Power BI (Business Intelligence) gives retail Chief Information Officers, or CIOs, the tools they need to manage all their data effectively. Here's the thing: siloed ERP and CRM data solutions worked well — once. However, with the overwhelming amount of data retailers need to manage, a streamlined, centralized BI system has become the CIO's all-essential data [...]
When it comes to planning your retail campaign, a unified commerce platform takes the guesswork out of your sales forecasting and gives you control over your campaign results. Meet Jane, CMO of UnSuited, a retail clothing operation for young executives Jane and her team spend weeks preparing their special end-of-fiscal-year sales campaign. Jane and the [...]
Digital transformation, omnichannel, mobile communications, social analytics... new trends, technologies, and opportunities are emerging almost out of nowhere and suddenly determine our everyday life and influence our purchasing behavior. We would like to show you exactly what these trends and investment opportunities mean and their concealed potentials for retail trade. To implement an omnichannel strategy, [...]
Increasing numbers of businesses, even entire industries, are shifting toward predominantly digital experiences – the digital economy. Some, such as Amazon, Facebook, and Uber, practically owe their existence to online transactions. Are you prepared for similar growth, or struggling to survive? What is the digital economy? Digital data has played a supporting role in the [...]
I was returning from a business trip and was doing my usual routine of paying the taxi driver with a credit card on the cabby's cell phone hooked up to a credit card processing application and spurred me to write this blog. I am in my late forties and remember the days of operating the [...]
Traditional ERP and CRM applications have been incredible pieces of software on their own, but have always had the drawback of the silo effect Microsoft, for years, has had plans to somehow tie these individual pieces of amazing software together and with the introduction of Dynamics 365, Microsoft has broken open the silos of the [...]
