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Windows Embedded provides one trusted platform for retail and hospitality businesses to connect business intelligence across people, data and systems, surfacing new business opportunities and driving innovation.

Windows Embedded: The New Retail Efficiency

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  • Surround customers with personalized retail experiences. Create upsell opportunities. Find operational efficiencies. Take a look at how Windows Embedded can serve as a platform for immersive kiosk, point-of-sale, and handheld devices that meet your objectives.

The benefits of the Windows Embedded platform


With a Windows Embedded solution, data and insights that would otherwise be out of reach become actionable, resulting in increased customer satisfaction, competitive advantage, and return on investment. Windows Embedded enables your organization to drive to a connected enterprise, connected store and connected customer.
One trusted platform - Fragmented systems are inefficient and expensive to maintain. Supporting multiple, unconnected platforms means IT has to dilute skillsets rather than support the business. Windows Embedded helps minimize risk and complexity by providing one trusted platform on which retail and hospitality businesses can build innovative solutions that contain costs and capitalize on evolving opportunities.
Fits with your needs - Each organization has distinct needs for information and systems that facilitate their performance. There is no one-size fits all that will get the job done. Through a diverse partner ecosystem, solutions built on Windows Embedded may be customized to your business requirements. Windows Embedded is adaptable to fit the needs of retail and hospitality businesses, so that you can serve your customers with greater efficiency and more personalized attention.
Extends intelligence to increase business opportunities - Trends are often only available in hindsight. Windows Embedded extends intelligence across retail and hospitality organizations increasing opportunities to engage with the customer and act on insights that would otherwise be out of reach.
Microsoft commitment to retail and hospitality solutions - Windows Embedded is grounded in a long history of partnership between Microsoft and market leaders in the retail and hospitality industries who consistently drive innovation in retail solutions. To learn more about Microsoft solutions for Retail and Hospitality, visit: Microsoft Retail and Hospitality Solutions.

Windows Embedded Roadshow

Intelligent Systems: The New Retail Experience

March 2012
Chicago | Atlanta | Dallas | Boston
Learn how to implement an end-to-end retail technology strategy to harness the power of Intelligent Systems. Chain Store Age Editor, Marianne Wilson, will discuss Store Innovation and Intelligent System solutions will be demonstrated.

Microsoft’s vision for intelligent systems in retail

Brendan O'Meara, managing director for retail at Microsoft, provides a glimpse at some of the exciting products that are going to enable retailers to better engage their customers and operate more efficiently.

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