Articles
Retail Business Intelligence
Did You Get Any Nice Christmas Presents This Year?
While we watch numerous large corporations busily trying to digest their recent acquisitions, we all ought to keep an eye on the rapid and exciting development that is occurring at the other end of
the marketplace. 
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway!
The title of this article is used with the permission of Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., author of Feel the Fear and Do It anyway®.
Never Stop Moving!
The Dynamics of Retail Business Intelligence
Business intelligence needs to be flexible enough to adapt to the ever-changing questions posed by retailers.
Were You Looking Forward to 2007?
Are your business intelligence systems and processes geared to allow you to plan ahead, or is your management information still stuck in “what happened last week” mode?
Keeping a Strategic View of Your Retail Data
Beware of the status quo. Business intelligence for retail data requires strategy, as well as an understanding of critical success factors and the use of key performance indicators.
News
Wrigley Implements AeroScout’s Real-Time Enterprise Visibility Solution
Wrigley is using AeroScout's technology and a Cisco Unified Wireless Network to track the location of pallets in real time.
Oxford Industries, Inc. Selects SAP
Oxford selects SAP as its software vendor of choice based on the company's reputation for providing value in the retail industry.
Endeca Unveils Collaborative Approach for Multichannel Retail Innovation
Relational Solutions and Teradata Announce Partnership
EDW powerhouse and POS data integration leader join forces for demand signal repository solution.
New Version of 170 MarkView Financial Suite for the SAP ERP System Released
New release enriches accounts payable and purchasing users' experience.
White Papers
Large Scale Use of the Netezza Performance Server® System – Prepared by Winter Corporation
Winter Corporation reports the findings of its interviews with three large Netezza customers who validate large scale implementations of Netezza’s appliance.
Automated Analysis Technology
Automatic detection of threats and opportunities is a very complex task and neither business intelligence nor data mining technologies can address this specific task.
BusinessObjects Rapid Marts for SAP R/3®
Driving organizational performance with strategic business intelligence.
MPP database for Business Intelligence
In this paper, Kognitio describes the fundamental differences and advantages of a MPP database architecture over index-based databases.
Lowering the TCO of Data Warehousing
This paper from Kognitio asks the question that if Gordon Moore's law of performance improvement and cost reduction applies to processing power, why hasn't it worked for data warehousing?
Solutions Spotlights
Companies highlighted in the solutions spotlights serve the Retail industry.
Wayne Rigney, CEO of Decisions Made Easy – The Nielsen Company
Wayne Rigney discusses how Nielsen Direct Data Explorer, their consumer goods-intelligence analytic tool, helps retailers and CPG companies gain powerful insights into SKU and store-level performance
by analyzing retailer direct POS and related data. 
Sanjay Poonen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Performance Management for SAP-Business Objects
Sanjay Poonen shares SAP’s integrated road map for enterprise performance management providing highly usable, best-of-breed products.
Steven Adler, Program Director for IBM Data Governance Solutions
Steven Adler discusses IBM’s approach to data governance and explains the maturity model that manages risk, involves cross-functional stakeholders, mitigates security exposure and ensures
accountability for quality data throughout the organization.
