If you’re like most businesses, you already have at least one workload running in the cloud. However, that doesn’t mean that cloud migration is right for every element of an enterprise’s IT infrastructure. While cloud environments are generally scalable, reliable, and highly available, those won’t be the …
Big data and how to not only manage it, but use it for unprecedented advantage is a topic on everybody’s mind. With some of the world’s largest multi-national enterprises calling Europe home – European companies are influencing the transformation of their businesses on a global scale.. So, …
As retailers grow, managing data across their application landscape becomes crucial. Business users and Information Technology (IT) leaders want to choose data management solutions that provide insights to them and provide relevant information to their customers along their purchasing life-cycle. Accommodating scale, speed and different data types …
Do you ever walk into a supermarket and get a sense of déjà vu? Just look around, the produce, bakery, frozen foods, cleaning supplies, and other utilities are all well organized in a different aisle, just the way you like them! Each aisle has a big banner, …
Marshall McLuhan famously said, “The medium is the message.” To adapt the philosopher’s prescient words to retail, driving sales in a multi-touch shopping landscape means the medium must define the message. Therein lies the crux of Master Data Management (MDM). MDM establishes a common data language for product …
Last week, Riversand teams attended not one, but two industry conferences where customer and product data management featured heavily as foundational drivers of customer satisfaction and competitive advantage. One team attended IRCE: Internet Retailer Conference in Chicago, one of the premiere e-commerce events. The event featured a …
Data rules the world. Over the past two months, several data focused summits descended upon London – the Gartner Data & Analytics summit and the IRM Master Data Management and Data Governance event. In my recap blog, I decided not to spend too much time on the …
No one can argue that the primary source of growth for a company is unearthing the needs of the market and investing in the research and development of new products. But as Joan Schneider and Julie Hall have discovered most product launches fail and are never to …
You would be surprised of how many companies (and I am talking here about giants with a history of excellence) are still stuck in the old days of data management. Detailed product data is an invaluable resource for any company who wishes to spot the emerging trends …
The sales in the auto industry regained pre 2008 levels in 2015/2016, but the first quarter 2017 brought about a new drop in market’s profits. The reason? Car manufacturers have been largely producing more cars than the consumer demand. This coupled with the fact that people are …
What is Unified Commerce? The short answer: competing on customer experience. A step beyond Omnichannel, the unified commerce business model is the response to the sharp increase in mobile usage rates and the shift from a product-centric approach towards customer-centricity. This new wave of digital synergy was …
Advances in information technology have transformed the way products and services are conceived and marketed to the final customer. Compared to the traditional method where products were created in-house and then released to the market and tested, newer technologies emphasize and support the need for customization and …
