Retail

Competitors squeeze your margins. Well-educated customers demand quality, selection and value. If customers cannot shop conveniently and receive personal service in the store, through the catalog, on the Internet or by phone, their loyalty is at risk. Suppliers can’t respond fast enough to challenges in your inventory, let alone in the market; and you are under continued pressure to cut costs, streamline operations and be more efficient. It’s a challenging time to be in retail. But it always was.

BlueCat Networks understands retail business because we specialize in building the critical IP infrastructure required to provision your core systems, databases that support users and applications across your business. A well-planned IP network simplifies the integration and availability of applications, processes, delivers increased efficiencies in the use and availability of resources, and provides 24 x 7 availability.

BlueCat has proven industry-leading IP solutions that have been developed from the ground up to provide end-to-end management of DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management (IPAM) for small, medium and large-sized businesses. BlueCat’s appliance based solutions are feature-rich and assist retail businesses to guarantee the availability of mission critical IP networks, in an affordable, easy to implement and use solution. Adonis and Proteus solutions from BlueCat can make your company more responsive, focused and resilient in today’s marketplace and bring better service to your customers.

Whether your company is looking to put into place merchandise management, inventory control, e-commerce, collaboration or point-of-sale systems, BlueCat appliances provide the critical connectivity layer with secure, scalable and highly available DNS, DHCP, IP address provisioning and tracking.

Industry Challenges

• Customers are well informed and are demanding higher value for lower cost through a variety of new channels — Retailers must put reliable and scalable infrastructure in place to reduce costs and service customers.
• Increased competition leads to an evolution of the fittest. The retail sector changes rapidly and mergers/ acquisitions are the norm. Merging networks, applications and resources together is costly and challenging.
• Employee turn over is high and variable, organizations require an infrastructure that is flexible and secure
• In an effort to shave costs, many organizations are looking to crate common or shared infrastructure, integrate application and data and consolidate assets. Legacy applications and infrastructure are not rising to the challenge.
• Retailers are looking for more efficient ways to communicate with suppliers and consumers using IP based technology.
• Retailers are looking for ways to adopt technologies to improve worker productivity.

The BlueCat Advantage

Move your IP network to a highly-scalable, reliable and resilient network architecture with BlueCat Networks award winning line of Adonis DNS/DHCP and Proteus IPAM appliances. BlueCat’s purpose-built appliance solutions are perfectly suited to help manufacturing firms to improve connectivity, tighten management controls while dramatically reducing total cost of ownership.

BlueCat’s IP infrastructure appliances are a logical extension of your network. BlueCat Networks solutions are designed to help financial services organizations improve customer responsiveness, decreases costs and improve competitive advantage. In fact, BlueCat Solutions typically offer a payback period of less than 3 ½ months with a return on investment of over 380%.

Reduce Costs and Improve Margins throughout Supply Chain

All BlueCat Networks solutions are designed to reduce the time required to manage complex network topologies. Whether you are just managing 10 retail locations or integrating e-commerce, deploying VoIP or implementing inventory control/ online ordering with your suppliers, BlueCat DNS/DHPC and IPAM solutions simplify the process. With smart features like configuration and deployment wizards, built in error checking and one-to-many deployment, BlueCat appliances will dramatically lower your total cost of ownership. Proteus’ built in audit and reporting functionality will give you unheard of visibility into the IP operations of your network. BlueCat delivers dramatic cost savings, typically in the first year of ownership, the Adonis™’s total cost is less than half of the total cost of competing solutions.

Improved Inventory Control, Merchandise Management and Customer Loyalty

Mission critical point-of-sale, inventory and merchandise management applications and databases are only as good as the IP platform that they are provisioned upon. If your users are unable to resolve an IP addresses to these critical resources, you can easily lose customers to your competition, for ever.

All BlueCat Proteus and Adonis solutions are built with security in mind, these purpose-built appliances are based on firewall-grade operating systems, have built in high availability and protection against harmful pharming, DoS and zero-day exploits. This means your company’s network is no longer a concern, you can focus on improved integration of core applications and driving customer loyalty. Manage and build relationships with your customers, not your network.

Better Communications within the Company, with Suppliers and Your Customers

Both the Proteus Enterprise IPAM Appliance and family of Adonis DNS/DHCP appliances are designed to help organizations simplify the task of managing disparate technologies. Adonis enables organizations to easily migrate DNS and DHCP configurations from legacy platforms to a more cost effective, secure and scalable appliance based solution. Proteus greatly simplifies the management of large, geographically distributed networks and greatly simplifies compliance with policies. With powerful built-in audit and reporting, your organization has the tools required to drive productivity and ensure regulatory compliance. BlueCat Networks enables you to focus on connecting with your customer and suppliers; don’t spend time worry about your IP network.

With BlueCat Adonis and Proteus solutions, your organization can easily scale to manage millions of IP addresses with hundreds of concurrent administrators. This means that regardless of your organizations size, BlueCat has a solution that will help you speed time to market and guarantee the availability of your mission critical applications. Spend less time tracking the allocation of scarce IP addresses, managing DNS and DHCP; spend more time servicing your customers.

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