Unicoop Firenze, the Italian co-operative retailer, is using Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management to streamline store and inventory operations and improve the customer experience.

Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management has been chosen by Italian retailer Unicoop Firenze to streamline its store and inventory operations.

Virtual Piggy, Inc., an innovator in safe youth payments, announced that it has integrated its technology with the Oracle ATG Web Commerce leading ecommerce solution. This expands the reach of Virtual Piggy's network, making their COPPA-compliant technology accessible to over 390,000 brands worldwide.

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."

Luxury chocolatier and cocoa grower Hotel Chocolat has been awarded 'Speciality Retailer of the Year' at the Oracle Retail Week Awards 2013.

Coverage of the Good For Me by-line article in this Austrian technology publication.

Entries for two thirds of last week's 18 Oracle Retail Week Awards came from the contenders themselves. This is not to denigrate the winners' success, as many powerful peers had also put themselves forward. But no entries were invited for the top five awards, which depended solely on the judgement of the industry and the panel. And they coincidentally had something else in common: Aldi, Alliance Boots*, Arcadia, Inditex and John Lewis are all privately held or controlled businesses (*pre Walgreens).

Feature article focusing on how data can deliver actionable insights into customer wants and preferences. The article also includes comments from Sarah Taylor.

Supervalu has enhanced its deployment of 2,200-plus iPads to managers across its enterprise by implementing the Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2, providing secure, real-time access to back-office applications and business data from anywhere on the store floor. The Oracle solution replaced two separate directory environments with just one directory, with a 98% conversion rate for applications that integrate with the directory, minimizing downtime and user impact. The deployment also consolidated the directory server infrastructure from 15 servers down to five, reducing IT complexity and management responsibilities

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.

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.

Oracle presented a study Evolution of Experience Retailing, conducted in August 2012. The purpose of the survey was to study the development of the market, in particular, the company intended to find out how well the network retailers address the needs of customers. The study took into account the opinion of the respondents, aged 18 to 60 years old from Russia, Brazil, UK, Germany, China, USA and Japan.

Regional Sales Director, Oracle Retail in Eastern Europe and the CIS Anton Pershin published data from studies of the peculiarities of buyers in Russia. According to research, consumers in this country at least until and prefer traditional shopping, but soon everything will change.

Anton Pershin, Regional Sales Director, Oracle Retail in Eastern Europe and the CIS, talks about what a Russian buyer, how is it different from customers of other countries, and how far information technology came into his life.

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 Moscow office of Oracle presented a study Evolution of Experience Retailing, held corporation in Brazil, the UK, Germany, China, Russia, the U.S. and Japan. In each country, through a specially selected site were surveyed about 500 people from 18 to 60 years.

We are delighted to announce that Sir Philip Green has achieved the Outstanding Contribution to Retail award at The Oracle Retail Week Awards. The award ceremony was held last night in the heart of Mayfair and there was a surprise showbiz guest in the form of Simon Cowell who presented the award. Congratulations to Sir Philip Green on your award and success.

Coverage of the St Stephen's shopping centre which was awarded the UK's Retail Destination of the Year at the Oracle Retail Week Awards event in London.

The Times ran a Monday Manifesto interview with Stefano Pessina from Alliance Boots and referenced The Oracle Retail Week Awards.