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		<title>The Huffington Post Quebec, the rise of a newborn information journal</title>
		<link>http://www.jestais.com/en/blog/2012/04/the-huffington-post-quebec-the-rise-of-a-newborn-information-journal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Jippe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was glad to attend the Huffington Post Quebec conference hosted by CNW Telbec, the PR firm, at the Hyatt Hotel located downtown-Montreal. The conference started with a short history of the very famous Huffington Post Quebec and its popular founder, Arianna Huffington. In 2003 she ran for governor in California. She founded the Huffington Post in 2006 and successfully sold it to AOL for $375 million dollars. She remains the head of the journal today. In a short six years, the journal become well respected and was awarded with a Pulitzer and how now expanded internationally. Currently, the journal is located in France with new branches in Italy, Japan, Brazil on the horizon and rumours that there may be a joint venture at some point with Al Jazeera. On February 8, 2012, the Huffington Post branch of Quebec opened a new office. Patrick White was then appointed as chief-editor and executive of Quebec branch who hired the well-known journalist Jean Philippe Cipiani, ex-RDI to write for the journal. In less than two months, the HPQ acquired a team of 270 bloggers. When Mr. White was asked what he has brought to the team he answered: &#8220;We have a total freedom!&#8221; The francophone HPQ remains a very close relationship with Huffington Post Canada and plans to branch out to regional areas. Today, social networks serve to broadcast all the curated articles of the Huffington Post Quebec. Mr White quotes : &#8220; They are the DNA&#8221; of the journal. They are precious to maintain the daily activity that happens online. Based on Comscore data, we highlights couple insights for the journal. The Editor-in-Chief reports that the website has reached around 201, 000 unique visitors which drive to a conversion &#160;of 90 % since the opening, early in February. The HPQ overpasses the 2 million views in comparison with Voir.ca, Metro and Yahoo.qc.ca. The Huffington Post Canada reached 2,9 million, a higher views than the New York Time visits. The beauty of this informative website lies within the solidarity of its collaborative branches worldwide. In addition to this international collaboration, Quebecers syndicate the content specifically for the Province. The visitor demographic ranges from 15 to 54 years old with visits by males estimated at 54% and 40% for women. The Editor-In-Chief highlighted that the viral nature of the journal is essential to acquire new readers. Even unpleasant situations, like the blogger&#8217;s payment trial became a hit advertising campaign. For transparency purposes, they also do not hesitate to broadcast competitors articles. The freshman editor-in-chief and executive of The Huffington post Quebec believes that from now on the journal will remain influential for the next five years. Although the HPQ has been on the scene from the start of the era of the blogosphere, a controversial question remains unanswered. Should we really consider the HPQ as a real journal or simply a collection of blogs? It&#8217;s a question that has turned into a debate among bloggers and journalists&#8230; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>A permeating cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.jestais.com/en/blog/2012/04/a-permeating-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Jippe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The trend towards Cloud Computing is one of the&#160; fastest growing tendencies in the IT industry. By 2013, this market outreach will achieve $160 billion according to Gartner&#39;s predictions. This shift occurs as a result of high pressure for buyers. The transition can be challenging and the switch to Cloud Computing is often made on tip toes. While the trend is hitting all markets, security remains the most critical concern. Gartner gives us a highlight : Formal Decision Frameworks Facilitate Cloud Investment Optimization The cloud promises to deliver a range of benefits, including a shift from capital-intensive to operational cost models, lower overall cost, greater agility and reduced complexity. It can also be used to shift the focus of IT resources to higher-value-added activities for the business, or to support business innovation and, potentially, lower risks. However, these prospective benefits need to be examined carefully and mapped against a number of challenges, including security, lack of transparency, concerns about performance and availability, the potential for vendor lock-in, licensing constraints and integration needs. These issues create a complex environment in which to evaluate individual cloud offerings.&#160; Hybrid Cloud Computing Is an Imperative Hybrid computing refers to the coordination and combination of external cloud computing services (public or private) and internal infrastructure or application services. Over time, hybrid cloud computing could lead to a unified model in which there is a single &#34;cloud&#34; made up of multiple cloud platforms (internal or external) that can be used, as needed, based on changing business requirements. Gartner recommends that enterprises focus near-term efforts on application and data integration, linking fixed internal and external applications with a hybrid solution. Where public cloud application services or custom applications running on public cloud infrastructures are used, guidelines and standards should be established for how these elements will combine with internal systems to form a hybrid environment. Cloud Brokerage Will Facilitate Cloud Consumption As cloud computing adoption proliferates, so does the need for consumption assistance. A cloud services brokerage (CSB) is a service provider that plays an intermediary role in cloud computing. Interest in the CSB concept increased last year, and Gartner expects this trend to accelerate over the next three years as more individuals, whether they are in IT or a line-of-business unit, consume cloud services without involving IT. To address this challenge, Gartner believes that IT departments should explore how they can position themselves as CSBs to the enterprise by establishing a purchasing process that accommodates cloud adoption and encourages business units to come to the IT organization for advice and support. The enterprise CSB approach can be implemented by modifying existing processes and tools such as internal portals and service catalogs. Cloud-Centric Design Becomes a Necessity Many organizations look first for opportunities to migrate existing enterprise workloads to a cloud system and/or an application infrastructure. This approach may provide benefits where the workload has a highly variable resource requirement, or where the application naturally lends itself to horizontal scalability. However, to fully exploit the potential of a cloud model, applications need to be designed with the unique characteristics, limitations and opportunities of a cloud model in mind. Gartner advises enterprises to look beyond the migration of enterprise workloads to the creation of cloud-optimized applications that fully exploit the potential of the cloud to deliver global-class applications. Cloud Computing Influences Future Data Center and Operational Models In public cloud computing, an enterprise is acting as a consumer of services, with the cloud services provider handling the implementation details, including the data center and related operational models. However, to the extent that the enterprise continues to build its own data centers, they will be influenced by the implementation models used by cloud services providers. Gartner recommends that enterprises apply the concepts of cloud computing to future data center and infrastructure investments to increase agility and efficiency. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>A Fond Farewell to the Canadian Penny&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.jestais.com/en/blog/2012/04/a-fond-farewell-to-the-canadian-penny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Auerbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the dinosaur, the horse &#38; buggy, and black &#38; white televisions, the penny will soon be heading into extinction in Canada.&#160; For those who haven&#8217;t heard yet, the newest Canadian federal budget includes the start of removing the penny from circulation.&#160; Starting in the Fall, businesses will be asked to return pennies to financial institutions, where the pennies will be melted (the melted metal of a penny is actually worth more than one cent!).&#160; As customers, we will still be able to pay using pennies, and total amounts owed can continue to end with 1,2,3, or 4 at the end of the amount owed.&#160; Nothing will change&#8230;..at least for now. &#160; At some point in the near future, as the penny fades from circulation, rounding rules will be implemented by the Canadian government.&#160; At that point, all POS vendors will need to ensure their POS systems comply with expected changes to Canadian law.&#160; Based on what has been documented so far, the expectation is that rounding rules in Canada will be as follows: &#160; Rounding will only apply when the customer is paying with Cash (i.e. if the customer is paying with another form of tender, then&#160;&#160; rounding will not take place). Rounding will be based on the total amount due (including sales tax). If the total amount due ends in 1,2, 8, or 9, POS systems will need to round to 0. If the total amount due ends in 3,4,6, or 7, POS systems will need to round to 5. &#160; As the penny fades into the sunset, we can say good-bye to penny banks, wallets being weighed down by pennies, and the sound of jingling change in pockets as we walk (or at least less jingling change&#8230;). &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>When mobile shoppers empower retailers</title>
		<link>http://www.jestais.com/en/blog/2012/03/when-mobile-shoppers-empower-retailers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Jippe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobility]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking mechanically head down focused on their smartphone is an exponential hiking pattern for smartphone owners. &#160;Lately, apparel scored 33 % through the smartphone use in the shopping experience. The question is who has not chased the latest 40% off Zara, Banana Republic, or 20 % off Future Shop? Retailers can no longer ignore the power of the mobile experience. It is now a mandatory frontline strategy for retailers&#160; to optimize a friendly shopper&#39;s check out transaction. Mobile use has considerably changed the shopping experience. The neologism of aisle behavior has now entered into the brick-and-mortar stores visits. Innovative and savvy mobile strategies raise new challenges for retail banners such as Chanel, Gap, Best-Buy etc&#8230; At first, the aisle-mobile experience was considered as an external tool to in-store ads. Next, the experience has taken over conversation thanks to social media networks. Third, QR-Codes have anchored the in-store touchpoint to strengthen purchase transactions as well as email and couponing. Showing love to customers has never been as crucial as today. Thinking about shopping, let&#8217;s see what store will get the most of my love. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>China, a land of Billion Opportunities</title>
		<link>http://www.jestais.com/en/blog/2012/03/china-a-land-of-billion-opportunities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arvind Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The roar of the dragon &#8216;Go east, young man&#8217; is the advice young crop of university graduates from western countries is increasingly receiving especially in the aftermath of recent economic crisis. While, the so called &#8216;rich world&#8217; is still reeling from imminent austerity measures, crippling infrastructure, high unemployment and abysmally low business investment, China, the star of east, has been soaring to new heights. China is slated to become world&#8217;s largest economy by 2018 in dollar terms, and will become world&#8217;s biggest economy by 2016 on PPP (purchasing power parity) basis. It is already world&#8217;s largest consumer of steel, mobile phones, cars and energy. By 2014, China is expected to become world&#8217;s largest retail market, overtaking America&#8217;s, and in the same year China looks to become world&#8217;s biggest importer.&#160; I&#8217;ve been going to China for last eight years, and each year I come back astounded about the pace of business growth, infrastructure build-up, dizzying pace of life in large metro cities, and mostly about how seamlessly the local businesses appear to be adapting to the changing world order taking place in their own back yards. Whereas, the story of China becoming a world&#8217;s manufacturing hub is well documented, it is the growth of Chinese retail sector that is most intriguing. Unlike North America and Europe, the organized retail in China accounts for only a small fraction of overall retail sales. Wal-Mart, which entered China in 1996, only accounts for 6% of total supermarket sales in China, and the overall sales of Wal-Mart in China are only 3% of its sales in America.&#160; A recent visit to a local Wal-Mart store in Shanghai offers interesting insights about Chinese retail market and the complexities within. While the aisles in its stores are spotlessly clean and well-lit, the resemblance to its stores in North America ends pretty quickly. Basins brim with live fish and sea turtles that clients can prepare at home or have processed on the spot. Other delicacies on the display include pigs&#8217; feet, birds&#8217; nest and sea cucumbers.&#160; Customers&#8217; definition of &#8216;fresh&#8217; usually means alive.&#160; Adding to complexity of retailing supply chains is the fact that local tastes for &#8216;fresh&#8217; vary significantly from region to region in China. Retail sector conundrum A large contributor to growth of Chinese retail sector is the exponential growth of Chinese middle-class, defined as people earning $6000-$25,000. This virtually non-existing category of consumers in 1995 will grow to 340 million by 2016. Foreign and local retailers alike have been salivating at the voracious consumption potential offered by these urbanite middle-class consumers. Tapping into that retail potential has been a mixed bag experience for the group of foreign retailers that have been operating in China for several years.&#160; The ownership structure for foreign owned retail businesses continues to remain very complex. The assignment of land for expansion of retail stores usually favors local players.&#160; Despite these administrative hurdles, more than half of top 50 global retailers are conducting business in China. While the foreign investment in retail ushered in a new era, with modern management techniques and brand recognition becoming the mainstay of Chinese retail sector, an average local middle-class consumer wants to save furiously and prefers wonderfully low prices offered by relatively unkempt aisles at the local Wumart (Beijing based supermarket chain) stores over Wal-Mart stores.&#160; Locally owned businesses have been bulking up to face up to foreign competition for several years.&#160; These businesses have begun to recognize the importance of investment into supply chain, store operations and customer retention technologies to improve productivity while offering better customer service. A colossus with in depth attachment to local practices &#160; One of the biggest challenge facing local retailers and brand manufacturers in China is the herculean task of brand building while optimizing their operations in a relatively primitive supply chain&#160;&#160; environment. A vast array of popular supply chain and retail operations&#8217; IT system have been built with the focus on European and American business practices, and rarely adapt well to local Chinese environment.&#160; As a result, a large number of Chinese businesses end up either scrapping roll-out of expensive IT systems or start building in-house IT systems from ground up. The sooner foreign businesses recognize that China is different, and that the prior experience matters little, the faster would be the realization of business potential offered by a market that has been, and would be significantly influencing our lives in coming decades.&#160; Ultimately, I&#8217;ve no doubt that Shanghai, alongside London and New York will hold the hearts of young and aspiring as the ultimate career destination.]]></description>
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		<title>Omni-Channel (All-Me-Channel) Expectations</title>
		<link>http://www.jestais.com/en/blog/2012/02/omni-channel-all-me-channel-expectations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Katigbak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last year, we have seen a tremendous increase]]></description>
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		<title>NRF2012 Clinton &amp; Crowds</title>
		<link>http://www.jestais.com/en/blog/2012/01/nrf2012-clinton-crowds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arvind Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NRF Post Mortem, at glance Now that NRF 2012, also known as Retail&#8217;s Big Show has concluded, it&#8217;s time for retailers, marketers, research analysts, consultants and technology vendors to take a collective deep breath,&#160; and reflect on the show it was, the opportunities it unraveled, the trends it highlighted and the challenges that still lay ahead of retailers.&#160; The show, based on sheer number of participants as published by NRF, was a huge success.&#160; No surprises here, NRF does a great job marketing the show as Mecca for breaking the retail barrier and making a splash onto to the big leagues. The show surpassed its own bigness by introducing Bill Clinton as keynote speaker on the opening day. The opulence and marketing spend exhibited by super large technology behemoths at the show is indicative of perhaps an alarming trend: is the show getting too big for its own good.&#160; When one sees exhibitors parading magicians, models, radio talk show hosts,&#160; coupled with promise of handing out 5$ complimentary Starbucks gift cards to coax, cajole and entice passer by simply to have a glimpse at wares on display in their booths,&#160; something seems to have gone awry.&#160; Pomp and show exhibited at the show appears particularly &#8216;out of place&#8217; given the current economic backdrop and less than stellar US holiday season sales.&#160; One thing the show did get right is, as it always does , bringing together retailers, lending them a platform to voice the industry concerns to policy makers in Washington, and connecting them with their current solution providers to facilitate a dialogue about collaborating to deliver ultimate consumer and associate experience. Bill&#160; Clinton, speech for an economic wisdom Bill Clinton&#8217;s address was the main event among all industry sessions, and his talk did not disappoint.&#160; For a statesman who traveled over 100 countries since his retirement from an active duty, and currently running active projects in over 70 countries, his ability to still influence state policies is astounding.&#160; He talked about three main problems facing the world we live in: economic situation, widening gulf between rich and poor, and unsustainable production and consumption of resources. Clinton&#8217;s key to solving these problems lies in getting debt (both private and public) under control, attracting private moneys to create jobs, deeper investments in education, training, skill development and infrastructure, and to follow Brazil model of sustainable resource production and consumption policies.&#160; His response to a question about the best advice he ever received: &#8216;To take criticism seriously; most people take criticism personally, therefore, they do not take it seriously.&#8217; Delivery promises: Insufficient key driver In terms of drivers for retail technology investment at the show, unlike previous years, there was a general lack of any specific key driver such as deadline for PCI compliance.&#160; Among the biggest challenges that retailers are trying to get their arms around included: delivering on promise of offering an endless aisle to customer by enabling an Omni-channel shopping experience,&#160; customer data security, making sense of data from structured and unstructured ( e.g. social media, blogs) sources,&#160; enhancing in-store customer experience and providing productivity enhancing collaboration tools for associates.&#160; NRF should really take a good hard look at the format of the show to ensure that the spirit of bringing retailers and solution providers together doesn&#8217;t get drowned in a drive to make the show bigger, which in turns, makes it more expensive and &#8216;out of reach&#8217; to new technology start-ups who might be equipped with clever ideas to solve retailers&#8217; future problems. In the end, for an industry responsible for creating 1 in 4 jobs in US, and a primary driver of economic growth elsewhere, Retail&#8217;s Big Show must continue to strive to truly offer a common voice to its member retailers worldwide so as to influence policy makers in implementing legislature and tax policy that will enable and encourage retail growth for all retailers.]]></description>
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		<title>Jesta I.S. to launch Vision PLM at the NRF 101st Annual Convention and Expo</title>
		<link>http://www.jestais.com/en/blog/2012/01/jesta-i-s-to-launch-vision-plm-at-the-nrf-101st-annual-convention-and-expo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Ferraez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vision PLM completes Jesta I.S.&#8217; ERP Suite New York, NY &#8211; January 16th, 2012 &#8211; Jesta I.S., Inc. a leading global supplier of enterprise business solutions for retailers, manufacturers and distributors focused in the soft goods and specialty industries announced today that it will launch a new solution, Vision PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) at the upcoming NRF 101st Annual Convention and Expo in New York from January 16th to 17th, 2012. Vision PLM is a best of breed, full featured Product Lifecycle Management software solution. A multi-platform browser based client, it includes PDM, Merchandise Planning, Multi-level Project Management, User and Role based Calendars, Automated internal and external Notification System, Field Based Workflow management, Costing, PDM Interface Designer, Search Designer, Data Integration Manager, Document Management, On-Line Image Editing, integrated Illustrator image editing, Dynamic Reporting Tools and a full fledge Data Warehouse. Read more: http://bit.ly/VisionPLM]]></description>
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		<title>Top New Tech Territories for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arvind Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Augmented Reality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Payments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the time of year, when top consulting houses, research companies, freelancers and whoever dabbles with technology, crunch mythological numbers to declare their own prediction about the future star technologies. Encouraged by peers to take a plunge, I crunched my own numbers to reflect on technologies that should be on the investment horizon of business and technology decision makers in 2012.  Obvious suspects on every business and consumer radar should be technologies related to ‘everything mobile’, cyber retail, social media, cloud computing, and data analytics. These technologies will continue to transform our lives, and will attract a disproportionately larger share of technology investments worldwide.  Not so obvious, however, are following technology territories with a massive potential to transform our lives, and should be on radar of those laying down strategic and tactical IT roadmaps for 2012 and beyond: 1. Mobile payments will finally gain traction in the developed markets (one of the quirks of the technology evolution is that it is much easier to pay your taxi fare by mobile phone in Nairobi than in New York).  Interestingly, the biggest barrier to proliferation of mobile payments in developed world is not the technology, but it is the fight between carriers and banks over ownership of the customer.  Ultimately, customer demand will be potent enough for fostering partnerships between carriers and banks to leverage all upcoming mobile devices equipped with near field communication (NFC) chips, and to deliver mobile device payments in the hands of customers. 2. Location based services will finally be coming of age. Growing adoption of GPS services is the key driver. Initial forays by companies to offer coupons and advertisements will reach a tipping point with each social media player trying to outdo and compete with one another to integrate location with photos, status updates, recommendations and much else. 3. Connected everywhere will begin to become more real, tangible and a life changing reality. Long-Term Evolution (LTE) wireless standard will begin to get adopted by major telecommunication carriers, thus expediting the death of landline or anything hard wire connected.  Data download rates of up to 1gb/second on LTE wireless phones and devices will offer a dizzying array of possibilities for remaining connected with business peers, online gaming communities,  customer focus groups and social media communities while simultaneously indulging in any routine daily activity. 4. Augmented reality, a sci-fi trick of overlaying virtual information from the internet (or computer generated) onto a real-time view of the word, will go beyond a party trick performed with a couple of smart phone apps (e.g. Google Goggles and Wikitude) to becoming life changing commercial applications. Earliest examples of AR included displaying a yellow ‘first down’ line seen in the television broadcast of American Football, where the view of real world elements of football and players is augmented by virtual element of Yellow line.  But, with the convergence of location based and social networks information, AR offers a logical way to display information, for instance, highlighting your friends in a crowd at a festival. AR will find numerous applications in advertising, collaboration, navigation, industrial and travel among other industries. Perhaps, a day is not far off, when trainers in an IT organization will be wearing Apple built iGlasses fitted with latest AR enriched OS, connected with their globally dispersed users, and pass out 3-D imagery instructions on how to best use their products and services.]]></description>
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		<title>Jesta I.S. joins new NCR Interact Global Partner Program</title>
		<link>http://www.jestais.com/en/blog/2012/01/jesta-i-s-joins-new-ncr-interact-global-partner-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Ferraez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York, NY – January 12th, 2012 - Jesta I.S., Inc. a leading global supplier of enterprise business solutions for retailers, manufacturers and distributors focused in the soft goods and specialty industries announced today that it has signed a channel partnership agreement with NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), a global technology company, to offer point-of-sale (POS) solutions that are ready to implement “out-of-the-box” and combine the NCR RealPOS™ terminals and Jesta Vision Store software in the Canadian market. Jesta I.S. joins the NCR Interact Global Partner Program, giving it access to a range of training, marketing and sales support. “We’re looking forward to joining forces with channel partners like Jesta I.S. to make our innovative POS hardware available to a wider range of retailers,” said Linda Fitzgerald, president, NCR Canada. “The combination of Jesta’s advanced software and NCR’s robust and reliable hardware can help retailers reduce queuing and deliver the quick service consumers expect at the point of sale.” Read more &#8230;]]></description>
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