{"id":8522,"date":"2013-08-06T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2753103"},"modified":"2013-08-06T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T15:52:00","slug":"corematrix-report-cloud-computing-has-changed-the-rules-of-retailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/corematrix-report-cloud-computing-has-changed-the-rules-of-retailing\/","title":{"rendered":"CoreMatrix Report: Cloud Computing Has Changed the Rules of Retailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The cloud has already garnered a well-earned reputation for helping companies reduce costs and gain operational efficiencies through a combination of pay-per-use environment and on-demand infrastructure and storage,\u201d commented CoreMatrix Co-Founder, Paul Nix on CoreMatrix\u2019s report that the retail industry is adopting cloud solutions to reduce infrastructure and computing costs as well as to engage consumers on social networks and gain a 360-degree view of their customers.<br \/>\nMany retailers have already embraced cloud computing, as evidenced by associates at brick &#038; mortar stores using tablet computers to better serve customers and the increasing appearance of in-store kiosks enabling customers to access online product reviews and recommendations. In addition, cloud-based social log-in tools and other conveniences offer consumers an easier online shopping and buying experience. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2753103\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The cloud has already garnered a well-earned reputation for helping companies reduce costs and gain operational efficiencies through a combination of pay-per-use environment and on-demand infrastructure and storage,&rdquo; commented CoreMatrix Co-Founder, Paul Nix on CoreMatrix&rsquo;s report that the retail industry is adopting cloud solutions to reduce infrastructure and computing costs as well as to engage consumers on social networks and gain a 360-degree view of their customers.<br \/>\nMany retailers have already embraced cloud computing, as evidenced by associates at brick &amp; mortar stores using tablet computers to better serve customers and the increasing appearance of in-store kiosks enabling customers to access online product reviews and recommendations. In addition, cloud-based social log-in tools and other conveniences offer consumers an easier online shopping and buying experience. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2753103\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}