International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology

  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 2

Retail Informatics: Basics and Emerging Scenario with Special Reference to Design and Development of Proposed MSc-Information Science (Retail Informatics) in Indian Scenario

  • Author:
  • P. K. Paul1,, A. Bhuimali2, D. Chatterjee3
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 140 to 144

1FBAS, IIEST, Shibpw-Howrah, West Bengal

2Vice Chancellor, Raiganj University, Raiganj, West Bengal

3Vice Chancellor, Seacom Skills University, Bolpur, West Bengal

Abstract

Informatics is one of the important name in the field of Applied Science. Informatics is actually nothing but the collection, selection, organization, processing, management and dissemination of information with the help of techniques and technologies. Popularly mechanism towards information processing and management is called Informatics. Informatics is subject based depending upon knowledge cluster; Informatics may attach or associate with other domain like Informatics and Medical Science creates the domain Medical Informatics. Like this, integration and affiliation of Informatics and Retail Management creates another domain called Retail Informatics. This paper talks about Retail Informatics (RI); its aim and objective, features and characteristics and so on. Retail Informatics specialized MSc-Information Science curriculum, is also proposed in this paper for further development of the domain.

Keywords

Retail Informatics, Business Informatics, MSc-Information Science, Marketing Management, Computing, Information Management