Cegid Connections 2015 Cegid : is organizing its international customer conference around the theme of "New Generation Connected Retail" (Cegid Connections 2015)

An international group, French provider of enterprise software and leader in specialized retailing, Cegid invites its customers and partners to the Cegid Connections conference to be held in Berlin on March 18-20, 2015 and looks forward to meeting their executives and members of their IT and logistics departments.

Cegid Connections 2015:
Berlin, Germany/Hilton Hotel
www.cegid.com/connections

With 450 customers, experts and partners expected to attend from across the globe, this year's conference will revolve around the theme of "New Generation Connected Retail":

- Trends and challenges for connected retail in 2015
- Omnichannel marketing and channel convergence
- "Brick is the new Black" and physical store transformation
- Connected customers, connected world
- Market and technology globalization
- Everything you always wanted to know about Yourcegid Retail Y2, our new connected retail range.

At this year's conference, always a major event for our retail industry customers, our international expertise will be showcased with the presentation of the new key functionalities and technological advances in our Yourcegid Retail Y2 solution dedicated to specialized retailers.

• Yourcegid Retail Mobile Clienteling Y2
Integrating the new, in-store customer-vendor relationship, Yourcegid Retail Mobile Clienteling Y2 is a unique application that has been designed to respond to the new customer purchasing experience, extend the omnichannel experience and create new opportunities for building loyalty and generating purchases.

• Yourcegid Retail Intelligence Y2
Yourcegid Retail Intelligence Y2 transforms all customer and sales data into indicators and interactive dashboards, enabling operators to manage their retail, CRM and omnichannel activity in detail. Yourcegid Retail Intelligence Y2 also integrates simple and intuitive decision-making tools specifically created for specialized retailers, whether they have 20 or several hundred stores.

These two modules of the new Yourcegid Retail Y2 solution (Mobile Clienteling and Intelligence) received gold and bronze special mentions from the Equipmag 2014 committee of experts.

With the help of numerous customer and partner testimonials, Cegid aims to demonstrate how specialized retailing has changed and the central role that innovative technology will play in meeting the challenges of connected retail between now and 2020.

"The Cegid Connections conference in Berlin this year is part of our MoBiCloTM-oriented strategy and our commitment to cultivating shared innovation. We are proud to bring together our entire ecosystem, composed of 450 customers, experts and partners from across the globe, here in the German fashion capital," said Nathalie Echinard, Director of Vertical Markets at Cegid.

Among the customers who will speak about their experience with connected retail and discuss their situation and digital trends during the conference's 30 workshops are: Du Pareil Au Même, Lick, Paul Smith, Delsey, Furla, Sud Express, Babolat, Sweaty Betty and Lacoste.

More than 30 partner companies, including Microsoft, HP, Toshiba, Experian Marketing Services, IBM, Tagsys and Visiativ, will also participate in these workshops and present their innovations and know-how in the space reserved for them in the "Connected Retail Village & Partner Expo".

Amid the significant changes to purchasing methods and consumer behavior, the bricks-and-mortar store is reinventing itself to respond to new connected retail practices and transform the in-store customer experience. Cegid will demonstrate the digitization of the point of sale and the customer experience with a life-size store on display at the conference: the Cegid Innovation Store (CIS).

Conference participants will learn about the latest point-of-sale solutions and technologies: click & collect, mobility, clienteling, sensorial marketing & and social rewards, social network analysis, RFID, connected devices, etc.

To enable more people to share in the experience, regardless of constraints, Cegid is launching an online version of the concept store to:

• prolong the CIS experience for those who have already visited the store;
• open the CIS to our contacts throughout the world, at any time of day, wherever they may be.

To learn more: http://www.cegid.com/connections/fr/index.php

Cegid is a leading player in the digital transformation of companies, providing cloud services and enterprise software to private companies and public entities alike.

Cegid addresses the management needs of companies and public entities of all sizes in the fields of finance , taxation and human resources , and offers industry-specific solutions to companies in the manufacturing , trade , services and retail sectors as well as to the accounting profession . Based on MoBiCloTM, its technological concept combining Mobility, Business Intelligence and the Cloud, Cegid's innovation strategy integrates the new ways in which people use software.

Cegid is an international group with more than 2,000 employees, 28 locations in France, and 15 subsidiaries and offices worldwide. Cegid serves more than 110,000 clients and 400,000 users, including over 100,000 in SaaS mode. In 2014, its revenues totaled €267 million. Cegid is listed on Euronext Paris.

To learn more about Cegid and our product lines, please visit www.cegid.com

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