Monthly Archives: August 2004
Web Shipping Tool Saving Hours A Day For Dotcom Merchant
TheEndRecords.com process hundreds of orders a day, but it quickly discovered that it was having to compete with Amazon.com and others.It found Web-hosted tools—integrated...
Fewer Than One In Four Retail E-mail Questions Get Answered
As bad as that number sounds, its actually better than the average for other industries.Among the good pieces of retail news that came out...
Smartcards Trying To Help Welfare Programs
In the experimental program in Texas and New Mexico, participants charge their smart card at a health clinic and then uses it at participating...
IBM Brings High-Performance Computing to Houston
IBM will open its third high-performance computing center, this one geared toward the energy industry.IBM officials announced Thursday that the new Deep Computing Capacity...
Has Supply-Chain Software Hit Its Plateau?
In 2000, supply chain management (SCM) software was growing by 36 percent a year. This year, that figure is projected to plummet to about...
IBM Buys Venetica, Boosts Its On-Demand Arsenal
The Big Blue move is an importance advance for its strategically high-priority on-demand efforts. But taking advantage of Veneticas unstructured-data knowledge by still working...
Retail Demand Intelligence Suddenly Starts To Look Pretty Smart
A problem faced by many retailers today is to leverage the tons of collected data into decisions and to do it in realtime.Wegmans Food...
Running Retail Stores By The Dashboard Lights
Dashboards have long been used by IT operations to allow management to see large amounts of information—often continually updated—at a glance. Retailers are now...
Locking Down Internet Explorer
If youve read about Microsofts Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, you know about the new, improved firewall that is turned on by default....
$15 Billion Federated Stores Revamps Their Supply Chain
Operating under such household names as Bloomingdales and Macys and employing 111,000 people across its 457 stores, Federated has a remarkably complicated supply chain....