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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

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

Apple Store fails the Nordstrom test

Yet another Apple horror storyOnce again, an Apple horror story, trouble straight out of the box (forget "it just works").Most of the Apple afficionados I know have such horror stories. There's a massive one right now with the new iMacs. On the other hand, I know very little such stories...

Tags: Desktops, UNIX, Apple Inc., Apple Store, Nordstrom Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-27

Death of the black box EULA

Nonsense. Just look at Psystar.They died by the EULA. The judge even brought that up.And open source software has an EULA of its own, telling you exactlly what you can and must do to be able to use the software.Any failure to follow the EULA/GPL allows the owner of the...

Tags: EULA, black box, software

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

iPhone replacements

washed out row of pixelsI had a washed out row of pixels on my screen and they just gave me a brand new one. Took about 5 minutes, and when I hooked it up to iTunes, everything I had synced: contacts, songs, movies, text messages, alarm clocks, notes, etc. was...

Tags: Sales strategy, Smart phones, Sales force management, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple iPhone, sales

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

HP vs. Dell: Showdown at the Windows 7 upgrade corral

Well, the great thing is all the competition. I like to see Acer squeezing them both from below, and of course competing with each other. Of course also great to see all the pressure on MS to innovate and lower prices.Google Chrome_OS will be hard to beatWell, with Google_Chrome_OS it...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Windows 8, Microsoft Windows, XPS, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Another Apple Black Friday leak rumor - with prices!

Congrats ZDNet on the Apple advertising contract!!What with 15 blog posts advertising Apple's upcoming Black Friday sale and the nearly full page Apple video advertisement that you've been running here recently, I can only conclude that all blog posting must now be approved by Apple's marketing department. Hope the compensation...

Tags: Blogging, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple Store, Black Friday

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Velocity Micro NoteMagix M17 Ultra

Velocity Micro reviewI had ordered a very expensive M17 Ultra gaming laptop from Velocity Micro as my little gift to myself this holiday season. Well, I got it last night...To start with, I was a returning customer. My desktop is a Velocity Micro rig, bought in 2007, and I've...

Tags: Wireless LANs, PRODUCTIVITY, Velocity, Velocity Micro

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Gas Station Software 11.1 (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 2009-11-10

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

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