Analytics

Holiday Retail Forecasts and Predictions 2023
For retailers, the holiday season is here. Succeeding in the next few months and into 2024 requires analyzing and understanding shoppers. Here to help retailers strategize, RIS presents our fourth annual guide to peak selling season.
Rethinking Personal Shoppers With AI Search
Why don’t retailers fire their old site search engines when there is an AI alternative that will understand which products their customers really want?

Enterprise Resource Management
Supermarket Benchmark Study 2009
To understand how grocers are addressing today's difficult times and what plans they have in place to become market leaders rather than laggards, RIS partners with RetailCentric to develop the third annual supermarket benchmark study.
Business Intelligence (BI)
DemandTec Enhances Software-as-a-Service Suite
Latest release of optimization suite includes enhancements in analytics, operational efficiency, and ease-of-use.
Enterprise Resource Management
Technology Turns Adversity into Opportunity in Challenging Economy
As the challenge of the global economy reaches a magnitude not seen in more than 70 years, retailers are the first to feel the brunt of any significant decline.
Business Intelligence (BI)
Advance Auto Parts Adds Predictive Analytics Software
Advance Auto Parts improves market basket analysis, inventory.
Enterprise Resource Management
Hunting for Gold in the Great Outdoors
Predictive modeling helps Cabela's drive revenue and reduce costs by targeting core customers.
Point of Sale
Commiting to Self-Checkout
Understanding that self-checkout implementations are actually transformational projects.
Business Intelligence (BI)
QuantiSense, MicroStrategy Jointly Market Business Intelligence Platform
QuantiSense partners with MicroStrategy to jointly market their BI solution for the retail industry.
Business Intelligence (BI)
Twitter Takes Off as Darling of New Media
Do you Twitter? Should retailers Twitter? These are the questions retailers are asking as Twitter becomes the defacto powerhouse of social media. Some of the world's largest retailers have jumped on the Twitter bandwagon including Zappos, Meijer and TJ Maxx.
Assortment Planning
Armani Exchange Deploys Assortment Planning and Business
Armani Exchange selects Buyer's WorkMate Assortment Planning and Business Intelligence tools from IT Resources.
Enterprise Resource Management
Business Intelligence in Times of Crisis
Retail today is an increasingly competitive low-margin, high-volume business.
Business Intelligence (BI)
Microsoft Releases New Environmental Sustainability Dashboard
Dashboard helps mid-size businesses to track their environmental impact and energy consumption from within their ERP solution.
Business Intelligence (BI)
Burton Boosts Sales by 25 Percent with Personalized Product Recommendations
Sports retailer announces that personalized recommendations are driving nearly 25% of total sales on store.burton.com.

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