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  • Need help in filtering the data with various condition and filling in scroll window GP

    - by Rahul
    Hi all, I am filtering the data and displaying in scroll window. There are many combination to display this data by customer id, customer id and itemnumber, customer id, itemnumber, work and history condition. And from date and To date condition. My query is when I am selecting the customer id and work or history table it should display the corresponding data. Like select * from price history where customerid=’custid’ and name=’Work’. It should display in scroll only these values none other it the same way history condition should work. Work and History are in check box. In my case whatever range I am selecting whether Work and History always loading with entire data, so it’s not filtering properly. My second problem is if I select from date and keep empty to date …in this case all the data should display from selected from date to end of table data. But I am not getting….pls somebody help me here is my entire coding: if empty('Customer Number') then warning "Select Customer ID"; focus 'Customer Number'; abort script; end if; if '(L) RadioGroup4' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry'=1 then if empty(Date) then abort script; focus Date; end if; end if; if not empty('(L) Date') then if '(L) Date' {if not empty(Date) and empty('(L) Date') then warning"Please enter To Date"; focus field '(L) Date'; abort script; end if;} range clear table Display_Pricing_Temp; clear field 'Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing_Temp; range start table Display_Pricing_Temp; fill field 'Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing_Temp; range end table Display_Pricing_Temp; remove range table Display_Pricing_Temp; range clear table Display_Pricing; if '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and empty('Item Code' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') and str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')="0/0/0000" then {range clear table Display_Pricing;} range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' or "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work')"; {range clear table Display_Pricing;} end if; if '(L) Checkbox0' =true or '(L) Checkbox2'=true then {{Only Item No is there} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str('(L) Date')="0/0/0000" then range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"'"; end if; } if empty('(L) Date') and not empty(Date) then {date work hist item} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date work hist } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date,work,item code} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date history item code} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date,work} if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and not empty(Date) then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) "; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date history } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; end if; if not empty('(L) Date') and not empty(Date) then {Only Item No is there and work} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work'"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date work hist item} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date work hist } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date,work,item code} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date history item code} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date work} {date,work} if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and not empty(Date) then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date history } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; end if; {Only Item No is there and hist} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History'"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {for only work table } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work'"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {for only hist table } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History'"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; get first table Display_Pricing; if err() = OKAY then repeat copy from table Display_Pricing to table Display_Pricing_Temp; save table Display_Pricing_Temp; get next table Display_Pricing; until err() = EOF; else clear window Price_Scroll of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry'; end if; else clear window Price_Scroll of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry'; end if; fill window Price_Scroll table Display_Pricing_Temp by number 1;

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  • How can I use Tier Pricing with Configurable Products? (Magento 1.4+)

    - by Rad The Mad
    How can I use/setup Tier Pricing with Configurable Products? (Magento 1.4+) There was an extension to do this but I think it is only for Magento 1.3. Tried to setup tiers in my Simple Products, but those do not show up, or do not activate when I add to cart from my Config Product page. Any help is appreciated! Thanks. Edit: In my case, I would like to use the Tier Pricing FROM the Simple Product. and not use the Tier Pricing from the Config. Product

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  • Why do AWS spot-instance prices spike above the "on demand" pricing?

    - by Laykes
    Amazon Pricing on Spot Instance Inconsistencies This is something which will be best explained through screenshots of a historical chart of instance pricings. If you look at a lot of the instance prices for spot instances, you will notice regular patterns of spikes. See here: As you can see, the price for this compute medium instance, regularly spikes above the on demand price. A c1.medium instance (on demand), would only cost $0.186 per hour. But for a period of a few weeks, in zone B, the price would regularly spike to $1.20. This is some 6 times the actual on demand price. It's also not isolated. If you look at zone-b again for small instances, there is a similar, spike frequently. Which goes 4x the on demand pricing. Does anyone know why this happens? Here are a few suggestions Someone entered $1.2 instead of $0.12 (I would discount this since it happened 20 times over the space of 3 weeks). Amazon regularly artifically inflate their prices by bidding on their own instances to get the most bang for their buck. (I would discount this since it would be ridiculous and bad business) Some company launched 1000 servers at once, and wants to make sure that they all launch. (I would discount this since they would presumably launch them at a price which would be below the minimum on demand price. Why would you pay above on demand for a single server?). It's a bug in their reporting?

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  • Oracle's ODF Plug-in Pricing: What's up with That?

    <b>Standards Blog:</b> "It does leave open one tantalizing question though, that's harder to read: does the decision to charge for the plug-in indicate that Oracle is taking its ODF-compliant office suite unit seriously as a money maker, and plans to put serious resources behind it..."

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  • Do MSDN subscriptions count as licenses for the purposes of upgrade pricing?

    - by Roger Lipscombe
    To qualify for upgrade pricing of Expression Studio... You must be a licensed user of one of the following products to be eligible for the upgrade versions. Any Microsoft® Expression product Any Adobe Creative Suite product Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or later I've got a boxed, retail copy of Visual Studio 2003, so it appears I've missed that particular boat. On the other hand, I've got an MSDN Professional subscription, which includes Visual Studio. Does this copy of Visual Studio entitle me to upgrade pricing on Expression Studio? Given that you can't get Visual Studio without an MSDN subscription, I figure it does, but I can't find anything definitive.

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  • Tools for managing eCommerce backend

    - by rboarman
    I am working with an eCommerce company that has outgrown their hacked together backend for managing inventory, pricing and feeds to various shopping engines (Yahoo, 3d cart, Amazon, etc.). They currently manage about 12,000 skus and are doing $40M in revenue. Their internal people are working on a new Magento solution, but that is six months away and they need to replace/improve their current solution in order to hold them over. Their current solution was developed by two people who have left the company. What tools/architecture do other eCommerce sites use to manage their inventory, pricing, product descriptions and feed generation for the shopping engines? The current solution looks like this: 1) Inventory, pricing and product descriptions are maintained in a database and in NetSuite by employees 2) New products are added to the database via import 3) Twice a week data is extracted into a giant Excel spreadsheet 4) The Excel file adjusts pricing based on some simple algorithms 5) The Excel file exports about six different csv feeds which are manually uploaded to Amazon, 3d cart, Yahoo, Google and Merchant Advantage a. Each feed is a variant of the product which different field names and formatting b. Pricing levels differ between feeds c. Some products are not sent to all feeds 6) Orders are manually parsed and the inventory is adjusted as needed once product is sold The new solution should: 1) Import data from ODBC, CSV and NetSuite (CSV via ftp) 2) Apply pricing changes via simple algorithms (< $80 add $10, $200 add $25) 3) Ensure margins are being met 4) Format and generate a bunch of CSV and XML feeds 5) Perhaps upload feeds to shopping engines automatically What I need to do is replace the Excel file with something that is maintainable and automated. Something in the .Net stack is preferable but not mandatory. I’ve been looking at BizTalk but it may take too long to develop and deploy. Any suggestions?

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  • What library should I use for financial product pricing?

    - by watkins
    I work in software division of a large bank and we are considering writing our own financial library. However, before we embark in such a project, I want to check that there is no such library on the market. We would need to have the following feature: Pricing of derivative products (options, futures, swaps, etc) Different financial models Hedging / risk management Open source would be great if it's stable. Otherwise, we would purchase the source code. We are looking for C#/.NET.

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  • Best way to implement user-powered data validation

    - by vegetables
    I run a product recommendation engine and I'm hitting a few snags. I'm looking to see if anyone has any recommendations on what I should do to minimize these issues. Here's how the site works: Users come to the site and are presented with product recommendations based on some criteria. If a user knows of a product that is not in our system, they can add it by providing the product name and manufacturer. We take that information, and: Hit one API to gather all the product meta-data (and to validate the product spelling, etc). If the product is not in this first API, we do not allow it in our system. Use the information from step 1 to hit another API for pricing information (gathered from many places online). For the sake of discussion, assume that I am searching both APIs in the most efficient/successful manner possible. For the most part, this works very well. I'd say ~80% of our data is perfectly accurate, but there are a few issues: Sometimes the pricing API (Step 2) doesn't have any information for the product. The way the pricing API is built, it will always return something (theoretically, the closest possible match), and there's no guarantee that the product name is spelled exactly the same way in both APIs, so there's no automated way of knowing if it's the right product. When the pricing API finds the right product, occasionally it has outdated, or even invalid pricing data (e.g. if it screen-scraped the wrong price from a website). Since the site was fairly small at first, I was able to manually verify every product that was added to the website. However, the site has grown to the point where this is taking several hours per day, and is just not efficient use of my time. So, my question is: Aside from hiring someone (or getting an intern) to validate all the data manually, what would be the best system of letting my userbase self-manage the data. Specifically, how can I allow users to edit the data while minimizing the risk of someone ambushing my website, or accidentally setting the data incorrectly.

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  • Price Drop for Processor based License on Exalytics

    - by Mike.Hallett(at)Oracle-BI&EPM
    ·       33% reduction in the list `per processor` license pricing for the Oracle BI Foundation Suite ·       New capacity-based licensing which allows customers to think big & start small, significantly lowering the entry price point for an Exalytics. Oracle BI Software List Price changes In response to new powerful platforms like the in-memory Oracle Exalytics with 40 cpu cores (counted under Oracle pricing policy as 20 “processors”), the list price of “Oracle BI Foundation Suite” (BIFS) is reduced by 33% from $450K per processor to $300K per processor. Capacity-based licensing on Exalytics (Trusted Partitions) “Capacity-based pricing” for the BIFS, Endeca, Essbase and Times Ten for Exalytics software is now available for Exalytics systems. This is delivered using “Oracle VM” (OVM).  We still ship a full Exalytics machine to all customers, but they may choose to only use and license a subset of the processors installed in the machine.   Customers can license Exalytics software in units of 5 “processors”: 5, 10, 15 or the full capacity 20.   As the customer’s implementation and workload increases, it is a simple matter to license additional processors and, using OVM, make them available to the BI or EPM application. Endeca Information Discovery now available on Exalytics Oracle has also announced the certification of “Oracle Endeca Information Discovery” (EID) on the Exalytics machine.    EID can be licensed alone or in combination with the BIFS & Times Ten for an Exalytics stack, and also participates in the capacity based pricing outlined above.   The Exalytics hardware is the perfect platform for EID, and provides superb power and performance for this in-memory hybrid text-search-analytics.   For more information : Oracle Price lists Oracle Partitioning Policy Discussion by Mark Rittman (Rittman Mead Consulting ltd.) on Oracle Trusted Partitions for Oracle Engineered Systems, Oracle Exalytics and Updated BI Foundation Pricing.

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  • How to make a table structure for products to be available for both wholesale and retail?

    - by kmy
    Ignoring the different column details like colors, shapes, and sizes, I already have an idea of dealing with that, I'm more interested in dealing with retail pricing, whole pricing (with or without a table), and possibly discount. If anything, I want to know what I should also take account for. Will it just be adding a quantity column, two pricing cols, and two discount columns, and a quantity limit? If I were to add a pricing table it would be inserted as a json file, would this be a bad idea? Please give any insight about this.

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  • Guest blog: A Closer Look at Oracle Price Analytics by Will Hutchinson

    - by Takin Babaei
    Overview:  Price Analytics helps companies understand how much of each sale goes into discounts, special terms, and allowances. This visibility lets sales management see the panoply of discounts and start seeing whether each discount drives desired behavior. In Price Analytics monitors parts of the quote-to-order process, tracking quotes, including the whole price waterfall and seeing which result in orders. The “price waterfall” shows all discounts between list price and “pocket price”. Pocket price is the final price the vendor puts in its pocket after all discounts are taken. The value proposition: Based on benchmarks from leading consultancies and companies I have talked to, where they have studied the effects of discounting and started enforcing what many of them call “discount discipline”, they find they can increase the pocket price by 0.8-3%. Yes, in today’s zero or negative inflation environment, one can, through better monitoring of discounts, collect what amounts to a price rise of a few percent. We are not talking about selling more product, merely about collecting a higher pocket price without decreasing quantities sold. Higher prices fall straight to the bottom line. The best reference I have ever found for understanding this phenomenon comes from an article from the September-October 1992 issue of Harvard Business Review called “Managing Price, Gaining Profit” by Michael Marn and Robert Rosiello of McKinsey & Co. They describe the outsized impact price management has on bottom line performance compared to selling more product or cutting variable or fixed costs. Price Analytics manages what Marn and Rosiello call “transaction pricing”, namely the prices of a given transaction, as opposed to what is on the price list or pricing according to the value received. They make the point that if the vendor does not manage the price waterfall, customers will, to the vendor’s detriment. It also discusses its findings that in companies it studied, there was no correlation between discount levels and any indication of customer value. I urge you to read this article. What Price Analytics does: Price analytics looks at quotes the company issues and tracks them until either the quote is accepted or rejected or it expires. There are prebuilt adapters for EBS and Siebel as well as a universal adapter. The target audience includes pricing analysts, product managers, sales managers, and VP’s of sales, marketing, finance, and sales operations. It tracks how effective discounts have been, the win rate on quotes, how well pricing policies have been followed, customer and product profitability, and customer performance against commitments. It has the concept of price waterfall, the deal lifecycle, and price segmentation built into the product. These help product and sales managers understand their pricing and its effectiveness on driving revenue and profit. They also help understand how terms are adhered to during negotiations. They also help people understand what segments exist and how well they are adhered to. To help your company increase its profits and revenues, I urge you to look at this product. If you have questions, please contact me. Will HutchinsonMaster Principal Sales Consultant – Analytics, Oracle Corp. Will Hutchinson has worked in the business intelligence and data warehousing for over 25 years. He started building data warehouses in 1986 at Metaphor, advancing to running Metaphor UK’s sales consulting area. He also worked in A.T. Kearney’s business intelligence practice for over four years, running projects and providing training to new consultants in the IT practice. He also worked at Informatica and then Siebel, before coming to Oracle with the Siebel acquisition. He became Master Principal Sales Consultant in 2009. He has worked on developing ROI and TCO models for business intelligence for over ten years. Mr. Hutchinson has a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago.

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  • Oracle University: Database 11g Certification News(Week 39)

    - by rituchhibber
    The following exam has recently become available for beta testing: Exam Title (and code) Certification Track Oracle Database 11g Release 2: SQL Tuning  (1Z1-117) Oracle Certified Expert, Oracle Database 11g Release 2 SQL Tuning Full preparation details are available on the exam page, including prerequisites for this certification, exam topics and pricing. Remember: Your OPN discount is applied to the standard pricing shown on the website.A beta exam offers you two distinct advantages: you will be one of the first to get certified you pay a lower price. Beta exams can be taken at any Pearson VUE Testing Center.

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  • Oracle University: Fusion Middleware Certification News

    - by rituchhibber
    The following exam has recently has recently gone into Production: Title and exam code Certification Track Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: Build Applications with Oracle Forms Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Forms Developer Full preparation details are available on the exam page, including prerequisites for this certification, exam topics and pricing. Remember: Your OPN discount is applied to the standard pricing shown on the website. Exams can be taken at an Oracle Test Center near you or at any Pearson VUE Testing Center.

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  • Oracle University Partner Enablement Update (28th August)

    - by swalker
    Oracle University: Java Certification News The following exam has recently gone into Production: Exam Title (and code) Certification Track Java SE 7 Programmer II (1Z0-804) Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 7 Programmer Full preparation details are available on the exam page, including prerequisites for this certification, exam topics and pricing. Remember: Your OPN discount is applied to the standard pricing shown on the website. Exams can be taken at an Oracle Test Center near you or at any Pearson VUE Testing Center. Stay Connected to Oracle University: LinkedIn OracleMix Twitter Facebook Google+

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  • Windows Azure: General Availability of Web Sites + Mobile Services, New AutoScale + Alerts Support, No Credit Card Needed for MSDN

    - by ScottGu
    This morning we released a major set of updates to Windows Azure.  These updates included: Web Sites: General Availability Release of Windows Azure Web Sites with SLA Mobile Services: General Availability Release of Windows Azure Mobile Services with SLA Auto-Scale: New automatic scaling support for Web Sites, Cloud Services and Virtual Machines Alerts/Notifications: New email alerting support for all Compute Services (Web Sites, Mobile Services, Cloud Services, and Virtual Machines) MSDN: No more credit card requirement for sign-up All of these improvements are now available to use immediately (note: some are still in preview).  Below are more details about them. Web Sites: General Availability Release of Windows Azure Web Sites I’m incredibly excited to announce the General Availability release of Windows Azure Web Sites. The Windows Azure Web Sites service is perfect for hosting a web presence, building customer engagement solutions, and delivering business web apps.  Today’s General Availability release means we are taking off the “preview” tag from the Free and Standard (formerly called reserved) tiers of Windows Azure Web Sites.  This means we are providing: A 99.9% monthly SLA (Service Level Agreement) for the Standard tier Microsoft Support available on a 24x7 basis (with plans that range from developer plans to enterprise Premier support) The Free tier runs in a shared compute environment and supports up to 10 web sites. While the Free tier does not come with an SLA, it works great for rapid development and testing and enables you to quickly spike out ideas at no cost. The Standard tier, which was called “Reserved” during the preview, runs using dedicated per-customer VM instances for great performance, isolation and scalability, and enables you to host up to 500 different Web sites within them.  You can easily scale your Standard instances on-demand using the Windows Azure Management Portal.  You can adjust VM instance sizes from a Small instance size (1 core, 1.75GB of RAM), up to a Medium instance size (2 core, 3.5GB of RAM), or Large instance (4 cores and 7 GB RAM).  You can choose to run between 1 and 10 Standard instances, enabling you to easily scale up your web backend to 40 cores of CPU and 70GB of RAM: Today’s release also includes general availability support for custom domain SSL certificate bindings for web sites running using the Standard tier. Customers will be able to utilize certificates they purchase for their custom domains and use either SNI or IP based SSL encryption. SNI encryption is available for all modern browsers and does not require an IP address.  SSL certificates can be used for individual sites or wild-card mapped across multiple sites (we charge extra for the use of a SSL cert – but the fee is per-cert and not per site which means you pay once for it regardless of how many sites you use it with).  Today’s release also includes the following new features: Auto-Scale support Today’s Windows Azure release adds preview support for Auto-Scaling web sites.  This enables you to setup automatic scale rules based on the activity of your instances – allowing you to automatically scale down (and save money) when they are below a CPU threshold you define, and automatically scale up quickly when traffic increases.  See below for more details. 64-bit and 32-bit mode support You can now choose to run your standard tier instances in either 32-bit or 64-bit mode (previously they only ran in 32-bit mode).  This enables you to address even more memory within individual web applications. Memory dumps Memory dumps can be very useful for diagnosing issues and debugging apps. Using a REST API, you can now get a memory dump of your sites, which you can then use for investigating issues in Visual Studio Debugger, WinDbg, and other tools. Scaling Sites Independently Prior to today’s release, all sites scaled up/down together whenever you scaled any site in a sub-region. So you may have had to keep your proof-of-concept or testing sites in a separate sub-region if you wanted to keep them in the Free tier. This will no longer be necessary.  Windows Azure Web Sites can now mix different tier levels in the same geographic sub-region. This allows you, for example, to selectively move some of your sites in the West US sub-region up to Standard tier when they require the features, scalability, and SLA of the Standard tier. Full pricing details on Windows Azure Web Sites can be found here.  Note that the “Shared Tier” of Windows Azure Web Sites remains in preview mode (and continues to have discounted preview pricing).  Mobile Services: General Availability Release of Windows Azure Mobile Services I’m incredibly excited to announce the General Availability release of Windows Azure Mobile Services.  Mobile Services is perfect for building scalable cloud back-ends for Windows 8.x, Windows Phone, Apple iOS, Android, and HTML/JavaScript applications.  Customers We’ve seen tremendous adoption of Windows Azure Mobile Services since we first previewed it last September, and more than 20,000 customers are now running mobile back-ends in production using it.  These customers range from startups like Yatterbox, to university students using Mobile Services to complete apps like Sly Fox in their spare time, to media giants like Verdens Gang finding new ways to deliver content, and telcos like TalkTalk Business delivering the up-to-the-minute information their customers require.  In today’s Build keynote, we demonstrated how TalkTalk Business is using Windows Azure Mobile Services to deliver service, outage and billing information to its customers, wherever they might be. Partners When we unveiled the source control and Custom API features I blogged about two weeks ago, we enabled a range of new scenarios, one of which is a more flexible way to work with third party services.  The following blogs, samples and tutorials from our partners cover great ways you can extend Mobile Services to help you build rich modern apps: New Relic allows developers to monitor and manage the end-to-end performance of iOS and Android applications connected to Mobile Services. SendGrid eliminates the complexity of sending email from Mobile Services, saving time and money, while providing reliable delivery to the inbox. Twilio provides a telephony infrastructure web service in the cloud that you can use with Mobile Services to integrate phone calls, text messages and IP voice communications into your mobile apps. Xamarin provides a Mobile Services add on to make it easy building cross-platform connected mobile aps. Pusher allows quickly and securely add scalable real-time messaging functionality to Mobile Services-based web and mobile apps. Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1 This week during //build/ keynote, we demonstrated how Visual Studio 2013, Mobile Services and Windows 8.1 make building connected apps easier than ever. Developers building Windows 8 applications in Visual Studio can now connect them to Windows Azure Mobile Services by simply right clicking then choosing Add Connected Service. You can either create a new Mobile Service or choose existing Mobile Service in the Add Connected Service dialog. Once completed, Visual Studio adds a reference to Mobile Services SDK to your project and generates a Mobile Services client initialization snippet automatically. Add Push Notifications Push Notifications and Live Tiles are a key to building engaging experiences. Visual Studio 2013 and Mobile Services make it super easy to add push notifications to your Windows 8.1 app, by clicking Add a Push Notification item: The Add Push Notification wizard will then guide you through the registration with the Windows Store as well as connecting your app to a new or existing mobile service. Upon completion of the wizard, Visual Studio will configure your mobile service with the WNS credentials, as well as add sample logic to your client project and your mobile service that demonstrates how to send push notifications to your app. Server Explorer Integration In Visual Studio 2013 you can also now view your Mobile Services in the the Server Explorer. You can add tables, edit, and save server side scripts without ever leaving Visual Studio, as shown on the image below: Pricing With today’s general availability release we are announcing that we will be offering Mobile Services in three tiers – Free, Standard, and Premium.  Each tier is metered using a simple pricing model based on the # of API calls (bandwidth is included at no extra charge), and the Standard and Premium tiers are backed by 99.9% monthly SLAs.  You can elastically scale up or down the number of instances you have of each tier to increase the # of API requests your service can support – allowing you to efficiently scale as your business grows. The following table summarizes the new pricing model (full pricing details here):   You can find the full details of the new pricing model here. Build Conference Talks The //BUILD/ conference will be packed with sessions covering every aspect of developing connected applications with Mobile Services. The best part is that, even if you can’t be with us in San Francisco, every session is being streamed live. Be sure not to miss these talks: Mobile Services – Soup to Nuts — Josh Twist Building Cross-Platform Apps with Windows Azure Mobile Services — Chris Risner Connected Windows Phone Apps made Easy with Mobile Services — Yavor Georgiev Build Connected Windows 8.1 Apps with Mobile Services — Nick Harris Who’s that user? Identity in Mobile Apps — Dinesh Kulkarni Building REST Services with JavaScript — Nathan Totten Going Live and Beyond with Windows Azure Mobile Services — Kirill Gavrylyuk , Paul Batum Protips for Windows Azure Mobile Services — Chris Risner AutoScale: Dynamically scale up/down your app based on real-world usage One of the key benefits of Windows Azure is that you can dynamically scale your application in response to changing demand. In the past, though, you have had to either manually change the scale of your application, or use additional tooling (such as WASABi or MetricsHub) to automatically scale your application. Today, we’re announcing that AutoScale will be built-into Windows Azure directly.  With today’s release it is now enabled for Cloud Services, Virtual Machines and Web Sites (Mobile Services support will come soon). Auto-scale enables you to configure Windows Azure to automatically scale your application dynamically on your behalf (without any manual intervention) so you can achieve the ideal performance and cost balance. Once configured it will regularly adjust the number of instances running in response to the load in your application. Currently, we support two different load metrics: CPU percentage Storage queue depth (Cloud Services and Virtual Machines only) We’ll enable automatic scaling on even more scale metrics in future updates. When to use Auto-Scale The following are good criteria for services/apps that will benefit from the use of auto-scale: The service/app can scale horizontally (e.g. it can be duplicated to multiple instances) The service/app load changes over time If your app meets these criteria, then you should look to leverage auto-scale. How to Enable Auto-Scale To enable auto-scale, simply navigate to the Scale tab in the Windows Azure Management Portal for the app/service you wish to enable.  Within the scale tab turn the Auto-Scale setting on to either CPU or Queue (for Cloud Services and VMs) to enable Auto-Scale.  Then change the instance count and target CPU settings to configure the Auto-Scale ranges you want to maintain. The image below demonstrates how to enable Auto-Scale on a Windows Azure Web-Site.  I’ve configured the web-site so that it will run using between 1 and 5 VM instances.  The exact # used will depend on the aggregate CPU of the VMs using the 40-70% range I’ve configured below.  If the aggregate CPU goes above 70%, then Windows Azure will automatically add new VMs to the pool (up to the maximum of 5 instances I’ve configured it to use).  If the aggregate CPU drops below 40% then Windows Azure will automatically start shutting down VMs to save me money: Once you’ve turned auto-scale on, you can return to the Scale tab at any point and select Off to manually set the number of instances. Using the Auto-Scale Preview With today’s update you can now, in just a few minutes, have Windows Azure automatically adjust the number of instances you have running  in your apps to keep your service performant at an even better cost. Auto-scale is being released today as a preview feature, and will be free until General Availability. During preview, each subscription is limited to 10 separate auto-scale rules across all of the resources they have (Web sites, Cloud services or Virtual Machines). If you hit the 10 limit, you can disable auto-scale for any resource to enable it for another. Alerts and Notifications Starting today we are now providing the ability to configure threshold based alerts on monitoring metrics. This feature is available for compute services (cloud services, VM, websites and mobiles services). Alerts provide you the ability to get proactively notified of active or impending issues within your application.  You can define alert rules for: Virtual machine monitoring metrics that are collected from the host operating system (CPU percentage, network in/out, disk read bytes/sec and disk write bytes/sec) and on monitoring metrics from monitoring web endpoint urls (response time and uptime) that you have configured. Cloud service monitoring metrics that are collected from the host operating system (same as VM), monitoring metrics from the guest VM (from performance counters within the VM) and on monitoring metrics from monitoring web endpoint urls (response time and uptime) that you have configured. For Web Sites and Mobile Services, alerting rules can be configured on monitoring metrics from monitoring endpoint urls (response time and uptime) that you have configured. Creating Alert Rules You can add an alert rule for a monitoring metric by navigating to the Setting -> Alerts tab in the Windows Azure Management Portal. Click on the Add Rule button to create an alert rule. Give the alert rule a name and optionally add a description. Then pick the service which you want to define the alert rule on: The next step in the alert creation wizard will then filter the monitoring metrics based on the service you selected:   Once created the rule will show up in your alerts list within the settings tab: The rule above is defined as “not activated” since it hasn’t tripped over the CPU threshold we set.  If the CPU on the above machine goes over the limit, though, I’ll get an email notifying me from an Windows Azure Alerts email address ([email protected]). And when I log into the portal and revisit the alerts tab I’ll see it highlighted in red.  Clicking it will then enable me to see what is causing it to fail, as well as view the history of when it has happened in the past. Alert Notifications With today’s initial preview you can now easily create alerting rules based on monitoring metrics and get notified on active or impending issues within your application that require attention. During preview, each subscription is limited to 10 alert rules across all of the services that support alert rules. No More Credit Card Requirement for MSDN Subscribers Earlier this month (during TechEd 2013), Windows Azure announced that MSDN users will get Windows Azure Credits every month that they can use for any Windows Azure services they want. You can read details about this in my previous Dev/Test blog post. Today we are making further updates to enable an easier Windows Azure signup for MSDN users. MSDN users will now not be required to provide payment information (e.g. no credit card) during sign-up, so long as they use the service within the included monetary credit for the billing period. For usage beyond the monetary credit, they can enable overages by providing the payment information and remove the spending limit. This enables a super easy, one page sign-up experience for MSDN users.  Simply sign-up for your Windows Azure trial using the same Microsoft ID that you use to manage your MSDN account, then complete the one page sign-up form below and you will be able to spend your free monthly MSDN credits (up to $150 each month) on any Windows Azure resource for dev/test:   This makes it trivially easy for every MDSN customer to start using Windows Azure today.  If you haven’t signed up yet, I definitely recommend checking it out. Summary Today’s release includes a ton of great features that enable you to build even better cloud solutions.  If you don’t already have a Windows Azure account, you can sign-up for a free trial and start using all of the above features today.  Then visit the Windows Azure Developer Center to learn more about how to build apps with it. Hope this helps, Scott P.S. In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu

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  • You Need BRM When You have EBS – and Even When You Don’t!

    - by bwalstra
    Here is a list of criteria to test your business-systems (Oracle E-Business Suite, EBS) or otherwise to support your lines of digital business - if you score low, you need Oracle Billing and Revenue Management (BRM). Functions Scalability High Availability (99.999%) Performance Extensibility (e.g. APIs, Tools) Upgradability Maintenance Security Standards Compliance Regulatory Compliance (e.g. SOX) User Experience Implementation Complexity Features Customer Management Real-Time Service Authorization Pricing/Promotions Flexibility Subscriptions Usage Rating and Pricing Real-Time Balance Mgmt. Non-Currency Resources Billing & Invoicing A/R & G/L Payments & Collections Revenue Assurance Integration with Key Enterprise Applications Reporting Business Intelligence Order & Service Mgmt (OSM) Siebel CRM E-Business Suite On-/Off-line Mediation Payment Processing Taxation Royalties & Settlements Operations Management Disaster Recovery Overall Evaluation Implementation Configuration Extensibility Maintenance Upgradability Functional Richness Feature Richness Usability OOB Integrations Operations Management Leveraging Oracle Technology Overall Fit for Purpose You need Oracle BRM: Built for high-volume transaction processing Monetizes any service or event based on any metric Supports high-volume usage rating, pricing and promotions Provides real-time charging, service authorization and balance management Supports any account structure (e.g. corporate hierarchies etc.) Scales from low volumes to extremely high volumes of transactions (e.g. billions of trxn per hour) Exposes every single function via APIs (e.g. Java, C/C++, PERL, COM, Web Services, JCA) Immediate Business Benefits of BRM: Improved business agility and performance Supports the flexibility, innovation, and customer-centricity required for current and future business models Faster time to market for new products and services Supports 360 view of the customer in real-time – products can be launched to targeted customers at a record-breaking pace Streamlined deployment and operation Productized integrations, standards-based APIs, and OOB enablement lower deployment and maintenance costs Extensible and scalable solution Minimizes risk – initial phase deployed rapidly; solution extended and scaled seamlessly per business requirements Key Considerations Productized integration with key Oracle applications Lower integration risks and cost Efficient order-to-cash process Engineered solution – certification on Exa platform Exadata tested at PayPal in the re-platforming project Optimal performance of Oracle assets on Oracle hardware Productized solution in Rapid Offer Design and Order Delivery Fast offer design and implementation Significantly shorter order cycle time Productized integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager Visibility to system operability for optimal up time

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  • How do I use price data in one table for a calculation that is stored in another table?

    - by shane
    I'm still leanring PHP/MySQL but have learned quite a bit thanks to codies on StackOverflow. I'm trying to setup a sort of room reservations system using two tables: SETUP: Room price table: Has, prices for a type room a client may want to rent as well as the dates (day of week) they wish to use it. Pricing varies based on day of the week and per room. I've setup a different table for each room type as each room type carries different pricing for each day of the week. So, There is an Alpha room table, Bravo room, etc. Within Alpha table are headers for the days of the week with pricing pre-entered into the rows. Client info table: Has the name, address, date of room use, etc data for the specific client. EXAMPLE: Alpha-room price table: Sun = $100; Mon = $200; Tue=$300 and so on. Bravo-room price table: Sun = $100; Mon = $200; Tue=$300 and so on. Client data table: ClientName; date-of-room-use; address; day_subtotal; grand_total. QUESTION: I'm trying to find PHP code that will: look at the date of room use in the client data table, look up the associated cost for that date in the specific room pricing table, record that unit cost in the day subtotal of the client data table and sum a grand total in the grand total row of the client data table (assuming the room may be used more than one day by the customer). I know there's something to do with join but I'm finding it difficult to grasp the concept and, if someone can demonstrate using this example, I think I will have a better understanding of how to work this sort of transaction. Thank you ALL in advance for your suggestions or alternatvie approaches.

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  • JQuery + Rails + Select Menu

    - by blackpond
    I want to have a select menu to change a field on a Customer dynamically, I've never used Jquery with a select menu, and I'm having problems. The code: <% form_for @customer , :url = { :action = "update" }, :html ={:class = "ajax_form"} do |f| % Pricing: <%= select :customer, :pricing, Customer::PRICING, {}, :onchange = "$('this').closest('form').submit();" % Application.js: $(document).ready(function(){ $(".ajax_link").live("click",function(event){ //take div class = ajax_link and call this funciton when clicked. event.preventDefault(); // cancels http request $.post($(this).attr("href"), null, null, "script"); return false; }); ajaxFormSubmitHooks(); }); function ajaxFormSubmitHooks(){ $(".ajax_form").submit(function(event){ event.preventDefault(); // cancels http request $.post($(this).attr("action"), $(this).serializeArray(), null, "script"); return false; }); }

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  • NRF Online Merchandising Workshop: Where Online Retailers Are Focusing for Holiday and Beyond

    - by Rose Spicer-Oracle
    0 0 1 1204 6863 Oracle Corporation 57 16 8051 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} Last month we attended the NRF Online Merchandising Workshop in LA, and it was a great opportunity to catch up with our customers, meet new retailers, and hear some great presentations from VF Corporation, Zazzle, Julep Beauty, Backcountry, eBags and more. The one-on-one conversations with Merchants and the keynote presentations carry the same themes across companies of all sizes and across verticals. With only 125 days left (and counting) until Black Friday, these conversations provided some great insight in to what’s top of mind for retailers during the most stressful time of their year, and a sneak peek in to what they will deliver this holiday season.  Some of the most popular topics were: When to start promoting for holiday: seems like a funny conversation to have in July, but a number of retailers said they already had their holiday shopping gift guides live on their site, and it was attracting a significant portion of their onsite traffic. When it comes to timing, most retailers were questioning when to begin their holiday promotions -- carefully balancing when to release pricing and specials, and knowing that customers are holding out for last-minute deals and price drops. Many retailers noted the frustrations around transparent pricing by Amazon and a few other mega-retailers last year, publishing their “lowest prices of the season” as early as October – ensuring shoppers that those prices were the best they could get all season long. Many retailers felt their hands were forced to drop prices. Others kept their set pricing with negative customer reaction, causing some to miss their holiday goals. The pressure is on, and most retailers identified November 1 as their target start date for the holiday promotions blitz. Some are even waiting for the big guys to release their “lowest prices of the season” guides and will then follow suit.      Attribution is tough – and a huge focus: understanding the path to conversion is a tough nut to crack, especially in the new omnichannel world where consumers use multiple touchpoints to make a single purchase, and internal management wants to know hard data. This has lead many retailers to invest in attribution; carefully tracking their online marketing efforts to determine what gets “credit” for the sale, instead of giving credit to the “last click.” Retailers noted that it is very difficult to determine the numbers when online and offline worlds collide – like when a shopper uses digital channels for research and then makes a purchase in a store. As one of the presenters from The North Face mentioned in her keynote, a key to enabling better customer service and satisfaction when it comes to converged online and offline sales is training the in-store staff, and creating a culture where it eventually “doesn’t matter what group gets the credit” if they all add to the sale. No doubt, the area of attribution will be a big area of retail investment in the coming years.      How to plan for the converged world: planning to ensure inventory gets where it needs to be was another concern. In conversations with retailers, we advised them to analyze customer patterns: where shoppers purchase items, where the items were sourced from and even where items are returned. This analysis is very valuable in determining inventory plans. From there, retailers can more accurately plan and allocate inventory to support both the online and offline customer behavior. As we head into the holiday season, the need for accurate enterprise-wide inventory visibility, and providing that information to associates, is even more critical to the brand-wide customer experience.       Improving the search / navigation / usability of the site(s): Aside from some of the big ideas and standard holiday pricing pressure, most conversations we had centered around continuing to improve the basics of the site. Reinvesting in search and navigation came up time and time again (FitForCommerce blogged about what a big topic it was at the event as well). Obviously getting shoppers on their path quickly and allowing them to find what they need fast is critical, but it was definitely interesting to hear just how much effort is still going in to honing the search and navigation experience. Adding new elements to search and navigation like typeahed, inventive navigation refinements, and new navigation categories like gift guides, specialized boutiques and flash sales were top of mind, in addition to searchandising and making search-driven product recommendations. (Oracle can help!)       Reducing cart abandonment: always a hot topic that is top of mind for every online retailer. Getting shoppers to the cart is often less then half the battle; getting them to click “buy” and complete the transaction is much more difficult. While retailers carefully study the checkout process and where shoppers tend to bounce, they know that how they design their checkout page is critical. We’re all online shoppers in our personal lives and we know how frustrating it can be when total prices are not transparent (i.e. shipping, processing, taxes is not included until the very last possible screen before clicking that buy button). Online retailers are struggling with where in the checkout process to surface the total price to be charged to reduce cart abandonment, while not showing the total figure too early in the process that it keeps shoppers from getting to checkout altogether. Recent research shows that providing total pricing prior to the checkout process dramatically reduces cart abandonment – as it serves as a filter to those shopping within a specific price band. Much of the cart abandonment discussion leads us to…       The free shipping / free returns question: it’s no secret that because of Amazon and programs like Prime, consumers expect free shipping, much to the chagrin of the smaller retailer. The reality is that if you’re not a mega-retailer, shipping is an expensive part of doing business that doesn’t allow most retailers to keep their prices low and offer free shipping. This has many retailers venturing out on the “free returns” path, especially in apparel. A number of retailers we spoke with are testing a flat rate shipping fee with free returns to see if they can crack the price threshold where shoppers are willing to pay for shipping with an added service. But, free shipping remains king.      Social ads and retargeting: they are working, but do they turn off consumers? That’s the big question. Every retailer we spoke with during a roundtable on the topic said that social ads and retargeting (where that pair of boots you’re been eyeing on a site magically follows you around the Internet) work and are meeting campaign goals. The larger question many retailers are asking is if this type of tactic is turning off a large number of shoppers, even if these campaigns are meeting their early goals. Retailers also mentioned that Facebook ads are working very well for them, especially when it comes to new customer acquisition, serving as a complimentary a channel to SEO when it comes to engaging new customers. While there are always new things to experiment with in retail, standard challenges are top of mind as retailers scramble to get ready for holiday. It will undoubtedly be another record-breaking online shopping season, but as retailers get more and more advanced with each Black Friday, expect some exciting things. This excitement needs to be backed by sound solutions and optimized operations. Then again, consumers are expecting more than ever, so I don’t doubt that retailers are already thinking about the possibilities of holiday 2015… and beyond. Customers who read this article, also found value in the following stories: Personalization for Retail: http://blogs.oracle.com/retail/entry/personalization_for_retailShop Direct User Experience Focus Drives Sales:https://blogs.oracle.com/retail/entry/shop_direct_user_experience_focusMaking Waves: Australian Online Retailer SurfStitch: https://blogs.oracle.com/oracleretail/entry/surf_stitchWhat’s new in Oracle Commerce v11.1 for RetailWhat the Content+Commerce Equation is Missing

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  • Announcing the New Windows Azure Web Sites Shared Scaling Tier

    - by Clint Edmonson
    Windows Azure Web Sites has added a new pricing tier that will solve the #1 blocker for the web development community. The shared tier now supports custom domain names mapped to shared-instance web sites. This post will outline the plan changes and elaborate on how the new pricing model makes Windows Azure Web Sites an even richer option for web development shops of all sizes. Free Shared Reserved # of Sites 10 100 100 Egress 165MB/Day 5GB/Month Included 5GB/Month Included Storage 1GB 1GB 10GB Throttling CPU/Memory/Egress CPU/Memory Unlimited Price Free $.02/hr per site, per instance $.08/hr per core Setting the Stage In June, we released the first public preview of Windows Azure Web Sites, which gave web developers a great platform on which to get web sites running using their web development framework of choice. PHP, Node.js, classic ASP, and ASP.NET developers can all utilize the Windows Azure platform to create and launch their web sites. Likewise, these developers have a series of data storage options using Windows Azure SQL Databases, MySQL, or Windows Azure Storage. The Windows Azure Web Sites free offer enabled startups to get their site up and running on Windows Azure with a minimal investment, and with multiple deployment and continuous integration features such as Git, Team Foundation Services, FTP, and Web Deploy.  The response to the Windows Azure Web Sites offer has been overwhelmingly positive. Since the addition of the service on June 12th, tens of thousands of web sites have been deployed to Windows Azure and the volume of adoption is increasing every week. Preview Feedback In spite of the growth and success of the product, the community has had questions about features lacking in the free preview offer. The main question web developers asked regarding Windows Azure Web Sites relates to the lack of the free offer’s support for domain name mapping. During the preview launch period, customer feedback made it obvious that the lack of domain name mapping support was an area of concern. We’re happy to announce that this #1 request has been delivered as a feature of the new shared plan. New Shared Tier Portal Features In the screen shot below, the “Scale” tab in the portal shows the new tiers – Free, Shared, and Reserved – and gives the user the ability to quickly move any of their free web sites into the shared tier. With a single mouse-click, the user can move their site into the shared tier. Once a site has been moved into the shared tier, a new Manage Domains button appears in the bottom action bar of the Windows Azure Portal giving site owners the ability to manage their domain names for a shared site. This button brings up the domain-management dialog, which can be used to enter in a specific domain name that will be mapped to the Windows Azure Web Site. Shared Tier Benefits Startups and large web agencies will both benefit from this plan change. Here are a few examples of scenarios which fit the new pricing model: Startups no longer have to select the reserved plan to map domain names to their sites. Instead, they can use the free option to develop their sites and choose on a site-by-site basis which sites they elect to move into the shared plan, paying only for the sites that are finished and ready to be domain-mapped Agencies who manage dozens of sites will realize a lower cost of ownership over the long term by moving their sites into reserved mode. Once multi-site companies reach a certain price point in the shared tier, it is much more cost-effective to move sites to a reserved tier.  Long-term, it’s easy to see how the new Windows Azure Web Sites shared pricing tier makes Windows Azure Web Sites it a great choice for both startups and agency customers, as it enables rapid growth and upgrades while keeping the cost to a minimum. Large agencies will be able to have all of their sites in their own instances, and startups will have the capability to scale up to multiple-shared instances for minimal cost and eventually move to reserved instances without worrying about the need to incur continually additional costs. Customers can feel confident they have the power of the Microsoft Windows Azure brand and our world-class support, at prices competitive in the market. Plus, in addition to realizing the cost savings, they’ll have the whole family of Windows Azure features available. Continuous Deployment from GitHub and CodePlex Along with this new announcement are two other exciting new features. I’m proud to announce that web developers can now publish their web sites directly from CodePlex or GitHub.com repositories. Once connections are established between these services and your web sites, Windows Azure will automatically be notified every time a check-in occurs. This will then trigger Windows Azure to pull the source and compile/deploy the new version of your app to your web site automatically. Walk-through videos on how to perform these functions are below: Publishing to an Azure Web Site from CodePlex Publishing to an Azure Web Site from GitHub.com These changes, as well as the enhancements to the reserved plan model, make Windows Azure Web Sites a truly competitive hosting option. It’s never been easier or cheaper for a web developer to get up and running. Check out the free Windows Azure web site offering and see for yourself. Stay tuned to my twitter feed for Windows Azure announcements, updates, and links: @clinted

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  • YouSendIt Alternative?

    - by WuckaChucka
    Looking for a reasonably priced alternative to YouSendIt's exorbitant pricing for an embedded, unbranded (i.e. no "Uploads by SomeCompany" or at the very least, discrete, subtle co-branding) file upload solution for my client's print shop Website. To do what we want to do with YouSendIt, we're looking at a corporate account of $995 USD plus $29.99 USD monthly fee, that is only sold pro-rated, so you have to buy the entire year's worth. To me, this is just unacceptable considering the commodity pricing of storage and bandwidth nowadays. For data, we're looking at roughly 10MB per upload, with perhaps 250-1000 uploads per month, with transient data storage of no more than 30 days (and more than likely 1-2 business days) for a total of 10 GB transfer (upload) and 10 GB transfer (download, to the print shop) at the very max each month. Any ideas? Everything I've found through searching seems to be geared more towards personal file sharing and not for embedding into Websites. Thanks

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