Data & Analytics

Rapid developments in technology along with economic and marketplace changes continue to put pressure on salesforces to adopt new approaches. Are you ready for the next generation of customer planning?

IDC Retail Insights releases the results of its 2013 Annual Shopper survey, revealing that nearly two-thirds of consumers worry they don't have enough control over what retailers can know about them. Here are some more of the green lights and bright red lines retailers should abide when it comes to consumer dispositions on this topic of hot debate.

Kwikee launches a new vendor portal for retailers and manufacturers to more efficiently communicate and fulfill requests for product images and data needed for e-commerce and other marketing applications.

The Oscar-winning film "Her" tells the story of a man who falls in love with the artificial intelligence (AI) personal assistant on his smartphone. That may sound far-fetched, but many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are already enamored.

P&G today receives petabytes of daily data, which is growing exponentially. The company needed a solution that will help them make sense of all this data in an efficient manner.

In her new monthly column, Lora Cecere explains the reasons why consumer goods companies are drowning in data and short on analytics and insights.

A comprehensive listing of solution providers that support the collection, aggregation, storage, analysis and integration of valuable data.

Recognizing a strong need for improvement, nine companies, including Coca-Cola, Hershey, P&G and Wegmans, worked together to focus on closing the gap that currently exists in the new item setup process.