RetailNext vs. NielsenIQ SmartStore

Introducing intelligent, effective, and discreet People Counters and Analytics for the physical world. Our innovative solution simplifies the process of deploying, capturing, analyzing, and reporting the foot traffic within any given location. Additionally, we offer the option to monitor and report occupancy levels in real-time. We support a variety of sectors, including Retail, Education, Gaming, Religious Institutions, Corporate Offices, and more, helping them to understand and respond to their visitor trends. For retailers, we provide a tailored package designed to evaluate traffic performance, encompassing metrics such as conversion rates and service quality. Our seamless integrations facilitate the combination of point-of-sale data with staffing information. Moreover, the Retail Equation simulator allows users to experiment with different scenarios to boost sales and serves as a valuable educational resource to comprehend the interplay between traffic, staffing, conversion rates, and service excellence. By leveraging these insights, businesses can make informed decisions to optimize their operations.

TrafficGuard eliminates the anxiety associated with harmful traffic affecting the success of your advertising campaigns. Our cutting-edge technology, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence, detects and prevents both straightforward and intricate fraudulent traffic in real time, guaranteeing that your advertising budget focuses on authentic, high-quality clicks and conversions. This not only results in improved campaign performance but also boosts your return on ad spend (ROAS). With this comprehensive solution, every dollar of your advertising investment is protected, enabling you to focus on achieving your marketing goals without worry. Allow TrafficGuard to manage ad fraud protection, empowering you to oversee your Google Search (PPC) campaigns, mobile user acquisition initiatives, affiliate expenditures, and social media promotions with ease. Moreover, we offer expert campaign management and outstanding customer support, solidifying our position as a trustworthy ally for all your ad fraud protection requirements. By choosing TrafficGuard, you also gain access to insightful analytics that can further inform your marketing strategy.

Admiral is the category leader for adblock recovery for publishers and the creator of Visitor Relationship Management (VRM). Trusted by thousands of publishers and backed by more than a decade of expertise, Admiral helps recover millions of dollars in advertising revenue lost to adblockers, privacy tools, DNS filtering, VPNs, network-level blocking, and other forms of monetization disruption. Admiral's Full Spectrum Adblock Recovery approach recognizes that no single recovery method can address every blocker, visitor, or revenue opportunity. Publishers can apply different recovery approaches across their audience—and combine them when appropriate—to expand recovery coverage and maximize total adblock revenue. Beyond ad recovery, Admiral helps publishers recover and grow revenue through subscriptions, registrations, first-party data, consent management, email acquisition, social audience growth, donations, and other visitor monetization strategies. This unified approach helps publishers reduce revenue leakage, increase visitor lifetime value, and strengthen direct audience relationships. Key capabilities include: • Full Spectrum Adblock Recovery across diverse blocker types and visitor situations • AI-powered Visitor Copilot for conversational engagement, audience guidance, and revenue growth • Digital subscriptions, paywalls, memberships, and donation programs • GDPR, CCPA, IAB, and Google-certified consent management • First-party data collection, audience segmentation, and visitor identification • Marketing automation, journey shaping, and AI-powered optimization • Email growth, social audience growth, registrations, and engagement campaigns • Analytics, testing, personalization, and revenue performance measurement Admiral's no-code platform can be deployed quickly and optimized continuously, helping publishers maximize revenue recovery, audience growth, and overall monetization performance.

Athena Security delivers an industry-leading, AI-powered concealed weapons detection system and entryway security platform for hospitals, K–12 schools, casinos, places of worship, government buildings, and other high-traffic environments where speed, accuracy, and safety are critical. The Apollo 500 concealed weapons detection system enables seamless walk-through screening, using advanced AI to accurately distinguish real threats such as firearms and knives from everyday items like phones and keys—maximizing throughput while reducing false alarms. Athena’s AI-powered baggage X-ray scanner modernizes screening with Apple iPad-based control, replacing legacy consoles with an intuitive interface that improves usability, reduces training time, enables remote operation, and enhances threat detection through automated identification of suspicious items. Athena’s Hospital Visitor Management System delivers deeper intelligence than traditional systems, including visitor history, prior incidents, and person-of-interest alerts—empowering faster, more informed decisions. Integration with EPIC strengthens healthcare workflows while maintaining high security standards. First-of-its-kind innovations include the Ambulance Bay Weapons Detection System (AB-WDS) purpose built for hopsitals for screening stretcher patients and a secondary screening solution for feet and bags, reducing human error in courthouses and government facilities. Built for compliance and real-world deployment across U.S. regions, Athena aligns with DHS best practices and evolving state regulations, including healthcare security mandates AB2975. Telepresence and AR alert glasses provide real-time operational support, while all systems unify into one platform for centralized monitoring, analytics, and enterprise reporting.

Ecwid by Lightspeed simplifies the process of incorporating an online store into any website or social media account. With a user base of hundreds of thousands of merchants across 175 countries, Ecwid provides all the necessary tools to connect with customers regardless of their location—be it in-person or via platforms like your website, Instagram, Facebook, Amazon, or Google Shopping. The platform offers a seamless point-of-sale system along with email marketing capabilities, enabling efficient management of marketing, sales, and inventory from virtually any location. Additionally, its dedicated mobile app ensures that business owners can stay connected and responsive to their customers at all times. This versatility makes Ecwid an invaluable asset for businesses looking to thrive in the digital marketplace.

Insightful is a Work Intelligence platform that helps organizations understand how work actually happens across people, processes, and AI, so they can improve performance, optimize workflows, and reduce operational waste. Insightful brings this together in one platform, built to help organizations optimize People, Process, and Technology through three core capabilities: 1. Workforce Analytics: Measure workforce productivity, utilization, and performance with real-time visibility into how work gets done. 2. Workflow Optimization: Identify bottlenecks, eliminate inefficiencies, and optimize workflows across teams and processes. 3. Work Intelligence: Measure AI adoption, usage, and business impact to maximize the ROI of your AI investments. You can see where time is going, how AI is being absorbed across your organization, how teams are performing, and where work is breaking down, without relying on manual tracking or guesswork. With Insightful, you can: • See clearly how work happens across teams, processes, and AI • Catch utilization or output declines before they become bigger problems • Monitor AI adoption, usage patterns, and business outcomes • Create a custom layout using configurable widgets for the insights most relevant to you • Identify where workflows slow down, stall, or generate rework • Benchmark performance across different teams, roles, or locations • Rely on real activity data to support reviews and resolve disputes • Automate reporting and time tracking This is a precision-built Work Intelligence designed to move the needle on your bottom line. The data it surfaces is practical enough to use in weekly reviews, forward planning, and everyday decisions. Organizations pick Insightful because it delivers serious visibility and control, without the price tag or complexities.

Our emphasis lies in the large-scale creation, distribution, and repurposing of content, which empowers businesses to engage a broader audience while minimizing the need for substantial internal resources or specialized knowledge. This approach enables small and medium enterprises to enhance their competitive edge and expand without becoming overly dependent on paid advertising. By leveraging the most extensive and effective traffic sources available globally, companies can attract more targeted buyer traffic, thereby improving their online brand presence and boosting conversion rates across all channels. Ultimately, this strategy fosters sustainable growth and enhances overall market visibility.

NodeMaven is a premium residential proxy provider who prioritizes IP quality above all else. We developed an advanced filtering algorithm to screen IPs in real-time before assigning them, ensuring our customers get high quality addresses 95% of the time. With our hybrid proxy technology, we’re able to provide longer session times and IPs last up to 24 hours — many times the industry average.

Vibe Retail is a retail-exclusive, cloud-based point-of-sale and commerce operations platform built for businesses that sell physical products across one or many locations. While most POS platforms spread their development across restaurants, services, and hospitality, Vibe Retail is engineered solely for retail, resulting in workflows and capabilities that reflect how retailers actually buy, move, sell, and track inventory. The platform acts as a centralized system of record for products, inventory, customers, staff, and suppliers, accessible through a mobile-friendly interface. Retailers can oversee inventory across stores and warehouses, manage product attributes and variations (such as size, color, and material), issue and receive purchase orders, track supplier deliveries, generate custom barcodes, and move stock between locations with real-time visibility. At checkout, Vibe Retail supports a broad range of retail payment methods, including credit and debit cards, cash, checks, gift cards, and EBT. It also accommodates retail-specific workflows such as layaway programs, serialized item tracking, delivery fulfillment, customer loyalty, and branded receipts, with the ability to print receipts directly from mobile devices on the sales floor. For retailers operating both online and in-store, Vibe Retail connects with ecommerce platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce, keeping inventory levels, orders, and customer data synchronized across channels. The system includes over 40 real-time analytical reports that provide insight into sales trends, inventory movement, store performance, and operational efficiency, alongside tools for managing promotions and discounts. By concentrating exclusively on retail and no other verticals, Vibe Retail delivers a focused POS and operations environment designed to help retailers reduce complexity, maintain data consistency, and scale with greater operational control.

Control D is a versatile DNS filtering and traffic redirection service that utilizes advanced Secure DNS protocols such as DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS, and DNS-over-QUIC, while also accommodating traditional DNS. With Control D, users can effectively eliminate harmful threats, restrict various types of undesirable content across the network—including advertisements, trackers, IoT data, adult material, social media, and more—while also redirecting traffic through transparent proxies and monitoring network activities and usage patterns at a client-specific level. Consider it your own personalized Authoritative DNS resolver for the entire Internet, providing you with detailed control over which domains are allowed to be resolved, redirected, or blocked. This capability not only enhances security but also empowers users to tailor their online experience according to their preferences.