SQL-Retail
The world's first data warehouse centric retail management solution, featuring merchandising, inventory control and distribution.
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Windows 95/98/ME,
Windows XP/2000/NT
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SQL-Retail is the world's first "Data Warehouse Centric" solution for retail, de-livering Best In Class inventory and merchandise management.;Engineering advanced transaction processing functionality around a data ware-house model gives SQL-Retail an inherent advantage over more traditional application designs. The result is a more flexible, more dynamic information solu-tion, capable of delivering outstanding results for retailers of any size.;A powerful application needs a powerful database. SQL-Retail's normalized data structures take full advantage of the power behind Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, de-livering blazingly fast, scaleable performance.;To make implementation faster and easier SQL-Retail is delivered pre-installed and pre-configured on its own powerful Compaq NT Server. The server has been designed and sized to deliver optimum performance for your SQL-Retail solution. With SQL-Retail, you don't pay extra for a server. We've made it part of the package.;A complete solution in a very big box!;Isn't it time you started thinking "out of the box"?;SQL-Retail contains a complete Data Warehouse including inquiry templates and metrics built using one of the most powerful and scaleable data warehouse engines available. A fully Customizable Business Intelligence System (CBIS) provides point and click access to key performance indicators (KPI's) for managers and senior executives.;Automated Replenishment designed to optimize the supply chain from vendor to store, increasing turns and improving in-stock positions.;Suggested Distribution functions that use intelligent store grading to de-termine how best to allocate and distribute products to stores.;Advanced Price Management functions integrated into SQL-WorkBench- for Microsoft Excel, extending the power of SQL-Retail to the merchant's laptop.;Hardlines and Softlines features built into the database design to opti-mize performance for different types of retailing. Best-in-class features for product management.;Powerful Merchandising including sourcing products from multiple vendors; pre-distributed, cross-dock and flow though PO's; promotional price management; zone and regional pricing; and many other features. Merchandise reporting from the data warehouse gives merchants the flexibility to slice and dice every aspect of product performance and freely surf the data.;International Retailing Functions are standard. For example, purchases can be entered in multiple currencies with dual currency translation on screen. The user interface displays text in the language of the user. Full Euro support. Manage international divisions with the same package used in the head office!;Application Message Queues provide fault tolerant and easy integration to external applications such as ledgers and payroll.;Advanced POS API's support multiple concurrent POS solutions facili-tating smooth in-store upgrades and competitive acquisitions.;Support for 7x24 hour operations using multi-threaded job scheduling integrated into the package design and support for lights-out operations.;eCommerce ready: SQL-Retail is already implemented in a pure e-retail environment, using its advanced messaging harness to deliver real-time equivalent transactions across secure interfaces.;SQL-Retail comes with so much advanced functionality we advise our customers not to modify the package ? it's ready right out of the box! Where extensions need to be made to accommodate unique aspects of your business, they can be developed externally and simply "hooked" into the application with pre-defined "user hooks.";A powerful client server solution needs a powerful server. SQL-Retail is a solution ready to run with plenty of room for expansion. For example, a fifty-user solution incorporates:;Compaq Proliant 6000 multi processor server with 1GB of memory stan-dard. (Full specs available). We also include a pre-installed client PC to fully test the environment on delivery.;72 GB of Disk standard (fully extendable).;The hardware is fully upgradeable to a failsafe environment with built-in redundancy.;To make SQL-Retail ready to run we pre-install Windows NT Server and Microsoft SQL Server, as well as the application and data warehouse software. Once we have tested the server to make sure all the pieces are working together, we deliver the system to your site, ready for integration and implementation.;SQL-Retail Clients say:;"We selected SQL-Retail because it stood out as the best solution on the market compared to products from more established vendors" Aubuchon Hardware, MA;"We selected SQL-Retail because it has the tools we need right out of the box" lucy.com, OR;[Moving from the AS400 to SQL Server] "It's like moving from a horse and buggy to a Ferrari" Waikiki Trader, HI ;"We managed to get the core system installed in less than four weeks" Lucy.com, OR;"We wanted to get away from our old AS400 so we looked for a solid merchandising solution which would run on the SQL Server database" Waikiki Trader , HI;"The quality of the overall solution was very important to us. We elected to work with a company that clearly understands our needs" Aubuchon Hard-ware, MA;"By far the best solution we could find and the only one that had been proven and implemented on Microsoft SQL Server" ;Waikiki Trader, HI