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
Think of virtualisation as a strategy rather than a technology. When considering the benefits, don’t look just at the hardware and energy cost savings, but consider business uptime particularly as downtime is virtually eliminated. With these types of benefits, most companies find it easy to justify the cost.
Over time, many fundamental business activities – marketing, advertising, customer support, research – have become Web dependent. At the same time, the Web is now considered the number one delivery mechanism for malware. This poses a significant security challenge to companies around the world. Compounding that challenge is the advent of interactive Web technologies known
At first comparison, spyware and computer viruses might appear to have more in common than not. They are both malicious programs, they both impact system stability, and the effects of both can range from being a nuisance to infl icting serious damage. They are also both programs that require specialized tools for their removal. And
This paper considers how Web-based security threats are evolving, within the context of IT trends including mobile, home computing and other forms of remote access that could all potentially increase the attack surface of the organisation.
Email is vital in business communications. Companies worldwide are dependent upon it. It is used to communicate with customers and employees on a daily basis. At the same time that companies are generating huge volumes of email, cyber criminals are targeting email knowing that it is a data form rich in valuable personal and corporate
This paper discusses the new generation of web security offerings provided by service providers in the cloud, where protection is applied at the point where the threats are being seen—that is, directed at web-based applications. In taking the protection nearer to the threats, organisations can benefit from vastly improved internet security as the threats are