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RSSVendors You Need To Visit — NRF 2008
November 30, 2007
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Vendors You Need To Visit — NRF 2008
Are you ready for NRF 2008? Retail Solutions Online is and wants to make sure you have as much information as possible to prepare you for the show. Retail Solutions Online has assembled its Vendors You Need To Visit feature to help you easily navigate one of the most important retail events of the year.
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Visit CAM Commerce at Booth 1247 CAM Commerce Solutions designs, develops, markets and services highly integrated retailing and payment processing solutions for small to medium size traditional and eCommerce businesses based on the company's open architecture software. These integrated solutions include inventory management, point of sale, accounting, credit and debit card processing, Internet sales, gift card and customer loyalty programs, and extensive management reporting. Payment processing services are provided on a transaction based business model. CAM offers a wide variety of products and services which address the automation needs of retailers and allows CAM to provide a "one source solution" for the small retailer. CAM offers its products on a direct sales and service basis with offices throughout the U.S. and has over 10,000 customers. CAM is the largest dedicated supplier of PC based retailing and e-tailing software solutions for small to medium-size retailers and the leading supplier of integrated payment processing solutions for this market. |
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Visit Celerant at Booth 123 Celerant
Command Retail is a real-time retail management system that
manages all areas of an organization including POS, Sales Office, Inventory
Management, Warehouse, Distribution Center, Allocation,
Multi-Channel/E-Commerce/Kiosk, Data Mining, and in a single, integrated system. |
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Visit DigiPoS at Booth 2405 The DigiPoS Store Solutions Group is a global business operating exclusively in the field of Retail Technology, Software and Support Services. With extensive experience across thousands of stores, DigiPoS has grown as a result of Retailer demand for its products and services, expanding to over $160 million operating revenues across 16 subsidiaries. The Group delivers technology solutions that support the demands of Retailers as they seek to achieve their own core business objectives. DigiPoS understands and reflects the nature of Retailing and its interaction with technology. In DigiPoS, those retailers have a true technology Partner capable of delivering across the retail technology spectrum. The business has established a reputation for innovation and value and has continued to meet the needs of top retailers such as NEXT, AAFES, Harrods, Game, Wickes, and Harvey Nichols. Active POS Software is the breakthrough SAAS application for the Retail estate delivering ultimate flexibility without the associated demands to the balance sheet. Enabling central configuration and deployment across the estate with full resilience and security, Active Store enables Retailers to focus fully on their core business. The service is built on an open platform to enable full integration with developing technologies and interaction with the new consumer. |
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Visit First Data at Booths 108 and 175
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Visit Lawson at Booth 412 Discover Simple, Scalable, and Adaptable ERP Solutions. For over 30 years, Lawson has served retailers and provided ERP solutions designed to simplify complex business processes and improve the operational performance of companies. We help you enhance your business performance, reduce costs, and simplify complex processes. Find out more at www.lawson.com. |
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Visit NCR at Booth 1327 NCR Corporation is a global technology company leading how the world connects, interacts and transacts with business. NCR's assisted- and self-service solutions and comprehensive support services address the needs of retail, financial, travel, healthcare, hospitality, gaming and public sector organizations in more than 100 countries.
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Visit Retail Anywhere at Booth 2255 Retail Anywhere is a leading developer of point of sale and retail management systems, supplying solutions to mid size retailers since 1981. Our integrated software suite is designed to manage the entire retail enterprise and includes solutions for Point of Sale, Mobile Point of Sale, Kiosk, Enterprise Management (inventory, merchandising, item & price maintenance, store maintenance, ordering, workforce, customer, loss prevention, business intelligence, and more) and Warehouse Management. |
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Visit Star Micronics at Booth 2417 Star Micronics — Always Leading — Always Innovating — Stop by and see how Wi-Fi, Powered USB, JavaPOS, OPOS, Windows, etc. support your POS system. With over 30 years of industry leading innovations, Star's full line of thermal and dot matrix printers and thermal rewritable card reader/writers meet the widest of retail applications including loyalty programs and are backed by superior features and support. Visit us during NRF at booth #2417. One of the world's largest printer manufacturers offers a full line of thermal and dot matrix printers and thermal rewritable card reader/writers which meet the widest of retail applications including loyalty programs. Retailers incorporate the logo store utility for coupons and graphic storage. Models available with serial, parallel, USB, Ethernet and Wi-Fi interfaces. Printers offer ultra high speed, "Drop-in & Print" paper loading, bar codes and cash drawer drivers. Optional wall & shelf mount brackets available. TSP700II Ultra High Speed Thermal Printer |
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Visit Tomax at Booth 419 Tomax Retail.net is the leading software for chain retail, delivering real-time information that helps store managers connect the dots across the Demand-Driven Retail Continuum. Retail.net encompasses merchandise planning, in-season merchandising, merchandise management, as well as store operations, workforce and customer management. Tomax offers integration with existing solutions and application hosting services. The Demand-Driven Retail Continuum: Connecting The Dots Between People And Processes Tomax emphasizes "connecting the dots" across the demand-driven retail continuum because, over 20 years working exclusively with retailers, we've noticed the pervasive disconnect between people and processes. Implementing disparate solutions often fails to improve cooperation, communication, and productivity. This paper demonstrates the ways simplification produces business value - and competitive advantage - from your technology investment. |
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Visit Epicor|CRS at Booth 545 Epicor|CRS Retail Solutions Division is the leader in software and services for the real-time retailer who demands proven, integrated, full-featured, scalable and global solutions. Our solutions include Point-of-sale, Merchandising, Cross Channel Order Management, Returns Management, Loss Prevention, Sales Audit, Learning solutions, 24x7x365 help desk, re-distribution center and other managed and professional services. We provide solutions to more than 140 of today's top speciality retailers with over 100,000 installations in 10 languages. Visit our booth and test drive the latest technologies! Demo our solutions for a chance to win a weekend in a hot car. RetailStore — POS Software CRS RetailStore™ is a feature-rich store system that empowers store personnel to provide a better customer experience and more effectively manage a chain of integrated stores. RetailStore provides a comprehensive transaction set for use on a variety of hardware platforms. It is customizable to meet your requirements, while ensuring transaction integrity, ease of use, and performance. |
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Visit Source Technologies at Booth 779 Source Technologies, the market leader in transactional kiosks will be introducing a new line of multi-function interactive kiosks that are engineered to support a broad range of retail applications including price checking, store mapping, digital signage, gift registry and coupon printing and many more. And, the flexible design and field-installable peripherals provide a cost effective means for the addition of applications in future. This unrivaled versatility provides our clients with ongoing economic value and significant competitive advantages. We invite you to stop by booth 779 to learn more about Source Technologies and to see how our interactive solutions can benefit your company. |
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Visit Raymark at Booth 2049 Raymark is a global provider of integrated retail solutions. With a global customer base of approximately 15 000 users of the Xpert-Series™ suite, Raymark offers both a consultative approach to each project and flexible applications to accommodate your detailed requirements. Operating in a real-time centralized environment, Xpert-Series™ is offered as an integrated suite or as individual components to complete a best-of-breed retail solution. Raymark's dedication to ongoing research and development ensures that you will benefit from the latest technology. |
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Visit Pitney Bowes MapInfo at Booth 870 Whether you are a fledgling retail chain, global behemoth or anywhere in-between, Pitney Bowes MapInfo has the services, software and data to help you make better location intelligence decisions. We can help you implement a more proactive, efficient, and defensible real estate strategy that is based on factual insights into your customers, stores and markets. With a global staff of over 300 dedicated retail consultants, we have local knowledge, world-wide, that we can leverage to meet your site location research and predictive analytics needs. Visit us at booth #870 at the NRF Big Show to learn more about our Predictive Analytics Services, Market Optimization Models, AnySite® software, advanced Demographics, and PSYTE® Advantage lifestyle segmentation system. |
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Visit Certegy at Booth 1237 Certegy Check Services (NYSE:FIS) delivers the payment acceptance tools that help businesses connect with their customers. A proven leader in electronic check conversion, settlement solutions, payroll check cashing and collection services, we maintain operations in 9 countries, supporting more than 396,000 merchant locations worldwide. |
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Visit Infor at Booth 877 Infor delivers business-specific software to enterprising organizations. With experience built in, Infor's solutions enable businesses of all sizes to be more enterprising and adapt to the rapid changes of a global marketplace. Infor offers a full range of enterprise business software including CRM, EAM, FM, HCM, PM, and SCM software. To meet customers' long-term needs, Infor Open SOA provides an evolutionary path to support continuing business and technology innovation. |
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Visit Epson at Booth 1913 For more than 30 years, Epson has delivered industry-leading technology solutions for the world's leading retailers. From its advanced printing technology to its 99.9% MICR accuracy to digital check scanning and ID imaging to digital marketing and mobile printing, Epson leads the way in highly-reliable open architecture products that reduce operating costs, minimize fraud, lower TCO and bring revolutionary new functionality to the point of sale. Epson has been rated #1 in POS peripherals in both the RIS and VSR 2006 and 2007 Leaderboards. |
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Visit Compliance Networks at Booth 1751 Since 1999, Compliance Networks has offered a best-in-class vendor compliance optimization and supplier performance management solution (rCMS) that enables retail enterprises to make more informed supply chain decisions. rCMS provides actionable visibility into supply chain data, recovering lost sales opportunity costs and improving supply chain flow and order planning. rCMS provides performance accountability for all supply chain stakeholders, and predictability that supports more profitable ordering decisions and merchandising plan execution. Compliance Networks automates key processes related to vendor compliance and collaboration including: scorecards, chargeback management, vendor certification, and supply chain alerts in support of retail specific distribution management best practices. Compliance Networks enables retailers to realize quantifiable results in a short period of time, translating directly to increased shareholder value. Compliance Networks Presents the Retail Distribution Management Solution, the result of a successful retailer partnership to develop and implement a new paradigm among retail distribution solutions. rDMS is a retail-centric solution that is designed to optimize merchandise flow, speed, and flexibility for any size retailer in any distribution environment. Retail and manufacturing distribution needs are fundamentally different. |
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Visit Hypercom Corporation at Booth 2837 Global payment technology leader Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC) delivers a full suite of high security, end-to-end electronic payment products and services. The company's solutions address the high security electronic transaction needs of banks and other financial institutions, processors, large scale retailers, smaller merchants, quick service restaurants, and users in the transportation, healthcare, prepaid, unattended and many other markets. Hypercom solutions enable businesses in more than 100 countries to securely expand their revenues and profits. L4150 The Optimum L4150 is Hypercom's PCI PED online and offline approved, high-performance multi-lane payment and advertising terminal. Easy to use and attractive at the same time, using Hypercom's innovative, dual-sided, bi-directional magnetic stripe reader means your customers won't have to deal with frustrating fumbles. In fact, you get accurate card data reads well beyond normal swipe-speeds so you can reduce lanes slowdowns and cashier interactions. |
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Visit IBM at Booths 2573 and 1744 Interact with savvy customers in new ways and places. Cell phones, mobile point-of-sale, ultra-compact kiosks and other self service options can unleash your brand in innovative new ways. Put your customer in control — anyplace, anytime — and create lasting relationships and more sales. See how the self-directed shopping experience can be delivered today. Anyplace Kiosk With IBM Anyplace Kiosk solutions, customers can have instant access to information, special services and e-business transactions—no matter where they are in your store. As a result, retailers can exert powerful influence over purchasing decisions. |
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Visit Hewlett Packard at Booths 274, 278, and 842 As a global leader in information technology, HP applies new thinking and ideas to deliver simpler, more valuable experiences with technology. Our goal is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work. HP integrates sophisticated technology into products and services that are easy to use and manage, offering functionalities to meet virtually any need of our customers - from individual consumers to the largest enterprises. Customers spend less time thinking about technology and more time focusing on what really matters to them. HP delivers experiences that are truly valuable and trusted because our people, partners and portfolio of products and services help our customers achieve results that count. Our heritage of quality and reliability combined with our commitment to long lasting relationships gives our customers the confidence they need to accomplish their goals. rp5700 Point Of Sale System The HP rp5700 Point of Sale System gives you a flexible point-of-sale platform that can go from the front of the store to the back office with a retail-hardened design that is relevant today and beyond to help maximize your business results. |
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Visit Experian at Booth 2717 U.S. consumers spend over $25 billion daily. Global spending is five times that. At Experian Business Strategies, our mission is to help you enjoy the great business opportunities that such spending creates. We have tools to gather vital information, solutions to help you turn information into insight, and practical strategies to use insight to grow your business. We understand consumers and business. Utilizing best-in-class technology solutions, including Prediction, FootFall, Mosaic and Micromarketer G3, we are a global leader in providing analytics and information to manage the risks and rewards of commercial and financial decisions. As part of Experian, the largest data aggregator in the world, we access demographic, financial and behavioral data on over 95% of all individuals and 98% of all households in the U.S. and information on over 16 million businesses. Experian is a global leader in providing analytical and information services to organizations and consumers to help manage the risk and reward of commercial and financial decisions. FootFall: Traffic Counting FootFall is your comprehensive customer traffic and information services solution - in fact we count more than 6 billion people a year worldwide. With FootFall, we accurately assess customer conversion rates and align staffing with customer flows to help our clients to increase store profitability, increase levels of customer service, improve productivity of store sales staff, assess the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, and empower store managers to make decisions in near real time. |
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Visit JDA at Booths 828 and 129 JDA® Software Group, Inc. is focused on helping companies realize real supply chain and revenue management results -- fast. Through its industry leading solutions, leading manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and services companies around the world are growing their businesses with greater predictability and more profitably. JDA Solutions Overview Real People. Real Innovation. Real Results. Linking talent, technology, and vision to enable real demand chain results JDA has solidified a unique marketplace position, in that only JDA can offer a complete, supply and demand chain industry specialized suite with the depth and breadth of capabilities necessary for enabling the Customer-Driven Value Chain — starting with one view of demand. One view of demand that drives each plan within an enterprise and across the extended value chain, synchronizing decisions by all stakeholders from manufacturing through distribution to the retail shelf. |
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Visit MMF Cash Drawer at Booth 1543 MMF Cash Drawer is the leading supplier of cash drawers and accessories to POS/Retail distributors and OEM manufacturers of POS systems. MMF's recent innovations include field upgradeable interfaces that extend cash drawer life and lower the cost of cash drawer ownership and easy to service integrated peripheral platforms. Cash Drawer pcCashdrawer MMF's new pcCashdrawer combines the best of class MediaPLUS™ cash drawer with a compact, fanless, industrial grade PC in a 17" W x 20" D package. Features include:
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Visit Netkey at Booths 2641 and 2660 Netkey is a leading provider of software for the deployment and operation of self-service kiosks and digital signage. The Netkey software platform is the technology foundation for the successful design, deployment and optimization of scalable, reliable and integrated applications delivered to customers and employees on kiosks and digital signs in retail stores, banks, hotels, casinos, airports, or any other business location. Netkey Software Platform For Digital Signage Netkey is the industry-standard software platform for the creation, monitoring, management and control of self-service applications and content delivered through kiosks, digital signs, PC terminals and other retail devices. Unlike generic development tools and network management software, Netkey is purpose-built for the operation of in-store devices, and is designed to address the unique issues encountered in these customer and employee-facing deployments. |
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Visit Oracle at Booths 301, 177, 179, and 181 Oracle partners with the world's leading retail companies to transform the economics of their business. From supply chain, operations, merchandising, store systems, optimization and information technology solutions, Oracle Retail is the single source for innovative and comprehensive industry solutions — enabling organizations to serve their customers better by applying insight into daily business decisions for more profitable results. Advanced Inventory Planning Oracle Advanced Inventory Planning is a market-leading enterprise solution, made for retailers who have constant replenishment inventories to manage. This intuitive and collaborative solution ensures synchronization with suppliers and market demand to increase stock availability and boost sales. With Oracle's solution, retailers will see a reduction in inventory holding while increasing overall service levels, and while improving on the metric of GMROI. For more information about Oracle Retail, please go to: www.oracle.com/retail. Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at www.oracle.com. |
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Visit Prodco at Booth 2337 Prodco International is the leading global provider of people counting solutions. With over 20,000 installations world wide, we supply discreet, cost effective systems from infrared beam to advanced thermal imaging technology. Our multi-platform software seamlessly integrates POS, staffing and traffic data ensuring data availability on demand. Our solutions are helping retailers in 35 countries increase productivity through conversion rate measurement, sales performance and marketing effectiveness. RTC9000 Real Time Traffic Counter The RTC9000™ delivers precise data on customer entrance and exit activity as well as system status data in real-time. RTC9000 is defined by a high level of reliability, data integrity, high speed processing components, remote system management, real-time status indicators and alerts. |
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Visit Telsource at Booth 2343 Telsource provides total store network care for multi-location retailers nationwide. Optimize your store infrastructure with flexible installation, maintenance, cabling and monitoring solutions for wall-to-wall coverage of voice, data, POS and other store systems. Telsource's LVS 3200 Interactive System takes self-service and in-store customer assistance to a whole new level. LVS 3200 Interactive System: Interactive Kiosk The new LVS 3200 takes self-service and in-store customer assistance to a whole new level. LVS 3200 combines traditional self-service functionality with integrated voice and sound to provide and all-in-one interactive kiosk and IP telephony solution that will revolutionize your store. Integrated speakers and microphone enable you to integrate voice capabilities into existing applications or build new applications that provide un-rivaled customer service. |
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Visit TPG at Booth 2443 TPG is a major supplier of thermal and thermal/impact hybrid transaction printers, serving retail, banking and hospitality businesses. Their product line features the Model A776 printer, the industry's first fully featured hybrid printer with a footprint under 73 square. TPG's ReceiptWare™ Receipt Marketing Software makes every receipt a marketing tool without changing the POS application. Transaction Printer Group (TPG) is headquartered in Lincolnshire, IL and is a wholly owned subsidiary of ATSI Holdings, Inc. A799 Receipt Printer The A799 is the latest receipt printing innovation from TPG. It offers a combination of features and performance that are unmatched in the market today. The A799 is designed with versatility and convenience in mind. The printer offers Monochrome or Two-Color printing settings, a small footprint, easy paper loading and sizable flash memory for stored logos, graphics and barcodes. TPG's new installation CD gives the choice of fast and easy basic installation or sophisticated custom installation options. |
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Visit Traf-Sys at Booth 460 Traffic Systems works with retailer clients to help them achieve higher profits through management of their foot traffic, and its relationship to overall operations. Our systems measure your traffic and assess conversion rates, staffing efficiency, and the impact of advertising and event marketing. Our detection solutions feature wireless connectivity, and active infrared and thermal imaging sensors for the highest counting accuracy. Our VisitorCount Software features scalable SQL database structures for easy integration with your POS system. Every report function is internet browser-based, and can be set to automatically generate reports according to your schedule. Our technical team provides nationwide service, installation, daily diagnostics, and custom programming. If your firm is asking questions such as "how many real opportunities did we have this week?", or "is our staff mix optimized for the traffic numbers we are getting?", then you may be surprised to learn that you CAN find answers. Contact us to learn how other retailers have benefited from using Traffic System solutions. VisiCount Foot Traffic Analysis Software Traf-Sys VisiCount Software is designed to provide a flexible, interactive platform to get the foot traffic information you need quickly and accurately. The goal is to provide all the traffic-related information you need to support business decisions that will positively impact your profits. |
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Visit VeriFone at Booths 2631 and 2681 VeriFone, Inc. is the leading provider of payment technology worldwide. Our 25 year track record of providing integrated payment solutions is based on developing innovative and reliable products and services which solve customer problems. Our solutions enable retailers to accept fast secure electronic payments wherever the transactions occur. RIS news ranked VeriFone as one of the top four providers of POS Peripherals. MX870 Price Checker The MX870 Price Checker offers powerful price checker capabilities in a compact package. Brilliant full color full motion graphics attract customers or can be used for in-store promotions. The omni-directional linear scanner offers superior read rates designed for ease of use by consumers. Price information as well as additional product information can be displayed to the consumer. |
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Visit Agilence at Booth 1319 Agilence is the leading solutions provider in the retail, transportation, national defense, and gaming industries by delivering digital video, point of sale transaction monitoring and license plate recognition systems. Agilence Teams with IBM for Retail Analytics Solutions The integration of IBM and Agilence technology, allows retailers to capitalize on IBM's mature retail technologies and extract maximum value from the industry leading event-based video analytics provider Agilence allows retail management for both regional retailers and multi-national chains to accurately identify and reduce shrink at the point-of-sale, pinpoint operational problems, expedite compliance audits, identify training issues to substantially increase store productivity. Current Agilence customers are generating immediate increases in apprehensions (often doubling or tripling their counseling and termination rates) and more importantly, long-term improvements in productivity and shrink, resulting in tremendous return on investment and improved bottom line. Agilence StoreVision |
