Recent Articles
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Speed is the Feature Sought by Financial Services
Financial services might seem like the last place you’d want to do business these days, but some vendors are finding innovative ways to drive sales into the troubled industry, proving there’s plenty of opportunity if you just know where to look. Asaf Somekh, vice president of strategic alliances at high-performance grid backbone and switch manufacturer…
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Retailers Seek New Tech to Manage, Drive Sales
While retailers woo cash-strapped consumers, solution providers and their vendor partners are courting both brick-and-mortar and online etailers with technologies and solutions designed to reduce back-office costs, and enhance productivity and, therefore, the bottom line. Generally invisible to consumers, these systems range from back-end access to a plug-and-play global warehouse and on-demand shipping to hosted…
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Black Friday and the Recession: Why IT Solution Providers Care
After the turkey has been consumed and the football games have been played, retailers open their doors for the biggest day of their year – Black Friday. And e-tailers get ready for their biggest day, Cyber Monday. Why should IT solution providers care? Because consumer spending is two-thirds of the economy and it influences other…
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Give Thanks for These 12 Trends
In these tough economic times it’s easy to become a little overly despondent over future prospects. But with the annual Thanksgiving holiday staring us all in the face, now is as good a time as any to give thanks for 12 things should make the channel a more profitable place to work no matter how…
