A Blueprint for Retail Investment August 2018

whitePaper | July 21, 2022

The Request for Proposal (RFP) process for a new e-commerce platform can easily require 1,000 hours and can take months to complete. Wow! you might be thinking, that’s a lot of time and energy. And it is, but it’s necessary as the stakes are high; organizations that fail to conduct a thorough and well thought out RFP process can suffer the consequences for a long time thereafter.

whitePaper | June 8, 2022

Bridging digital and in-store systems is a crucial aspect to many retailers strategy, and at the center of that you will usually find a Point of Sales system. But all POS systems aren’t created equally. And with it about to enter the high-performance league, this paper puts the case for a ’thin’ cloud-based PoS system, as a way of driving innovation, improving operations, unifying in-store and online experience — and cutting costs.

whitePaper | October 4, 2022

The metaverse, roughly defined as 3-D virtual worlds that mimic the real world, has drawn much attention since late 2021. Certain well-known global firms, such as J.P. Morgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered (banking), Samsung (technology), Adidas (apparel) and PwC (consulting) have created a presence on the current metaverse platforms The Sandbox and Decentraland. Ever since Facebook’s announcement of its rebranding and name change to Meta in October 2021,2 the investment on metaverse has continued despite a contraction in the cryptocurrency market.

whitePaper | August 10, 2022

When organizations think ERP, they usually think SAP and Oracle. They know both are robust systems that can scale for global operations. They know both have their share of successes and failures. But, they don’t know how to differentiate between two ERP systems that offer nearly identical functionality – at least on the surface.

whitePaper | December 31, 2021

There is perhaps no better advocate for how cloud-based ERP systems can support and help organizations continue their success than those who have been through it. In this white paper, we consolidated feedback from senior IT executives on why they switched from various SAP systems to NetSuite’s true cloud-based ERP, highlighting the pitfalls of fake cloud and on-premise deployments and how these challenges impacted their business

whitePaper | May 9, 2022

Let’s face it, robust profits in the restaurant industry have never been a given. In 2019, just prior to the pandemic, profit margins for single location full-service restaurants averaged 6.2 percent, according to an . Over the last two years, amidst a growing array of COVID considerations—from sporadic restaurant closures and labor shortages, to increased food and supply costs paired with a sluggish supply chain—slim restaurant profit margins have shrunk even more.