As retailers grow, managing data across their application landscape becomes crucial. Business users and Information Technology (IT) leaders want to choose data management solutions that provide insights to them and provide relevant information to their customers along their purchasing life-cycle. Accommodating scale, speed and different data types requires that data management solutions evolve.
How are enterprises coping with scale and flexibility?
Enterprise software solutions are going through a revolution to accommodate scale and flexibility. Looking at the growth of AWS and Azure, one can imagine how aggressively enterprises are embracing cloud. r and s over the last five quarters. Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), four times the rate of . Flexibility in operating models (Operational Expense vs. Capital Expense), ease of implementation and cost savings lure business leaders towards the cloud. To strike a balance with the legacy of on premise solutions and cloud-based business friendly applications, enterprises will pursue a hybrid cloud model.
Compared to other verticals, retail has a lower barrier to adopting cloud. in retailing. Additional data points supporting this continued accelerated growth of cloud-based solutions, include;
Retailers invest in various hybrid cloud-based solutions throughout their enterprise to providetheir consumers with personalized attention, constant engagement and better experiences.The central focus of this effort is to provide business users with a better user experience along with consistent data (especially product data) all with the goal of creating great experiences for consumers.
Synchronization of product data across applications and channels is critical to enterprises for improved efficiencies, faster new product introduction and higher sales. A Product Information Management (PIM) solution provides a single source of truth, high quality product content, global product taxonomies, aggregation and syndication with internal and external sources.
PIM solutions improve sales by providing the right product for the right customer at the right time, improve efficiencies by accelerating new product introduction, reduce supply chain costs and identify bottlenecks through better reporting. By connecting with data pools, vendor data, marketplaces, e-commerce platforms and Digital Asset Management solutions, PIM solutions connect to the entire application ecosystem and keep all the business users on the same page with “Trusted Product Data”. The foundation of this “Trusted Product Data” drives an enterprise towards data-driven and outcome based operations.
