Retail must go online for e-commerce market expansion: report
A new report indicates the Australian e-commerce market is dragging three years behind development in the US and UK and must expand.
A new report indicates the Australian e-commerce market is dragging three years behind development in the US and UK and must expand.
The online retail industry award winners have been announced in Sydney with local surf company City Beach picking up the award for 'best use of technology'.
Social networking, improved site content and utilising analytics are the top areas CIOs need to be looking at in the online retail space.
Surf retailer City Beach has been nominated in the 'best use of technology' category at the inaugural online retail industry awards. The retailer will compete against a variety of retailers including Jeans West, Trixan Body, Jason L and Shoes of Prey.
Surfing products and clothing retailer City Beach is moving to an enterprise-class e-commerce platform thanks to upgrades to its e-commerce cloud computing platform.
What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago it was almost impossible to find Australian organisations that had embraced cloud computing. Now pretty much everyone is planning, piloting or executing some form of migration to the cloud. If there was ever doubt that cloud was little more than hype, it was eradicated in April 2010 by Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) group executive for enterprise services and chief information officer, Michael Harte. In a speech to Committee for Economic Development in Australia, Harte declared that never again did he wish to be locked into using proprietary hardware or software and cloud computing was his escape route.