IT Services

How Legacy Tech Systems Are Innovating Retail

Businesses that choose to replatform are not always aware of the robust capabilities of legacy systems. Yet this is the reason mainframes continue to support some of our most essential industries, including the retail sector.

Social Distancing Proves To Be Music to Sweetwater’s Ears

Sweetwater, a music retailer that’s nearing $1 billion in annual sales, found itself in the center of a perfect storm as one of the unexpected non-essential retail beneficiaries during the coronavirus health crisis.

Retail’s Best Place to Work in IT in 2020

The annual Computerworld and Insider Pro ranking, now in its 27th year, uses such criteria as career development, training, retention and benefits to rank IT work environments.

6 Ways to Protect Your IT Budget During the Pandemic (and Beyond)

Learn what retailers can do to identify cost-optimization opportunities across their IT ecosystem now while also protecting the IT budget over the long term.

Rethinking Traditional Approaches on Acquiring, Maintaining and Enhancing the POS

This RIS Explorer Series report explores three key criteria retailers must consider when upgrading their POS solutions.

Top 10 Department Stores: Who Made the Cut?

Department stores are racing to master omnichannel in their efforts to win customer loyalty.

The Top 10 Department Stores

Department stores have come full circle as prime shopping destinations. Through digital initiatives, investments in technology and store remodels, departments stores that play their cards right will remain for the long haul.

Who Are the Leading Women in Retail Tech?

From the engineering lab to the corner office women are making their mark on retail technology and setting the pace for future innovation. Lend RIS News your expertise and help us honor the most deserving women in retail tech.

Five Female Tech All-Stars Driving Innovation at Target

From the boardroom to the engineering lab women are shaping retails' future like never before. Meet five members of Target's technology team that are helping to push the innovation envelope and keep the retailer on the cutting edge.

Mobility Drives Retail IT Investments to $43.9B

Mobility is the high-tech tail that wags the dog for retailers. So many projects cluster around mobility in the tech stack that it has become the dominant driver of IT investment today. According to a just released report by TBR, mobility is pushing a 5% increase in IT budgets in 2013 for large North American retailers and, not surprisingly, mobile POS is where the big money is going.

Three IT Avenues for Retailers Entering a Greener World

There are plenty of ways for retailers to be green. In the IT world, the solution falls into three general categories.

Dot Foods Achieves Automation Goals for Purchase Orders

Dot chooses EXTOL Business Integrator (EBI) to provide business integration platforms.

Crossing Borders

Farmatodo speeds expansion by simplifying its IT platform

2011 Top 10 Retail IT Service Providers

CIOs have many sleepless nights trying to figure out where the future is headed. There is revolution in the air around the globe that is upending cultures, economics and pillars of society. How is a CIO supposed to keep pace with these tectonic shifts and technology, too? For many, the answer is a trusted IT services provider. Here are the top 10 working today in retailing.