Supplier News

  1. Case Study: Anna's Linen's 3/26/2008
    Anna’s Linens, a leader in discount bedding, bath and home decor, needed a better way to connect its nationwide locations to a credit card processing system. New Edge Networks implemented a managed private network that speeds POS transactions and also improves efficiency through inventory control and sales reporting
  2. Case Study: Airport Wireless 3/26/2008
    Airport Wireless, a combined concept retailer with Palm Inc., sells mobile electronic devices in major airports across the country. With a broadband network from New Edge, the retailer gained the power to give its customers faster service and support other business-critical functions such as inventory control. New Edge also enabled Airport Wireless to meet PCI/CISP standards for transaction security
  3. The Skinny On Network Provider SLAs 3/26/2008
    A service-level agreement (SLA) is a contract that stipulates performance metrics for the service a communications provider delivers to its customers. While SLAs can be useful for holding a provider accountable for such service levels as network availability and restoration after downtime, it is important to understand their true value as well as their limitations
  4. Case Study: Walters-Dimmick Petroleum 3/25/2008
    Walters-Dimmick Petroleum operates a chain of convenience stores and quick-service restaurants in the Midwest. New Edge built a broadband network that improved several key business-critical functions: communications between Walters-Dimmick’s locations and the flow of applications such as real-time sales information and pricing updates
  5. Yoshinoya West, Inc. Selects Radiant Systems'End-To-End Solution 3/12/2008
    Radiant Systems, Inc., a leading provider of innovative technology to the retail and hospitality industries, announced an agreement with Yoshinoya West, Inc. to implement its end-to-end point-of-sale and back office solutions.
  6. E-Waste: The Greening Of Retail 3/11/2008
    Did you know that we in the IT Industry are creating waste, E-Waste, at a rate of 4 times other waste? In 2007 alone, we created over 12 million tons of the stuff just here in the US. This material contains significant amounts of toxic or hazardous materials like heavy metals, brominated compounds and polyvinyl chlorides which leach toxins into the soil and ultimately into our ground water. Submitted by Mainstreet, Inc.
  7. Funding LP Research By Jack Trlica, editor & publisher of LossPrevention Magazine 3/10/2008
    Sitting in a London pub recently with Walter Palmer, Adrian Beck, and Read Hayes (with his new wife, Denise) discussing the world of loss prevention over fish and chips and a few pints was a pleasant experience. The breadth of industry experience sitting around the table included LP management, consulting, solutions provider, and academics. Submitted by LossPrevention Magazine
  8. Wanted: Strategic Visionary By Cathy Hotka, retail technology marketing consultant 3/10/2008
    Wanted: Chief Information Officer. Prefer MBA and CPA. Successful candidate will have experience creating strategic growth opportunities in retail and wholesale environments. Fluency in Spanish and marketing experience necessary.
  9. The Time Is Now! By Gene Smith, VP of The Loss Prevention Foundation 3/7/2008
    For years, many of us have dreamed about what is currently happening in our industry. Never before in the history of retail loss prevention has any organization ever attempted to develop an industry-wide certification program and a professional membership organization. It takes a tremendous amount of time, money, determination and involvement from retailers and vendors to successfully accomplish such a feat.
  10. Business Intelligence: Manthan Systems' ARC Provides Enterprise BI Scalability For Woolworth 3/5/2008
    Woolworth managed its analytic needs using an internally architected data warehouse, along with a leading generic BI software. Since deployment, Woolworth frequently changed the data warehouse design and architecture in order to tactically meet immediate and changing reporting needs. The complexity and dynamism of Woolworth’s business was placing an increasing strain on the existing business intelligence platform. Woolworth selected ARC as its enterprise BI-DW solution of choice. ARC’s retail data model and retail data warehousing architecture gave Woolworth a better underlying design that maintained architectural integrity and robustness as its business and data volumes grew. Submitted by Manthan Systems