[Sigia-l] Site to Store - Ship to store

[Dmitry Nekrasovski]

Perhaps this is why Pier 1 Imports has recently decided to shut down
their e-commerce store in favour of a catalog-only online presence:

http://www.pier1.com/TheNewPier1com/tabid/198/Default.aspx

Dmitry

On 10/4/07, Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Andrew Boyd:
>
> > anecdotally accurate stock/availability indication on their website
>
> The reason I'm saying this is non-trivial is because technically a data
> warehouse is often the source of enterprise-wide CRM, regression analysis,
> decisioning, etc., where you pull such data and run compute-intensive algos.
> When you overlay real-time *transactional* demands created by online users
> *in volume* you're talking real hardware, real DB arch, real data management
> and, thus, real money. Doing this at the level of Target, Amazon, Wal-Mart,
> etc is absolutely non-trivial. (Hint: I'm designing such a system second
> tier to that benchmark. :-)
>
> --
> Ziya
>
> It depends.
> If it didn't, you'd be out of a job.
>
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