Interview - January 31, 2012
Interview with Martin Schurig, Head of Financial Services Products, Telefónica Germany
Many consumers carry their cell phone in their pockets just like they carry their wallet. If it’s up to cellular phone companies, the cell phone is even meant to replace the wallet. The Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone from Great Britain and Spain’s Telefónica with its O2 brand already offer a joint payment procedure for online retailers. It is called “mpass“.
Report - January 18, 2012
The EHI Technology Days in Cologne, Germany, delivered a taste of the upcoming EuroCIS. One important topic in Düsseldorf is going to be cashless payment. For a long time, its share in German retail has stagnated at just over 40 percent. Now “mobile money” is hitting stores. But retailers are spoilt for choice: cards and cell phones with a wireless chip competing against cell phones that also turn into wallets without a chip.
Report - September 1, 2011
Retail is able to achieve more and more, particularly by reaching younger consumers via cell- and smartphones. That’s why applications – so-called apps – for the new mobile gadgets played a very big role at the EuroCIS. Yet also in existing online-shops and stores, many processes can be improved with new software. Here is a foray into digital marketing. At this point in time, more than four million people in Germany enter the mobile Interne
Interview - February 3, 2011
Interview with Udo Meyzis, CEO of SAF AG
The SAF AG from Tägerwilen by Lake Constance develops ordering and forecasting software for manufacturing and trade. The Swiss company pursues the approach of demand chain management. Here supply chain management is driven by the demand of the consumer. In our EuroCIS interview CEO Udo Meyzis explains how retail can already reach ROI after one year.
Interview - February 26, 2011
iXtenso talked to Rick Chavie, Vice President Marketing of NCR. He explained a new way of business between consumers and retailers. Rick Chavie also pointed out the benefits consumers and retailers can receive with this new way of 'converged retailing'. The new solution NCR offers to realize is called 'c-tailing'.