Kudos to Systems Forum member Jagged Peak, which last night was acknowledged as Emerging Technology Company of the Year by the Tampa Bay Technology Forum, growing revenue from $600,000 to more than $15 million over the last six years. The company provides outsourced eCommerce and supply chain solutions that enable manufact… Continue

From Cross-Atlantic Insight | Publication date: 09/11/2009

When exploring their international options, many businesses focus on marketing and merchandising to the exclusion of issues involving operational systems. As a provider of retail management solutions, Retail Directions wants you to consider your systems needs, of course. That’s why it put together a brief titled “Top Five Tips… Continue

Sanderson, the publicly owned UK provider of software solutions to retail and multichannel merchants, has, through Sanderson RBS, joined the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council. As a Participating Organization, Sanderson is working with the Council to evolve the PCI Data Security Stand… Continue

The Website Hongkiat.com lists its "Best of Open Source E-Commerce Shopping Carts." Well worth a look.

WCF, the UK company that runs mail order brands including James Meade and Country Collection, recently achieved PCI compliance. WCF use Exact Abacus' Customer Relationship Management software and Company Secretary, Jo Ritzema, has provided some hints and tips on the Exact Abacus blog gained from their 18 month long process in getting to the goal line with PCI.

If you are still uncertain about how to ma… Continue

Systems Forum Member Bruce Gregoire posted the following in his newsletter. It's not about "Systems" per se, but I think it's valuable info.

With rapid changes in multi-channel marketing in the last decade, staying abreast of the industry continues to be a challenge. Here are two new books that I recommend for the direct marketing practitioner:

Dr. Lisa Spiller and Martin Baier
Contemporary Direct & Interactive Marketing
Second Edition
Prentice Hall

This came to our attention from… Continue

One of our major clients with more than 11 million customers is successfully migrating from MACS by Smith-Gardener/Ecometry/Escalate to Junction Solutions MS DAX system.

We have been handling their circulation modeling and list pulls for several years. There are many significant challenges migrating from one legacy system to another. An area often neglected is the connection between the old data and the new. Not only does a new file structure require a new interface into the marketing database,… Continue

Has anyone attended and what's your opinion of the Shop.org trade conference? Our busines is e-commerce and supply chain software and services.