RedPrairie Webcast
May 12, 2011
Gameplan for Growth:
Top 5 Takeaways from the RIS/Gartner Tech Trends Study
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Original Air Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011
Duration: 1 hour
Retailers are on the IT offensive, planning smart, targeted IT investments for the coming year, according to the 2011 RIS/Gartner Retail Tech Trends Study. Join RIS News and research partner Gartner Research as we reveal results from the most comprehensive technology study in retailing, as Gartner Research Vice President, Jeff Roster, and RIS Group Editor-in-Chief Joe Skorupa discuss the X's and O's featuring top technology insights currently shaping the retail landscape. With guarded optimism, results reveal strategies to simultaneously contain costs and outline plans for growth. Hear a virtual playbook on winning strategies in areas including:
- IT budget and spend trends: Retailers on the rebound?
- Innovation: Ranging from social and mobile initiatives to large infrastructure projects, retailers are striving to keep ahead of the curve
- IT strategy and the connected shopper: Offering the informed consumer greater visibility into inventory and product information
- Cross-channel strategy: Tools to develop the right strategy to add to your bottom line, rather than create cannibalization
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Industry experts leading this session include:
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Ann Marie O'Connor,
Director of Industry Marketing for Retail
RedPrairie Ann Marie O’Connor is responsible for driving the strategy for deployment of RedPrairie solutions across retail markets globally. Ann Marie came to RedPrairie in 2006 by way of acquisition of StorePerform, where she was a member of the founding team. Since then she has held positions in Product Management and Product Marketing.
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Jeffrey Roster,
Research VP
Gartner Research Jeffrey Roster is a research vice president at Gartner as part of the Industry Market Strategies Worldwide unit covering the retail and wholesale industries. In this capacity, Mr. Roster consults on market strategies, competitive assessment of the IT services landscape, technology trends and the direction of IT spending to provide market research for IT vendors.
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Malik Velani,
Director Product Strategy
S1Malik Velani is responsible for global product strategy for S1 payments solutions, including ATM Driving, Card Management, Merchant Acquiring and Retail Payments. Malik joined S1 in 2001. Prior to his appointment as Director of Product Strategy, Malik served
in various capacities including Senior Project Manager and Solutions Architect. He has over 13 years of experience in the global payments arena.
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Joe Skorupa,
Research VP
Gartner ResearchJoe Skorupa is a research vice president in Gartner Research, where he is part of the Data Center Transformation and Security Research unit. His research focuses on maximizing application performance via advanced networking technologies, including Layer 4-7 switching, and WAN optimization.
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