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"Gartner research shows that retailers are extremely interested in mobile POS as a way to transform the checkout experience," said Jeff Roster, research vice president at Gartner

The 2011 Gartner "Magic Quadrant for E-commerce" places Oracle ATG in the Leaders Quadrant. 

Highlighting that Oracle has been issued a "strong positive" rating from Gartner, Inc. in the analyst's "MarketScope for Local Government CRM Products." The article notes that the report compares the offerings of nine providers of CRM commercial off-the-

Highlighting that Oracle has been issued a "strong positive" rating from Gartner, Inc. in the analyst's "MarketScope for Local Government CRM Products." The article notes that the report compares the offerings of nine providers of CRM commercial off-the-

Highlighting that Oracle has been issued a "strong positive" rating from Gartner, Inc. in the analyst's "MarketScope for Local Government CRM Products." The article notes that the report compares the offerings of nine providers of CRM commercial off-the-

SYSTIME announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Magic Quadrant for Oracle ERP service providers, North America, 2010" by Alex Soejarto and Susan Tan, 30 November, 2010.

Retail IT is being transformed. CIOs are shifting from proprietary systems to package solutions and from an emphasis on cost reduction to a solid bump in IT capital spending. A strong customer focus means CIOs are fixing their attention on channel integration and analytics that will help them spot and anticipate shopper preferences more quickly. "Talking about re-engineering the foundation of retail IT may not be the sexy side of technology, but it's critical," Webster says. "If a company jumps into mobile-assisted in-store selling ... but doesn't have accurate visibility of inventory across the enterprise, what have they accomplished?" That's a point of view echoed by Gartner vice president of research Jeff Roster. "The big attack has to be on infrastructure," he says. "There are still a whole lot of retail companies out there that need to retire legacy systems and get out of the proprietary code writing business. Once they move to packaged systems, the opportunity to decrease infrastructure costs and reshape the business around today's customer can move forward at a quicker pace."

"More and more people are demanding that prices online and in the store be similar," says David Dorf, senior director of technology strategy for Oracle Retail. "The fact that consumers expect more price parity means that there needs to be more collaboration from those silos of business... Gartner research vice president Kevin Sterneckert believes consistent pricing is imperative; he notes that 67 percent of consumers want the same price across channels. Still, he insists there remains a need to understand when and where conditions are right for channel-independent pricing.

Stores executive editor Susan Reda provides a look at the IT priorities for retail CIOs this year, including insights from industry experts such as Greg Buzek of IHL, Jeff Roster of Gartner, Deb Weinswig of CitiBank and Dave Dorf of Oracle Retail

To help retailers improve customer service and increase efficiency, Oracle today introduced Oracle Retail Mobile Point-of-Service