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Cross-channel experiences are vital to customer experience. Recent customer experience studies of retail executives - by Oracle Corp. and Tata Consultancy Services - show that to 50% and 47% of respondents, respectively, cross-channel experiences are vital to providing overall customer experience.

While it may have taken some time for organizations to realize the full impact of being more customer-centric, including the empowerment of their employees with the right tools, the good news in the report is that 84 percent of respondents say their organization have experienced a trend toward customers wanting a more individualized experience and 70 percent have experienced this trend from employees. The not so good news is that fewer than 20 percent give their organization an 'A' in its ability to offer those experiences.

While it may have taken some time for organizations to realize the full impact of being more customer-centric, including the empowerment of their employees with the right tools, the good news in the report is that 84 percent of respondents say their organization have experienced a trend toward customers wanting a more individualized experience and 70 percent have experienced this trend from employees. The not so good news is that fewer than 20 percent give their organization an 'A' in its ability to offer those experiences.

Oracle introduced Oracle Retail Customer Analytics, a new business intelligence solution designed to help retailers better understand what drives their customers' purchasing decisions..."The key to improving the customer experience is to understand the customer," said Greg Girard, Program Director, Merchandise Strategies, IDC Retail Insights. "Analytic solutions that help retailers gain insight into their customers' buying patterns lay the foundation for a deeper understanding and make it possible to create a personalized shopping experience while optimizing profitability."

Providing customers with a consistent, relevant experience, no matter where they shop, requires integrated and flexible retail planning, suppy chain and operations centered around the customer and their preferences. By implementing a comprehensive suite of Oracle Retail solutions, luxury retailer, Neiman Marcus Group, expects to optimize its online and offline operations to support international expansion and to provide a superior commerce anywhere experience for its global customers.

Providing customers with a consistent, relevant experience, no matter where they shop, requires integrated and flexible retail planning, suppy chain and operations centered around the customer and their preferences. By implementing a comprehensive suite of Oracle Retail solutions, luxury retailer, Neiman Marcus Group, expects to optimize its online and offline operations to support international expansion and to provide a superior commerce anywhere experience for its global customers.

Central to making each customer experience better, said Moure, is the company's recent migration to a new e-commerce platform from Oracle Commerce. The Oracle platform provides PureFormulas' marketing team with industry-leading tools to personalize the customer experience through a series of levels, from the awareness of getting a customer on to its site to adding returning customers to its loyalty program, and each step is based on insights gleaned from customer data.

Make my retail experience 'good for me' say customers in new Oracle global research. Consumers are demanding a retail experience that is global, yet localised for their needs and expectations, and is 'good for me', defined and dictated by individual preferences, discloses new research from Oracle. Findings from the 'Evolution of Experience Retailing' survey reveal that as consumers around the world demand accessibility to the global marketplace, their requirements dictate how retailers should prioritize strategies and key business imperatives to meet customer demand and compete more effectively.

"Our brands are committed to delivering an interactive, exciting and efficient shopping experience to all our customers around the world, no matter which channel they choose to use to visit us, from flagship stores to mobile devices," said Sir Philip Green, Owner of Arcadia Group. "Global expansion is a key strategic focus for Arcadia, and to do this successfully, we need to make sure the best merchandise assortment is available in each store and channel. We expect Oracle to help us enhance our merchandising strategies to help ensure that we deliver the best possible customer promise every time."

"Our brands are committed to delivering an interactive, exciting and efficient shopping experience to all our customers around the world, no matter which channel they choose to use to visit us, from flagship stores to mobile devices," said Sir Philip Green, Owner of Arcadia Group. "Global expansion is a key strategic focus for Arcadia, and to do this successfully, we need to make sure the best merchandise assortment is available in each store and channel. We expect Oracle to help us enhance our merchandising strategies to help ensure that we deliver the best possible customer promise every time."

In a briefing held at NRF 2014, Mike Webster, SVP and General Manager of Oracle Retail, explained that Release 14 is designed "to connect all of these [customer] interactions" in order to create a seamless customer experience. "The industry has made great strides in building great digital experiences," Webster said. "It has set the marker in terms of how we use mobile and online commerce to build a brand. We'll see the industry work more aggressively towards hyper-personalization."

In a briefing held at NRF 2014, Mike Webster, SVP and General Manager of Oracle Retail, explained that Release 14 is designed "to connect all of these [customer] interactions" in order to create a seamless customer experience. "The industry has made great strides in building great digital experiences," Webster said. "It has set the marker in terms of how we use mobile and online commerce to build a brand. We'll see the industry work more aggressively towards hyper-personalization."

Oracle has opened a fully functional data centre in Canada in order to satisfy the demand for data sovereignty. To help customers achieve the benefits of cloud, the Canadian data centre will support Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud (Oracle HCM Cloud), Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud (Oracle ERP Cloud), and Oracle Customer Experience (CX) Cloud applications.

Oracle has opened a fully functional data centre in Canada in order to satisfy the demand for data sovereignty. To help customers achieve the benefits of cloud, the Canadian data centre will support Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud (Oracle HCM Cloud), Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud (Oracle ERP Cloud), and Oracle Customer Experience (CX) Cloud applications.

Oracle has opened a fully functional data centre in Canada in order to satisfy the demand for data sovereignty. To help customers achieve the benefits of cloud, the Canadian data centre will support Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud (Oracle HCM Cloud), Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud (Oracle ERP Cloud), and Oracle Customer Experience (CX) Cloud applications.

The October 19 edition of Customer Experience Management includes the following article highlighting Miami University's decision to select Oracle CRM On Demand. The article notes that Miami is replacing its legacy undergraduate admissions system, Recruitment PLUS, with Oracle CRM On Demand, and plans to extend the implementation to the graduate school and regional campus admissions. The article includes comment by Steve Koporec, vice president of applications, Oracle Higher Education, noting that with Oracle CRM On Demand, Miami will have institution-wide visibility and will be able to efficiently monitor prospective and current student progress, as well as support other programs, such as alumni relations and current student, faculty and staff communication.

Jewelry retailer Helzberg Diamonds is implementing Oracle Retail xStore to meet customers' demand for "commerce anywhere," and to achieve improved ease of use and productivity of the POS system will give customers a more seamless check-out experience.

"For retailers to deliver the cross-channel experience customers are demanding, they must not only manage the growing deluge of operational and customer data, but use it to gain actionable insight and equip employees to effectively use that insight immediately," said Mike Webster, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Retail. "Oracle is helping retailers to turn their data into an asset that connects interactions and optimises operations to drive profitability and support a truly personalized customer experience."

The emergence of constant customer connectivity, as well as cloud platforms that eliminate the need for centralized physical infrastructure, have radically changed retailing. The enterprise is now a distributed, virtual environment where retailers are constantly receiving, analyzing and reacting to real-time customer experience data in order to deliver an optimal omnichannel experience. Core solutions still play a vital role, but are now also configured around serving the real-time needs of the customer. Jill (Puleri) Standish, senior VP and general manager of Oracle Retail, recently spoke with Chain Store Age about how retailers can best leverage cloud-based, leading-edge technologies to thrive in this new environment.

"Our brands are committed to delivering an interactive, exciting and efficient shopping experience to all our customers around the world, no matter which channel they choose to use to visit us, from flagship stores to mobile devices," Sir Philip Green, owner of Arcadia Group said. "Global expansion is a key strategic focus for Arcadia, and to do this successfully, we need to make sure the best merchandise assortment is available in each store and channel. We expect Oracle to help us enhance our merchandising strategies to help ensure that we deliver the best possible customer promise every time."

"Our brands are committed to delivering an interactive, exciting and efficient shopping experience to all our customers around the world, no matter which channel they choose to use to visit us, from flagship stores to mobile devices," Sir Philip Green, owner of Arcadia Group said. "Global expansion is a key strategic focus for Arcadia, and to do this successfully, we need to make sure the best merchandise assortment is available in each store and channel. We expect Oracle to help us enhance our merchandising strategies to help ensure that we deliver the best possible customer promise every time."

Highlighting that United Water announced that after two years of planning, development and training, the company is launching a new computer system with Oracle software to store customer information and calculate their bills. The article notes that the investment in Oracle technology will improve the customer experience and help the company adapt to changing customer needs.

As online demand flourishes, scalability and personalization help to define customer experience, sales and return visits. By moving its ecommerce operations to Oracle Commerce, health supplements leader and Internet Retailer Top 500 organization PureFormulas will take advantage of Oracle's multi-site architecture to support expansion, while significantly enhancing its customer experience and personalization capabilities.

As online cosmetic shopping booms, leading beauty superstore ULTA Beauty has responded with an enhanced online experience that helps customers...

Improving the cross-channel customer experience and optimizing the supply chain ranked as retailers' biggest challenges in a new study by Oracle. The report also found that mobile access is key: Forty percent of retailers said that providing store associates with mobile access to customer, product, inventory and other information is critical to their business, along with providing the entire organization with a more consistent and complete view of the customer (40%)

"Our brands are committed to delivering an interactive, exciting and efficient shopping experience to all our customers around the world, no matter which channel they choose to use to visit us, from flagship stores to mobile devices," Sir Philip Green, owner of Arcadia Group said. "Global expansion is a key strategic focus for Arcadia, and to do this successfully, we need to make sure the best merchandise assortment is available in each store and channel. We expect Oracle to help us enhance our merchandising strategies to help ensure that we deliver the best possible customer promise every time.

"Our brands are committed to delivering an interactive, exciting and efficient shopping experience to all our customers around the world, no matter which channel they choose to use to visit us, from flagship stores to mobile devices," Sir Philip Green, owner of Arcadia Group said. "Global expansion is a key strategic focus for Arcadia, and to do this successfully, we need to make sure the best merchandise assortment is available in each store and channel. We expect Oracle to help us enhance our merchandising strategies to help ensure that we deliver the best possible customer promise every time.

"Our brands are committed to delivering an interactive, exciting and efficient shopping experience to all our customers around the world, no matter which channel they choose to use to visit us, from flagship stores to mobile devices," said Sir Philip Green, owner of Arcadia Group. "Global expansion is a key strategic focus for Arcadia, and to do this successfully, we need to make sure the best merchandise assortment is available in each store and channel. We expect Oracle to help us enhance our merchandising strategies to help ensure that we deliver the best possible customer promise every time."

"Our brands are committed to delivering an interactive, exciting and efficient shopping experience to all our customers around the world, no matter which channel they choose to use to visit us, from flagship stores to mobile devices," said Sir Philip Green, owner of Arcadia Group. "Global expansion is a key strategic focus for Arcadia, and to do this successfully, we need to make sure the best merchandise assortment is available in each store and channel. We expect Oracle to help us enhance our merchandising strategies to help ensure that we deliver the best possible customer promise every time."