Companies that adapted quickly to COVID-19
are investing in omnichannel sales and marketing platforms for the
long haul, ISG Provider Lens™ report says
Retailers around the world are adopting omnichannel technology
platforms to seamlessly link all shopping experiences for better
customer and business outcomes, according to a new research report
published today by Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III),
a leading global technology research and advisory firm.
The 2022 ISG Provider Lens™ Retail Platforms Global report finds
many companies launched major modernization projects following
changes in shopping behavior triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
When pandemic lockdowns began, retailers adapted within days to a
rapid shift to e-commerce, activating new sales channels such as
curbside pickup, lockers, social commerce and voice commerce.
Omnichannel platforms are designed to integrate these and other
shopping modes for greater customer satisfaction and loyalty.
“Integrated, omnichannel sales and marketing has become a
must-have,” said Sunder Pillai, leader, Retail, for ISG. “Retailers
are increasing their IT budgets and working with providers to get a
comprehensive view of supply and demand and a unified customer
profile.”
Omnichannel sales platforms are designed to let consumers move
seamlessly from one channel to another, such as e-commerce to
in-store shopping. When customers are able to do this, they spend
more and tend to be more loyal, the report says. Platform vendors
offer several new capabilities that enterprises need to achieve
this. These include “headless” commerce platforms, which allow
retailers to quickly integrate and disintegrate sales channels with
a click.
Companies also want the ability to track customers’ activity
across sales channels, consolidate real-time product and inventory
data and use new information sources, such as online search data,
to improve merchandise planning, the report says.
AI-driven algorithms are essential for making sense of the
volume of data now available to retailers, ISG says. For example,
it would be difficult to do merchandise planning based on hundreds
of demand factors, in real time, using manual or spreadsheet-based
assessment.
“Data and analytics are powerful competitive tools for
retailers,” said Jan Erik Aase, partner and global leader, ISG
Provider Lens Research. “Consumer behavior is changing, and
companies need to make the right decisions quickly.”
The report also explores other issues retailers face, including
integrating omnichannel platforms with legacy and third-party
applications, changing pricing in real time according to customers’
willingness to pay and using AI to analyze brick-and-mortar store
layouts.
The 2022 ISG Provider Lens™ Retail Platforms report for global
evaluates the capabilities of 26 providers across two quadrants:
Omnichannel Commerce Platform, and Merchandising Planning and
Management.
The report names Oracle and SAP as Leaders in both quadrants. It
names Adobe, Blue Yonder, commercetools, Manhattan Associates,
RELEX, Salesforce and SAS as Leaders in one quadrant each.
In addition, Spryker is named as a Rising Star — a company with
a “promising portfolio” and “high future potential” by ISG’s
definition — in one quadrant.
The 2022 ISG Provider Lens™ Retail Platforms Global report is
available to subscribers or for one-time purchase on this
webpage.
About ISG Provider Lens™ Research
The ISG Provider Lens™ Quadrant research series is the only
service provider evaluation of its kind to combine empirical,
data-driven research and market analysis with the real-world
experience and observations of ISG's global advisory team.
Enterprises will find a wealth of detailed data and market analysis
to help guide their selection of appropriate sourcing partners,
while ISG advisors use the reports to validate their own market
knowledge and make recommendations to ISG's enterprise clients. The
research currently covers providers offering their services
globally, across Europe, as well as in the U.S., Canada, Brazil,
the U.K., France, Benelux, Germany, Switzerland, the Nordics,
Australia and Singapore/Malaysia, with additional markets to be
added in the future. For more information about ISG Provider Lens
research, please visit this webpage.
A companion research series, the ISG Provider Lens Archetype
reports, offer a first-of-its-kind evaluation of providers from the
perspective of specific buyer types.
About ISG
ISG (Information Services Group) (Nasdaq: III) is a leading
global technology research and advisory firm. A trusted business
partner to more than 800 clients, including more than 75 of the
world’s top 100 enterprises, ISG is committed to helping
corporations, public sector organizations, and service and
technology providers achieve operational excellence and faster
growth. The firm specializes in digital transformation services,
including automation, cloud and data analytics; sourcing advisory;
managed governance and risk services; network carrier services;
strategy and operations design; change management; market
intelligence and technology research and analysis. Founded in 2006,
and based in Stamford, Conn., ISG employs more than 1,300
digital-ready professionals operating in more than 20 countries—a
global team known for its innovative thinking, market influence,
deep industry and technology expertise, and world-class research
and analytical capabilities based on the industry’s most
comprehensive marketplace data. For more information, visit
www.isg-one.com.
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