February - 2016 issue

Cover Story

Dolphin RFID: Accelerate the IoT Revolution with RFID
The retail management practices in India mostly are the same as they have been practiced for generations.

In My Opinion

GlobalLogic: Internet of Things to Make Retail Industry Truly Omnichannel
By Piyush Jha, AVP, Product Engineering - GlobalLogic
The new generation of ever demanding customers, today, need things fast and want them to work seamlessly.  more >>

Breaking the Kill Chain: Protecting Against the Known and the Unknown
By Patrick Grillo, Senior Director, Product Strategy, Fortinet
Data theft is a big business. More than 1.3 billion records have been exposed in the last two years. The threat evolution is faster than ever - we are, on average, discovering more new threats...  more >>

CIO Insights

IT Influence in Business: The Bigger Picture
By Pratap Gharge, President and CIO at Bajaj Electricals Ltd
The business segment of any company can be identified by the products it provides or the services or the geographical locations it operates in. We can say it as; business segment is a single part...  more >>

IT, an Integral Part of the Business, Driven by the Business and Delivering Value for the Business
By Arup Choudhury, CIO, Eveready Industries India Limited
After the emergence of Internet and social media, digital initiatives are a mandate for all businesses.  more >>

CXO Insights

The Growing Impact of IT in E-Commerce Sector
By Shamik Sharma, Chief Technology Officer & Product Officer, Myntra Designs Private Limited
The e-commerce sector has seen an unmatched growth over the past few decades. According to the research firm Gartner, India is one of the fastest growing e-commerce markets, budding at...  more >>

Lose Future Customers without .com Email
By Sanjay Bhatia, President, FICCI-CMSME
An email address conveys much more than you may imagine, especially, to one's potential customers. A branded email id like 'yourname@yourbusiness.com' helps to create the right first impression of...  more >>

Retail Industry: From Bricks to Clicks
By Meheriar Patel, Chief Technology Officer, The MobileStore Limited
Today, internet has turned out to be a boon for the retail industry allowing millions of retail startups to launch their business with minimal resources. With the changing times, the choice of...  more >>

Cloud App in Finance: Do ROI Justify the Transformation
By Mr. Lakshminarayanan Hariharan, Vice President Client Delivery & IT Enablement
It is recognized that the finance community’s adoption of technology is limited. The view was that each function views the other as a hindrance to their business process flow.  more >>

Technological Advancements and the Changing the Face of Retail Industry
By Sunil Nair, VP-Technology, SPAR Hypermarket
Over the past few years, a number of technology trends have evolved and dramatically altered the retail industry. The emergence and the transformational growth of the new economy has unleashed...  more >>

20 Most Promising Retail Solutions and Services Providers

E-Orchids Techsolutions: Adding Value to Business with Customer Focused Approach
By Deepshikha Singh
With the new advancement of technology in 2004 the usage of internet has augmented. Every internet usage became widespread and wish to intensify their business, notwithstanding its size.  more >>

20 Most Promising Retail Solution and Service Providers
By ERP Insights Team
The retail industry is growing at a breakneck speed in India. By 2020, retail industry in India is expected to grow to US$ 1.3 trillion, registering a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 16.7...  more >>

JamHub: Enabling Business Efficiency through Automation
By Deepshikha Singh
The fact that today there are more number of smartphones than PCs and customers are using mobile applications six times more than the websites, makes it clear that mobile applications are a great...  more >>

Reverie Language Technologies: Bridging the language gap
By Arunakshree Das
Communication, in any form, is paramount to the survival of life itself—and it cannot be just one-sided. When it comes down to your business, it is not all that different.  more >>

ERP Buzz World

Gartner Says Smart Machine Technologies Will Render the Offshore Model Obsolete for Competitive Advantage
By ERP Insights Team
By 2018, 40 percent of outsourced services will leverage smart machine technologies, rendering the offshore model obsolete for competitive advantage, according to Gartner, Inc.  more >>

Research Reveals Retailers’ Struggles to Unify Online and In-Store Experiences
By ERP Insights Team
NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, recently announced the results of a study conducted by RSR...  more >>

Editorial

Rethink, Reinvent and Redesign Retail
By Nandini Mukherjee
Today's retailers operate in a marketplace propelled by savvy shoppers who have instant access to product information, consumer reviews, and price comparisons.  more >>