Black Friday kicks off the festive shopping season 29 November this year, with millions of shoppers expected to take advantage of low prices. In 2018 alone, online Black Friday sales totaled $6.22bn; up 23% on the previous year’s figures. 2019 presents an excellent opportunity for retailers to not only increase revenues again, but elevate brand voice and extract valuable customer data leading to potential repeat sales later on.
Retail Surveillance and Security
Retail surveillance using network video solutions such as IP cameras helps protect a retail business from theft and inventory shrinkage. It can deter crime, reducing losses and creates a safer environment for staff and customers. This versatile technology can make numerous other positive contributions to the store’s operations besides loss prevention. For example, it can help store owners manage queues, count people and monitor flow control. It can provide information to support the development of better store layouts - via heat mapping and dwell time applications. Outside the store itself, network video can be connected to access control systems, or used for general surveillance of the building’s exterior and parking lot.
WatchGuard brings secure Wi-Fi to the outdoors with new ruggedised Wi-Fi access point
Nov 12, 2019 Comments (0)
WatchGuard Technologies has released a new cloud-managed outdoor Wi-Fi access point (AP), the AP327X.
Softcat reveals the UK’s biggest business technology priorities in 2020
Nov 05, 2019 Comments (0)
Softcat, a FTSE 250 listed company and provider of business technology solutions and services, has surveyed over 1,600 of its customers* across 18 different industries to reveal the biggest 2020 technology priorities.
Schneider Electric solves edge computing challenges with new 6U Wall Mount EcoStruxure Micro Data Center
Oct 22, 2019 Comments (0)
Schneider Electric has simplified and aligned its data centre solutions for the new hybrid IT world with the introduction of EcoStruxure Data Center Solutions, unveiled recently at Innovation Summit Barcelona.
Bridges' hero security guard wins national award
Oct 08, 2019 Comments (0)
A shopping centre security officer, whose quick thinking saved the life of a choking toddler, has received a national award.
FileCloud unveils real-time smart data leak protection solution
Oct 08, 2019 Comments (0)
FileCloud, a cloud-agnostic enterprise file sync and sharing platform, has unveiled Smart DLP, an intelligent, rule-driven solution that enables enterprises to prevent data leaks in real time and secure enterprise content across on-premise and public cloud environments.
Tripwire launches next generation of Tripwire Connect with enhanced reporting capabilities and new SaaS option
Oct 01, 2019 Comments (0)
Tripwire, Inc., the global provider of security and compliance solutions for enterprises and industrial organisations, has announced the next generation of Tripwire Connect, which consolidates data from both Tripwire Enterprise and Tripwire IP360 to provide a single view of security and compliance states, and can be deployed both on-premises and as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application.
Three quarters of businesses change tactics to protect against third party risk
Sep 24, 2019 Comments (0)
Recent research carried out by Gurucul, a security and fraud analytics provider, has uncovered 74% of companies are being driven to actively take steps to mitigate security risks posed by third party vendors following recent breaches.
Epiq launches global information governance services to manage sensitive legal and corporate data
Sep 24, 2019 Comments (0)
Epiq has introduced enhanced information governance services to help clients efficiently and compliantly manage their electronically stored information in all environments, including on premise servers, in the cloud, or in hybrid systems.
Atheon Analytics launches SKUtrak DataShare – a secure data sharing solution with Snowflake to boost accessibility of retail supply chain data
Sep 24, 2019 Comments (1)
Snowflake, the data warehouse built for the cloud, has announced Atheon Analytics as the first UK Snowflake Data Sharing customer, and the launch of Atheon’s SKUtrak DataShare solution. By using Snowflake’s Secure Data Sharing, Atheon is driving daily data insights and visibility across the retail supply chain, automating the ETL process, and helping retail suppliers save time and money when gathering, accessing and analysing data.
Retail businesses need Retail Security to have their premises, stock, employees and customers protected in a safe and secure environment. Retail loss prevention is used by all types of retailers who are looking to reduce theft of goods and guard against loss of profit. Loss prevention can be through more traditional methods such as visible security measures in conjunction with technology such as CCTV and electronic sensor barriers.
