Six Digital Commerce Shopping Trends to Watch in 2013
Commerce continues to evolve at a rapid pace, with digital experiences continuing to reshape shopping. The transformative impact of digital commerce will continue– and indeed accelerate– in 2013 with...
View ArticleWho Are Digital Divas and Why Should Retailers Care? (Infographic)
Retail is in midst of unprecedented change, especially in the fashion segment. Vertical integration, global expansion, and emerging brands have created fierce competition. To effectively win in this...
View ArticleDigital Divas: How to Get a Piece of the Fashion Spend Pie
Recent research by the University of Arizona uncovered Digital Divas — an emerging and valuable consumer segment that is highly engaged with both fashion merchandise and digital technology. While they...
View Article‘Digital Divas’– the World’s Most Connected Consumers
** this webinar recap article was originally published in UA news by La Monica Everett-Haynes, University Communications. The complete webinar can be downloaded and listened to on-demand here. In an...
View ArticleBuild-A-Bear’s New Retail Reality – a Look into Their Interactive...
by Rob Garf, VP of Product and Solutions Marketing - Robert Fort and I had the opportunity to visit the Build-A-Bear interactive store-of-the-future prototype at Infusion in NYC. They’ve rolled out...
View ArticleHow Kate Spade Mastered the New Retail Reality
– by Larry Joseloff, eCommerce Strategist, Demandware The second day of the 2013 XChange Conference kicked off with an inspiring presentation from Johanna Murphy, Vice President, eCommerce for kate...
View ArticleThe 5 New Paradigms of Retail Analytics
– by Vinod Kumar, eCommerce Strategist, Demandware. At the recent Demandware XChange Conference I had the pleasure of sitting in a fascinating session that covered the evolving usage of analytics...
View ArticleCathy Hotka and Rob Garf Get the Show on the Road with Retail CIOs
- by Rob Garf, Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing at Demandware & Cathy Hotka of Cathy Hotka & Associates. Cathy Hotka and Rob Garf here…checking in from parts unknown. Recently,...
View ArticleCIO Corner Q&A Part 2: Modern CIOs Embrace the Cloud for Innovation and Speed
- by Rob Garf, Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing at Demandware. This is part 2 of 2 of a Q&A with Mr. Robert Fort and Ms. Diane Randolph. Two prominent and innovative retail CIO’s....
View ArticleMoving Faster: Three Key Omni-Channel Takeaways
by Ian Auerbach, Solutions Marketing Manager, In-Store Commerce - Over the past several months, I have had the opportunity to meet with a number of retailers to discuss omni-channel, both in terms of...
View ArticleBig Data and Retail Part 1: Building the Ultimate Consumer Experience
By Peter Hoffman, Senior Sales Engineer Big data has traditionally been viewed as a preserve of the IT department, but with the widespread adoption of cloud technologies, big data is moving into the...
View ArticleShop.org: Tory Burch Keynote
By, Adam Ford, Solution Strategist Miki Berardelli, chief marketing officer, and Matt Marcotte, senior vice president of global stores, from Tory Burch kicked off Shop.org 2013 in Chicago yesterday...
View ArticleBig Data and Retail Part 2: Building the Ultimate Consumer Experience
By, Peter Hoffman My last post focused on the basics of big data, the challenges associated with collecting and extrapolating information and the simplified steps of leveraging big data to acquire...
View ArticleShop.org Breakout Session: Mobile Responsive Design and Why it’s Essential...
By Matt Mayes, Senior Solution Strategist During the session, the panel, made up of executives from Tommy Hilfiger, True Religion, Cuker and Indochino, focused on several mobile strategies including...
View ArticleShop.org 2014: Omni-Channel is a Reality But Not Yet Real
By Rob Garf, VP of Product and Solutions Marketing Shop.org in Chicago last week proved that omni-channel is no longer a nice-to-have but rather a requirement in our new retail reality. That said, I...
View ArticleInternet Retailing Conference: Lancôme Talks about the Personalized Consumer...
By Rob Garf, VP of Product and Solutions Marketing I had the pleasure of sharing the stage with our client, Alessio Rossi, VP of Interactive and E-Business for Lancôme, at the Internet Retailing...
View ArticleHappy Cyber Holidays
By Mary Halladay, Industry Principle, Retail With anticipation (bordering on anxiety), our customers have been planning for Thanksgiving Weekend 2013 since mid-Summer. The reality of Thanksgiving...
View ArticleGerman Retailers Poised to Digitize the Store
By Rob Garf, Vice President, Industry Strategy and Insights, Demandware I spent last week traveling throughout Europe to share the results from recent studies conducted by the National Retail...
View ArticleXChange 2014 Part 1: The Next Ten Years Look Bright in the Cloud
By Rob Garf, Vice President, Industry Strategy and Insights at Demandware Today was a great start to XChange 2014 in Miami. Tom Ebling, our CEO, and Jeff Barnett, our COO, set the tone for the week...
View ArticleXChange 2014 Part 3: And Finally, the Reality of a Single Platform
By Rob Garf, Vice President, Industry Strategy and Insights at Demandware In the keynote sessions, our CEO, Tom Ebling, and, our COO, Jeff Barnett, declared that the only way to address current...
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