In retail, it's all about lowering costs, streamlining supply chains, and improving margins. To do all this, a reliable and secure operating system is crucial. Our SUSE LinuxServers will empower retailers to leverage Linux and open source and deliver a high performance foundation.

With choosy consumers, changing market trends, and globalizing market footprints and supply chains, the Retail world is in a constant state of flux. To succeed, retailers must be agile, in order to cater to the needs of culturally and demographically diverse populations while creating a differentiated value proposition. To ensure they receive excellent service, you need to optimize your IT systems through applications that enhance product sales, assess which products are (or aren't) selling, verify the effects of special offers, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, cooperate seamlessly with partners and suppliers, and equip managers with relevant information and tools. To do all this, a reliable and secure operating system is crucial. In retail, it's all about lowering costs, streamlining supply chains, and improving margins.

Key features:

• Centralized administration and deployment tools.
• Support for network boot and diskless operation.
• Combined branch server/point-of-service image for small stores.
• Support for retail point-of-service hardware.
• Improve profit margins through a low total cost of ownership.
• Strong security to prevent data loss on the system.
• Enjoy high reliability to keep the point-of-service systems up.
• Have Multiple stores in distributed locations without local IT staff.
• Rapid move to reach new customers through the Internet.
• New technologies (such as RFID) that create opportunities and disruptive changes.
• Competition from very large global companies (with huge economies of scale) and smaller companies (nimbler, faster to react to market changes);
• Increase integration of companies with suppliers and partners.