15 Must-See Partners for Retailers at NRF 2023

“The last few years have taught us a lot. Today we’re smarter, faster, and more innovative than ever before. We’re no longer just getting through — now’s our time to break through,” said the National Retail Federation (NRF) about their 2023 conference, retail’s big show coming Jan. 15. 

The NRF conference is all about meeting fellow retailers and discovering the tech that will not just prepare you, but accelerate you as the consumer market continues to transform and grow. A number of Salesforce partner apps and experts will be at NRF. Here’s a look at some of these partners and their amazing tech and services for retailers in 2023.

Partner Apps for Retailers

Adyen
Adyen is a single payments platform that offers an end-to-end infrastructure connecting directly to Visa, MasterCard, and preferred payment methods. Adyen delivers frictionless payments across online, mobile, and in-store channels.

Avalara
Avalara’s AvaTax app works seamlessly with Salesforce, calculating the latest sales tax rates based on location, legislation, regulations, and more. Avalara calculates tax accounting for local-level rates, laws, and more.

Coveo
Coveo uses AI and intelligent search technologies to personalize millions of digital experiences to deliver consistent and personalized customer experiences at scale, increase case deflection rate through intelligent self-service, and improve employee proficiency.

Cognizant 
Create codeless compliant forms with the Cognizant Rapid Forms. Build engaging journeys during onboarding for a product or service. Create appealing surveys and collect valuable feedback with a library of pre-built components for a fast build.

IBM
The IBM Blockchain Platform™ for Salesforce brings you the immediate insights you need to build and maintain your business — all from within Salesforce. There are already hundreds of successful IBM Blockchain Platform client engagements and dozens of networks producing tangible business results.

Forter
This fraud prevention app helps minimize chargebacks and maximize revenue by making the most accurate decisions about which transactions to accept or reject.

Bringg
Bringg supports Salesforce order management to deliver an exceptional customer experience by offering an easy, efficient, reliable, and transparent last-mile delivery and pickup solution.

OSF UnifyCOMMERCE
OSF UnifyCOMMERCE integrates Commerce Cloud with Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Community Cloud, providing a single view of the consumer. Get customer segmentation, single sign-on to Community, and order on behalf and case management for commerce use cases from Service Cloud.

PredictSpring
PredictSpring's Modern POS provides a seamless checkout experience and integration with Salesforce order management. PredictSpring POS supports Full POS, mPOS, cash register, clienteling, endless aisle, and BOPIS.

Proximity Insight
Proximity Insight’s mobile POS,  out-of-the-box capabilities, and enterprise-grade back-end enables customers to scale quickly and securely

Partner Experts for Retailers

Partner experts on AppExchange offer a wide range of services to Salesforce customers, from implementing retail technology and Salesforce to enhance their use of Salesforce. They spend time with customers learning about their business, discussing options, making recommendations, researching, and more. This applies to retailers, too.

“We help retailers take their 360-view of the customer and build it out from lead score and nurture, to opportunity, to closed-won, to loyalty with marketing,” shares Geraldine Gray, founder of Endiem, a Salesforce consultant. Here’s a look at partner experts coming to NRF.

Accenture
Driven by the power of customer data, Accenture and Salesforce reimagine human experiences that reignite growth and accelerate the path to value.

Capgemini
Capgemini partners with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. They are a responsible and diverse organization of 270,000 team members in nearly 50 countries.

Deloitte Digital 
Together with Salesforce, Deloitte Digital helps clients reimagine the way they engage with employees, suppliers, and customers. 

Dentsu
Consultants at Dentsu partner with brands to achieve meaningful progress as a force for growth and good. 

EPAM
Smart Opportunity Tracker by EPAM helps to manage multiple opportunities simultaneously and pursue each opportunity with greater precision to improve revenue and profitability.

Publicis
As the global pandemic accelerates the need for businesses to succeed digitally, Publicis Sapient and Salesforce can help you connect with your customers where, when, and how they want with the most trusted, data-driven platform. 

PwC
Combining the latest Salesforce technology with a people-centric, business-led approach, PwC is working to help the world get back to business.

I asked Phil Weinmeister, Salesforce MVP and Head of Product, Salesforce at IBM Consulting about partner experts in retail. “The Salesforce partner ecosystem is robust, well-established, and continually growing, which is great for Salesforce customers in the retail space. By leveraging the AppExchange, retailers can easily find potential consulting partners that have both industry and platform expertise and can drive strategy, implementation, and support,” he shared, “Finding an exceptional implementation partner is a major key to success for today’s retail customers; and can result in a long-term partnership with major impact for years to come.”

Together, AppExchange and Salesforce are connecting retail companies around their customers today and into the future. Learn more about how these partners and their amazing tech and services can help you accelerate your retail transformation. For even more apps, get the AppExchange Retail App Guide and check out this collection of Salesforce apps for retailers on AppExchange.