Affliction Clothing standardizes its supply chain communication through Inovis' Value Added Network (VAN) and Master Data Management (MDM) software. Affliction uses the Inovis platform to quickly exchange the latest product information with retailers and manage the secure movement of data and documents between the company and its suppliers and retail customers across North America.

As a growing brand, Affliction needed to take control of its EDI trading partnerships to better service its larger retailer customers. By using Inovis, Affliction will exchange business information electronically with all of their trading partners and will be able to compress their order-to-cash cycles.

"We're a young, fast growing brand," says Scott Hampshire, CIO at Affliction. "We needed a painless, scalable solution that we could bring in-house to stay connected to our retail customers and suppliers and integrate smoothly with our ERP. Inovis provides that for us."

Metro selects Sweda and its latest point-of-sale application, SwedaMart, for its grocery stores. Metro and Sweda completed a successful pilot installation and began the chain-wide SwedaMart implementation in July 2008. As of today, many of the Metro and Super C stores have been successfully converted and all the remaining stores in Quebec will be fully converted before the end of fiscal 2009.

"We are very pleased with Sweda in delivering the technology in our stores," says Jacques Couture, Vice-President, Information Systems of Metro. "Sweda has provided us with a smooth migration with no disruption to our operation.

SwedaMart is an open-standards, hardware and operating system independent POS system. SwedaMart offers a flexible promotion module that can help retailers implement loyalty strategies and promotional pricing programs.

Certona releases Resonance Insight management console specifically for online merchandisers and e-commerce managers. Using a self-service user interface, Certona customers can create and customize their own merchandising and product recommendation strategies. These customized strategies combine a portfolio of both industry-standard and Certona-proprietary Resonance recommendation algorithms with user-definable merchandising business rules.

Merchandisers have three options to choose from:

- Resonance personalization engine delivers targeted, personalized and optimized set of recommendations to each visitor and location automatically, based on each individual's unique real-time behavioral profile and purchase patterns. 

- Choose from several off-the-shelf Resonance recommendation types such as best sellers, popular items, top rated, new arrivals, "people who bought this also bought," "people who viewed this also viewed," "people who this viewed this ultimately bought," most searched, similar items, accessories, and more. These standard algorithms can be tuned to the individual's browse and purchase behavior using the unique and proprietary "Resonance Personalization Factor."

- Create their own recommendations and merchandising strategies for each location. These can be mixed and matched with other recommendation types to provide the optimal combination of the merchandiser expertise and business goals and recommendation coverage.

Any of the recommendation strategies can be further refined and controlled through user-defined business rules, which filter recommendations based on product categories, brands, price, or any other product attributes.