Welcome to the blog of Steven C. Buttgereit. I'm an information technology manager specializing in the retail and supply chain industry verticals. This blog is a log of my experiences and observations about the industries in which I work. I hope you find the site useful and interesting and please feel free to comment or request items for a write up, in all cases I will aim to please!.
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Steven C. Buttgereit
Retail, for all it's innovation in marketing and presentational approaches, is decidedly old fashion and stogy when it comes to technology. Indeed most retailers that have an ecommerce presence today separate it away from their mainline businesses and the two never meet. For the ecommerce teams that are technologically savy, they are disconnected from the retailing experience in their own way by living in ivory towers away from the day to day operations of their bricks and mortar cousins. The result: retailers simply fail to operate as efficiently and effectively as they migh
Tonight I am going to set up 'Search Engine Optimizted'(SEO) URLs on our website; indeed, www.buttgereit.com itself is set up to use them.
You can recognize them in that they don't look like:
http://www.website.com/index.php?id=23213&topic=cheese&another_var=somthing_else
SEO URLs are simple, human readable (mostly) URLs more like:
http://buttgereit.com/SEO-does-it-matter
The company I currently work for is undertaking a PCI/DSS project around it's store back office and POS systems.
One of the issues we're facing is how to meet the requirements for logins for store cashiers while at the same time meeting some of the base level PCI/DSS requirements.
In specialty retail, cashiers tend to have high turn-over rates (as compared to the broader workforce of the company) and the desire is usually to facilitate speed at the cash wrap. These seem to be contradictory goals with the comlexities a more stringent security mechanism will bring to bear.
