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Sophia's Secret Search
Jerry Sheldon
In addition to having a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, Jerry also has an MBA from the University of Miami with a specialty in Marketing and Marketing Research. He brings 18 years of business experience in engineering and management through assignments with Pratt Whitney - United Technologies, Georgia Tech School of Mathematics, and Milliken & Company. Jerry is our resident rocket scientist. In his previous employment he was managing a stress testing laboratory on the Space Shuttle engines. In the field of retail technology, Jerry has researched and authored analyst reports on Price Optimization, POS Software Systems, Printers, and Workforce Management Solutions. Jerry also provides the development expertise and analytics that go into our Retailer Technology Data Service Sophia and our Retail and CPG IT Spend models. Jerry has been quoted by The Atlanta Journal Constitution, RIS News, Hospitality Upgrade, BusinessWeek, Retail Technology Quarterly, and Investor's Business Daily, among others. Jerry has also appeared on Fox News Live and Fox Business discussing mobile commerce.

RESEARCH STUDIES
North American Retail POS Printer Market Study - This 75 page report focuses on the housed receipt printer market for retail POS devices in North America. Packed with 99 figures, this details the market shipshare, distribution channels and installed base for the top printer vendors doing business in the region and provides for market projections based on changing technologies and changing distribution philosophies through the year 2015. Vendors reviewed include Epson, IBM, NCR, TPG, Star Micronics, TransAct, Citizen, Bixolon, and others.

Latin/South America Retail POS Terminal Market Study - The Latin/South American market for POS grew at faster rate in 2011 than in recent years. Large western retailers continue to grow in the market, bringing new POS terminals with them. Our Latin/South America POS terminal market study is 58 pages in length and has 22 figures. It explores the market climate for POS terminals throughout the Latin/Central and South American region. More than just numbers without explanation, this report goes deep into discussion of retailing in the countries and segments to reveal the forces that are shaping POS purchase decisions.

DATA SERVICES
Sophia - Wisdom for Manufacturing - Named after the Greek word for wisdom, Sophia is by far the most comprehensive source of not just data, but key wisdom for smart decisions in the manufacturing industry. It is the only data service that links IT spend, to specific technology, to specific personnel, to specific financial results, tied together and backed by our advisory staff. Sophia provides insight into nearly 250 types of hardware/software/services and key personnel for over 1,400 consumer goods manufacturers. Your enterprise subscription allows everyone in your organization to create targeted mailing lists of key executives, do competitive analysis, look up market share and understand IT spend for an individual retailer or thousands of companies
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Sophia - Wisdom for Retail IT Vendors - North America - Now with Sophia Predictive Analytics!
From Data to Insight, WISDOM for Retail.
Named after the greek word for wisdom, Sophia is by far the most comprehensive source of not just data, but key wisdom for smart decisions in the retail industry. It is the only data service that links IT spend, to specific technology, to specific personnel, to specific financial results, tied together and backed by our advisory staff. Sophia provides insight into nearly 200 types of hardware/software/services and key personnel for over 2,800 retailers and restaurants.

Now with SPA by Sophia (Sophia Predictive Analytics), the system allows for benchmarking against competitors, identifying which retailers are leaders in specific technologies, their projected IT spending plans in key categories(like Business Intelligence/Analytics, Merchandising/Supply Chain, ERP, and Store Systems), and which technologies they are likely to purchase in the next 24 months. Your enterprise subscription allows everyone in your organization to create targeted mailing lists of key executives, do competitive analysis, look up market share and understand IT spend for an individual retailer or thousands of companies

Key Retail Decision Makers - Need a Mailing List of Key Retail Technology Decision Makers? People like CIOs, VPs of MIS, Store Operations, CEOs, etc. We have that information available in custom queries for you. All information can be sent electronically and used multiple times.

Sophia for Retailers - North America - Now with Sophia Predictive Analytics!
From Data to Insight, WISDOM for Retail.
As a retailer, when you need information on vendors and competitors you want it quick and concise. Sophia for Retailers provides specific tools to research technology vendors and the technologies used by your competitors. Named after the greek word for wisdom, Sophia is by far the most comprehensive source of not just data, but key wisdom for smart decisions in the retail industry. It is the only data service that links IT spend, to specific technology, to specific personnel, to specific financial results, tied together and backed by our advisory staff. Accessed online Sophia provides insight into nearly 200 types of hardware/software/services and key personnel for over 2,800 retailers and restaurants.
Now with SPA by Sophia (Sophia Predictive Analytics), the system allows for benchmarking against competitors, identifying which retailers are leaders in specific technologies, their projected IT spending plans in key categories(like Business Intelligence/Analytics, Merchandising/Supply Chain, ERP, and Store Systems), and which technologies they are likely to purchase in the next 24 months. Your enterprise subscription allows everyone in your organization to create targeted mailing lists of key executives, do competitive analysis, look up market share and understand IT spend for an individual retailer or thousands of companies

Sophia - Wisdom for Retail IT Vendors - Europe, Middle East, Africa - Now with Sophia Predictive Analytics!
From Data to Insight, WISDOM for Retail.
Sophia EMEA is based on the same great system and format as our system for North America. We track over 750 top retailers in Europe. the Middle East and Africa across 200 types of hardware, software, and services. Also included are the key contact personnel for each of the companies so you know who to call on to get past the receptionist. Finally, we include estimated IT Spend for each retailer. Now with SPA by Sophia (Sophia Predictive Analytics), the system allows for benchmarking against competitors, identifying which retailers are leaders in specific technologies, their projected IT spending plans in key categories(like Business Intelligence/Analytics, Merchandising/Supply Chain, ERP, and Store Systems), and which technologies they are likely to purchase in the next 24 months. Your enterprise subscription allows everyone in your organization to create targeted mailing lists of key executives, do competitive analysis, look up market share and understand IT spend for an individual retailer or thousands of companies

POS Terminal Shipments by Vendor - For years, customers have been asking for POS Shipments by vendor in a similar format that IDC reports PC Shipments. This is that product. The POS Terminal Shipments by Vendor product provides shipments and installed base on a quarterly and annual basis for vendors such as Toshiba Global Commerce (IBM), NCR, HP, Wincor-Nixdorf, Fujitsu, Dell, MICROS, Digipos, and many others. It includes data on processors and operating systems historically and provides a forecast going forward. It is also the only review of the POS market that includes the PC on Cash Drawer (PCOCD) market with vendors like HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer and others.

Sophia Knows Your Trade Show - Need to target the people likely attending the Retail's Big Show? People like CIOs, VPs of MIS, HR, CMO's, Store Operations, etc. By combining the list of verified companies attending NRF 2013, combined with the power of IHL's Sophia Retail Technology database, we provide a list of approximately 4,000 targeted retailer attendees, representing over 330 companies. All information can be sent electronically and used multiple times.

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