Fujitsu Services

Fujitsu gives mid-sized retailers a platform to compete with their larger rivals

New iRetail provides sophisticated in-store and head office systems from as little as £100 per point-of-sale per month.

London, 8th November 2004 — Fujitsu Services has now introduced iRetail - an integrated portfolio of in-store and head office solutions that specifically addresses the needs of mid-sized retailers including sophisticated EPoS, Stock Management, Customer Relations Management, Web Management and Chip and PIN.

iRetail is available for a monthly service charge with no up-front capital investment required, starting from £100 per month per point-of-sale which includes a fully functional EPoS configuration.

Fujitsu provides a one-stop shop for iRetail and manages the IT complexity behind delivery and support is on hand seven days a week. The retailer needs no IT skills either in-store or at head office to exploit the services and no investment in IT infrastructure to run them.

With iRetail, Fujitsu brings business best practice in retail to all without the need for expensive customisation and costly software updates. Retailers using the service can automatically and instantly benefit from any enhancements made to iRetail. Once connected to iRetail, all can benefit from a growing portfolio of value-added services such as loyalty schemes and electronic gift vouchers.

iRetail is pre-accredited for Chip and PIN. There is no need for either separate bank-owned terminal or the often lengthy and complicated accreditation process required for other integrated EPOS and payments systems.

Fujitsu has brought together a number of best in class specialist companies in retail and payments systems to deliver iRetail, so the retailer doesn't have to. These include Cybertill, Comms XL, STS, BOX Technologies, Ingenico, Cyntergy and Iona Business Systems.

Alan Coulter , director of marketing - retail, Fujitsu Services says, "Smaller retailers are often been left behind as larger competitors with bigger budgets and extensive IT teams invest in ever more sophisticated systems. This has widened the gap between large and small, meaning big businesses reap larger profits and function more efficiently. Our iRetail offering has been developed to shift that balance and give mid-sized retailers the chance to compete on a level playing with their larger rivals".

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About Fujitsu Services

Fujitsu Services is one of the leading IT services companies in Europe , Middle East and Africa . It has an annual turnover of £1.74 billion, (€2.58 billion) employs 14,500 people and operates in over 20 countries. It designs, builds and operates IT systems and services for customers in the financial services, telecom, retail, utilities and government markets. Its core strength is the delivery of IT infrastructure management and outsourcing across desktop, networking and data centre environments, together with a full range of related services, from consulting through integration and deployment. Headquartered in London, Fujitsu Services is the European-centred IT services arm of the Fujitsu Group. The Fujitsu Group is a US$45 billion (€37 billion) leader in customer-focused IT systems and services for the global marketplace.
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