IT Integration

This month, CGT and EdgeVerve examine the consumer goods industry's approach to emerging markets to understand the current status of initiatives and explore approaches to operating models and technology.

Many consumer goods companies have already invested in trade management technology, but often fail to close the loop with post-event analysis and, therefore, never have the opportunity to elevate the discussion to a strategic level with retail customers. Here's how.

Nestle's Nescafe brand is one of the first to partner with Facebook to launch an immersive video.

Chocolate company Ferrero Australia announces it has selected StayinFront's mobile field cloud solutions to help support the field team.

Although technologies, competition and consumer expectations are evolving at hyper-speed, business applications are struggling to keep up. To seize the digital opportunity, consumer goods companies need to fundamentally rethink how applications should be built and deployed. To keep up, follow these three new strategies for application development.

International Data Corporation (IDC) kicks off its IDC FutureScape series of more than 30 on-demand Web conferences. Find out what the IDC's ten predictions for worldwide digital transformation are, covered in one of the first web conferences.

Lack of infrastructure, unfriendly environmental conditions and a shortage of skilled labor, are just some of the obstacles consumer goods (CG) companies face when expanding into new geographies. However, leading CG companies are taking advantage of this opportunity by leveraging innovative technology solutions to increase sales by up to 8 percent, reach customers much faster and reduce ordering costs by nearly 80 percent. Heres how they do it.

Insight, innovation and action are key levers of growth that are cross-functional themes. That is why consumer goods community leaders reunited (now in its 17^th year) to engage these important areas of focus, during the 2015 Consumer Goods Business & Technology Leadership Conference.