Tag: retail
Retailers Find Further Reason for Real-Time
Retailers use streams of data from registers, social media, call centers, return and invoicing centers and various other places to piece together competitive elements of their business. But big data in retail doesn’t end there. Loss prevention and real-time fraud... Read more…
Of Tags and Targets: When SaaS Falls Short
As the scale of mega-retail and content-driven sites continues to drive ever-upward, in part due to the added influx of diverse data types from the mobile web, the need for fine-tuned tools to analyze site movement and engagement are more present, but harder.... Read more…
Startup Wrangles Machine Learning for Retailers
Earlier last month, Belgium-based startup, NGDATA, announced that it secured more funding to plow forward with its Lily big data management platform. The young company claims to have found a way to blend machine learning... Read more…
Teradata Rakes In New Retail Wins
This week Teradata announced that in addition to recent high-profile new customer wins, including Target and department store giant Belk, industrial retail outfit Grainger would be added to its roll. The company is leveraging the Active Enterprise... Read more…
SAS Shifts Retail Analytics to HPC Platform
This week SAS announced that their more popular and resource-demanding packages for retailers would be moved under the umbrella of their High Performance Computing Platform. This includes products to harness predictive analytics and allow for swift price changes. Read more…
The Best Kept Secret in Big Analytics?
When a company calls itself a "best kept secret" bells should go off that they might be covering for a lack of business. One exception to this, however, is 1010data--a company that has grown quietly within the ranks of Fortune 500 financial and retail firms and is moving into the spotlight. Read more…
Oracle Rounds Out Retail Appeal with Endeca Buy
This week Oracle announced its intent to bring Endeca into the fold, thereby bolstering their ability to reach big data-aware e-commerce and retail giants. While Oracle has traction in this area already, bringing the ability to manage unstructured data and retailer demands simultaneously makes this buy big news, especially for rivals HP, IBM and SAP. Read more…
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