25 Jul Retalon Selected by Gartner in Hype Cycle for Retail Technologies 2018
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in Retail Thought Leadership
Gartner’s hype cycle is a representation of the life cycle stages that a technology goes through, from conception to maturity and widespread adoption. Retail CIOs can leverage the Hype Cycle to:
- Advise the business areas on how to cut through market hype in order to best prioritize retail technology investments and
- Support unified retail commerce in a digital business environment
In this report:
- Analysis
- What You Need to Know
- The Hype Cycle
- The Priority Matrix
- Off the Hype Cycle
- On the Rise
- Contextualized Real-Time Pricing
- Blockchain in Retail
- Distributed Order Management
- Smart Check-Out
- Algorithmic Retailing
- Visual Search
- At the Peak
- Virtual Reality in Retail
- Customer Engagement Hub
- Conversational Commerce
- Robotic Process Automation
- Smart Robots
- 3D Printing in Retail
- AI in Retail
- Cognitive Expert Advisors
- Intelligent Virtual Store Design
- Sliding Into the Trough
- Workforce Analytics
- Augmented Reality in Retail
- Employee Recognition and Reward Systems
- RFID (Item)
- Real-Time Store IoT Platform
- Climbing the Slope
- Customer-Centric Merchandising and Marketing
- Unified Merchandise Planning
- Entering the Plateau
- Algorithmic Merchandise Optimization
- Unified Price, Promotion and Markdown Optimization
- Appendixes
- Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels
- Gartner Recommended Reading
