The New Rules of Retail

whitePaper | February 10, 2023

This extensive guide provides 40+ valuable tips on preparing marketing campaigns, managing product information, and preparing on-site to cope with traffic surges during holiday sales. The whitepaper also consists of checklists, planners, and more advanced strategies to futureproof tech stack.

whitePaper | November 12, 2019

The retail industry faces immense challenges in the coming years. These challenges include demographic change, raw materials becoming more expensive, consumers changing their behaviour due to increasing digitalisation and e-commerce. These are only some of the major changes currently taking place in the retail industry. The “Trends in Retail 2020” study performed by KPMG in Germany and the EHI Retail Institute highlights factors which will have a significant impact on the future development of the German retail market.

whitePaper | June 28, 2022

The pandemic has brought about significant economic disruption, thereby increasing the need for banks and financial institutions to be more agile. However, Covid-19 is not the only factor that drives automation and digitalization in the credit and lending process in credit institutions. Incumbent banks are increasingly facing pressure from neobanks, these having the strategic advantage of being “born digital”. In addition, customers demand fully digitalized processes with regard to the ease of use and fast turnaround times.

whitePaper | October 31, 2022

Nowadays, good news is hard to come by: with the immediate consequences of the corona crisis still breathing down our necks, the Ukraine war, skyrocketing energy costs, and rising inflation rates. This has a noticeable impact on the commerce industries: people buy less and pay even more attention to the price than usual.

whitePaper | November 3, 2019

We live in the age of the Platform Economy using Uber and Lyft to catch a ride, Airbnb to rent a room and OpenTable to get a reservation at the trendiest new restaurants. And those are just a few of the myriad companies that have succeeded in turning old-fashioned products and services into marketplaces with their own ecosystems. And so it is with online retail, where marketplaces like Amazon, Alibaba, Mircado Libre and Flipkart have become the first stop for many shoppers. Merchants can list their wares on the big marketplaces, reaching audiences far larger than they could themselves. At the same time, they can engage Shopify, Square, ShopRunner or the hundreds of discrete service providers that have emerged to set up or enhance their own market platforms.

whitePaper | December 29, 2022

Research shows that legacy ERP 1.0 systems were not designed for usability and insight. More than three quarters of business leaders say their current ERP system doesn’t meet their requirements, let alone future plans.1 These systems lack modern best-practice capabilities needed to compete and grow. To enable today’s data-driven organization, the very foundation from which you are operating needs to be re-established; it needs to be “modernized”