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Data Management

  • Amazon rolls out a truck for shipping data

    It’s not a joke.   Amazon Web Services has announced a new service, called AWS Snowmobile, designed to physically get all of the data stored in a company's massive data center into Amazon's cloud, Business Insider reported.     

  • 5 core strategies of next generation merchandising [Presented by Menasha]

  • Study: Retailers overconfident in endpoint security efforts

    More retailers are eager to ward off far-reaching cyber-attacks, yet too many companies are ill-equipped to quickly detect a breach.   This sobering detail was revealed in a new study from Tripwire. The study tapped 763 IT professionals from various industries, including 100 participants from the retail sector. The report measures the confidence and efficacy among the professionals in regard to seven key security controls that must be in place to quickly detect a cyber-attack in progress.  

  • Restaurant chain to pursue national waste and utility expense management

    Kona Grill is looking to minimize energy consumption and cut down on waste.    The restaurant company selected Ecova to provide waste expense management strategy and utility expense data management for the American grill and sushi bar chain’s more than 43 restaurants in the United States and Puerto Rico.     

  • Amazon’s fast-growing cloud business keeps company profitable

    Amazon’s cloud services business is on fire.   Amazon Web Services holds a 45% market share of the worldwide public market for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which is greater than Microsoft, Google and IBM’s shares combined, according to a quarterly analysis by Synergy Research Group.  

  • Report: Retailers will lose $50 per person in shrink this holiday season

    The retail loss burden overall is expected to be $132 per person this year.   However, $50 of this loss — about twice as much as in other calendar quarters — is expected to be incurred in this holiday season, according to “The 2016 Retail Holiday Season Global Forecast” from Checkpoint Systems. The report provides an analytical view of business risks that major retailers face during this holiday season.   

  • Three Pieces of External Data Impacting Retailers’ Bottom Lines

  • Staples moves beyond office supplies with new licensing efforts

    Staples is getting into the licensing game as a means of expanding its brand. It’s first target — document storage.  

  • Cashless society not happening anytime soon

    The use of cash remains strong among in-store shoppers.   That’s according to a new survey by Cardtronics, in which 89% of consumers report using cash in the past six months to pay for merchandise in a physical store.    Cash was followed by debit cards, used by 74% of consumers in the last six months, and credit cards, used by 66% of consumers. Eighteen percent of consumers reported using store mobile apps to pay for something in the last six months, and 17% used a mobile wallet. 

  • Retailers Navigate Shifting Environmental Regulatory Landscape

    The past decade has witnessed a monumental shift in regulatory oversight of retailers’ environmental compliance programs. As a result, retailers have faced a crash course in the myriad hazardous waste control laws, once widely believed to not be relevant in the retail context.   Historically, most enforcement has been at the state and local level. But in just the past month, we’ve seen a flurry of retail-related activity from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, including the following:  
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