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July 9, 2019 7:52 pm

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Shop “New In”

A Connected Customer Retail Experience from Tech Mahindra and SUSE The customer is king – so the saying goes, and never more so than it is today. Ever gone shopping recently? You will have noticed that your shopping habits are not like those of your parents’. Mobile phones and other digital devices have changed the […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, IT Infrastructure Management, News, Partners, Retail, SUSE Manager

By: Abhinav Puri

May 29, 2018 4:25 pm

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Enabling the point of service environment of a modern retailer

The plethora of challenges confronting the retailers, in this post-Amazon era, have made it incumbent upon these retailers to transform their business models, in order to generate sustainable growth. Customer preferences and shopping behavior have been evolving at a frantic pace. This new channel-agnostic customer expects the shopping experience to be personalized and seamless across […]

Categories: Configuration Management, Digital Transformation, IT Infrastructure Management, News, Solutions, SUSE Embedded, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, SUSE Manager, SUSE News

By: Abhinav Puri

November 6, 2017 10:22 am

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SUSE Manager for Retail – The future of managing your point of service environment

The retail IT infrastructure is a very peculiar environment to manage, particularly with regards to the point of service (POS) devices. By its very nature, the retail business is characterized by a multitude of end point devices spread across diverse geographical locations, with the IT admins always vying for centralized management of their point of […]

Categories: Announcements, Desktop, Enterprise Linux, IT Infrastructure Management, News, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, SUSE Manager

By: Michael Tabron

August 14, 2017 3:40 pm

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Coop Group Improves Customer Satisfaction with SAP HANA on SUSE Linux and IBM Power

Coop Group is an international retailer who needed to be more agile and responsive to customer requirements for a more flexible shopping experience. To accomplish this, Coop Group wanted near real-time access to important business data. They were already collecting business data in SAP HANA Business Warehouse appliances, but chose to migrate these systems to […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM Power Systems, Technical Solutions

By: SUSE

December 19, 2016 3:56 pm

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Future-proofing Retail Point of Service Through 64-bit Image Support

In today’s fast-paced retail industry, it’s imperative to keep up with the latest evolving hardware. Not being able to keep up with the pace of change translates into lost business. As more retail Point of Service (POS) solutions are being built using SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service as a base, […]

Categories: Announcements, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, Technical Solutions

By: chabowski

December 19, 2016 8:28 am

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Building Images for 64-bit POS Devices with the New SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service Image Server

It´s this time of the year again for retailers – Christmas season is putting them under huge pressure. And even though IT budgets for retail environments have been on the rise again during the past years, many departments are still saddled with an outdated hodgepodge of systems, licensing fees, maintenance and multi-year roll-outs. […]

Categories: Enterprise Linux, Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, Technical Solutions

By: k2sherman

September 21, 2016 12:00 pm

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Can I have one of those?

If you are a retailer, you are considering or have implemented some of the new technologies that help track where people walk and what they pick up, register emotional responses or show payment transparencies. All of this tracking produces a ton of data. And I mean a ton of data. Chances are, you are using […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Expert Views

By: chabowski

April 23, 2015 8:21 am

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Three Things You Should Know about SUSE and the Retail Industry

Retail is said to traditionally lag in technology, especially at the foundation level. And even though IT budgets are increasing, quite a few IT departments are saddled with outdated, hodgepodge systems, licensing fees, maintenance and multiyear rollouts. At the same time, retail customers are more technology savvy than ever, and they want to use their […]

Categories: Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service

By: chabowski

April 2, 2012 8:42 am

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Don't you use SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service? It could have made my Day today!

What a start to the day this morning ... Believe it or not, I didn't realize until today that time is one of the most valuable assets we have - and who really likes to waste a valuable asset? Already frantically busy, I hurried to the doctor early this morning to pick up an urgently needed […]

Tags: Retail

Categories: Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service

By: Joachim Werner

March 16, 2012 1:44 pm

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SUSE Manager and Point of Service: A Dream Team

Blue sky with no clouds over Nuremberg today. So let's go with a "brick-and-mortar" topic for a change. I'll get back to the Cloud soon: Some of you may know that my former role at SUSE was to take care of the Retail and Point of Service business. As the only Linux vendor in […]

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Categories: Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, SUSE Manager