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March 25, 2008
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Over time, as a retail chain grows (and contracts), through a combination of organic growth and acquisition, its underlying IT infrastructure becomes more and more complex, as numerous point solutions, application integrations, bolt-ons and systems of all kinds strain under their combined weight -- ultimately bringing IT to a point of decreased value to the business.
These are the bad hair days of IT. At the very time when IT needs to be lean and mean, flexible and agile, all too often it's a coagulated mass of systems and questionable data against an onslaught of users wanting (and needing) tools to gain competitive advantage in an increasingly difficult retail environment.
This isn't an overstatement. Having been in and out of retail environments over 20 years, I can count on a few fingers the number retailers that have been able to avoid multiple item masters, duplicate and redundant data, the complexity and cost of which sucks energy, time and money out of a retail organization.
Click Here To Download:•White Paper: Four Key Steps To Reduce Your IT Costs By 50%
