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Total Merchant Services CEO Joins ETA Presidential Advisory Council

Total Merchant Services, a provider of business services for small companies, announced that Joe Kaplan — the company’s CEO — was appointed to the 2014 Presidential Advisory Council of the…

News January 28

SDL Unveils New Business Strategy, Customer Experience Cloud

With a new flagship product, the Customer Experience Cloud (CXC), SDL will offer retailers a cloud-based customer experience platform that incorporates social intelligence, customer analytics, campaign management, e-Commerce and web…

News January 28

Financial Analysts Share Insights On Recent Data Security Breaches

Executives at Target and Neiman Marcus are reeling from breaks in data security systems that compromised millions of customers’ credit and debit card records. Now Michaels Stores is investigating a…

Features January 28

Trend Watch: Data Security And Its Impact On Retail Innovation In 2014

Data security has now risen to the top of the heap of conversations in and around the retail industry. Undoubtedly, security breaches were not the planned topic of discussion for…

Features January 28

A Retail Wireless Registry For 50 Billion Things

By Gary Schwartz, CEO, Impact Mobile   When Cisco’s CEO, John Chambers, took the stage at CES in Vegas this year and announced that that there was a difference between The…

Executive Viewpoints January 28

Multiple Order/Pick-up/Delivery Options Fulfill The Omnichannel Promise

This is Part 1 of the Retail TouchPoints Omnichannel Order/Pick-up/Delivery report. Part 2 will appear in the Feb. 4 newsletter. Today’s omnichannel retailing environment requires inventory visibility that allows shoppers…

News January 27

Reinventing The Retail App For In-Store Success

Why exactly does a retail store need a good mobile app? There are two reasons. First, smartphones are stealing attention from the in-store experience. And second, shoppers who use smartphones…

Executive Viewpoints January 27

Consumers Willing To Trade Data For A More Personalized Retail Experience

Ongoing technological innovation is increasing customer expectations, and as a result they command exemplary service and more relevant experiences across all channels. As a result, consumers are more willing to…

Features January 27

Domo Platform Simplifies Access To Multi-Source Business Intelligence

Effective decision-making requires access to multiple sources of retail data anytime and from anywhere. When that data resides across disconnected systems, databases and applications, executives have difficulty obtaining a unified,…

News January 27
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