First Retail Announces Innovation in a Box First Retail to offer SemanticETL™ and data application services, transforming the way big enterprise works with big data. SAN FRANCISCO – (June 7, 2011) — Semantic Technology Conference 2011 – First Retail, provider of big data analytics solutions for the enterprise, announces a new service to enable companies…

05/18/2012 – The Six C’s of Social Technologies Palo Alto – (May 18, 2012) — Spanish language El Pais newspaper Las seis ‘ces’ de las tecnologías sociales on May 18th, 2012. English version, Original version in Spanish 05/07/2012 – First Retail named one of five “Cool Vendors in Analytics and Business Intelligence” Palo Alto –…

Over time we have moved from the Bazaar to the Store to the Superstore and each step has dimished the Consumer’s voice and given the Vendor more power and control in the purchasing process. Today we buy from the Vendor’s catalog at the price the vendor specifies, but taking my cues from the ClueTrain Manifesto…

It’s been an interesting twelve months for First Retail – starting from zero with just a smart and dedicated team – first one client, then another and now we have five great organizations whom we are proud to be working with. And above all, the support network of our friends and ex-colleagues who provided people,…

Revenue-funded startup First Retail, whose principals Anne Jude Hunt and Simon G. Handley will be speaking at the upcoming Semantic Technology Conference in June, thinks the answer is semantic ETL. Article by Jennifer Zaino on February 25, 2011 republished from SemanticWeb Extract, transform, load (ETL) is a widely known concept in the well-charted terrain of…