Business Intelligence (BI)

Shell Oil Company's SOPUS Products, makers of Black Magic, Rain X, Pennzoil, Quaker State, Jiffy Lube, Fix-a-Flat and Gumout branded products, licenses Planalytics Business Weather Intelligence platform to keep products in-stock at retail stores when weather creates a surge in consumer buying.

Land O'Lakes, Inc., a leading dairy cooperative, is implementing Sopheon's Accolade product life cycle management (PLM) system as the technology foundation for its product innovation processes.

SATO launches the GL4e series of RFID-ready printers.

Giant Eagle rolls out the IBM personal shopping assistant (PSA) shopping cart system.

Sorbara's Shop n' Save deploys the Fujitsu U-Scan self-checkout system, in conjunction with POS software from StoreNext.

Brown-Forman Corporation places a premium on managing its brand assets and interactive content, deeming these to be critical to engaging customers with information that educates, involves and entertains.

Sony Europe implements Reva Systems to create an RFID tracking system.

PEAK Technologies launches voice-enabled solutions for SAP supply chain users to improve order picking accuracy to 99.9 percent and increase productivity by up to 15 percent.