{"id":132960,"date":"2018-02-05T09:52:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T08:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/?p=132960"},"modified":"2020-12-23T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:07:08","slug":"fa1-whitepaper-retail-insights-harnessing-power-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en\/transform-en\/retail-en\/fa1-whitepaper-retail-insights-harnessing-power-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitepaper: Retail Insights \u2013 Harnessing the Power of Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The retail industry contributes a significant portion to the GDP of many countries, employs tens of millions of people and touches nearly everyone.<\/p>\n<p>In order to gain insight at a particularly volatile time for the industry, <a href=\"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/02\/BusinessLeadership_Retail-Insights-Harnessing-the-power-of-data.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we recently conducted a survey with 100 retail executives<\/a> to gain insight into their business challenges and learn about how they are currently using, or plan to use, analytics and the cloud to stay relevant with today\u2019s consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Retailers who continue to do business as they always have without evolving their business practices may soon find themselves outpaced and outmatched in a ruthlessly competitive marketplace. We created this whitepaper, which includes insights gleaned from our survey of retail business executives, to provide guidance on evolving retail data business practices and challenges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/02\/BusinessLeadership_Retail-Insights-Harnessing-the-power-of-data.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the whitepaper.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The retail industry contributes a significant portion to the GDP of many countries, employs tens of millions of people and touches nearly everyone. In order to gain insight at a particularly volatile time for the industry, we recently conducted a survey with 100 retail executives to gain insight into their business challenges and learn about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":838,"featured_media":132001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1911],"class_list":["post-132960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-transformation-en","specials-transform-en","verticalIndustries-retail-en","stories-data-insights-intelligence","stories-how-can-i-get-insights-from-my-data","businessPriorities-digital-transformation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132960"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421349,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132960\/revisions\/421349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}