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Software vendors offer AI sales boost for retail at NRF show

CIO

As they take stock after the year-end frenzy of shopping the holiday season always brings, retail CIOs attending the National Retail Federation’s annual show, NRF 2024, may be wondering how they can improve their IT systems’ performance over the next 12 months. year on year in the first 11 months of 2023, AI or no AI.

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PCI DSS version 4.0: Is your payment card data security program ready?

CIO

Not surprisingly, the retail industry was also highly targeted. And more specifically, what can CIOs, CISOs and other IT leaders do to make certain they are doing everything possible to prevent the loss of payment card data – an event that creates a worrisome inconvenience for customers and loss of trust among consumers?

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Retail Metrics that Not Enough Data-Driven Entrepreneurs Track

Smart Data Collective

Retailers around the world are discovering that big data can be incredibly valuable to their bottom lines. Take the time to evaluate your business model carefully and prioritize the right variables when trying to grow your retail business. Targeting the Right Variables for Your Data-Driven Retail Business Model.

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The business value of social sustainability

CIO

The United Nations defines social sustainability as, “Identifying and managing business impacts, both positive and negative, on people.” Directly or indirectly, companies affect what happens to employees, workers in the value chain, customers and local communities and it is important to manage impacts proactively.

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Enterprises enthusiastic about generative AI, Foundry survey shows

CIO

Those in retail or financial services were most likely (62%) to report active use of it, closely followed by manufacturing, production, and distribution (59%), and technology (56%). Non-IT leaders, however, were most concerned (40%) about loss of control over corporate data. Other respondents were managers, directors, or VPs.

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What is predictive analytics? Transforming data into future insights

CIO

Retailers often use predictive models to forecast inventory requirements, manage shipping schedules, and configure store layouts to maximize sales. The technology helps adopters in fields as diverse as finance, healthcare, retailing, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue.