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Africa's Biggest Food Retailer Gains Reliability, Full Network Compliance

whitepaper The Shoprite Group, Africa's leading food retailer, is using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. How does one keep desktop computers, kiosks, and servers consistent and up-to-date when thousands of them are spread across...

Tags: monitoring systems

[16 May 2008]

Korean Fashion and Discount Retailer Deploys 4 Terabyte Database on SQL Server 2005

whitepaper Based in Seoul, Korea, E.Land Group's Retail Division has become a major force in fashion and discount retailing, partly through its expertise in brand management and merchandising. E.Land Group has four product lines that it sells through 93 of...

Tags: monitoring systems

[16 May 2008]

Tesco Develops Online Ordering System That Processes 5,000 Orders Per Hour

whitepaper Since 1996, United Kingdom retailer Tesco PLC has seen a rapid increase in the number of its customers and has added many nonfood products and services to its catalog. To accommodate this growth, Tesco created the Tesco Direct service and built a...

Tags: application servers

[16 May 2008]

IBM and Pay by Touch Make Checking Out at Thriftway Supermarkets a Soft Touch

whitepaper In May 2004, Thriftway Supermarkets became the first grocery retailer in the United States to install a payment system using biometrics. Thriftway Supermarkets wanted to provide top level customer service, reduce fraud in electronic payments and...

Tags: customer support services

[16 May 2008]

IBM and MarCole Use 21st Century Technology to Speed Sales of Products Handmade in 19th Century Farmhouse

whitepaper MacKenzie-Childs wanted to set up a state-of-the-art, Web-based gift registry system for a retailer with limited IT resources. As a solution the company deployed MarCole Independent Retailer Edition of Gift RegistryWorks backed by IBM e-business...

Tags: infrastructure management

[15 May 2008]

TJ Hughes buys into email to slash admin costs

News The technology provides managers at the retailer's 49 stores around the country with a central digital repository where they can pick up information about fast-selling ranges or merchandising changes on a daily basis.

Tags: tj hughes, email, vodat

[14 May 2008]

Internet Retailer Cuts IT Costs, Increases Order Capacity With E-Commerce Solution

whitepaper Now, the retailer has increased its order capacity, resulting in higher revenue, and cut server hosting and managed service costs by U.S.annually. Miles Kimball Company offers cards, gifts, and household items through several mail-order and online...

Tags: application servers

[14 May 2008]

Reap the Benefits of PCI Compliance: Why Payment Card Security Should Be a Retailer's Top Priority

whitepaper Despite five years and two deadlines, just 20 percent of level one merchants (6 million+ annual transactions) and an estimated 2 percent of lower-volume merchants have fully complied with cardholder data security standards issued by the card...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is to sell 50 per cent of its retail business to US retail giant Best Buy for £1.1bn - and plans to use the cash to grow its broadband business. Carphone Warehouse, which operates the 'free' broadband brand...

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

Integrated Solution Simplifies Management, Improves Protection of Client Devices

whitepaper Paul Smith, a designer and retailer of clothing and luxury goods, wanted a client security solution that would be easier to manage. The current solution had to be maintained separately, which conflicted with the company goal of a more streamlined...

Tags: security tools

[07 May 2008]

PCI Compliance: Low Risk, High Reward

whitepaper The public relations costs alone of repairing the damage done to a retailer's reputation can be catastrophically high - and even at that, the customer loyalty that was lost may never be regained. In today's economy, the biggest threat to a retailer...

Tags: security standards

[06 May 2008]

The Responsive Retailer: Boosting Sales by Providing Store Customers with the Information and Experience They Expect

whitepaper For hundreds of years, retail success has been built on one basic concept: merchandise in the right place, at the right time, at the right price. But customers want to add a killer element to that list of success factors -- communication, and two...

Tags: call center - contact

[05 May 2008]

Online Retailer Adopts Software-Plus-Services to Connect With Customers

whitepaper Play.com is the fourth largest online retailer in the United Kingdom.the company has been investigating new ways to interact with its customers. Attracted by the opportunity to integrate Windows Live services and rich application programming...

Tags: infrastructure management

[03 May 2008]

AutoNation Achieves Backups 12 Times Faster, Cuts Costs With New Backup Software

whitepaper Leading automotive retailer AutoNation watched its data expand as rapidly as its car sales. When its data stores hit 15 terabytes, the company could no longer back up all of its data in a 24-hour period.

Tags: network disaster recovery, backup, file, backups

[03 May 2008]

ABCs of RFID: Understanding and Using Radio Frequency Identification

whitepaper Adoption of this Automatic Data-Collection (ADC) technology has recently been fueled by the establishment of key standards, retailer and government mandates, improved technology performance and falling implementation costs.

Tags: rfid, rfid, standards, adopted

[01 May 2008]

Harrods makes a tech-savvy exhibition of itself

News The retailer said this is initially a trial of the technology but it will look at rolling the system out further depending on results. Harrods is using cutting-edge mobile technology to promote a new exhibition at its famous department store in...

Tags: barcode, camera, qr, mobile

[25 Apr 2008]

Tesco to launch iTunes challenger

News A Tesco spokesman added the music download service isn't intended to go up against iTunes specifically, but is more about making the retailer a player in the market. Tesco Digital will initially offer all of the tracks in Window Media format with...

Tags: mp3, online, digital music, itunes

[15 Apr 2008]

Wal-Mart Expands RFID Plans

whitepaper After meeting with its top 300 suppliers, the U.S.s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores, will expand its RFID roll-out faster than expected. Wal-Mart has been working towards a self-imposed January 2005 deadline to RFID-enable its North Texas...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, suppliers, rfid, mart

[10 Apr 2008]

Hitachi Storage at Work Case Study: NorgesGruppen

whitepaper NorgesGruppen is the largest food retailer in Norway. The company recently implemented a new computer system, which supports all of the companies within the group. The new system processes some 100,000 order lines every hour.

Tags: storage management, demands, lightning, implemented

[10 Apr 2008]

Home Depot Builds Solid IT Foundation - With Hitachi Freedom Storage "Thunder 9200"

whitepaper Atlanta-based Home Depot is the world's largest do-it-yourself retailer. Over the past two decades, the warehouse-style vendor has undergone rapid growth, expanding operations across the U.S.and seven Canadian provinces.

Tags: sans, hitachi, hitachi data systems, data systems

[10 Apr 2008]

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