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With several hundred web sites for its local chapters migrated to a single e-commerce platform in 2012, the American Red Cross put the new site to the test during Hurricane Sandy last October. "Sandy was our first big crisis on the new site, and the site's performance exceeded our expectations," says Craig Oldham, the charity's vice president of digital strategy

The latest version of Oracle Retail Point-of-Service uses a common and open interface that provides easier integration for multiple international payment partners, uses tokenization to further secure customer card data and supports greater international functionality and security

The Foschini Group (TFG), a South African based leading retailer of lifestyle products, has selected Oracle Commerce solutions to help grow its retail business and improve the customer experience through Omnichannel initiative

The Foschini Group (TFG), a South African based leading retailer of lifestyle products, has selected Oracle Commerce solutions to help grow its retail business and improve the customer experience through Omnichannel initiative

The retail chain will build a new online retail platform using software from Oracle after years of outsourcing web sales to GSI Commerce, now eBay Enterprise. It's the latest in a series of retail chains taking control of their own e-commerce destiny.

Internet Retailer - Technology/E-commerce Platforms - Oracle Announces Oracle Retail Cloud Services

Survey: Amping up tech spending - Internet Retailer exclusive survey results find that in the next year most online retailers will spend more on technology, with many focusing on applications that will help them acquire customers and please mobile shoppers

Neiman Marcus generates more than a quarter of revenue online so far this year - In its IPO filing, the luxury retailer says it plans to invest more in mobile. "We are able to associate substantially all browsing behavior on our digital platforms with unique individuals," the company states in the filing. "By aggregating this data and employing advanced analytics, we are able to generate a single view of these customers' engagement with our brands. We utilize this data to enhance the interactions with our customers when they are in our stores and personalize the presentation of merchandise to our customers when they shop online." Neiman Marcus uses Bloomreach, Oracle, Rapleaf, RichRelevance, WibiData and in-house services for personalization, according to Top500Guide.com.

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.

Still time to update e-commerce systems before the holidays - The advent of cloud-based solutions make it possible to overhaul an e-commerce platform in as few as 10 weeks.

Since going live on the ATG Web Commerce platform, Ashford.com's online sales have grown rapidly, and year to date are more than double last year's sales during the same period

Bi-monthly opinion article attributed to Sarah Taylor, Senior Director, Oracle Retail

Brian Kilcourse, managing partner of retail research and advisory firm Retail Systems Research LLC, says the Oracle application can help retailers access deep data on customer activity needed to predict consumer demand. "Modern business intelligence capab

Internet Retailer - MAGAZINE_ISSUE_September2014 - Going for growth: ... Moure, from PureFormulas.com, says that in the run-up to its launch of Oracle Commerce, the vendor was "still pursuing us, making sure we are OK, making sure things run smoothly."

Internet Retailer - MAGAZINE_ISSUE_September2014 - Going for growth: ... Moure, from PureFormulas.com, says that in the run-up to its launch of Oracle Commerce, the vendor was "still pursuing us, making sure we are OK, making sure things run smoothly."

PureFormulas.com spent an estimated 1,000 hours, or more than 40 full days, meeting with or investigating all the major e-commerce platform vendors-including Demandware Inc., hybris AG, Magento-before buying from Oracle Corp. The retailer signed a contract with Oracle in May 2013, downloading Oracle Commerce software on its own servers. The implementation required in-house design work and coding in advance of the full launch in August of the retailer's new platform-which has also been deployed by larger retailers, including, last year, Kohl's Corp., a retail chain that took in $1.76 billion in web sales in 2013, according to Top500Guide.com.

PureFormulas.com spent an estimated 1,000 hours, or more than 40 full days, meeting with or investigating all the major e-commerce platform vendors-including Demandware Inc., hybris AG, Magento-before buying from Oracle Corp. The retailer signed a contract with Oracle in May 2013, downloading Oracle Commerce software on its own servers. The implementation required in-house design work and coding in advance of the full launch in August of the retailer's new platform-which has also been deployed by larger retailers, including, last year, Kohl's Corp., a retail chain that took in $1.76 billion in web sales in 2013, according to Top500Guide.com.

PureFormulas.com spent an estimated 1,000 hours, or more than 40 full days, meeting with or investigating all the major e-commerce platform vendors-including Demandware Inc., hybris AG, Magento-before buying from Oracle Corp. The retailer signed a contract with Oracle in May 2013, downloading Oracle Commerce software on its own servers. The implementation required in-house design work and coding in advance of the full launch in August of the retailer's new platform-which has also been deployed by larger retailers, including, last year, Kohl's Corp., a retail chain that took in $1.76 billion in web sales in 2013, according to Top500Guide.com.

Internet Retailer - "The Oracle Retail solution gives us a blueprint of where the assortment is going to lead us," said Robert Kim, vice president, Planning and Allocation, Forever 21. "Seeing the past performance by segment and looking at color penetration and fashion attributes is in itself a giant step forward, and the data can be sliced and diced in a way that is meaningful for our merchants. Oracle took a very complicated model and made it user-friendly. We expect to gain more insight and deliver an even better product assortment for our customers as we expand our use of the Oracle Retail solution."

Following its deployment of Oracle Commerce, Kohl's implemented Oracle Retail Merchandising System and Oracle Retail Price Management to streamline and improve the inventory, pricing, and promotions operations that, for 1 million SKUs, determine how well larger categories and individual items perform both online and at each of Kohl's more than 1,100 stores nationwide.

Internet Retailer - Technology/Order Management - Lids Sports Group Opens Up Inventory Across Channels With Oracle Retail Solutions

Tough, but necessary - In selecting an e-commerce platform, e-retailers grit their way through what can be a long, hard, even scary, slog. Oracle Commerce customers Elaine Turner and Rock Creek included.

As the e-commerce landscape has taken shape over the past couple of decades, the ecosystem for supporting services developed much as expected, with an array of platform providers strategically expanding their bundle of commerce engine and surrounding services from marketing and ad tech to analytics, merchandising, and logistics. These platforms grew both organically and inorganically, with Oracle, IBM, and eBay becoming the dominant players.