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Department Store Lowers Turnover 20% With PeopleAnswers

Retailers that consistently minimize employee turnover produce more revenue and provide better customer service. This department store chain is committed to offering shoppers outstanding service by maintaining a sales staff that is well trained, knowledgeable, and empowered to make each customer's shopping experience an enjoyable one. Using the pre-employment assessment...

Tags: Customer Service, Department Store, Turnover, PeopleAnswers, Sales Strategy, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Recruitment & Selection, Sales Force Management, Sales, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2009-01-19

Sales Soar With Revamp of Online Gift Registry at Boscov's Department Store

Boscov's, Inc., is the largest full-line family - owned independent department store in the United States, with annual sales of about $1.1 billion. The challenge was to boost online usage of the gift-registry business at a 40-location regional department store chain Improvements were delivered by a solution from IBM and...

Tags: Registry, Department Store, IBM Corp., Boscov, Sales Strategy, Application Servers, Middleware, Utility Computing, Enterprise Software, Operating Systems, Servers, Databases, Sales, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2006-07-01

48 mln Americans visited e-card sites in December 2004

More than 132 mln people, or 80% of online consumers in the United States, visited retail sites in December according to comScore. Five of the top 10 gaining categories in December were retail-oriented and the fastest growing retail subcategory, jewelry/luxury goods and accessories, increased 30% from November to December and...

Tags: e-card

Blog posts 2005-01-25

48 mln Americans visited e-card sites in December 2004

More than 132 mln people, or 80% of online consumers in the United States, visited retail sites in December according to comScore. Five of the top 10 gaining categories in December were retail-oriented and the fastest growing retail subcategory, jewelry/luxury goods and accessories, increased 30% from November to December and...

Tags: e-card

Blog posts 2005-01-25

Wireless POS at Hyundai Department Stores

This webcast will discuss an advanced POS application used by Hyundai Department Stores in Korea which allows mobile checkout clerks use handheld PDAs with credit card scanners and portable receipt printers to assist customers on the store floor.

Tags: Hyundai, Point-of-sale, Department Store, Sybase Inc., Wireless, Scanners, PDAs, Databases, Hardware, Peripherals, Handhelds, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts

On Demand e-Commerce Infrastructure Facilitates Growth for Boscov's Department Store

With more than US$1 billion in annual sales from 41 department stores in five Mid-Atlantic states, Boscov's Department Store is the largest family-owned retailer in the United States. The company wanted to create a responsive, cost-efficient infrastructure that can handle Boscovs' annual doubling of online transaction volume. The solution to...

Tags: Department Store, E-business, IBM Corp., Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Mainframes, Internet, Servers, Hardware

Case studies

Additional Resources

What's the key to Apple's success?

One word: QUALITYA concept absent from WindowslandTDSo sad to see how Apple destroyed the word "innovation"Apple has never, ever, done anything innovative. By applying the term to blatant rebadging of 5 year old technology, you devalue the meaning of the word and insult those who actually [b]do[/b] innovate. For shame.Oh,...

Tags: Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Nokia sues Apple over iPhone

?trying to get a free ride on the back of Nokia?s innovation.?What do you mean? All innovation begins with Apple. Remember when they invented the portable digital music player? Or the thin laptop? Or the smart phone and touch screens? They even invented mice and GUI's. Apple invented everything...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., Nokia Corp., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?

Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Microsoft: Human error caused critical SMB2 vulnerability

did not explain why the fix was not back-ported to Windows Vista and other That very bad. I was wondering this myself when news broke that Win 7 was not vulnerable.What were they thinking? Fixing a bug and "forgetting" that other versions may actually be vulnerable?Or had they actually recorded...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Hulu Desktop, Microsoft Corp., critical SMB2 vulnerability, SMB2, SMB2 vulnerability, vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Gas Station Software 10.6 (Windows)

Daily, monthly, and annual tracking of your sales. Store purchases, fuel sales, fuel purchases, price adjustments/shortage, paid-outs, assets, complete employee, customer, vendor management. Inventory Tracking by department, item, and category. Flexible taxing system which allows you to tax items differently. Keep track of each of your fuel pumps and tanks,...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Agnitech, Sales Strategy, Taxes, Sales Force Management, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Sales, Financial Planning, Finance

Software downloads 2009-10-19

PayGo SaaS 4.6.27 (Mac)

The Big Picture - See up to the second information on how your business is doing. See today's sales, what's selling, your margins, what is on order, how things are going at the department level and more. Ring Sales - It's super easy to search for inventory. You certainly...

Tags: Gift Card, Apple Macintosh, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-09-29

Bizou BMI calculator 1.0 (Windows)

Discover your BMI Body Mass Index using the BMI calculator. Calculate the BMI using Metric or Standard systems of measurement. BMI Calculator will instantly and accurately interpret your BMI. You can also store and view your results. The interpretation of the results comes directly from the U.S Department of Health...

Tags: Result, Government, Tools & Techniques, Vertical Industries, Microsoft Windows, Benefits, Healthcare, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-09-24

Time to ditch the optical drive, once and for all

I agreeusb flash drive would be betterBut, why are you asking the question about the Beatles?Minor CorrectionDL DVDs hold 8.4GB and not 5.4In regards to the article I think Optical Media is a media that is slowly phasing out but the cost of the media for most purposes is still...

Tags: Flash memory, Consumer electronics, optical media, USB flash drive, DVD, optical drive

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business

What a BS conclusion ...Are you serious or just plain delusional???Using a server is not using cloud computing. In fact, any decent professional company would never even think about anything "cloud" except for basic web hosting.Let me just give you the top two most logical reasons why real companies...

Tags: Games, information technology, game, HTTP, crowdsourcing, Web, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-09-06

Snow Leopard gets battery forensics

Replace Soon/Now. But *how*?Replace Soon/Now/Check. But how do you replace the battery? Oh, that's right, you have to pay Apple not only for the battery but also for the labor cost to replace it. Genius bar, indeed. Apple have figured a way to make money off support.Reminds me of Hitch-Hikers...

Tags: Engineering, Snow Leopard, Apple Inc., battery, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Don't Gamble With Your Recovery: Protect More and Store Less (Part 4 of 4)

Backup vs. archiving? Recovery vs. discovery? Which protects the data and which keeps the legal department off the back? This webcast looks at backup, recovery, and archiving. The presenter will discuss the business needs driving these areas of IT, as well as technical differentiation to demonstrate which information management solutions...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Information Management, Recovery, Archiving, Business Intelligence, Content Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

Webcasts 2009-08-27

Will advances in the Mac OS tip the scales for BYOPC?

Yes indeedy... It's a good time to know how to support Macs.It's not too late guys... If you like your IT careers, it's a good time to pick up a Mac and start tinkering / learning... You UNIX guys should take to it like a fish to water (considering 10.5...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, operating system, Apple Inc., rev, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Click Shopping Organizer 1.0.20.1 (Windows)

Click Shopping Organizer makes it easy to create shopping and grocery lists. Create as many lists as you want. Create recurring lists for items you buy repeatedly. Print the lists to paper, or save as a file to view on your phone or PDA. Organize your shopping list by departments....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, List, Click Software Solutions, PDAs, Patches, Food & Beverage, Search, Handhelds, Hardware, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2009-08-24

DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC approval

Yeah but...Sure wish they'd fire McNealy & Schwartz, then it would make it all worthwhile.Michael Murdock, CEOWell I never liked Oracle anyway......good way for Oracle to shoot itself in the foot. :)Did you know that large snakes can misjudge prey and try to eat something too big? Then they literally...

Tags: Linux, Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft development tools, U.S. Department of Justice, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-20