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Business to Individual, the maturing of VRM

Sometime during the 70’s and 80’s the balance of power between retailers and suppliers shifted – this was best described in the 1999 book ‘StoreWars – The Battle for Mindspace and Shelfspace‘ – where both sides competed for the attention of the consumer and therefore power in the relationship that determine profit margins. Despite huge…

Five for Five – 5 Retail Trends 2011-2016

Five Drivers of Change Observing recent strategies in retail and developments in technology and trade leads me to believe that the following issues are in play – together these will form the vortex of those changes: Balance of power between retailers and consumers The mix of retailing channels – stores, online, mobile and social Globalization…

2011 Semantic Technology conference

We’re excited to be participating in the 2011 Semantic Technology conference in San Francisco! You can catch Anne Hunt and Simon Hadley discussing Real-Time Semantic ETL today, June 7 at 2:40PM PDT, and Anne Hunt, Simon Handley, and To Kim presenting Innovation-in-a-Box during the poster session on Wednesday, June 8 from 10:45AM to 3:45PM PDT.…

First Retail Announces Innovation in a Box

First Retail Announces Innovation in a Box First Retail to offer SemanticETL™ and data application services, transforming the way big enterprise works with big data. SAN FRANCISCO – (June 7, 2011) — Semantic Technology Conference 2011 – First Retail, provider of big data analytics solutions for the enterprise, announces a new service to enable companies…

Press Releases

05/18/2012 – The Six C’s of Social Technologies Palo Alto – (May 18, 2012) — Spanish language El Pais newspaper Las seis ‘ces’ de las tecnologías sociales on May 18th, 2012. English version, Original version in Spanish 05/07/2012 – First Retail named one of five “Cool Vendors in Analytics and Business Intelligence” Palo Alto –…