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We spoke to various industry experts who revealed their top predictions for the future of retail including Oracle, IBM, Retail Wire ... ...David Dorf / Oracle: Retail will change in many ways, but immediacy will have the biggest impact. Our homes will replenish themselves; our packages will arrive hours after the order; retailers will bid on the right to sell us products in real time; our in-home printers will produce products as we watch. These are examples of consumers having immediate access to the products they want. The technologies to support these scenarios already exist, so we're not waiting on anything new to be invented. All of these scenarios are already a reality in small, independent deployments. It's only a matter of time before retailers evolve their business models to fully embrace this notion of immediacy. That's not to say traditional channels will cease to exist. Physical and digital retail won't fade away, nor will the importance of good customer service. But massive improvements achieved in forecasting, sourcing, and moving products will radically change the landscape in which we trade. Obviously no one will wake up tomorrow to this new reality. It will emerge slowly over many years, but we can already see evidence of the coming changes. Every retailer needs to think in these terms, and make sure each investment moves them closer to the goal.

Oracle experts continues to investigate the revenue potential of beacons, particularly in retail. John Yopp, senior manager Retail Global Business Unit at Oracle, runs a research lab focused on future use cases for shoppers. Yopp contends that one big appeal of beacons is that they are easy to integrate with and inexpensive

Oracle experts continues to investigate the revenue potential of beacons, particularly in retail. John Yopp, senior manager Retail Global Business Unit at Oracle, runs a research lab focused on future use cases for shoppers. Yopp contends that one big appeal of beacons is that they are easy to integrate with and inexpensive

The Aug. 3 edition of FCW includes an article highlighting the Information Technology Alliance for Public Sector's recommendations for improving Federal cybersecurity. The article notes that the Obama administration turned to industry experts from technology firms, including Oracle, for ideas and feedback.

The Aug. 3 edition of FCW includes an article highlighting the Information Technology Alliance for Public Sector's recommendations for improving Federal cybersecurity. The article notes that the Obama administration turned to industry experts from technology firms, including Oracle, for ideas and feedback.

Grocers use customer insights to manage assortments

Grocers use customer insights to manage assortments

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

Company Oracle, created a range of products for the retail sector, held in August 2012, a study of the consumer market, covering them seven countries, including Russia. The report "The Evolution of Experience Retailing" provides information on many aspects of consumer interaction with retailers in today's globalized world, allowing you to see what can help, and that, conversely, prevent the seller to win the competition. Oracle experts believe that the retail market is rapidly changing, but retailers are not fully aware of the processes and thus can not adequately respond to them.

The quality of service in the store is very or fairly important for 87% of Russian buyers, and 70% intend to shop in other countries where prices are lower. These conclusions were analysts at Oracle, conducting research Evolution of Experience Retailing. Experts also found that consumers want to retail store was not limited to, a city or a country, take into account local needs and expectations, and was due to their individual preferences.

The Aug. 15 edition of GreenTechMedia includes the following article discussing the future of the smart grid. The article highlights smart grid expert Andres Carvallo's presentation from The Soft Grid 2012 conference, and notes his comments regarding utilities' adoption of cloud computing and the utility "big data" challenge. The article mentions that Austin Energy is working on with Oracle on an IT-based project. The article also includes a comment from Oracle Utilities' Linda Jackman noting that utilities have their own reasons to keep as much of their IT work in-house as possible, but investor-owned utilities in particular are under pressure to spend on IT capital expenses, which they can recover in rate cases, rather than on operational expenses like cloud services that do not offer such guaranteed payback.

Industry experts agree that now is the time for retailers to invest in mobile

Shoppers are channel-agnostic; they expect interaction from their mobile devices and the time to deliver is now...In this article, Stores executive editor Susan Reda talks with retail industry experts about what's ahead in 2012. Oracle's David Dorf is among those that weigh in on mobile, BI, personalization and other trends.

Highlights the future of smart grid technology customer service and includes input from an expert roundtable including Guerry Waters, vice president of industry strategy, Oracle Utilities.

Highlighting insight concerning smart grid and electricity grid from transmission and distribution experts at the IEEE PES T&D conference, and includes comments from Guerry Waters, vice president for industry strategy, Oracle Utilities.

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