Dan Berthiaume

Endeca Technologies, which offers information access software, is releasing an online retail merchandising management tool suite. Announced June 9, the Merchandising Workbench performs a variety of merchandising tasks for use in e-commerce stores. “Imagine you have a store where hand trucks are running all around and items are rearranged on the fly,” said Matt Eichner, […]

Shipwire, which sells international e-commerce order fulfillment solutions and services, is expanding to allow U.S.-based small online businesses to execute orders from European customers. The company announced its new UK-based warehouse and pick-pack fulfillment facility June 9. “Since the reduction of Chinese trade barriers in 2005, there has been a surge of small U.S. businesses […]

BOSTON-The Enterprise 2.0 Conference that is running here June 9-12 featured an expo floor full of innovative solutions that provide numerous avenues for retailers to engage their customers in ways previously unimaginable. Companies big and small are branching into the young Enterprise 2.0 space, and undoubtedly the market will see consolidation in the next few […]

BOSTON-Enterprise 2.0. Maybe it’s because of the “Star Trek” associations with the name, but to me, Enterprise 2.0 sounds like something that will be happening in the far-off future. Yet as demonstrated by the expo floor and sessions of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference that started beaming down here June 9, it is happening now and […]

Personalization service provider ChoiceStream and customer review solution developer PowerReviews are teaming up to allow retailers to include customer reviews in their targeted online customer recommendations. Announced June 3, the partnership is intended to boost online sales conversions. “There’s an obvious synergy between the power of the customer review and the impact of personalized recommendations,” […]

Teradata, which sells enterprise data warehousing systems, is rolling out Version 10.0 of its Communications Logical Data Model. Jointly released June 3 with an Enterprise Data Warehouse Roadmap that graphically depicts new information available within a company’s data stream, the Logical Data Model is designed to offer efficient and accurate processes for governing the flow […]

E-commerce solutions provider LaGarde is releasing its Phoenix Platform, a .Net-based software-as-a-service e-commerce platform. “The days of running e-commerce as a silo are over,” said Bob LaGarde, company founder and chairman. “Anybody seriously running e-commerce is running it as part of a whole e-business system.” LaGarde said Phoenix, which was announced June 3, functions as […]

Skycore plans to enable retailers and brands to deliver informative and promotional multimedia messages directly to mobile phones via its Celly Space solution, which serves as a messaging platform for marketers. “MMS [Multimedia Messaging Service] uses the same technology as text messaging and goes to a phone’s inbox,” said Rich Eicher, president of Skycore. “But […]

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out Version 2.3 of its Neoview data warehouse application, which offers several patented technologies designed to enable operational business intelligence. HP introduced the new version June 2. “Information continues to explode at a rapid rate and companies continue to struggle with volumes of data and getting access to that data for large […]

WebCollage, which offers content exchange services for manufacturers and their retail partners, is releasing WebCollage Management Center, a self-service information syndication platform. Announced May 27, the hosted solution integrates content between manufacturers and retailers on demand. “WebCollage Management Center is an on-demand solution that works with manufacturers and retailers to optimize how they jointly market […]