Technology Selection: EU Retail, Industry-Specific Applications Investments Trends

This publication has been discontinued on June 28, 2011.

Introduction

Abstract

"IDC Retail Insights 2009 survey findings confirm that European retailers reckon the necessity and opportunity of continued investments in technology-enabled innovation," says Ivano Ortis, EMEA Research Director, IDC Retail Insights. "We expect that the short-term round of retail-specific applications modernization will focus on four major directions: enabling capital optimized demand management advancements, innovating the customer experience through self-service technology, migrating point of sale, and store systems towards centralized, service oriented architectures and accelerating implementation of packaged software while intensifying platforms and applications outsourcing. Although many organizations are shifting in time point of sale replacements, the quest for real-time inventory visibility, precision retailing abilities, and full business visibility across all sales channels is currently accelerating requirements around store systems centralization and service oriented store IT architectures. This report analyzes European retailers' investments directions and provides useful, up-to-date information for the major European Countries and retail size classes," Ortis added.

Table of Contents

• Global Retail Insights Opinion
• In This Report
• Methodology
• Respondents' Profile
• Definitions
• Situation Overview
• Retail Business Requirements
• Country Differences
• Retail-Specific Solutions Adoption Trends
• Country Differences
• Future Outlook
• Country Differences
• Essential Guidance
• Actions to Consider
• Learn More
• Related Research
• Synopsis
• Table: Western Europe Retail Industry Respondent Company Distribution by Country (% of Companies)
• Table: Western Europe Retail Industry Business Initiatives Priority by Importance and Country
• Table: Western Europe Retail Industry IT Organization Improvements by Urgency and Country
• Table: Western Europe Retail Industry Retail-Specific Solutions Adoption by Country
• Table: Western Europe Retail Industry Retail-Specific Solutions InvestmentsPlans by Country
• Figure: Western Europe Retail Industry, Respondent Company Distribution by Size (% of Companies)
• Figure: Western Europe Retail Industry Business Initiatives Priority by Importance
• Figure: Western Europe Retail Industry Business Initiatives Priority by Importance and Company Size
• Figure: Western Europe Retail Industry IT Organization Improvements by Urgency
• Figure: Western Europe Retail Industry IT Organization Improvements by Urgency and Company Size
• Figure: Western Europe Retail Industry Retail-Specific Solutions Adoption
• Figure: Western Europe Retail Industry Retail-Specific Solutions Adoption by Enterprise Class
• Figure: Western Europe Retail Industry Retail-Specific Solutions Adoption by Implementation Type
• Figure: Western Europe Retail Industry Retail-Specific Solutions Investment Plans
• Figure: Western Europe Retail Industry Retail-Specific Solutions Investments Plans by Enterprise Class

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