11 Sep 2013

What the new iPhone means for in-store retailing

You’ve probably already heard Apple’s announcement yesterday about the rollout of their newest iOS 7 operating system and new devices: the iPhone 5C and 5S. 5C is a plastic, slightly lower-end model, while the 5S, their new flagship, is faster and has updated camera functions and fingerprint detection built into the hardware. While everyone seems […]

1 Sep 2013

An interview with Office Depot’s Christine Buscarino on Omnichannel

Posted by in Innovation, Retail

Christine Buscarino, VP Customer Experience, spends a few minutes with the CloudTags team discussing her vision for how Omnichannel is changing the way things are done at Office Depot.

25 Aug 2013

BREAKING NEWS: VC Partnership Aims to Expedite Radical Change to Life as We Know It

It seems like over a decade since we first started hearing about the way Google Glass and other wearables will change the world as we know it. Experts claim that wearable devices which enable us to digitally interact with the physical world “are the future,” but it’s easy to lose faith in such claims after […]

18 Aug 2013

BI vs OI: Why bridging online and offline isn’t as far away is it may sound

Business Intelligence (BI), especially related to Big Data is a process of identifying interesting and actionable structure in historical data.  I discussed the importance of context in my earlier post “Big Data and Why Context is King” and real-time data is a way to infer the context of the situation.  Operational Intelligence (OI) deals with […]

24 Jul 2013

CloudTags: A New Chapter

Last week, I joined the CloudTags team as its Head of Innovation.  Before joining, I took a 3-month sabbatical following my departure from the Advanced Analytics team at 360i. During my sabbatical, several new job opportunities became available to me, leading many friends and family members to ask, “Why CloudTags?” I was initially drawn to […]