Find the retail edge with Windows Vista, Microsoft Office, and Exchange Server
Your retail business is constantly looking for a competitive edge. But when it comes to technology, gaining an advantage has rarely been this easy. By deploying Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and Exchange Server 2007, you can empower your people in ways to give your retail organization a big advantage over your competition. These new products feature tools that will help your people to work smarter, helping them to offer key solutions to the problems that are unique to retail businesses. Here's how.
Windows Vista for Retail
Windows Vista empowers retail business users in many new ways. The operating system streamlines and simplifies communication with coworkers through mobility and collaboration improvements. It also offers better search functions and improved compatibility, plus better security. Simply put, Windows Vista is a more reliable operating system and a more complete and productive business environment for your company.
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Key advantages of Windows Vista
Here are some of the advantages the Windows Vista operating system offers your retail business:
| • | Makes online meetings and collaboration easier.Windows Meeting Space allows face-to-face collaboration among small groups of Windows Vista users, anytime and anywhere. It also makes it easier than ever for multiple users on a computer network to share files or folders with others. |
| • | Keeps employees connected. The new Windows Mobility Center lets users adjust to all the most commonly used mobility-oriented controls. Tablet PC users can count on precise and intuitive pen navigation with new features such as better-integrated pen support, touch-screen support, digital ink input, and new handwriting-recognition technologies. |
| • | Enables better searches. Organizing and finding data is easier than ever. To help people keep all their data up to date, Windows Vista offers improved data synchronization with a better interface and faster data transfer for connected devices and remote data sources. |
| • | Provides a richer interface for retailers. Windows Vista and its graphical user interface can offer a rich customer experience for in-store kiosks – and help you connect with customers. The Workflow Foundation feature in Windows Vista helps better orchestrate and manage sales transactions, from kiosk inquiry, to inventory check, to purchase verification, to card validation, to debit transaction—all the way to inventory update. |
| • | Offers improved security. Windows Vista has several security features that were created with retail businesses in mind. To help companies address the risk and expense associated with security and compliance, Windows Vista provides multiple layers of protection—because it was designed from the ground up to be a more secure operating system. Then it adds other safeguards to protect business organizations from external attacks, internal threats, and unauthorized access to specific information. |
| • | It's more cost-effective. Windows Vista was engineered to be easier to deploy, manage, and support. It can make networking more cost-effective by automatically optimizing file transfers, detecting network bandwidth availability, and self-tuning to receive more or less data. |
FNAC benefits from Windows Vista
French retailer FNAC, which sells consumer electronics in stores and through its Web site, is an example of a business that has benefited from Windows Vista. The company distinguishes itself from discount stores by having highly competent employees with extensive product knowledge. In order to extend this high-quality and informative service to online customers, FNAC teamed with Microsoft and used the Windows Vista operating system to create a new smart client application for FNAC.com. Through this application, customers interact with product information in new ways. FNAC stores have also implemented the application on Windows Vista kiosks. Looking to the future, FNAC expects to deliver a more informative and consistent customer experience – both in stores and online – and looks forward to increased online sales.
Read the full FNAC case study.
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