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Aberdeen Benchmark Report: "Fast-Track Cross-Channel Gains: The Final Frontier for Customer Share of Wallet"
Monday, February 08, 2010

Today's consumer is more demanding than ever, and retailers must be willing to adapt to their channel preferences. As the online and mobile channels continue to gain in prominence, consumers expect to receive the same brand promise and experience across all channels, making it an absolute necessity that retailers re-think their cross-channel stance.

Cactus CommerceLive Overview
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

E-commerce has changed in many ways since Cactus Commerce started deploying e-commerce solutions over 12 years ago, however one thing remains constant – customers desire to create unique and flexible e-commerce experiences.  Recognizing that one solution does not fit all, Cactus introduced the CommerceLive solution to bridge the gap that exists today between SaaS and custom e-commerce platforms.

Mobile Field Workforce in Retail: Strategies to Reduce Total Cost of Ownership
Monday, September 14, 2009

Download this complimentary Aberdeen report, sponsored by Cactus Commerce, to learn more about best practices related to the Mobile Field Workforce in Retail. Aberdeen surveyed 129 retailers between July and August 2009 to reveal the Best-in-Class methods and techniques to ensure configurability, integration, and extensibility of mobility infrastructure towards 21st century retailing. Overall, 73% of Best-in-Class retailers indicated that they have had a mobility initiative in place for one year or more.

Top 5 Engagement Tactics for Back to School Season
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

The Back to School season, while traditionally smaller than the Holiday season, still provides a needed boost in sales for most retailers. E-commerce plays a key role with savvy retailers looking to cross channel shopping, social media tactics, and interactive websites to attract and engage Back to School customers. Find out which engagement tactics are gaining the most traction this year, and learn some new back-to-basic retailing strategies. Download 'Top 5 Engagement Tactics for Back to School Season' white paper today.

New Age Multi-Channel Retailing: Prospects for Digital Retail Revolution and Avenues for Better Integration
Thursday, January 01, 2009

Download this complimentary Aberdeen report, sponsored by Cactus Commerce, to learn more about best practices in multi-channel retailing. Aberdeen surveyed over 120 retail enterprises between December 2008 and January 2009 to determine the current state of multi-channel retailing, and the future implementation of the digital and mobile channels. Aberdeen data reveals that 58% of retailers surveyed have had a multi-channel initiative in place for at least one year. Best-in-Class companies are 1.5-times as likely as Industry Average and Laggard companies to have implemented these initiatives in that time.


Product Information Management (PIM) As a Stepping Stone
Thursday, May 01, 2008

Product Information Management, or PIM, refers to the systems, strategies and processes for managing product data. While the concepts around PIM are certainly nothing new, retailers are now addressing their PIM needs in the context of their multi-channel strategy. Download this white paper for more information.

Achieving Peak Performance: Four Key Pillars Helping CG Firms Cut Costs While Sharpening Service Capabilities
Sunday, October 01, 2006

The products that consumer goods manufacturers produce may be as different as cans of soup are from high-end home entertainment systems. But despite their differences, virtually all CG companies face the same fundamental challenges: meeting the demands of both their retailer customers and the fast-changing, hard-to-read desires of global consumers. And while CG manufacturers are meeting these basic imperatives, they must simultaneously keep their own costs in check while dealing with government regulations, global sourcing and supply issues, and the near-constant call for faster, more efficient product replenishment. Download this white paper to learn how Microsoft’s Peak Performance Initiative (PPI) offers business solutions for best results.

BizTalk/EDI Performance Metrics: Large Retail Enterprise Results
Friday, September 01, 2006

This document will serve as a guide to large enterprises that require electronic connectivity with a large community of trading partners, both large and small. More specifically this document addresses sizing large-scale EDI implementations based on BizTalk Server 2006. Tests emulating the true load of an enterprise EDI solution were executed on a Proof of Concept (POC) solution designed to emulate the true requirements of an enterprise retailer trading with multiple partners via EDI X12 transactions. Download this white paper to learn more.

BizTalk RFID: Making RFID Deployments Easy, Simple and Economical
Thursday, June 01, 2006

This white paper describes a new approach to RFID with the potential to break through most technical and business barriers that so far have prevented the technology from reaching a critical mass worldwide. It outlines and describes a new infrastructure, based on Microsoft technologies, that includes each of the building blocks developers need to build successful, plug-and-play vertical applications, faster and more efficiently than ever before. This document is written for IT and operational professionals and managers at companies with either an interest, or need, for RFID. In addition, it is intended to help system integrators, VARs and independent software vendors understand how they can use the Microsoft platform to better serve their customers. Download this white paper for more information.

Gaining Supply Chain Efficiency Through Global Data Synchronization
Monday, May 01, 2006

This white paper examines how the trading of item data and the ordering of trade items in the supply chain can be made more efficient by integrating processes and systems, and by leveraging standards. With the introduction of technologies such as RFID, new and existing business processes must be revamped, or even recreated, in order to take advantage of the benefits offered. Download this white paper for more information.

Supply Chain Management: Business Overview for Retail
Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Already highly complex, the supply chain of the future is going to look even more so as it copes with serving a greater variety of buying channels (store, internet, kiosk, telephone, mail order, TV, PC), delivering to more outlets (differing store formats, order and collection options, homes, pickup points) in potentially more countries, while managing more products from a greater number of sourcing locations. Download this white paper for more information on multi-channel's impact to supply chain. Download this white paper for more information on multi-channel’s impact to supply chain.


Global Data Synchronization (GDS) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID): The Foundation for Collaborative Commerce
Wednesday, March 01, 2006

By leveraging the power of the Microsoft Windows Server System and in particular BizTalk Server and the Microsoft RFID Infrastructure, Cactus Commerce is able to provide solutions which support the complete lifecycle of product data. From new product introductions, promotions, shipping and returns, the GDS infrastructure leverages the Microsoft RFID Infrastructure by associating clean, synchronized product data to context-based EPC/RFID event data received from various points in the supply chain. Download this white paper for more information. Download this white paper for more information.