AST ESM, a division of the AST Group, has introduced an end-to-end retail suite of solutions that automate the distribution and management of software, applications and content that support virtually every aspect of corporate and in-store operations. Novadigm`s E-wrap Retail Suite allows retailers to increase IT service levels and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) through automated distribution and management of software and data files.
The new retail solution allows IT to balance the need for enterprise-wide standardisation with requirements for targeted deployments to stores in different geography and market segments.
"The retail industry is undergoing a major transformation," explains Geoff van den Bosch, MD of AST ESM and SA distributor for Novadigm. "Traditional brick-and-mortar retailers are using the Internet as a new sales channel, focusing on POS efficiency and introducing innovative technologies in the stores, while migrating corporate infrastructures to new operating platforms."
"With E-wrap Retail Suite, retailers now have the ability to rapidly deploy and extend their enterprise IT infrastructure to include corporate and in-store servers and PCs, mobile notebooks, POS devices, ATMs and Internet kiosks," continues van den Bosch.
The retail solution includes industrial-strength capabilities such as directory services, multicasting, security and remote store inventory data collection. These features enable IT administrators in retail organisations to automatically deliver and maintain highly customised software and content on a large scale never possible before.
In addition, the E-wrap Retail Suite automates collection of data such as inventory and sales results from individual stores enabling a small support staff to manage dispersed sites and diverse environments from a single location, with a single solution.
"The E-wrap Retail Suite is a proven set of reliable and scalable software management solutions which retail customers can mix and match to best suit their business model, infrastructure and technology environment," concludes van den Bosch.
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