Specsavers wanted to capture customer feedback at the point of experience in its retail stores. The survey needed to be automatic, engage with a representative sample of both customers and shop browsers, and deliver incisive analyses and rapid reports. Specsavers contracted IBM Business Partner, Customer Research Technology (CRT) to provide IBM AnyPlace™ Kiosks equipped with
For retailers and consumer products companies, the customer has always been critical to the business. Now, if anything, the balance of power has shifted even more. Consumers are getting smarter. They’re incorporating new technologies and more information into their daily lives.
Elie Tahari needed faster and more actionable information to speed decision making and keep its processes in sync with the fast changing market. Elie Tahari used Cognos® to create a seamless reporting framework that provides granular, real-time information from the sales floor to its suppliers’ inventory and production schedules.
Merchandising and Supply Chain Efficiency A key goal of retailers is to run merchandising and supply chain functions as cost-effectively and efficiently as possible. This is understandable, given the expectations of shareholders and the competitive pressures retailers face. If retailers are to satisfy their target customers, they must make fundamental changes. They must build networks
Businesses around the world are focused more than ever on the economic, social and environmental implications of vertical integration, where free trade agreements, the Internet and globalization are making the world simultaneously smaller, flatter and smarter. The systems and processes that enable goods to be developed, manufactured, bought and sold, services that deliver everything from
Our most recent GCG Unix Vendor Preference survey showed that our real-world survey respondents see IBM’s Power Systems brand leading the pack in terms of virtualization technology and support. We have also found that IBM-centric Unix users plan to embrace Unix virtualization at a significantly higher rate than customers who tend towards HP or Sun
Striving for excellence is a human trait shared by many, as we all try to be the best that we can in at least one area under our control. Achieving excellence is a little harder to accomplish; it requires an amount of hard work and dedication that only a select few are willing to deliver.
This whitepaper discusses the partnership between IBM and Intel to create a family of servers addressing the increasing need for energy conservation, by focusing on efficient performance to help midsize businesses avoid extra costs in future structural expansions. This includes Intel’s Xeon 5500 processor series which reconfigures itself according to the single or multi threaded
This whitepaper considers how Intel has analysed computing efficiency and has increased the capacity at a data centre. The measurements have been made in server power. This includes using a computing energy efficiency metric to reflect on server performance, which is then combined with server power measurements including consumption and utilisation. When these are combined,