Key Benefits

• Revenue growth — Analyze customer buying patterns and streamline frequent shopper application processing to create compelling customer experiences.

• Operational efficiency — Consolidate information, back up data from remote stores, reduce shrinkage, and protect your company’s assets — at an affordable price point.

• Customer information privacy — Comply with regulations including Payment Card Industry (PCI) and Sarbanes-Oxley, while protecting customer and corporate data from unauthorized access.

• Supplier and partner management — Install the scalable, flexible, IP-based infrastructure you need to collaborate across today’s global supply chains and partner networks.

• Promotional programs — Automate marketing resource management, streamline promotion workflow, consistently brand your portals and websites — and rise above the competition.

Solutions

Merchandising and Marketing

• Data Analytics Infrastructure — Analyze retail data and conduct trend analysis, with support for SQL Server, NCR/Teradata, Oracle, Cognos, SAS, Brio, and others.

• Frequent Shopper Application Processing — Digitally capture and process new frequent shopper applications, prevent lost applications and better understand your customers.

• Enterprise Marketing — Ensure the availability of your critical IT services through visibility, control, and automation across infrastructure including applications, servers, networks, and storage.

• Web Publishing — Standardize, control, and optimize content across multiple websites, while maintaining each retail brand's unique identity.

• Oracle Data Warehouse — Benefit from EMC’s library of implementation examples as well as best practices for migrations and upgrades to get the most from your Oracle data warehouse.

Store Operations

• EMC Physical Security Solutions for Retail — Capture and consolidate images from your video surveillance at the store level or enterprise level.

• Point of Sale (POS) with Integrated Enterprise Data Protection and Management — Reduce the cost of protecting your retail business information from inadvertent or malicious attack.

• Microsoft Solution Suite — Optimize and configure your Microsoft technologies, including Exchange, Office, SQL Server, and SharePoint, to get the most out of your information infrastructure.

Security and Compliance

• Information-centric Security Solutions for Retail — Bring identity assurance and access control, encryption and key management, compliance and security information management, and fraud protection to all your retail operations.

• Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Compliance — Satisfy auditors and your credit card partner brands, comply with mandatory PCI Data Security Standards (DSS) requirements, and prevent data breaches.

• Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance — Meet Sarbanes-Oxley 404 accounting regulations more efficiently.

Information Infrastructure

• Affordable Disaster Recovery for Retailers — Deploy proven replication methods to ensure that your company always has access to its most critical information.

• Consolidation and Virtualization for Retail — Consolidate and virtualize your retail IT infrastructure to boost efficiency and cut costs.

• Enterprise Application Archiving — Ensure that your Oracle/Retek, PeopleSoft, and other enterprise applications and data are archived and protected at all times.

• Remote Store Backup — Systematically save transactional and other operations data from each store to a centralized location.

• Performance and Optimization — Meet all your SAP-related service level agreements.