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"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.

Kohl's overhauled its core merchandising, inventory, and pricing operations with the launch of a new Oracle Retail Merchandise Operations Management solution, enabling a unified system of record for inventory to better serve customers across channels, and to simplify its business user experience.

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.

"Amazon is putting enormous pressure on retailers to up their game," said David Dorf, senior director of technology strategy for Oracle Retail. Indeed, the survival of many retailers with actual, brick-and-mortar businesses rests on their ability to stanch showrooming," the rampant consumer practice of scouting out goods at the mall before buying them online at a better price.

"Amazon is putting enormous pressure on retailers to up their game," said David Dorf, senior director of technology strategy for Oracle Retail. Indeed, the survival of many retailers with actual, brick-and-mortar businesses rests on their ability to stanch showrooming," the rampant consumer practice of scouting out goods at the mall before buying them online at a better price.

Over a 13-month period beginning in late 2013, Charming Charlie implemented several Oracle solutions including its Merchandising System, Retail Trade Management, Price Management, Invoice Match and Store Inventory Management.

Over a 13-month period beginning in late 2013, Charming Charlie implemented several Oracle solutions including its Merchandising System, Retail Trade Management, Price Management, Invoice Match and Store Inventory Management.

On Sept. 27 Connected Planet highlighted the results of Oracle's "Opportunity Calling: The Future of Mobile Communications" report. The article notes that as new services are introduced by mobile providers, it will be the pricing and billing that will "cl

As eyeglasses enjoy increasing popularity as a fashion accessory, consumers are finding more styles, convenience and affordable options online. Leading online eyewear retailer Zenni Optical responds to the growing demand by offering consumers high quality prescription eyeglasses priced as low as $6.95 through a personalized, visually appealing and easy-to-use site powered by Oracle Commerce.

As eyeglasses enjoy increasing popularity as a fashion accessory, consumers are finding more styles, convenience and affordable options online. Leading online eyewear retailer Zenni Optical responds to the growing demand by offering consumers high quality prescription eyeglasses priced as low as $6.95 through a personalized, visually appealing and easy-to-use site powered by Oracle Commerce.

Oracle Retail solutions have played a key role in Kohl's multi-step business transformation process. Over time, the retailer has implemented a series of technologies to empower team members to anticipate customer demand, identify new market opportunities, and roll out more relevant and effective products and promotions across all channels.

Kohl's is transforming many of its core retail operations to accommodate recent growth and ensure that both its store and online shopping experiences reflect the unique preferences of consumers, no matter where they live and shop.

According to a study conducted by Oracle Evolution of Experience Retailing, consumers want to retail store is not limited to, a city or a country, take into account local needs and expectations, and was due to their individual preferences. 87% of Russian respondents said that the quality of care for them very or quite important, while 70% intend to shop in other countries to get the best prices.

According to a study conducted by Oracle Evolution of Experience Retailing, consumers want to retail store is not limited to, a city or a country, take into account local needs and expectations, and was due to their individual preferences. 87% of Russian respondents said that the quality of care for them very or quite important, while 70% intend to shop in other countries to get the best prices. Russian consumers as well as consumers in other countries, learn increasingly global market opportunities so retailers must bring to the fore the initiative to identify key business requirements, to meet customer demand and ensure more effective competition.

According to a study conducted by Oracle The Evolution of Experience Retailing, 70% of the retail market of Russian consumers are going to shop in other countries, if they are satisfied with the price. Almost 50% of respondents believe that Russian retailers often can not provide a good selection of products and prefer to look for the desired products with foreign companies.

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.

Coverage of the Evolution of Experience Retailing research where the journalist attended the UK launch event.

Oracle today announced enhancements to Oracle Retail Category Management, which helps grocers, big box retailers, hardlines and department stores tailor assortments, pricing and promotions to specific customer segments

"The new Oracle-based inventory planning system provides inventory visibility that simply was not possible for us in the past," said Jim Bell, executive VP and CFO/COO, Coldwater Creek, Sandpoint, Idaho. "Ultimately, this should lead to further reductions in aged inventory and allow us to increase our full-price selling, making us more productive and profitable."

Article highlighting the results of Oracle's recent "Water for All" study which surveyed 244 senior water utility executives and found wasteful consumer behavior to be the biggest barrier in meeting rising demand that's also driven by growing populations and climate change. The article also notes that the report found that more than a third of the executives surveyed said the risk of demand outstripping supply by 2030 is "highly likely" or "essentially certain" and that most water utilities are increasing investments to meet supply challenges, with 22 percent surveyed boosting spending by 15 percent or more in the next three years.

Article highlighting the results of Oracle's recent "Water for All" study which surveyed 244 senior water utility executives and found wasteful consumer behavior to be the biggest barrier in meeting rising demand that's also driven by growing populations and climate change. The article also notes that the report found that more than a third of the executives surveyed said the risk of demand outstripping supply by 2030 is "highly likely" or "essentially certain" and that most water utilities are increasing investments to meet supply challenges, with 22 percent surveyed boosting spending by 15 percent or more in the next three years.

Results of an Oracle Utilities survey released this morning show that electric utilities in Canada and the US are only in the early stages of putting smart meter data good use. But they could be doing a better job of using the data they are collecting. The survey was of 151 utility executives in Canada and the United States. The study, Utility Transformations - Big Data, Bigger Opportunities: Plans and Preparedness for the Data Deluge, shows that utilities on both sides of the 49th Parallel are collecting significantly more interval data from smart meters. The frequency at which they are gathering smart meter data is 180 times more than in the past - every four hours compared to once a month. And the vast majority of them are collecting information such as outage and voltage data. Linda Jackman, group VP of industry strategy for Oracle Utilities, tells Canadian Green Tech in an interview that despite the improvement on the data collection front, utilities aren't using the data as effective as they could be. She was surprised to find utilities collecting certain types of data, but then not using that data to inform business decisions. According to the results, 78% of utilities surveyed are collecting outage data with 59% of them using, meaning nearly 20% aren't correlating outage data with customer communications as an example. For voltage data, the levels are 73% and 57%, respectively. "In outage and voltage data, the fact that everybody is not collecting that data, I think is surprising. You've rolled out a smart meter and you're not collecting outage data when it has the ability to talk to you around outage data? Why am I not collecting it? But then only 60% of them are using it once they have collected it, I think is also surprising," says Jackman. "So what we're seeing is that utilities are still in this very early stage and very formative stage of collecting the data but actually don't know what [they're] going to do with