Solutions for retailers

A distinctive feature of the modern retail market is intense competition and retailers growing in size. This situation requires retailers to be highly dynamic, efficiently manage pricing, assortment and stocks, and quickly make meaningful and correct decisions. For purposes of managing, accounting, and minimizing operating costs, retailers make active use of information systems with heightened requirements for fail-safe and reliable operation and accessibility. Furthermore, information systems for centralized computation and sector-specific corporate management systems form the groundwork for active growth of retailers and business expansion.
 
The need to manage an IT infrastructure spread over large territories imposes special requirements on the corporate computing environment. The best solution is centralized computing with the use of workstations at remote points of sale. This solution significantly reduces the cost of creating and maintaining a local infrastructure, while raising the reliability and fail safety of corporate business applications. De Novo leverages vast experience and expertise in virtualization of computing and IT infrastructure transformation and can create a reliable centralized data center maximally utilizing the existing hardware at the company.
  • IT Infrastructure transformation and optimization;
    • Computing infrastructure consolidation and virtualization;
    • Virtualization of workstations;
    • Design and implementation of platforms for critical business applications;
  • Software infrastructure design;
    • Design and deployment of a network resources authorization and management system based on Microsoft Active Directory;
    • Design and deployment of a messaging system based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007;
    • Design and deployment of corporate portals based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007;
  • Engineering infrastructure of data centers;
    • Building a failsafe data center engineering infrastructure.
 
Managing investments in information technologies, optimizing the IT infrastructure. Quality and monetary value assessment of internal IT services is essential to maintaining the required level of competitiveness and managing investments in business growth. De Novo possesses the expertise to audit existing information systems, optimize the IT infrastructure and processes of its operation using best international practices outlined in the ITIL * library. A detailed audit also provides the groundwork for the company's IT strategy that sees corporate information systems as a pillar of business growth.
 
Ensuring business continuity in the retail sector is a cornerstone of successful market performance. Leveraging vast experience developing failsafe information systems, De Novo experts have sufficient competencies to create backup computing environments, a data center infrastructure with high fail safety requirements, and develop emergency recovery plans.

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