Business friendly ETL* for retailers

An unprecedented study of product data exchanges in the retail sector, how B2B actors feel about them and how to make them more efficient.

2018 a été une année riche en enseignements. Comme toute startup, nous avons connu des hauts et des bas. Commercialement, nous sommes…

According to a recent Gartner survey, more than half of CTOs have put centralised master data management (MDM) as one of their top 3…

2000 to 2010 has seen the rise of e-commerce. From 2010 to 2020, the marketplace business model became mainstream. The next decade will be…

Which protocol is being used over 6 billion times every single day in the retail world? Barcode scanning. Barcodes have been invented in…

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Data is literally the oil of the 21st century. The advent of the numerical era is seeing the use of data to save lives, educate our…

When we launched Scalia in September 2016, we instantly thought that developing our vision on a web platform was best. First, this format…

Scalia hasn’t exactly followed a straight path until it found its positioning. Fortunately, this is the case for most startups. Don’t get…

In order to scale up, online retailers have successfully managed to fully automate a great deal of tasks. First, they started with IT and…

At Scalia, our goal is to define a new protocol to connect retailers product catalogues.

Even if ML is a deeply disruptive tech that will eventually impact every industry, it still requires specific conditions in order to…

3 weeks ago, Freakonomics radio started a whole series of episodes entitled “What does a CEO actually do?”. As the podcast host, Steven…

As Scalia has blew out its very first candle a couple weeks ago, I thought it would be great to look back and try to share some of our…

In my last corporate article, I was covering a whole bunch of key learnings during our first 6 months of operating Scalia. This been…

One of the biggest hurdle for retailers to switch from offline to online is the amount of content required. When running a physical store…

Launching a website, changing your back-office solution or simply reviewing your current organisation, there are many moments in a company…

As retail is shifting online, competition is now just a click away. Hence, retailers have to step up their game and part of it means to…

For small brands in the lifestyle industry dipping their toes in ecommerce, it’s easier to start with an online marketplace such as Amazon…

Having discussed with a wide range of retailers as well as a lot of their suppliers, we have discovered that taxonomy is a very diverse…

It’s been 6 months since we’ve launched Scalia; an intelligent platform that seamlessly connects the otherwise chaotic product-data flows…

The way product-data streams are managed in retail is messy. So far, none of the existing product-data softwares have addressed this issue…

A decade ago, the e-commerce wave took the lifestyle industry by surprise. As the marketplace business model became the norm, quality…

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Everyone knows that a Ralph Lauren polo shirt costs more than a polo shirt and that a Coke without the logo is just cola. We might not like…

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