Data Capture, AIDC & RFID

DENSO, part of the Toyota group and inventor of the QR Code, launched the first CCD scanner more than 30 years ago and since then has continuously evolved technologically. “Consumer smartphones are increasingly used in industries such as retail and logistics.

To borrow that famous quote from the great American author Mark Twain, reports of the death of the physical retail store have been greatly exaggerated.

The global datasphere¹ could grow to 175 zettabytes by 2025, and industries such as Financial Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Media and Entertainment are helping to define this new era of data growth.

Red Box, the platform for voice, has announced the results of a global survey of CIOs, general C-suite and IT management enterprise employees into their views of voice capture in the enterprise, showing the majority of businesses are capturing only partial voice data sets and are not able to make the most of this highly valuable data set as it is largely inaccessible.

Consumers are growing more comfortable buying fashion items on their phones reveals new Black Friday and Cyber Monday data from AI-powered retail personalisation platform, Nosto. And for fashion retailers, Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 was 36% bigger than last year.

Datalogic, the automatic data capture and process automation solutions provider, has introduced SLS-SA5, the second model of the Laser Sentinel safety laser scanners family.

Datalogic, the automatic data capture and process automation solutions provider, has introduced the new AREX400 family of laser markers based on fiber technology for industrial applications.

Ingenico Group, the seamless payment solutions provider, has entered into a strategic partnership with Russia bank Sberbank to enable international online merchants to accept the national MIR Card Payment System.

By Iain Ramage, VP channel, Rocket Software.

The retail sector has long been ahead of the game in the technology race. Loyalty cards were collecting customer data several years before Facebook came into existence and the first highly publicised examples of “business intelligence” related to the discovery that shops could sell more beer by locating it near the nappy isle.

ABBYY, the provider of content intelligence solutions and services, has entered into a partnership with Inpute, the Ireland-based intelligent data capture solutions provider. Inpute is the Irish reseller for ABBYY, providing an enhanced offering to a range of customers by integrating ABBYY products, including FlexiCapture and FineReader, to solve growing business problems.