Microsoft has launched a brand new Retail Cloud Alliance (RCA) aimed toward educating and empowering retailers to leverage cloud expertise successfully.

This collaborative program options Microsoft consultants and assets alongside these from various companions, together with Adobe, Amperity, Sunrise Technologies and Icertis. The alliance additionally contains an Advisory Council made up of retail material consultants hailing from Forrester Research, Texas A&M University, ThinkUncommon, Insider Trends and Retail TouchPoints’ personal Alicia Esposito, amongst others.  

The Retail Cloud Alliance will look to handle the unprecedented challenges and alternatives confronted by retailers right this moment by empowering them with the data required to harness the total potential of cloud expertise. Resources will cowl a broad spectrum of subjects, together with optimizing provide chains, creating personalised buyer experiences, enhancing safety and compliance, scaling operations and futureproofing retail.

“For retailers this mass migration to the cloud has become imperative to meet scalability, flexibility and cost-efficiency needs,” in response to the RCA web site. “If implemented and utilized correctly, secure and flexible cloud platforms offer substantial cost savings, access to critical data and a wealth of operational benefits across varied functions of your organization. RCA aims to meet these imperatives by providing retailers with a wealth of content, resources, engaging discussions and consultation designed to educate and enable them to leverage cloud technology fully.”

All retailers, no matter their measurement or present expertise infrastructure, are invited to affix the RCA program and entry the most recent instructional content material.