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Retail Paradox Weekly
Retail News Analysis by RSR Research
May 26, 2009
The New Trade Show: Making the Most of User Group Conferences
By Nikki Baird, Managing Partner
5/26/2009
Having completed a third user group conference in nearly as many weeks, and given that Paula is covering what we saw at Manhattan, I thought I would use this week to offer some thoughts on how to make the most of user group conferences, especially for vendors. So while this advice is geared mostly for vendors, retailers can learn something too - something that helps you make the most of what may be your only opportunity to both learn what your key vendors are up to, and to get a bigger picture view of what's going on in retail technology.
User group (UG) conferences are rapidly taking the place of... More
'Virtualization' Comes Hard for POS Solutions
By Brian Kilcourse, Managing Partner
5/26/2009
I had the opportunity to speak last week at the IBM Retail Systems Users Group conference in Las Vegas. The very name of the UG underlines some of the changes in retail technology over the past decade: once known as the IBM 4690 Users Group, the organization morphed into the IBM Store Systems Users Group, and finally to its current appellation. But “a rose is a rose,” and at the conference many of the organizations that have supported and enhanced the IBM 4690 platform to make it what it was and is were in full force.
The conundrum they all find themselves in is that... More
Manhattan Momentum: The Semantics of Planning and Execution, and Following the Money
By Paula Rosenblum, Managing Partner
5/26/2009
RSR’s most recent stop on the Springtime Technology User Group trail was in Las Vegas, at Manhattan Associates’ Momentum conference. My task while there was to give a speech and participate in a panel discussion on Integrated Planning. Nikki was also on hand, to do the same on multi-channel retailing and distributed order management. An interesting conversation ensued between members of another analyst firm and us, on how to compartmentalize “Planning” in retailing.
Manhattan considers itself... More
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