No matter which retail sector you look at, they are faced with the same IT business challenges - reduce operating costs, deploy solutions faster, minimize re-training needs, improve customer service, consolidate many different applications and increase systems stability.
IGEL is perfectly positioned to help retailers achieve this. Our powerful remote management software can manage thousand of clients across many small remote locations. Our Smartcard support gives bullet proof security and allows secure user roaming. Our broad range of form factors allows you to deploy your applications and data in the office, call center, warehouse and even delivery vehicle. And our breadth of digital services means you can give your users access to all your applications, no matter what access protocol they use.
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Les Schwab
U.S. tire dealer optimizes its IT environment with Linux-based clients from IGEL
Customer service is a priority at Les Schwab. 'Our store employees
greet their customers outside, even before they get out of their cars.'
This is the image Rod Williams uses to describe the successful Les
Schwab philosophy that turned the company, which was established in
1952 in Prineville, Oregon, into the largest independent tire dealer in
the United States. Williams, IT Administrator at Les Schwab, is
responsible for system integration and iSeries. Not an easy job in a
rapidly growing organization with more than 300 stores and 83 partner
branches!
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Chico’s
IGEL Helps Chico’s Reduce Total Cost of Ownership With Style
Ask any woman about her favorite fashion retailer, and she will most
likely mention Chico’s, a Fort Myers (Fla.)- based woman’s clothing
designer and retailer. The company prides itself on building a complete
wardrobe to suit its customers’ needs. In similar fashion, it is also
implementing IGEL 364 LX Series technology to better suit its warehouse
and call center employees’ needs.
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CSK Auto Parts
IGEL Technology Keeps CSK Auto Parts’ Engine Revving
Every successful company in the retail industry thrives as a result of its ability to focus on growth and maintain an excellent standard among its network of employees. Phoenix-based CSK Auto Parts is no different. The company is one of the largest specialty retailers of automotive parts and accessories in the Western United States and one of the largest such retailers in the country, with three companies and 3,000 locations in 25 states.
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Eugen Trost
Re-engineering NetVista
Car parts supplier Trost is updating its IBM NetVista terminals with IGEL upgrades. Compatible with the IBM firmware, the IGEL Compact Flash upgrades will ensure the continued operation of the NetVista 2800 terminals, at the same time bringing stunning pluses by way of extra connectivity and functionality.
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Pearle Europe
Daylight in the terminal jungle
In the course of a comprehensive replacement project, Dutch IT service company Tweco IT equipped around 400 optician’s shops with IGEL Thin Clients. The new machines act inter alia as graphic info-stations, and thanks to their high connectivity replaced a major part of the heterogeneous terminal landscape.
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Bruynzeel Keukens
Bruynzeel Keukens speeds up operation with IGEL
Bruynzeel Keukens is the largest supplier of kitchens in the Benelux region. It produces kitchens under its own brand and sells them both in the business and the private market. Bruynzeel has approximately thirty shops In the Netherlands and Belgium, which can be distinguished into five large stores with a back office of their own, and a series of smaller shops. In addition, the kitchen producer has approximately thirty representatives who cater for the project market.
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Allied Carpets
Allied Carpets fits IGEL thin clients in 222 stores across the UK
Allied Carpets is the UK’s best known name in fl ooring and has had a reputation for providing quality carpets from leading manufacturers for the past 50 years. With 220 stores, Allied Carpets and the Scottish General George stores are a division of Tapis Saint Maclou, Europe’s largest carpet retailer.
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A.T.U Auto-Teile-Unger
A.T.U Auto-Teile-Unger (Unger Auto Parts) is bringing its IT infrastructure into line with its rapid increase in retail stores by migrating to a scalable server-based computing infrastructure with IGEL Thin Clients
Since its founding in 1985, A.T.U. has experienced steady growth. In its over 600 stores, its modern distribution centers and its company headquarters in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany (Upper Palatinate, Bavarian area, not far from the Czech Republic) this international company now employees over 14,000 persons. Its well-integrated and innovative business model with “transparent workshops” allowed A.T.U to achieve sales in 2006 of 1.4 billion euro. As part of its expansion throughout Europe, the company plans to have over 1,000 stores by 2013. Yet without an economical and scalable IT infrastructure, this goal would be unrealistic. That’s why A.T.U. has been migrating step-by-step to server-based computing with thin clients.
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Borussia Mönchengladbach
IGEL helps to win the game
For the first time the new BORUSSIA PARK brings all the parts of Borussia VfL 1900 Mönchengladbach GmbH together in one place. Apart from the imposing stadium, the 210,000 square metre club site is home to a museum, a sports bar, a fan shop and, last but not least, extensive training facilities. The club’s administration department used the change of site to undertake a radical upgrade to the IT infrastructure. With the introduction of thin client workstations the economic viability, availability and security of the IT environment could all be improved.
