Top 20 Retail Technology Consulting/Services Companies - 2013

Technology has shaped the retail arena so much that retailers are wholly sinking into the pure technology play. The evolution of technology within the retail and e-commerce space is shaping how consumers behave and interact with brands and savvy, smart retailers know that understanding shoppers’ behavior is key for success. Besides knowing and analyzing the customer mind, it is important to implement a systematic and smooth flow of operations to make retail businesses trouble-free.

The convergence of technology with retail has boosted the industry’s confidence to impress customers and scrape out aged methodologies. Hence, most retail solution providers are redesigning their supply channels by incorporating latest technological trends like monitoring and providing data in seconds through cloud integration.

As retail businesses grow and expand, their requirement for enhanced back-end operations has also dramatically increased and some companies have excelled in delivering the best technological services. In the last few months, we have looked at hundreds of retail providers and shortlisted the ones that are at the forefront of tackling the challenges of the retail industry faced by several merchants.

In our selection we looked at the vendor's capability to fulfill the needs of retailers through retail-centric technology that support core business processes of any industry. Also, we evaluated the vendors support through the integration of latest technologies into their system.

Today, we present to you CIOReview's 20 Most Promising Retail Technology Solution and Consulting Providers of 2013.