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Retail Paradox Weekly
Retail News Analysis by RSR Research
May 13, 2008
HP Buys EDS: What does it Mean for Retailers?
By Paula Rosenblum, Managing Partner
5/13/2008
Amid all the talk of Blockbuster threatening to buy Circuit City (not gonna go there today) comes a true blockbuster deal. Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced its intention to buy Electronic Data Systems (EDS) for an all cash deal of $12.8 billion. While some of us may sit here and wonder just how HP managed to find that much cash just lying around, most of us will more likely wonder “what does this mean to me?"
We know what the deal means... More
SAP vs. the Competition: A Tale of Switching Costs
By Nikki Baird, Brian Kilcourse, Paula Rosenblum and Steve Rowen
5/13/2008
RSR was seriously challenged to write this article, because we couldn’t figure out how to do it without seeming biased. We’ve done business with many of the new generation of retail application software roll-ups, and in the interest of full disclosure, one is SAP. We prefer not to write about vendors so that we can maintain our clients’ trust – but we do write about big vendors and their direction, because they simply have so much impact they can’t be ignored.
With that as backdrop, the entire team at RSR is very positive... More
Multi-channel Retailing the European Way
By Brian Kilcourse, Managing Partner
5/13/2008
Last month, we published a report entitled Finding the Integrated Multi-Channel Retailer: Benchmark Study 2008. Thirty-two of our survey respondents were European retailers (27 which were from the UK), and so we decided to compare and contrast how businesses in EMEA and North America markets approach the multi-channel retailing challenge. In its other research, RSR has found that competencies differ in various parts of the world. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that there are indeed differences in how EMEA retailers and North American retailers approach the challenges and opportunities of multi-channel retailing.
Responses from our EMEA survey participants show that more of these retailers have... More
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