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Saks, Inc. is evolving to embrace omni-channel retailing through a series of infrastructure and systems enhancements slated to take place over the next several years. This is a transitional time for the company and these investments will position Saks for the future, allowing it to deliver incremental sales and improve operating margins over time.  To support its omni-channel and IT initiatives, Saks will invest one-third of its $120 million CapEx on Project Evolution, a multi-year transformation of and investment in systems technology with Oracle. Project Evolution will deliver new merchandising, finance and human resources systems and capabilities on an integrated application suite for the entire business.

As technology and consumer expectations reshape the traditional shopping experience, IT departments must rapidly introduce new business capabilities while maintaining existing systems. Oracle Retail Cloud Services help retailers to ensure uptime and efficiency of key operations, while providing consistent, immediately available upgrades-enabling internal IT groups to focus on differentiating the customer experience and driving growth.

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.

Arcadia is embarking on a three-year £50m plan to overhaul its buying and merchandising, warehouse management and supply chain systems. The fashion retailer has signed three major contracts with Oracle, Manhattan Associates and Amber Road as it continues to grow its international presence and online offer.

Arcadia is embarking on a three-year £50m plan to overhaul its buying and merchandising, warehouse management and supply chain systems. The fashion retailer has signed three major contracts with Oracle, Manhattan Associates and Amber Road as it continues to grow its international presence and online offer.

David Dorf, senior director of technology strategy for Oracle Retail, says the phrase "big data" first began to gain "buzz" status around five years ago. "It has come to represent the exponential growth of data and the complexity of analyzing it," he says. He starts with what has become the generic definition for big data - volume, variety and velocity. "Retailers have always dealt with big data in the sense that they handle thousands of [products], hundreds of stores and a steady stream of transactions," he says. "What's new is the variety of data. Some of it is highly formatted transactional data, but increasingly it's coming from sources such as a Twitter stream where there is natural language that's hard to understand using systems. The other thing that has changed is the velocity. Data is coming at us at a much faster pace."

David Dorf, senior director of technology strategy for Oracle Retail, says the phrase "big data" first began to gain "buzz" status around five years ago. "It has come to represent the exponential growth of data and the complexity of analyzing it," he says. He starts with what has become the generic definition for big data - volume, variety and velocity. "Retailers have always dealt with big data in the sense that they handle thousands of [products], hundreds of stores and a steady stream of transactions," he says. "What's new is the variety of data. Some of it is highly formatted transactional data, but increasingly it's coming from sources such as a Twitter stream where there is natural language that's hard to understand using systems. The other thing that has changed is the velocity. Data is coming at us at a much faster pace."

Over a 13-month period beginning in late 2013, Charming Charlie implemented several Oracle solutions including its Merchandising System, Retail Trade Management, Price Management, Invoice Match and Store Inventory Management.

Over a 13-month period beginning in late 2013, Charming Charlie implemented several Oracle solutions including its Merchandising System, Retail Trade Management, Price Management, Invoice Match and Store Inventory Management.

"Transformation is critical to compete in an omnichannel market," said Mike Hazel, CIO at Academy Sports + Outdoors. "Academy Sports + Outdoors is expanding rapidly, and with that growth comes the need for a system that is scalable and can grow with us. Oracle Retail provides us with a foundation for growth and an integration strategy."

"Transformation is critical to compete in an omnichannel market," said Mike Hazel, CIO at Academy Sports + Outdoors. "Academy Sports + Outdoors is expanding rapidly, and with that growth comes the need for a system that is scalable and can grow with us. Oracle Retail provides us with a foundation for growth and an integration strategy."

Good Morning. Kohl's Corp. views the digital wallet as much more than a payments system. The retailer is betting that its loyalty program, which features a mobile, digital wallet inside the Kohl's app, will provide a key competitive advantage for this holiday season and beyond, and help make up for a bleak third quarter. A pilot program across 300 stores in 2013 and 2014 produced about 10 million enrollees in the loyalty program, CIO Janet Schalk told CIO Journal's Steven Norton. Since launching nationwide in early October, that number has doubled to 20 million. Most technology payments providers solely focus on payments, says Ratnakar Lavu, Kohl's EVP for digital technology. While he doesn't deny the importance of payments, he says "there's really no one who's doing something related to offers or rewards." Kohl's has redesigned its website and mobile apps, implemented Oracle Corp. systems to handle inventory and pricing, and is testing a new point-of-sale system. It also has rolled out "buy online, pick up in store" options at some stores, and is shipping products from about 800 locations. Eventually, Kohl's may look to integrate its loyalty program with its payments systems. The company has built systems that will take different kinds of payments and integrate with other mobile wallets in the marketplace.

Yanoschik and his team started looking for a better solution, a process that led them eventually to the XBRi loss prevention and store analytics system from Oracle Retail. The core of the system is cloud-based, high-speed data collection and analysis. The system gathers running operational data from throughout the organization and builds a profile: This is what normality looks like. This is what - shift to shift, day to day, minute to minute - goes on at a POS station (or warehouse, distribution center, receiving dock, whatever it might be) when it's running properly.

Coverage of the major technology companies that displayed at NRF13. the piece mentions the roll out of Oracle solutions for customers like Deckers and M.video. It also states that Oracle sells systems and services to the top 20 global retailers, including human resources software and customer relationship management (CRM) systems to compete with IBM, Salesforce.com and others.

Most recently, Kohl's overhauled its core merchandising, inventory, and pricing operations with the launch of a new Oracle Retail Merchandise Operations Management solution, allowing the retailer to coordinate a unified system of record for inventory to better serve customers across channels, and to simplify its business user experience.

Kohl's Department Stores, the value-oriented speciality department store, has selected Oracle Retail Merchandising, Planning and Supply Chain solutions.

Retail group JD Sports has committed to rolling out Oracle Retail software to replace its legacy IT systems over the next two years, in a project expected to cost at least £10 million.

Retail group JD Sports has committed to rolling out Oracle Retail software to replace its legacy IT systems over the next two years, in a project expected to cost at least £10 million.

STORES' annual predictions feature is the result of months spent absorbing and processing the insights of numerous retail experts. STORES wishes to acknowledge the individuals and organizations who generously shared their time and views on key topics... David Dorf and Michael Webster, Oracle; Gary Penn, QuikSilver; Michael Haydock, IBM; Brian Kilcourse, Retail Systems Research

Returns are a fact of retailing and merchants have to be ready to deal with them. For instance, Stage's Oracle Corp. merchandising system allows the retailer to route online returns to either a distribution center if an item is still in season and salable or, if it isn't, to one of four clearance centers the chain maintains. During the holiday season, Hunter sets up special arrangements with makers of traditional holiday gifts, such as heated ice scrapers and other small items that might be featured in a Black Friday display, to have those products returned directly to the manufacturers or to have them shipped back in bulk from the stores' returned goods center in Jacksonville, Texas. Some vendors also agree to take back unsold products.

Disney Store is using Oracle Retail Stores Solutions to better serve customers at its 330 stores in seven countries. OPN partner and systems integration company SkillNet helped to complete the global rollout of Oracle Retail Point of Sale in all 330 store

In a joint statement, OLR and Infogain have announced plans to develop a strategic alliance to provide global Oracle Retail consulting and systems integration services.

"The National Retail Federation (NRF) is launching United for Patent Reform, a new coalition co-chaired by NRF and Oracle and comprised of grocery, hotel, retail, restaurant and technology associations and companies. The coalition will pursue patent reform legislation aimed at curbing abuse of the patent system by "patent trolls.""

Retailers are also benefiting from more pervasive access to real-time information. Data stored in superfast in-memory computer systems allows store managers to generate reports in real time instead of at the end of a day or week, and new data visualization technologies make that data more comprehensible and actionable. "Now this is on everyone's iPhone or iPad in real time," says Dorf. "The speed at which technology allows us to get access to information is changing things dramatically."