Scala Introduces Advanced Analytics that Helps Retailers be Bold with Big Data to Boost Sales

Exton, PA (PRWEB) March 05, 2012

Scala, Inc. today unveiled Scala Advanced Analytics, a cloud computing-based predictive analytics application for retailers which transforms market data and live third-party data streams into marketing messages that positively impact buying behavior. Advanced Analytics helps retailers know what their customers want to buy before the customers do and encourages them to make purchases through point-of-sale digital signage.

Scala Advanced Analytics capabilities enable retailers to leverage data they already own to predict and deliver optimum sales messages to in-store customers with digital signage.

Scala Advanced Analytics is a game-changing application for retailers, said Tom Nix, Scala CEO. Powerful Scala digital display content driven by Advanced Analytics can grab customers attention, engage them with immediacy and interactivity, and present customers multiple streams of relevant information on one or a series of displays. Advanced Analytics constantly monitors data to suggest changes to messages to match business rules and conditions and even the individual customer in front of the screen.

As consumers have more and more information access points, automated multichannel marketing becomes critical, said Steven Keith Platt, Director of The Platt Retail Institute. Cross-channel consumers have been found to be 33.4 percent more valuable to retailers. To implement this requires a streamlined, Big Data management systemization.

Retailers can be Bold with Big Data

Scala Advanced Analytics can digest millions of data records on sales, products, customer habits, trends, pricing changes, weather, time of day, day of week, season of the year and much more. Then, the application uses predictive analytics to determine the probability of what might happen next in a retail environment based on a retailers business rules and goals.

Advanced Analytics spells out to the retailer the best course of action with digital signage content to achieve the preferred sales outcome. The application has an automated machine-learning feedback loop that continues to learn about the retailers business and customers to optimize business decisions so the application constantly improves its recommendations.

With Advanced Analytics and Scala digital communication software, a retailer can create automated, data-driven messaging for point-of-sales signage according to its own pre-defined goals such as:

Scala Introduces Advanced Analytics that Helps Retailers be Bold with Big Data to Boost Sales

GXS Boosts Retailers Drop Ship Initiatives with B2B Social Community Management Platform

(PRWEB) September 10, 2012

GXS, a leading provider of B2B integration services, today announced that its RollStream solution enables retailers drop ship solutions. GXS RollStream assesses vendor capabilities and delivers supplier lifecycle management tools for drop ship and Omnichannel retailing. As a collaborative business social supply chain offering, GXS RollStream enables retailers to quickly establish guidelines and set expectations to ensure consumer satisfaction.

The rise in online shopping has made it necessary for leading retailers to offer consumers a broader range of merchandise to compete in todays market. To keep up with demand, retailers are growing their drop ship programs with vendors and suppliers to offer increased choice and availability. Fully understanding suppliers capabilities in relation to packaging, branding and shipping help create successful programs from the outset.

Retailers interested in expanding their drop ship programs can use GXS RollStream for surveying and identifying supplier capabilities and interest in direct-to-consumer initiatives. RollStream rapidly evaluates their ability to pick and pack individual units from warehouse locations, ship to home addresses via parcel carriers and exchange the associated purchase order, inventory and ASN EDI documents. Retailers can also use RollStreams productivity tools to rapidly onboard the chosen suppliers into the drop ship programs, by delivering outbound communications, monitoring response levels and walking each vendor step-by-step through a task-based workflow for enabling drop ship. Once onboarded, RollStream administers enhancements to drop ship programs such as expedited shipping, custom packaging and gift wrapping.

With the huge growth in couch commerce and tablet shopping, there has never been more pressure on retailers and e-tailers to expand the choice and availability of items for sale, said Nick Parnaby, vice president extended enterprise solutions at GXS. To make these items available for sale and engage broader communities of suppliers that offer them, retailers need to empower their merchandising and B2B teams with next generation productivity and process management tools. Thats where GXS RollStream comes in. It is specifically designed for assessing, engaging and enabling new vendors activities retailers must excel at to protect and expand revenue streams.

RollStream supports human centric B2B activities, allowing cross-functional personnel from both sides of a trading relationship to interact with one another. From assessing capabilities and automation of trading partner agreement creation, to full lifecycle engagement and relationship governance, RollStream offers a single supplier information repository and interaction playbook. This provides retailers with a holistic view of their relationship with each of their suppliers. The product allows merchants to take a methodical approach to their drop ship program by establishing clear guidelines and thresholds up front. RollStream also includes mechanisms for monitoring the performance of the defined program as well as the participating partners themselves.

With RollStream, GXS supports the entire procure-to-pay lifecycle for retailers and order-to-cash for suppliers. Drop ship is a vital aspect of a successful Omnichannel retail strategy. Focused on improving shipping and receiving through adoption of the Advance Ship Notice (ASN) and serialized carton labeling, companies can easily adapt their B2B programs to serve evolving channels such as internet and mobile commerce. Using a cloud-style approach, GXS enhances the flexibility and agility of integration capabilities for buyers and suppliers. Its comprehensive B2B portfolio is used by more than 90% of the Fortune 500 general merchandisers and more than 200 large retail organizations across the globe to enhance procure-to-pay and logistics supply chain visibility, improve data quality and enable complex trading communities.

About GXS:

GXS is a leading B2B integration services provider and operates the worlds largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid

GXS Boosts Retailers Drop Ship Initiatives with B2B Social Community Management Platform

Fujitsu to Increase the Efficiency of Retailers Remote IT and POS Device Management with Fujitsu Retail Systems Management, powered by Miradore

Dallas, TX, USA and Helsinki, Finland (PRWEB UK) 9 October 2012

Miradore, an innovative enabler of automated IT management services, and Fujitsu announce a collaboration by which Fujitsu will utilize Miradores automated remote management technology in their new point-of-sale (POS) management offering branded as Fujitsu Retail Systems management, powered by Miradore (FRSM).

This solution, based on Miradores technology, significantly improves the agility and efficiency of retail IT management by enabling remote access to in-store systems for installation, maintenance, software distribution and repairs.

Fujitsu Retail Systems Management, powered by Miradore provides IT support staff with a single dashboard view and remote access to multiple end-user device platforms throughout organizations, including POS terminals, PCs, notebooks, servers, printers, network equipment, smartphones and tablets. The solution independently gathers up-to-date asset and configuration data and provides device management tools for all lifecycle stages.

We are excited about the benefits we can bring our retail customers with this solution, said Marc Janssens, Vice President, Retail Operations, Fujitsu America. This scalable suite optimizes the availability of computers in retail stores while at the same time lowers the TCO by streamlining administration and reducing site visits to an absolute minimum. The remote management suite can be installed within our customers environment and is self-managed by the retailer, providing them with immediate access to the available information and tools to act accordingly.

It is a true pleasure to announce the expansion of our partnership program to Fujitsu in North America, as it is a testimony to the successful cooperation in the European countries and a step towards further extensions, said Kristian J

Fujitsu to Increase the Efficiency of Retailers Remote IT and POS Device Management with Fujitsu Retail Systems Management, powered by Miradore

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 30 November 2012 It is the busiest time of year for most online retailers but a surge in visitor numbers can leave IT systems struggling to keep up. Many businesses (and their customers) will be noticing their website is sluggish leaving users frustrated and retailers less likely to make a sale. Cloud services provider, Databarracks, is offering online retailers free consultancy and analysis of systems to see how they could use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to effectively handle seasonal peaks in website traffic. Seasonal-based shopping can account for a large proportion of annual sales, so its essential your infrastructure can deliver when it’s busy, says James Watts, Head of Marketing at Databarracks. Online retailers often suffer from poor performance at Christmas as their IT infrastructure cant cope with the extra demand. You could choose to buy more servers to meet the additional requirement but they are likely to rest dormant for the rest of the year. Cloud computing solves this problem; AWS uses features like Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to give you seemingly unlimited performance and resources. You always have the power to keep up during the peaks but you arent left with lots of spare capacity when sales and site visitors are lower the rest of the year, says Watts. As the Christmas count down accelerates, retailers may be starting to experience performance issues but it is too late to make any major changes without risking lost sales. Hence, the offer is timed to take place when Christmas is over and the New Year sales have finished. Businesses will be able to reflect on the period and look at ways to improve for next year, says Watts. Our consultants will be on hand to advise retailers on how they could use AWS to keep costs down and performance up in preparation for the next seasonal spike. To take advantage of Databarracks free consultancy offer, simply call 0800 033 66 33 before December 31st to book your assessment session and report. Sessions are timed to take place from 14th January to 28th of February 2013, once the Christmas rush is over and to allow a proper assessment of how websites performed over the busy period. About Databarracks Databarracks provides secure cloud infrastructure, backup and disaster recovery services from UK based, ex-military data centres. Contact: Leonie Guguen, Communications Manager, Databarracks Tel: 0800 033 6633 E: leonie.guguen(at)databarracks(dot)com Firm Offers to Help Online Retailers Keep Their Sparkle during Christmas Rush

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 30 November 2012

It is the busiest time of year for most online retailers but a surge in visitor numbers can leave IT systems struggling to keep up. Many businesses (and their customers) will be noticing their website is sluggish leaving users frustrated and retailers less likely to make a sale.

Cloud services provider, Databarracks, is offering online retailers free consultancy and analysis of systems to see how they could use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to effectively handle seasonal peaks in website traffic.

Seasonal-based shopping can account for a large proportion of annual sales, so its essential your infrastructure can deliver when it’s busy, says James Watts, Head of Marketing at Databarracks. Online retailers often suffer from poor performance at Christmas as their IT infrastructure cant cope with the extra demand. You could choose to buy more servers to meet the additional requirement but they are likely to rest dormant for the rest of the year.

Cloud computing solves this problem; AWS uses features like Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to give you seemingly unlimited performance and resources. You always have the power to keep up during the peaks but you arent left with lots of spare capacity when sales and site visitors are lower the rest of the year, says Watts.

As the Christmas count down accelerates, retailers may be starting to experience performance issues but it is too late to make any major changes without risking lost sales. Hence, the offer is timed to take place when Christmas is over and the New Year sales have finished.

Businesses will be able to reflect on the period and look at ways to improve for next year, says Watts. Our consultants will be on hand to advise retailers on how they could use AWS to keep costs down and performance up in preparation for the next seasonal spike.

To take advantage of Databarracks free consultancy offer, simply call 0800 033 66 33 before December 31st to book your assessment session and report. Sessions are timed to take place from 14th January to 28th of February 2013, once the Christmas rush is over and to allow a proper assessment of how websites performed over the busy period.

About Databarracks

Databarracks provides secure cloud infrastructure, backup and disaster recovery services from UK based, ex-military data centres.

Contact:

Leonie Guguen, Communications Manager, Databarracks

Tel: 0800 033 6633

E: leonie.guguen(at)databarracks(dot)com

Firm Offers to Help Online Retailers Keep Their Sparkle during Christmas Rush