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Faced with falling demand for its UGG boots Deckers Outdoor Corp. is preparing to more than double its retail operation and shift away from a strategy that had been predominantly focused on wholesale. To prepare for the rapid expansion, Deckers is rolling out a new IT platform that will allow the company to handle more data associated with more retail stores and better manage inventory levels, Yul Vanek, the company's vice president of information technology, told CIO Journal.

One of the key components of J. C. Penney's next phase includes an Oracle-based technology infrastructure. The system includes a suite of Oracle products, including Oracle Retail Merchandising Operations Management, Oracle Retail Merchandise Planning and Optimization, Oracle Retail Supply Chain Planning and Executive and Oracle Retail Stores...

Berlin-based myToys.de offers over 100,000 products for maternity, childrenswear, toys, books, multimedia, school and other related segments through its German and European ecommerce and mail-order catalogue operations, and over the last five years has expanded its store network across Germany.

Today, Hurd oversees the corporate direction and strategy for Oracle's global field operations, including marketing, sales, consulting, alliances and channels, and support. He focuses on strategy, leadership, innovation and customers. Susan Reda, editor of STORES Media, had the opportunity to chat with Hurd at Oracle's recent CrossTalk event.

Oracle announces retail applications to help CSPs improve in-store experiences for customers, grow revenue and reduce the cost of their operations

For retailers, the goal is to use BI to provide more granular insight into inventory planning and execution, store operations and logistics, while at the same time gaining a more precise picture of customer behavior and buying patterns.

Nordstrom has implemented new Oracle Retail Merchandise Operations Management and Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management solutions to support its expansion in Canada.

Kohl department store to use Oracle Solutions to Support Multi-Channel Retail Operations.

The implementation of Oracle Retail is part of a larger company-wide initiative in which Belk is revamping or replacing core processes and operations supporting its e-commerce site and 304 stores in 16 Southern states

With the Oracle Retail system supporting its e-commerce site and 26 stores in 11 states, Von Maur is able to respond more quickly to customer demand, maintain appropriate inventory levels, and increase sales by having the right products

Unicoop Florence, the largest cooperative of Italy whose origins date back to 1891, has a long history of customer focus. Not by chance Riccardo Rapi, CIO of Unicoop, says: "Our commitment is to provide the best customer experience possible, achievable goal by improving management processes of the store and warehouse .

Kohl's has selected Oracle Retail Merchandising, Planning and Supply Chain solutions to seamlessly integrate core retail operations across the company's 1,146 stores in 49 states

The company will also implement Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle, E-Business Suite and Oracle Database as part of its strategy to better serve customers and streamline operations across all its brands

Oracle is providing mobile business intelligence to store and district managers, as part of the entire retail operation

"By rolling the new Oracle Retail solutions out in conjunction with the Canada expansion, we are able to fully evaluate and understand the new features and functionality before impacting our remaining store operations," said Bill Tucker, VP of Technology at Nordstrom. "As we put the Oracle solutions in place across the business, we are positioned to take immediate advantage of new features, performance, and functionality enhancements in Oracle Retail 14.1."

"We are enabling next generation best practices that will center on optimizing the customer experience at both the store and ecommerce level," says Mike Laurenti, CIO and EVP, Belk. "Oracle Retail shares this vision, which is why we selected them as a par

Highlighting that Oracle has introduced Oracle Utilities Network Management System 1.11, which offers new modeling and analysis features that improve distribution-grid management for electric utilities. The article notes that the new modeling helps analyze the effects of customer loads in different locations and identify where off-peak recharging is needed due to grid capacity constraints, incorporate renewable resources like solar roofs and backyard windmills into the grid and use stored electricity as another source of energy. The article also includes comments from Brad Williams, vice president of industry strategy, Oracle Utilities noting that Oracle Utilities Network Management System offers the real-time modeling and power system simulations utilities need to optimize grid operations as networks change.