s relationship with the retail brand. Download Now

8 Steps to Success in the Future of POS

Are your store systems able to meet customer expectations in an era where consumers are expecting better service in real time? Learn more on the 8 steps to embracing the future of POS.
1.   The Broadband Era
2.   To the Cloud
3.   Hardware Choices
4.   Technology to Enhance Customer Engagement
5.   Pricing Solutions
6.   POS in a Mobile World
7.   E-commerce and the Cross-channel Experience
8.   Security Concerns Download Now

Maximizing Margins in an Omni-Channel World

As customers exert more control over the shopping experience, retailers risk margin erosion from higher fulfillment and inventory carrying costs. Download this white paper to discover four steps retailers can take to maximize their margins while still meeting customer expectations. Download Now

Improving Profitability Using Retail KPIs

For retailers, understanding the importance and effective usage of KPIs is vital. This paper will explore the common KPIs used today across all sales channels, define the formulae, discuss potential ways to improve them, and explain their use in the routine management processes of the business. Download Now

Visibility and Internal Collaboration Power Customer-Driven Retailing

Customers are clearly in the driver’s seat today, requiring retailers to turn a vision of customer-driven retailing a reality. Retailers need to use newly available data-gathering and BI tools to bridge the gaps between marketing, merchandising, supply chain and other internal departments. The good news for retailers is that if they can reshape themselves into customer-driven enterprises, they’ll gain opportunities to engage with shoppers in deeper, more meaningful ways. Download Now

Unleashing Opportunity in a Redefined Retail Climate: 3 Steps to Growth Through Customer-Focused Retailing

For retailers to succeed and grow in the 21st century, they need to move away from a traditional product-focused business model to one that is truly responsive to shoppers’ needs. Retailers can forge new paths to growth and profit using three transformational steps that are detailed in this report. Download Now

The New Rules of Mobile and Social Service

With more transactions taking place on mobile apps and Facebook, you’ll need a strategy to tie it together. The good news is you can use the same technology solutions you employ on your website. Download this brief and learn how to meet rising customer expectations and build your brand. Download Now

In the Stores

This exclusive online feature from Apparel Magazine, RIS News and Consumer Goods Technology delivers key insight and intelligence for retailers and brands on three major technologies -- Mobile CRM, Store Trafficking and POS -- that are impacting today's dynamic store environment. Download Now

Chico's Has Customer Loyalty in the Bag

Discover how Chico's found a better way to manage and analyze data from across several brands, and see how this helped the company create a targeted marketing campaign that tripled previous results. Download Now

Retail's Virtual Crossroads: Transforming Stores from Transaction Centers to Customer Engagement Engines

Big forces are reshaping consumers' lives and forcing retailers to re-imagine their business models. Download this report to learn why retailers need to remake their physical stores into representations of the virtual customer experience available via other channels, from the Web to social networks to mobile technology.
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Innovate to Differentiate: Turning Data into Insight Creates Opportunities for Retail Growth

Retailers don't have to be swamped by the "tsunami" of data from sources old and new. This report from the Teradata PARTNERS User Group Conference reveals how DSW, Toys "R" Us, Ace Hardware and other retailers are using analytics to turn data into growth-spurring insights. Download Now

Unlocking the Information Logjam - Leveraging Data for Better Decisions

Retailers' collection of data across the enterprise has reached historic levels. For years retailers have had more data than they are physically capable of processing. Download Now

The Cross Channel Imperative: Creating a Unified Customer Engagement Platform

Retailers must embrace the opportunity to serve customers in the way they want to shop: seamlessly across channels. Learn how to approach channel integration through a unified customer engagement platform to reach new levels of sales and enterprise performance. Download Now

Doing More on the Store Floor: Five Steps to Capture and Keep Cross-Channel Customers

With consumers' growing expectations to shop the way they want, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers have overcome their fear of ecommerce cannibalization of store sales, adopting dotcom storefronts and strategies to help ensure a consistent experience across all channels. With cross-channel sales expected to reach $1.1 trillion, or 38% of total retail sales by 2012, retailers must learn to do more on the store floor in order to capture and keep valuable cross-channel customers by delivering a zero disappointment retail experience. Download Now
Author :Manhattan Associates
Profitable Buying: The Next Generation of Demand Forecasting

For most companies, forecasting demand with volumes of complex and continuously evolving demand patterns is guesswork at best. Learn how leading retailers are using the next generation of demand forecasting to ensure they are buying for profit. Download Now
Author :Manhattan Associates
Cross-Channel Intelligence: The Smart Investment for 2010 and Beyond

Learn more about cross-channel customer intelligence and why it's the smart investment for 2010 and beyond in this exclusive white paper. Download Now
Author :CrossView
The Talent Management Imperative

Learn how savvy merchants use talent management systems to easily align their workforce with business objectives and achieve sustainable results, including enhanced productivity, reduced turnover, increased sales and greater brand integrity. Download Now
Author :Taleo
Exclusive Paper: Screening the Best Workforce Talent

Increasing unemployment rates have left retailers with the difficult task of trying to find the ideal candidate in a virtual ocean of applicants. Brief outlines 3 vital steps that can help reduce the chance that applicants will game your screening process, while simultaneously reduce staffing time. Download Now
Author :Taleo
New Realities of Retail Workforce Management

Retailers are leveraging today's workforce management tools to respond to immediate pressures to trim costs and boost revenues, as well as to adopt new business practices for the long term. It's time to reconsider preconceived notions about what WFM can do and understand how market leaders are leveraging their considerable benefits for significant competitive advantage. Download Now
Author :Infor
Workforce Scheduling: Managerial Strategies for Driving Down Costs While Escalating Customer Satisfaction

To remain competitive in any economy, companies must strike a careful balance between cost containment and revenue growth. In this benchmark report, Aberdeen uncovers Best-in-Class practices that all companies can utilize to plan for and allocate the right people with the right skills in the right jobs at the right time. Download Now

Six Ways to Reduce PCI DSS Audit Scope by Tokenizing Cardholder Data

The scope of PCI DSS compliance for retail organizations is significant both in terms of effort and cost. This white paper explores the use of tokenization as an affordable best practice in improving the security of credit card transactions, while minimizing the cost and complexity of PCI DSS compliance. Download Now

Successful Promotion Management Optimization: Retailers Learn from Experience

Within this context of poor economic conditions and rising year-over-year interest among retailers RSR took a look at two years of benchmark data to see if adopters of promotion optimization solutions had a different perspective from the rest — if there were lessons to be learned from their experience. Download Now

Merchandising Optimization: A New Paradigm for Greater Visibility and Profitability

Holding too much inventory is expensive; not having enough can cost you the sale. This report helps SMB retailers optimize their inventory investment and improve financial results.   Download Now

Multi-Channel Planning: Why You Can't Treat Direct Channels Like a Store

With online sales continuing to increase, it is more important than ever to ensure you aren't treating your Internet selling channel like a store. It is imperative that leading retailers optimize the planning process and take into account the unique characteristics and treat each channel as distinct selling vehicles to proactively drive demand. Download Now
Author :Manhattan Associates
Leveraging Technology in a Down Economy: Managing Costs and IT Investments so You Emerge Stronger When Times Improve

In tough times, retailers and hospitality organizations may see IT investments as a logical target for belt-tightening. But technology investments that streamline operational efficiency, improve profit margins and boost customer service capabilities can both mitigate the worst effects of economic downturns and position organizations to rebound more quickly when times begin to improve. Download Now
Author :NCR
Kiosks Are Here -- Are You Ready?

Paper highlights issues retailers must consider when deciding to deploy kiosk systems. Download Now
Author :Zebra
Ten Best Practices for Pricing and Promotion in a Down Economy

Learn how applying these best practices to predict and influence sales in today's economy can be the difference between merely weathering the storm and winning the battle for market share and profits. Download Now
Author :Demandtec
Multi-Channel Optimization: Using Business Intelligence and Customer Demand Data to Reshape Retailing

Report examines how retailers can leverage insights gained through BI to reshape their infrastructure and processes and achieve multi-channel optimization.
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Author :SAP
Can You Hear Them Now? eStara Click to Call Puts Retail Customers on the Line

As the e-commerce landscape evolves, analysts have noted that online customers are still most comfortable interacting with a live customer service representative. To address the needs of these customers, and to increase revenue, many retailers are looking at Click to Call solutions to bridge their online and offline channels. Download Now
Author :Estara
Where Is the Value in a Supply Chain Solution?

Only when PLM is combined with supply chain execution tasks, as in ecVision's XpressCommerce Product Lifecycle Execution solution, is true ROI achieved and full benefits leveraged throughout your organization. Download Now
Author :ecVision
Successful Social Networking and User-Generated-Content Applications: What You Need to Know

Adoption of social networks has skyrocketed in recent years — and popularity has turned them into critical channels for both understanding and influencing public opinion on every topic from soft drinks to movies to presidential campaigns. Download Now
Author :Akamai
Reinventing Category Management for the 'Too Much Information' Age

White paper examines the state of category management today, and prescribes what's needed for it to move ahead: a holistic approach that combines sophisticated technology with changes in people, processes, and partnerships. Download Now
Author :Infosys
Winning e-Commerce Strategies: The Critical Factors that can Make or Break a Successful e-Commerce Implementation

Getting the e-commerce end of your business off the ground isn't a walk in the park, but it's also not as difficult as you may think -- as long as you strategize. Download Now
Author :HCL
The Retail Workforce: Driving Operational Excellence

White paper that reveals how retailers can use talent management technology to save up to $9.5 million annually. Download Now
Author :Taleo Research
Smart Merchandising 2010: Top Trends to Improve Your Bottom Line

White paper explores how merchandising solutions offering a more complete "source to store" view of product lifecycles can help retailers maximize the impact of their smart merchandising decisions where they count most: in the store. Download Now
Author :Lawson
The 2008 ePayment Management Project Guide

Get insights into key e-payment projects and initiatives that leading merchants are adopting in 2008 to optimize business results. Download Now
Author :CyberSource
PCI Compliance: Low Risk, High Reward

The biggest threat to a retailer's reputation is customer identity theft by hackers and ever more sophisticated organized crime attacks. Download Now
Author :Hughes
Four Critical Elements of Retail Supply Chain Success

New research reveals four key drivers of consumer demand and how well-known retailers are leveraging their supply chains to deliver superior customer service. Download Now
Author :HighJump Software, a 3M Company
Labor Planning and Budgeting for Retail Workforce Agility

Insights into how retailers can transform their workforce operations through efficient labor planning and budgeting to reduce unnecessary payments, improve productivity, and ensure a consistent customer experience. Download Now
Author :Infor
Six Keys to Smarter Cross Channel Integration

One of the greatest challenges for multi-channel retailers is understanding that they are one company as opposed to multiple channels, products or customer segments. Find out how to solve this challenge in this exclusive white paper. Download Now
Author :OCO, Inc.
Manage Your Operations for Greater Profitability with Retail Chain Manager for Microsoft Dynamics AX

To stay ahead of the competition, retailers must effectively manage a multitude of variables, maximize efficiency, and collaborate effectively with trading partners and suppliers around the world. Download Now
Author :Sponsor: Microsoft Dynamics
Layered Security for the Any Era: Securing Retail Environments in the Digital Age

As retailers open and extend their channels on the Internet, threats and vulnerabilities increase. Find out how to thwart these challenges in this exclusive white paper. Download Now
Author :VeriSign
From Peepholes to Panoramic Views: The Strategic Business Value of Master Data Management For Retailers

Learn how effective master data management can enhance every area of your retail business in this exclusive white paper. Download Now
Author :Aldata
Building the 'Connected Store'

As shoppers are opt in to merchandising promotions that reach their desktops; their PDA; mobile phones and mailboxes, retailers need more accurate and timely information to increase "wallet share." Download Now
Author :DigiPos
Trends in Hourly Job Application Methods

Managing the staffing of contract and contingent workers presents a great opportunity for retailers to reduce corporate costs, improve quality, and mitigate liability. Download Now
Author :Taleo
Supply Chain Event Management

Organizations now have a critical need for a high degree of visibility into the supply chain processes so they can spot problems and quickly take corrective or compensating action when required. Download Now
Author :Innovis
The Dirty Little Secrets of the Warehouse Management System Industry

Secrets. They're everywhere. Even in the warehouse management system (WMS) industry. It's up to you to separate fact from fiction. Download Now
Author :High Jump Software
Building an Integrated Marketing Platform: Leveraging IT to Drive Marketing ROI

Creating and executing effective marketing programs in the consumer goods/retail industry has never been more of a challenge than it is today. Find out how to solve these challenges in this exclusive white paper. Download Now
Author :Cognizant
Sterling Commerce Helps Cabela's Move from Catalogue-Centric Company to Multi-Channel Retailer

Sterling Commerce replaced Cabela's previous order management system with a solution that takes demand from every channel and orchestrates fulfillment across their entire supply chain. Download Now
Author :Sterling Commerce
Achieving the Perfect Order

Paper examines the issues of supply chain communication with an emphasis on a common paradigm, "the perfect order." Download Now
Author :Inovis
PCI v1.1 Primer: How Does PCI Apply to Wireless LANs?

See how you can assure tighter security and easier PCI compliance while significantly enhancing your customers' experience. Download Now
Author :Aruba
In-Store Mobility — Realize Your Vision

Paper provides a detailed look into the retail mobility landscape. Download Now
Author :Aruba
"Getting Retail Customers to WOW!" Engaging Shoppers Even When the Product Isn't at Hand.

While industry margins (net profit) remain in the 3 to 7 percent range, pricing pressure and increased competition have placed a greater onus on innovation in order to achieve sustained profitability and growth. Download Now
Author :Kaon Interactive
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 for Retail Businesses

Bringing the Security, Agility, Reliability and Lower Costs of Linux* to the Retail Industry — from the Point of Service Device to the Data Center. Download Now
Author :SUSE
Is the Perfect Shopping Experience Attainable?

Tapping into the Power of Inventory Optimization to Reduce Costs and Boost Profitability. Download Now
Author :Oracle
Achieving Customer Intimacy: Focus on the Store Experience

The store has become the nexus for the new multi-channel, multi-touchpoint shopping experience. Download Now
Author :Fujitsu
From Multichannel Fragmentation to Cross-Channel Transparency: Creating Competitive Advantage in Demanding Retail Environments

Paper explores what cross-channel transparency looks like through the consumer's eyes, the costs retailers incur by maintaining the status quo, and key steps retailers need to consider as they undertake cross-channel initiatives. Download Now
Author :Datavantage/Commercialware
Unmasking The Complexities of Data Sync

GDSN industry initiative promotes the concept of a unified global data synchronization effort, coordinated and implemented by standards organizations. Download Now
Author :Inovis
IBM Makes Linux Retail-Ready

IBM's Linux-based POS Environment bundles Linux stability, savings and flexibility with industry-leading support. Download Now
Author :IBM
Conquering E-mail and Data

Strategies to reduce risk and seal off unsuspected new holes in the communications perimeter. Download Now
Author :SonicWall
Are You Really Measuring Your Multi-Channel Customer Experience?

End-to-end, channel-crossing metrics are crucial to continuous improvement for retailers. Download Now
Author :Futuretail
Meeting Multi-Channel Customers' Rising Expectations

Achieving true multichannel integration is more than an opportunity. It's a survival strategy. Download Now
Author :Sponsor: GERS Retail Systems
Winning Customer Loyalty With a Demand-Driven Workforce

Now more than ever, profitable retailing revolves around the performance of the retailer's largest controllable expense and most strategic asset -- its workforce. Download Now
Author :Kronos
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Top 10 Takeaways from the 2012 Store Systems Study
1/25/2012 2:00:00 PM (EST)
Moderator:
Joe Skorupa, Group Editor-in-Chief, RIS News

Panelists:
>>Lee Holman, Lead Retail Analyst,IHL Group
>>Charlie McCarter, Regional Sales Director, SMB Retail Solutions, Dell Inc
>>Barry Wise, Industry Consultant, Epson America, Inc.
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The SoMoLo Imperative: Social, Mobile, Local Shopping Reaches the Tipping Point
1/10/2012 12:00:00 PM (EST)
Moderator: Joe Skorupa, Group Editor-in-Chief, RIS News

Panelist: Dave Bruno, Director of Commerce Studies, RedPrairie
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Leveraging WFM Analytics to Improve Labor Optimization Leveraging WFM Analytics to Improve Labor Optimization
Retailers who have deployed automated workforce management solutions, such as budgeting, forecasting, scheduling, timekeeping and task management, have access to volumes of valuable data, which can yield a wealth of analytical information to improve workforce optimization and labor allocation. Explore how to build the optimal workforce management dashboard and gain actionable insight to improve labor optimization initiatives.
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Mobile and Tablet Shopping Demystified -- Adoption and the ROI Business Case Mobile and Tablet Shopping Demystified -- Adoption and the ROI Business Case
Kony is proud to sponsor Aberdeen's new report titled, "Mobile and Tablet Shopping Demystified -- Adoption and the ROI Business Case" by Principal Analyst, Sahir Anand. Between July and August 2011, Aberdeen surveyed 300 enterprises to assess the consumer, process and technology factors that are shaping the roll-out and gradual expansion of existing mobile and tablet shopping initiatives. This Analyst Insight details business and customer success cases, and forward-looking roadmaps that are likely to define this space in the coming months.
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