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Connectiva Systems, a Gold level partner of OPN announced that it has joined Oracles Embedded Software License (ESL) program.

"Enterprise retail systems are also firmly committed to weaving science into decision-making. Oracle debuted Oracle Retail Release 15 in January, updating the entire suite and featuring several new cloud services that embed science and analytics. "We've simplified the science of business intelligence, made it more contextual and put it into the application versus having the retailer invest in a whole new BI platform," says Mike Webster, senior vice president and general manager of Oracle Retail and Hospitality. "We've had demand forecasting for some time, but we can now provide data at an attribute level in order to pre-populate a forecast." "It's now possible to look at the financial plan or the assortment plan across the store, franchises, the wholesale business and online," Webster says. "The merchant now has a holistic view, and that's critical for decision-making.""

The October 2015 EMV deadline is looming. How can retailers who haven't prepared get up to speed, and realize benefits in the process?