Retailers to Enhance Customer Experience With Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail
At the National Retail Federation’s annual conference today, Microsoft Corp. announced the upcoming release of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail, which will provide midsize and enterprise retailers with an end-to-end solution that includes cross-channel capabilities, social and mobile commerce, enriched point of sale (POS), and powerful enhancements for merchandising. These capabilities are designed to help retailers deliver uniquely consistent, convenient and personalized experiences for shoppers.
Mattress Firm is the largest mattress retailer in the U.S. and an early adopter of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail. The company needed a solution to support aggressive growth plans while empowering store and company associates who are passionate about offering best-in-class customer shopping experiences.
“We chose Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail because it provides us with a scalable platform to support our future growth and a differentiated customer and sales associate experience at the point of sale,” said Patty Wade, chief information officer and vice president of Strategy and Technology, Mattress Firm. “Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail gives us what other solutions could not — ease of use and simplicity in operations, coupled with the ability to scale and reliably deliver on our brand promise.”
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail helps retailers do the following:
Connect to customers. Multichannel capabilities enable customers to buy, pick up, return or replace items on their terms. Support for social and mobile commerce means retailers can offer promotions, discounts or coupons targeted to marketplaces or social networks — creating critical new opportunities for customer engagement.
Empower employees. Orders can be created and managed at the POS, offering the sales associate increasing amounts of valuable face-to-face time with customers. Employees can also make highly accurate, timely and consistent decisions because they are armed with relevant details delivered through enhanced Role Centers, dashboards that deliver a succinct set of information relevant to each individual user.
Execute with insight. Integrated multichannel management allows complete insight to help retailers be proactive in anticipating trends. In addition, powerful merchandising functionality puts control into the retailers’ hands with unlimited categories and hierarchies possible for assortment and replenishment to best meet customer demand accurately and efficiently.
Retailers worldwide, including AkzoNobel Decorative Paints, Ashley Furniture Industries, DavidsTea., Kwit-Fit Nederland Groep B.V., Malabar Gold, Mattress Firm, P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Inc., Simon Pearce and Turisme de Barcelona, have chosen Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail during the past year.
Global partners are also a core part of the retail business solution. “Enterprise customers require core retail data and advanced tools to leverage and create value through analytics,” said Janet Hoffmann, managing director of Accenture’s Retail practice. “Accenture, in close collaboration with global Microsoft specialists Avanade, is developing and delivering solutions built on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail, which enable clients to connect better with their customers.”
“Today’s retail paradigm puts increased pressure on retailers to build lasting customer loyalty by keeping up with fast-moving trends and exceeding shopper expectations,” said Michael Griffiths, global product director of retail, Microsoft Business Solutions. “Microsoft is all in when it comes to retail — from our stores and consumer devices to the customers already running Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail in more than 30 countries. We are taking that investment to the next level with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail.”
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail will be available in more than 25 countries starting Feb. 1, 2012. Retailers interested in learning more about Microsoft Dynamics solutions for the retail industry can visit http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/erp-ax-retail.aspx.
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About Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and ERP solutions empower your people to be more productive and your systems to last longer and scale as your business grows, while enabling you to derive the insights necessary to respond quickly in an ever-changing world of business.
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7-Eleven Mexico Selects Oracle Retail Platform to Support Growth
7-Eleven Mexico has selected Oracle Retail Merchandising to create a platform for improving retail operations and driving growth across its 1400 stores throughout the country.7-Eleven Mexico will use the Oracle Retail Merchandising suite of applications to leverage operational data, establish best practices throughout its retail operations and help develop new merchandising and inventory strategies.
Oracle Retail Merchandising help retailers determine the inventory requirements at the item and location level, which results in an inventory replenishment that optimizes the supply across all locations.7-Eleven Mexico expects to use Oracle Retail to track its perpetual inventory to increase availability of items, reduce inventory and optimize its supply chain.
“We will use Oracle Retail to better serve the changing needs of our convenience customers by offering the best assortment by store and fresher products every day. Also to establish best practices and create a platform for growth,” said Eduardo Trujillo, Business Transformation Director, 7-Eleven Mexico. “We have operational data from across the business. Oracle will help us to gain insight from that data and shape our merchandising and inventory strategies accordingly.”
“Oracle Retail is ideally suited to helping retailers like 7-Eleven Mexico create the ideal customer experience,” said Mike Webster, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Retail. “By investing in Oracle Retail’s experience platform, 7-Eleven Mexico can infuse science into its business processes to drive execution and growth.”
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B.J. Alan Streamlines Operations and Improves Productivity with VAI S2K Enterprise for Retail
Wholesale Fireworks Manufacturer & Distributor Significantly Cuts Costs with New POS Module Deployed across 54 Locations
VAI (Vormittag Associates, Inc.), an award-winning ERP software provider, today announced that B.J. Alan Company, a distributor and retailer of consumer fireworks, has experienced measurable results with the implementation of VAI S2K Enterprise for Retail. S2K Enterprise for Retail is a Point-of-Sale (POS) solution designed to help companies improve productivity and streamline retail operations. With the new POS module deployed in 54 stores in only four months, B.J. Alan was up and running for the busy summer season, immediately reducing help desk support costs.
B.J. Alan has been a VAI customer since 2004 and rolled out VAI S2K Enterprise for Retail to support the company’s growth from a mail-order business to a retail superstore model. The business now entails 54 retail showrooms, more than 1000 temporary tent and stand locations, and the company is the only American-based sparkler manufacturing plant active today. B.J. Alan uses S2K Enterprise for Retail to handle the accounting and tracking for each of these business models, in addition to providing a cross-company view of all activity.
“We initially deployed VAI S2K Enterprise for Retail because we needed a stable ERP platform that was flexible enough to accommodate our highly seasonal growing business model,” said Mike Koocher, IT director, B.J. Alan. “Deploying VAI’s POS module this year to replace our old system was an easy decision because it directly integrates with VAI S2K Enterprise, and we are thrilled with the results we have seen in a short period of time. VAI has done a great job of advancing its technology while accommodating our specific needs.”
“One of our primary goals at VAI is to provide our customers with customizable solutions to address their business needs where off the shelf software just won’t do,” said Claudio Gallina, project director, VAI. “We are pleased with the value that B.J. Alan has experienced with S2K Enterprise for Retail, and that we were able to offer and quickly deploy a POS solution at a critical time. We look forward to B.J. Alan’s continued growth and success with the addition of the POS module.”
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Epicor Named Leading Vendor of POS Software Among Top 250 Largest Soft Goods and Hard Goods Retailers
Independent Analyst Firm IHL Group Recognizes Epicor’s Leadership and POS Reach in the Retail Marketplace
Epicor Software Corporation, a global leader in business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail and services organizations, today announced the company has been named the leading vendor of Point-of-Sale (POS) software to top specialty soft goods retailers and hard goods retailers by global research and advisory firm IHL Group.
Epicor(R) ranks first place in the two new reports — POS Software for Softgoods Retailers and POS Software for Hardgoods Retailers — the first time a single vendor has captured the top ranked position in both sectors. This is the sixth consecutive year Epicor has taken first place in the IHL POS Software for Softgoods Retailers report (the first two years as NSB Retail Systems, which Epicor acquired in 2008).
The soft goods report evaluates vendors of POS software installed among the top 250 retailers in the specialty soft goods space including apparel, shoes, jewelry and luggage. The hard goods report evaluates vendors of POS software installed among the top 250 retailers in the hard goods segments of DIY, books, electronics, furniture, pets, and other hard goods. Vendor rankings were based on the following criteria: Number of POS licenses, the combined revenue of their customers, and total number of customers that feature in the top 250 largest soft goods and top 250 largest hard goods retailers in North America (installed share).
Both reports feature an overview of the economic, technology and consumer trends shaping the retail sector as well as key business challenges soft goods retailers seek to offset via the use of POS technology. They also provide insight surrounding the top drivers for POS purchasing decisions, including retailers’ requirements surrounding mobility, multi-channel selling, and PCI-DSS compliance. The reports include a profile of Epicor and its retail solutions, key customers and overall product strengths.
“Epicor continues to build momentum in the retail marketplace based in part on the breadth of the company’s POS solutions and top-tier customer deployments,” said Greg Buzek, founder and president of IHL Group. “With the merger of Activant and Epicor earlier this year, the company has expanded its presence in the retail space — particular with hard goods retailers — allowing the company to deliver additional products and services to its global customer base.”
“We are honored to be recognized by IHL as the leading POS vendor for the soft goods and hard goods retail marketplace and to be the first company to garner the No. 1 ranking in both categories is a testament to the quality of Epicor’s retail solutions and the value they deliver to our customers,” said Paul Salsgiver, executive vice president and general manager, retail software for Epicor. “The global retail industry continues to face many challenges in today’s economy and Epicor is committed to working with our customers to give them the products and services they need to grow their businesses and better serve their clientele.”
Epicor’s retail solutions and services are used by hundreds of the world’s leading retailers to become more profitable, productive and competitive. Epicor software solutions are designed to meet the evolving merchandise and service expectations of today’s cross-channel shoppers and the business requirements of the most demanding retail environments, with a rapid return on investment, low cost of ownership, and a single point of accountability. Epicor provides software solutions and services to specialty and general merchandise retailers in a variety of industries including apparel, automotive aftermarket, footwear, lumber and building materials, nursery, sporting goods and pharmacy. Epicor’s retail customers include hundreds of marquee names, from Aeropostale and Automotive Supply, Inc., to Walker Drug and Zales.
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Microsoft Showcases Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail R2
NEW YORK — Jan. 11, 2011 — Today, at the National Retail Federation’s annual conference, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) announced the upcoming release of Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail R2, the next iteration of Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail, which was made generally available in August 2010. Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail R2 will be available in more than 50 countries starting Feb. 1, 2011.
Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail offers midsize and enterprise specialty retailers point-of-sale, store management, supply chain, merchandising and financials capabilities to deliver business productivity and customer service in a single, integrated solution. Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail R2 includes the following enhancements:
- Insight. Retail Role Centers mean key data can be surfaced quickly and easily, helping people make more informed decisions and be productive.
- Loyalty. Expanded scenarios and centralized management out of the box help retailers enhance the customer experience.
- Simplicity. New interfaces for assortment and item management speed workflows and help drive productivity.
- Global availability. New localizations and translations further support the needs of multinational and growing organizations.
“With so many digitally empowered consumers, retailers are being challenged to operate faster and smarter across their organizations to achieve deeper customer loyalty and maintain a competitive edge,” said Kirill Tatarinov, corporate vice president, Microsoft Business Solutions. “Microsoft is providing retailers with the software solutions they need to remain agile in this environment, create a connected retail experience and become dynamic businesses.”
Microsoft further announced that retailers worldwide, including Bailey Banks & Biddle, Carol’s Daughter, China Horizon, Combined Rural Traders, Coviran, Groupe Aksal, Icon Live, J&R Electronics, Kaubamaja, Kotryna, Logitec, New Look, Paul’s TV, Terry White Chemists, and Wonder, have chosen to implement Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail.
“Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail was the ideal choice for our business as it provides a single consolidated system that supports our international requirements in an easy-to-use and familiar format,” said William Fields, chairman, China Horizon. “As we embark on a rapid growth trajectory over the next few years, we are confident that Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail will continue to scale with us.”
A number of complementary partner solutions are also featured in the Microsoft booth, No. 836, including recently announced solutions from Aldata Solution, a global leader in the supply of integrated business solutions to organizations that serve the retail consumer and wholesale distribution markets. Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail provides Microsoft’s channel partners with an opportunity to deliver customer-specific configuration and implementation services.
Further supporting a connected retail experience, partner solutions from Avanade, HCL Technologies and Retaligent Solutions Inc., built on Microsoft Dynamics CRM, are also on display. These solutions give retailers the ability to personalize the customer experience across multiple channels, increase loyalty and drive effective marketing.
Retailers interested in learning more about Microsoft Dynamics solutions for the retail industry can visit http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/retailsolutions.
About Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics is a line of simple to learn and use ERP and CRM solutions that work with your existing technology and scale as you grow to give you long-term value. By using software and online services that work the way people and organizations work, businesses are better able to make informed decisions and adapt to rapid change. Microsoft Dynamics helps your people be more productive and your investments in existing systems last longer, while enabling your business to derive the insights necessary to respond quickly and have a competitive edge in an ever-changing world of business.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
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Infor Helps Retailers Convert More Visitors into Satisfied Buyers Online with New Epiphany Shopping Advisor
ATLANTA and NEW YORK – Jan 10, 2011 – Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving over 70,000 customers, today announced the general availability of CRM Epiphany Shopping Advisor at the National Retail Federation’s 100th Annual Convention and Expo. With Shopping Advisor, retailers and e-commerce service providers can deliver dynamically generated product and marketing offers with higher relevancy to website visitors, improving and differentiating the overall shopping experience. Shopping Advisor is the third module released in the Advisor family, following the launch of Data Advisor and E-Mail Advisor last year. Combined, they provide an integrated online personalization solution, allowing marketers to increase results by delivering content across e-mail, web and smartphones that adapts instantly and intelligently to the customer’s preferences. They are being demoed now through Wednesday at the Infor booth #1378.
News
- Infor CRM Epiphany Shopping Advisor is now available for purchase. Pricing is variable, based on the customer’s integration requirements, deployment scale, and existing customer relationship management (CRM) IT infrastructure.
- Shopping Advisor is designed to be used with equal success by retailers managing their own e-commerce sites, as well as e-commerce service providers managing a portfolio of sites for a diverse client base.
- It optimizes the purchasing experience by automatically recommending products and relevant special offers to site visitors as they shop, based on the products they view, purchase, search for, add to wish lists or place in shopping carts.
- Unlike competing solutions, Shopping Advisor also instantly accesses and uses relationship history data, gathered from all customer interaction channels (phone, e-mail, web, etc.) and stored within the customer’s CRM Epiphany profile, to deliver the most relevant recommendations.
- Consumers benefit by finding and purchasing what they want and need faster, while discovering products and special savings they might have otherwise missed. Retailers benefit from increased potential for cart conversion, higher sales-per-click, and increased customer loyalty.
- When implemented together, E-Mail Advisor and Shopping Advisor access the same centralized customer data repository created and constantly improved by Data Advisor. This ensures that dynamically generated content delivered across all online CRM channels works in concert to provide customers with the most relevant, valuable and up-to-date offers.
- Like all modules in the Advisor family, Epiphany Shopping Advisor is powered by the company’s unique Epiphany Interaction Advisor engine, which provides intelligent, automated analysis and decision-making capabilities for the entire Epiphany solution suite.
What Forrester Says
“Marketers today have a dizzying array of online and offline touchpoints at their disposal, but without a doubt all roads lead through the Web …” according to the March 29, 2010 independent Forrester Research, Inc. report, How Web Analytics Will Emerge As A Cornerstone Of Customer Intelligence. “…firms must leverage Web analytics beyond isolated Web site marketing and operations to feed analysis, decision support, and execution for the entire marketing function.”
What We Say
“Consumers are now free to shop anywhere, anytime. In this new era of the portable storefront, retailers need more sophisticated ways to differentiate their brands, keep consumers coming back, and convert more visitors to buyers,” said Jackie Palmer, senior product manager, Infor. “With the introduction of Epiphany Shopping Advisor, Infor gives retailers the ability to extend their existing CRM capabilities and data to create more consistent, personalized experiences wherever a customer chooses to shop, whether it is on smartphones, the web, in-store or over the phone.”
Additional Resources
- Infor CRM Epiphany – www.infor.com/crm
- Join the conversation – www.infor.com/infornow/inforlive/
About Infor
Infor is a leading provider of business applications, with over 8,000 employees serving over 70,000 customers in 125 countries. Infor focuses on two core beliefs: the importance of constant innovation and the value of laser focus on its customers. Infor delivers software that is simple to buy, easy to deploy, and convenient to manage.
Infor’s focus on automating key business processes and integrating over 70 acquisitions of proven and widely deployed application products has served its customers well. These customers include:
- 19 of the top 35 retailers
- Over 1,100 apparel and footwear companies
- The top 8 aerospace companies
- 9 of the top 10 high tech companies
- 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies
- The top 4 brewers
- 9 of the top 20 electrical distributors
- Over 1,100 state and local government agencies
- Over 3,000 financial services companies
- Over 7,000 machinery manufacturers
For additional information about Infor, please visit www.infor.com.
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Retail’s Big Deal: SAP Transforms Promotion Management
NEW YORK – January 10, 2011 – The explosion of multichannel shopping has shifted the competitive, consumer-driven world of retail into warp speed. To help retailers hit their afterburners, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today introduced the latest version of the SAP® Promotion Management for Retail application. This announcement was made at the National Retail Federation (NRF) 100th Annual Convention and Expo, being held January 9-12, 2011, at the Javits Convention Center in New York.
With the new release, SAP aims to make promotions management a precise science. New features enable retailers to streamline marketing and merchandising promotional processes, create multichannel promotions to reach new and existing shoppers, and forecast offers to help make better and more profitable decisions. Designed with the retail end-customer in mind, SAP Promotion Management for Retail 7.1 helps promotional teams by automating and managing the complexities of localized promotions for flyers, printed ads, store promotions, e-mail/Web and mobile tactics. This allows retailers to reach segmented consumers shopping across multiple channels and localized regions and thereby improve their financial performance.
- Streamlining Promotional Processes – The creation of an effective promotion involves close collaboration among members of marketing, merchandising, advertising and finance teams to carefully plan and execute campaigns while also increasing financial performance and meeting customer demand. SAP Promotion Management for Retail streamlines and simplifies the complex, cross-functional process and provides scalable version control so that everyone sees the same plan and data, completely up to date, at any time. Simultaneously, multiple versions of the promotion can be published based on varying tactics. The entire process is paperless and centralized, even for teams working across several regions, time zones and banners.
- Promotions Without Boundaries – Retailers can no longer afford to create barriers between their shoppers and their business. Newer technologies have made access to information, other shoppers and commerce easier and more interesting. As social networking, interactive applications and mobile devices permeate the world of commerce, retailers need the means to manage, understand and execute their promotions in a meaningful and profitable fashion. With these changes, the process of tracking customer demand and lift to promotions must also evolve. Retailers must be able to financially manage and track their promotional spend across all channels, not just their traditional channels, in a way that creates lift and also targets their consumers regardless of where they may shop today or in the future.
- Forecast Calls for Profit – Perhaps the most complex and most important need in the world of promotions management is the ability to forecast, simulate and evaluate financial outcomes at the offer, category and event levels. SAP Promotion Management for Retail is equipped with science-based tools to help retailers understand, via a forecasting engine, what promotions are most profitable before a tactic is executed, through analyzing point-of-sale data. Category managers must work with vendors to create promotions that help them meet their financial targets. SAP Promotion Management for Retail enables these managers to evaluate the promotion in the context of any vendor deal being offered. The tool also allows for budget management from planned to forecasted, enabling them to go back to vendors to negotiate deals.
“The exciting developments occurring in retail and commerce have given retailers incredible new ways to reach their target audiences, but the process can be overwhelming without a software system to transform the sophistication into simplicity,” said Bob McFarland, senior vice president and general manager of the U.S. Retail Organization, SAP America. “With SAP Promotion Management for Retail, retailers gain the tools necessary to not only generate more effective targeted promotions, but also increase the bottom line by identifying the most profitable promotions based on shopper demand.”
About SAP
SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software(*), offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses. With more than 105,000 customers in over 120 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol “SAP.” For more information, visit www.sap.com.
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Advance Auto Parts Accelerates Business Transformation with Oracle Retail Merchandising
Redwood Shores, Calif. – Jan. 4, 2011
News Facts
- Advance Auto Parts, a leading automotive aftermarket retailer, has implemented the Oracle® Retail Merchandising System to localize offerings and improve profitability at 3,500 stores in 39 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
- In the first of a multi-phase program, the specialty retailer has completed the implementation of Oracle Retail Merchandising and Oracle Retail Price Management, establishing a single, flexible IT system that tells the retailer how items and categories are performing in groups and by stores, and enables the business to quickly execute merchandise and pricing changes.
- The Oracle Retail system is part of a larger transformation at Advance Auto Parts in which the company is establishing a more agile, flexible business to cater to customer preferences, improve performance and respond to market opportunities.
- Oracle helped the retailer integrate Oracle Retail Merchandising System and Oracle Retail Price Management with existing systems, adopt new business processes and convert approximately 760,000 SKUs from disparate legacy systems to a single SKU master. They also conducted testing mock conversions so that the final conversion took just two days to complete.
- Advance Auto Parts implemented the Oracle Retail applications with minimal changes and adopted new merchandising, supply chain and store operations processes that aligned with the system.
- Oracle Retail Price Management gives store and merchandising teams greater flexibility and control over pricing strategies, including zone and category pricing.
- Advance Auto Parts is now implementing Oracle Retail Allocation, and will use the application to help to optimize inventory and streamline supply chain, planning and allocations processes across all locations.
Supporting Quotes
- After the successful deployment, Geraldine Schleuter, Vice President of information technology, Advance Auto Parts, said, “I was so impressed with the way the different companies worked together and collaborated to bring the best results.”
- “With Oracle Retail Merchandising in place, we see item information down to the stores and can execute merchandise and pricing strategies much faster,” said Schleuter. “As we continue to rollout the Oracle Retail applications, we will enable the business to optimize inventory and streamline allocation and replenishment.”
- “Oracle Retail applications equip Advance Auto Parts to adapt and improve their business and continue their remarkable transformation as a retailer,” said Andrea Morgan-Vandome, vice president of strategy and solution marketing, Oracle Retail. “We are very pleased to support Advance Auto Parts’ growth by delivering value and helping them meet their strategic business initiatives.”
Supporting Resources
- Advance Auto Parts Overhauls Merchandising System (Integrated Solutions for Retailers Cover Story)
- About Advance Auto Parts
- Oracle Retail Merchandising System
- Oracle Retail Price Management
- Oracle Now for iPhone
- Oracle Now for Android
- Join the Oracle Retail community on Facebook
- Insight-Driven Retailing Blog
- Oracle Retail YouTube Channel
- Follow Oracle Retail on Twitter
About Oracle Retail
Oracle provides retailers with a complete, open and integrated suite of business applications, server and storage solutions that are engineered to work together to optimize every aspect of their business. 20 of the top 20 retailers worldwide – including fashion, hardlines, grocery and specialty retailers – use Oracle solutions to deliver critical insights, improve business processes and drive performance. For more information, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com/goto/retail
About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s most complete, open and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.
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Oracle to Showcase Retail Industry Leadership at 100th Annual National Retail Federation Conference
News Facts
- Oracle will demonstrate retail best practices and innovations at the 100th Annual National Retail Federation Conference, being held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, January 9 – 11.
- Attendees will immediately spot the large two-story Oracle Booth #619 at the entrance to the NRF exposition area, where Oracle will showcase software and hardware solutions including Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle Retail offerings, all engineered to work together to solve retailers’ unique business challenges.
- Oracle will feature a Disney Store pop-up shop within its booth, where attendees can buy Disney-inspired NY-themed products, see Oracle® Retail Point of Service at work and receive discount coupons for merchandise at Disney’s new 20,000 square foot Times Square destination store.
- Disney senior vice president of global retail operations Steve Finney will present an Oracle-sponsored NRF Super Session keynote at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, January 11, on the creation and launch of the new technology-fueled Disney Store design.
- Oracle will highlight innovation in demonstrating mobile commerce solutions including mobile Point of Service, Store Inventory Management extensions for mobile and NFC technology used for payment, as well as RFID, biometrics, digital receipts, QR code shelf tags, digital signage and personalized offers.
- Oracle will host its annual Retail Exchange, bringing together international retail executives in a special program created to deliver high-value business content from NRF sessions and keynotes, engage speakers from leading companies including Sainsbury’s and Morrisons and provide exclusive store tours and events with North American retailers.
- Oracle also is sponsoring events tailored to Latin American retail executives attending NRF via Brazil retail organization Gouvea de Souza and the National Retailer’s Association of Mexico, ANTAD.
- Throughout the NRF conference, Oracle will provide retailers exclusive networking opportunities through small-group and peer discussions dedicated to unique retail segments including fashion, grocery, hardlines and emerging retailers.
- Retailers can follow Oracle’s presence at NRF at Oracle’s Insight-Driven Retailing Blog, Twitter/OracleRetail and by downloading the Oracle Now application for the iPhone and Android.
- Further information regarding Oracle’s complete, open and integrated solutions for retailers will be available throughout the show at the Oracle Booth #619.
Supporting Quotes
Andrea Morgan-Vandome, vice president of strategy and solution marketing, Oracle Retail, said, “Mobile commerce, retail science and a global marketplace have made this an exciting time for retailers. We look forward to sharing insights and showcasing new Oracle Retail solutions with our customers and retailers from around the world at this year’s NRF Annual.”
Supporting Resources
- Oracle at NRF
- Disney Super Session Keynote
- Join the Oracle Retail community on Facebook
- Insight-Driven Retailing Blog
- Oracle Retail YouTube Channel
- Follow Oracle Retail on Twitter
- Oracle Retail Customer Success
- Oracle in Retail
About Oracle Retail
Oracle helps retailers to redesign the customer experience, reinvigorate operational excellence and re-imagine growth. Oracle allows retailers to create a unified view of information and deliver economic value to the entire business, from store, planning and merchandising operations to financial operations, supply chain and logistics management. Oracle provides solutions to 20 of the top 20 retailers worldwide.
About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s most complete, open and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.
Trademarks
Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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One Group Selects Epicor to Drive Business Efficiencies and Support Growth
IRVINE, CA and SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, Dec 09, 2010 — Epicor Software Corporation (NASDAQ: EPIC), a leading provider of enterprise business software solutions for the midmarket and divisions of Global 1000 companies, today announced that Australian company One Group Retail Experience (One Group) has selected the award winning Epicor 9 next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to support its thriving retail fit-out and manufacturing business throughout Australia.
One Group works closely with some of Australia’s largest and most dynamic retailers including Specsavers, The Just Group, Sportsgirl, The Lew Group, Telstra and Bankwest to create innovative and effective retail fit-outs and solutions, both in Australia and overseas. Headquartered in Melbourne with approximately 300 employees, One Group also operates two retail-manufacturing facilities located on the east and west coast of Australia. One Group’s extensive knowledge of the retail industry and innovative business approach focusing on R&D, prototyping and value engineering, sets it apart from competitors.
Formerly comprised of four businesses — Australasian Retail Projects, JRB Shopfitting, Focus Shopfitters, and FINN — One Group has grown to become Australia’s largest retail fit-out group. Following the company’s merger, One Group recognized an inherent need to streamline and consolidate all business and IT processes across its four distinct business units. The company required a centralized ERP platform with the flexibility and strength to provide a single point of accountability for all key business systems including: financials, CRM, project and inventory management, among others.
Following an extensive tender and evaluation process, which saw the company review eight competing ERP systems in the market, One Group selected Epicor largely due to the full portfolio of business software solutions it offered, which will provide the scalability and flexibility it needs to meet key business challenges and opportunities.
Commenting on the deal, Ian Gamble, CEO, One Group, said, “Epicor was selected for a number of reasons. Not only does it share a similar business culture to our own through its focus on innovation and world-class service; the centralised nature of Epicor’s ERP system and the cutting-edge technology on which it is based, means we can now have one point of truth across all business processes.”
Craig Charlton, senior vice president of Asia Pacific operations for Epicor, said, “It is very encouraging to see leading Australian companies such as One Group reaping the benefits of Epicor’s world-class integrated ERP software. We are confident that the flexibility and breadth of the Epicor platform will support One Group with its continued growth and ongoing success.”
About One Group Retail Experience
One Group Retail Experience is Australia’s largest retail fit-out group. It creates effective retail fit-outs and solutions for clients ranging from ‘big box’ retailers to fashion chains, and financial institutions to health care providers. One Group Retail Experience works with national retailers in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Its extensive network covers more than 80% of that of our clients, providing a truly national infrastructure. The One Group’s reputation for delivering national projects with speed, efficiency and personalised service means that no matter where a retail project is located, One Group Retail Experience is also there. For more information visit: www.onegroupretail.com.
About Epicor Software Corporation
Epicor Software (NASDAQ: EPIC) is a global leader delivering business software solutions to the manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality and services industries. With 20,000 customers in over 150 countries, Epicor provides integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM) and enterprise retail software solutions that enable companies to drive increased efficiency and improve profitability. Founded in 1984, Epicor takes pride in more than 25 years of technology innovation delivering business solutions that provide the scalability and flexibility businesses need to build competitive advantage. Epicor provides a comprehensive range of services with a single point of accountability that promotes rapid return on investment and low total cost of ownership, whether operating business on a local, regional or global scale. The Company’s worldwide headquarters are located in Irvine, California with offices and affiliates around the world. For more information, visit www.epicor.com.
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Epicor is a registered trademark of Epicor Software Corporation. Other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners. The product and service offerings depicted in this document are produced by Epicor Software Corporation.
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