Cisco corners retail spending

Networking company Cisco Systems expects to more than double its revenue to over $20 million from the retail segment in India, says Sify.com.

Bagging close to 25 large clients (each with over 25 retail outlets) and several small ones, in the past few years, including the Future Group, Reliance, Shopper's Stop and Khaitan, the company has started implementing many of these projects this year.

Consequently, robust growth in revenue is expected over the next three to five years, according to Patrick Mathias, regional manager of enterprise at Cisco India.

Bizerba has selected TotalView Technologies' Debugger to develop and debug the company's retail scale software applications, according to Marketwire.

Bizerba, headquartered in Balingen, Germany, operates worldwide as a technology company offering professional system solutions for weighing, information and food service technology in the retail, food and logistics industry.

Branch-specific hardware and software products, as well as high-performance, network capable management systems and a wide range of labels, consumables and business services ensure transparent control of integrated business processes and the high availability of Bizerba-specific performance features.

With growing retail businesses offering large numbers of job openings, a long-term career in sales and marketing is becoming the preferred goal of Gen-next, says an industry chamber, reports Economic Times.

New service trends and cutthroat competition have created a group of consumers who are well aware about products or services, thus opening more requirements for trained professionals.

"In fact, IT has broadened the prospect for the professionals. Awareness of the consumers becomes a challenge for service providers, which simultaneously creates requirement of salespersons," says Vijay Kohli, senior VP and head of enterprise business unit Nis Sparta.