Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Dell Delivers Tailored Retail Solutions for Small and Midsized Businesses

Dell today extended its Retail Solutions portfolio with comprehensive offerings that address the unique needs of small and midsized retailers.

Available now in the United States and expanding globally in the coming quarters, Dell has developed end-to-end retail solutions to help growing businesses manage explosive data growth, improve security and serve customers more efficiently. From the storefront to the back office, Dell Retail Solutions group works with retailers to design, implement, and support technology solutions that ease business pain points and draw greater value from technology investments.

For the storefront, Dell offers fully integrated point-of-sale (POS), digital signage and surveillance solutions. Back-office offerings make it easier for retailers to manage their growing data needs, stay in control and protect their business by focusing on four distinct infrastructure needs – storage and virtualization, systems management, security, and disaster recovery.

“Our customers are telling us the challenges of running an efficient retail store are changing, that hardware and software are not enough,” said Brian Slaughter, director of Dell Retail Solutions. “To help our customers stay competitive, we are building unique retail technology solutions that enable them to spend more time on what they do best – serving their customers.”

Software, Services & Support Catered to the Growing Business

Select Dell Retail Solutions also include critical consulting services and support designed specifically for retail.

Dell services for retailers affordably address key business problems with world class capabilities. As a primary service provider for the comprehensive retail solution, Dell offers:

  • Dell Retail Gold Support that provides both Dell branded and third party support, enabling customers to add retail solution components as needed.
  • Managed services include staging, deployment, and project management for the complete solution.
  • Dell consulting to help design and implement business continuity and virtualization, create Retail POS and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions using Dell’s All In Consulting Practice, payment card industry (PCI) auditing, compliance, and remediation services.

From talking directly with customers, Dell knows that retailers are challenged with integrating all the software they need into one system. From talking directly with customers, Dell knows that retailers are challenged with integrating all the software applications needed to run their business internally as well as throughout the supply chain. Dell is heralding retailers of all sizes into the future with secure, cloud support for application integration through newly acquired Boomi. Without requiring any additional hardware or software, Boomi integrates front-end and back-end applications and data sources, reducing the cost and complexity of integration for both internal and vendor applications. Also, with Dell KACE and SecureWorks, Dell is offering back-office support and security solutions that provide retailers remote management for POS terminals, cross-platform support and PCI compliance services.

In addition, Dell enables a broad ecosystem of pre-certified Retail Solutions combining independent software vendor (ISV) software with Dell hardware and services, removing direct sales barriers to customers via software certification and cooperative relationships between ISVs and Dell sales teams. For a list of current ISVs, check out the Dell Retail Solutions Center.

“Technology is critical to our success and the success of our customers,” said Kym Houden, founder and managing director of Task Retail Technology. “As one of one of Australia’s leading Point-of-Sale Software developers, Dell has worked with our team to ensure we’re able to supply the turnkey Retail Point-of-Sale Systems that allow our customers and our company to stay ahead of the competition.”

Microsoft Dynamics Custom-build for Small and Medium Business

Today, Dell is also announcing partnerships with Microsoft Dynamics and POSitive Technology. By working with Microsoft Dynamics, Dell customers gain direct access to the technical basis for a unique comprehensive retail management solution. On the consulting front, partnering with POSitive Technology provides implementation and consulting services for customers. With Dell, Microsoft and Positive Technology, retailers have a customized application that manages inventory, pricing, Point-of-Sale activities, purchasing, customer service, employee, and accounting information and the support needed to get up and running.

"Dell recognizes that powerful, end-to-end affordable solutions can enable small and medium sized retailers to build stronger and deeper relationships with their customers," said Doug Kennedy, vice president, Microsoft Dynamics Partners. "We are thrilled Dell chose to use Microsoft Dynamics solutions as the technology foundation for their retail offering.”

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About Dell

Dell Inc. listens to customers and delivers worldwide innovative technology, business solutions and services they trust and value. From the storefront to the back office, Dell Retail Solutions group works with retailers to design, implement, and support comprehensive solutions that ease business pain points and draw greater value from technology. For more information, visit www.dell.com.

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