Mobile has become ubiquitous. People hook on to it on train, in a café, or in a park, playing games, watching tv, browsing, or connecting with far-away friends and more. Increasingly, they are also using mobile to research about products, retailers, and share their shopping experience on social media.

In a nutshell, shopping as an experience is increasingly being influenced by smartphone. Customers want to use their mobiles at every step of their shopping journey, both in-store and out, to get information about expert product advice, special offers, tips on faster and easier checkouts, mobile payment options and more. The scenario is driving a retail revolution that has left retailers scrambling to catch up.

Innovative mobile solutions place retailers at the center of this retail revolution, helping them offer enriching in-store experience to customers. The solutions will help improve product movement and enable staff with tools to enhance customer engagements, while also enabling retailers to gain insights about their customers and execute targeted marketing initiatives.

To aid retailers to get best-of-breed retail mobility solutions, we have selected the leading vendors with multidimensional expertise across mobile consulting, solutioning and execution, who will be your ideal partner for all your mobility needs in retail. Retail CIO Outlook presents the “TOP 10 Retail Mobility Solution Providers – 2017.”

To help the CIOs find the best retail mobility solutions providers, a distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, Analysts and the Retail CIO Outlook's editorial board, has reviewed companies with a proven record of expertise in assisting organizations with cost-effective and best-of-breed solutions. The panel has weighed the support for analytics, integration capabilities and robustness besides the quality of service above all else, before cataloging the finalists.