cloud computing

App creates personalised shopping experience

The Swiss trading company Valora is opening its first cashless convenience store

The goods are chosen, scanned and paid for using the avec smartphone app. Mobile computer vision specialists Scandit’s scan engine is a key component of the customer-facing app. The future of shopping - whether online or offline - is ...

Blockchain: Protecting the retail sector from counterfeit products

Fake products reduce consumer confidence in a brand

What if something would allow manufacturers, retailers and customers to verify at any time that a product on the shelf is authentic?Counterfeit products often look deceptively like the real deal, but the quality is inferior to the original goods and ...

Integration to provide more options

real.de and ROQQIO

The real online marketplace is now also open to retailers working with the ROQQIO Commerce Solutions cloud solution. Thanks to the integration of the ROQQIO Commerce Cloud (previously known as eFulfilment), real is offering retailers two new ways of ...

Make room for innovation: Cloud services for agile businesses

Implement your retail pilot projects faster than ever. Interview with SAP retail experts.

Leaner, faster, more useful: Cloud solutions help analyze customer information and make meaningful use of it. Ralf Kern and Achim Schneider of the Industry Business Unit Retail at SAP reveal which retailers no longer want to do without the cloud and ...

Alibaba's Tmall unveils first Retail Megastore for Intersport

An array of Tmall’s new retail technologies implemented under one roof

Tmall, China's largest consumer platform for brands and retailers, today announced that its New Retail technologies and solutions have helped Intersport, one of the world’s biggest sporting goods retailers, to transform its flagship store ...

The John Lewis Partnership creates new cloud-based business archive

The digital preservation platform will future-proof tens of thousands of unique heritage, brand, product design and corporate assets

The John Lewis Partnership, one of the UK’s leading retail businesses, has selected digital preservation specialist Preservica to build a secure cloud-based business archive. The John Lewis Partnership operates 50 John Lewis shops across the ...

Success is no coincidence: Business Analytics in retail

Business Analytics - Collect and analyze data and use the knowledge from it profitably. With the right systems, every retailer can do that.

Collecting them is one thing, analyzing and using them constructively is another. Customer behavior data is worth its weight in gold. They make it possible to address customers personally, optimise prices and carry out forward-looking analyses. And ...

EuroCIS 2018 - Into the Cloud with AI

GK Software launches cloud4retail

GK Software SE is presenting innovations and new product versions at the EuroCIS trade show in Düsseldorf. The major focus is on the new full-service solution known as cloud4retail and the personalization of the customer journey with the help ...

Launching: TCP/IP enabled SMARTtill Solution®

Enhance Retail POS with Mobile and Cloud

Over €36 billion is the amount of mobile influenced revenue generated in 2017 according to  this Rapid Value Solutions’ report. Mobile commerce involves the consumer soliciting product knowledge via mobile apps or websites, visiting ...

Cloud computing: more competitive thanks to the cloud?

EuroCIS 2018 will feature a broad range of cloud-based applications, geared specially towards the retail trade

The cloud is becoming well established – not just in private data centres, but increasingly also in public networks. This is reflected in the 2017 Cloud Monitor of the Federal Association for Information Technology (Bitkom) and the consultancy ...

Forecast to 2023 for the global cloud storage market

Challenges, key vendors, drivers and trends for the next five years

The global cloud storage market is expected to grow at approximately 104 billion US dollars by 2023, at 25 percent of CAGR between 2017 and 2023. Major key players are Amazon Web Services, IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, VMware Inc., HP ...

Interoute opens new cloud zone in Stockholm

This is its 17th VDC zone globally and the third to open in 2016, following the launch of Istanbul and Singapore earlier in the year

The new Interoute zone in Stockholm meets the growing regional demand for fast local cloud services from enterprises in the Nordics. Interoute has a well-established presence in the Nordics, with around 100 employees across offices in Stockholm and ...

Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Hybrid Cloud Hosting

Interoute positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for the third year in a row

Interoute, owner operator of a global cloud services platform has announced that it has been positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s Managed Hybrid Cloud Hosting Magic Quadrant, Europe, released June 28, 2016. This Gartner Magic Quadrant is an ...

Agrantec launches new food production tracking system

UK-based food production tracking experts Agrantec today announced the release of their all-new NotaZone food production management software. NotaZone is a new, all-in-one cloud-based data management system designed specifically for the needs of ...

LS Retail unveils cloud-based POS system

Small retailers benefit from rapid deployment, flexibility and scalability

LS Retail has released LS One Express, the company's new light and feature-rich POS system deployed through the cloud. LS One Express is the hosted version of LS One, LS Retail's complete POS system including point of sale and back office ...

TelVue unveils new digital signage solution

TelVue InfoVue is a cloud-based high-definition, multi-zone solution

TelVue Corporation launched TelVue InfoVue – a cloud-based high-definition, multi-zone digital signage solution for professional broadcast, campus and enterprise. TelVue InfoVue adds powerful video messaging tools to a TV channel or display ...

POS integrated e-commerce: Strategic alliance to expand online

Retail Pro International (RPI) announced a strategic partnership with 24Seven Commerce

The alliance leverages the companies' shared capabilities and expertise to provide increased value to their customers and business partners. Through this partnership, 24Seven Commerce extends the value of its cloud-based e-commerce solutions, ...

New free of charge digital receipting service

Sending copies of printed receipts direct to the cloud via secure Microsoft Azure Cluster

International POS printer manufacturer Star Micronics announces the launch of its new free of charge digital receipting service, offering the retailer a low cost and fast route to providing the customer with a digital copy of the printed receipt as ...

Oracle and MICROS solutions extend retail-rich functionality

Updated and Expanded Oracle Retail Portfolio Helps Retailers Shift to Commerce Anywhere

Enhancements to Oracle’s retail portfolio included in Oracle Retail 14.1 help retailers simplify their IT environments while delivering the commerce anywhere experience consumers expect. The new release builds on Oracle’s strategy for ...

Opportunities and Risks with the Cloud

Retail Processes Are Optimized By Cloud Computing

Cloud computing can – if used properly – also have a huge potential for retailers to create flexible systems by making information, important applications and even entire business processes available and usable in real-time via the ...

“Without cloud computing, integrated omni-channel solutions cannot be implemented“

Interview with Michael Jaszczyk, CTO of GK Software AG

Things are heading to the Cloud: German retail is utilizing more and more cloud solutions. Nevertheless, a study conducted last year revealed that German retailers are considerably more hesitant to head for the Cloud compared to their European ...

“There is no absolute security“

Interview with Professor Herbert Weber, Competence Center Trusted Cloud

The safe use of cloud services is a challenge for small businesses in particular – yet one that pays off. To make the introduction to this topic easier for users, the independent Center of Excellence Trusted Cloud is currently working on ...

In-store communications: New online visual merchandising tool

Unefi now available to US retailers

US retailers can finally move away from archaic spreadsheets to manage their in-store and digital merchandising campaigns as Unefi, a Canadian-based software company is now offering their solutions to US retailers. Currently managing three ...

ChannelAdvisor expands e-commerce support for branded manufacturers

ChannelAdvisor Corporation announced the acquisition of E-Tale Holdings Limited, a UK-based company that offers a leading global “Where to Buy” solution. With this acquisition, ChannelAdvisor offers the industry’s first holistic ...

FMI and Alchemy release new food safety manager course for retail

Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and Alchemy Systems have collaborated with retail food safety directors to create an online, interactive training course, SafeMark™ Food Safety Manager: Certification Training for Retail Food Stores. Alchemy ...

Vend POS opens first office in Canada

Vend, a cloud-based point of sale (POS) and inventory, customer management software company, opened its first (and only) office in Toronto. Since its establishment in 2010, the New Zealand-based company has grown, and continues to expand in size ...

Cloud Hardware Spending Breaks $4 Billion Mark in 2014 in EMEA, IDC Study Reveals

A new International Data Corporation (IDC) study confirmed that cloud is the major disruption factor in the EMEA infrastructure hardware market, accounting for a growing portion of hardware spending and exerting influence on hardware architectures ...

Quality Refrigerated Services Enhances Operations with Cloud-based 3PL Solution from Accellos

AccellosOne Enterprise 3PL Allows Quality Refrigerated Services to Customize Services, Streamline Billing Practices

Accellos, a leading provider of supply chain execution software solutions, has issued a case study of AccellosOne Enterprise 3PL Cloud customer Quality Refrigerated Services, Inc. This case study illustrates the benefits experienced by Quality ...

Cloud computing especially popular in emerging markets

International survey on cloud computing by GfK Custom Research

Western businesses look set to be left behind in competitive global markets, as ambitious  companies in the emerging nations embrace cloud computing in order to drive growth and worldwide reach. According to a new study conducted by GfK Custom ...