Downstream data is being leveraged by visionary companies outside of the traditional confines of sales and marketing - whether it be point-of-sale data, transactional data or even RFID data and loyalty card data.
THE MERGER AND ACQUISITION (M&A) trend continued through 2006, impacting a large number of technology providers that service the consumer goods (CG) industry.
U.S. companies will increase their ERP budgets by 11.3 percent in 2007, says AMR Research's newly released the "Enterprise Resource Planning Spending Report, 2006-2007."
The UK's largest grocery retailer and the fifth largest retailer in the world, Tesco PLC, intends to enter the United States retail market with a new convenience format, beginning on the West Coast in 2007.
While Oracle's pursuit of Siebel Systems took center stage in 2005, analysts expect to see increased use of partner networks and third-party maintenance providers heading into 2006.
