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Overview

Today's outlook for retailers is highly challenging as many find themselves confronted by a fragile economic environment. With growth and profitability far more difficult to achieve in the near term, there is a much greater need for retailers to operate more efficiently, with emphasis placed on cost reduction and expense management as an offset to fund competitive differentiation. In the near-term, retailers will need to focus on building market share via business models that are more responsive, adaptable, and efficient with resources and assets. Consumers will be intensely value-oriented, even more so than in the recent past. Retailers will gain market share only if they are clearly differentiated from competitors, possess strong brand equity and have the ability to innovate and excite customers. nfrastructure’s retail practice employs innovative thinking to develop technology infrastructure solutions that improve service and lower costs so more capital can be deployed towards competitive differentiation.

Customer Successes

nfrastructure’s work with its retail customers has produced a broad range of success stories, where in each case we have combined in-depth knowledge and understanding of the retail industry with our world-class technical experience and expertise to deliver maximum customer value. The following represent some of our successes:

• Designing and operating a technology infrastructure management office to improve service and lower costs for a 300+ store specialty retailer
• Building out a modernized PCI compliant network infrastructure in less than 90 days for a 300+ store big-box retailer
• Providing a $10 billion global retailer with a comprehensive infrastructure management solution to manage its 300+ US stores
• Designing, building and operating a “total store” solution to support a $3 billion grocer’s acquisition strategy
• Designing, building and operating the core networking infrastructure for a large grocer
• Designing and operating a service desk solution for a large specialty retailer to support its US operations

Services

nfrastructure offers its retail sector customers the following services.

• Technology Infrastructure Services
  • Design
  • Build
  • Operate

Solutions

nfrastructure provides its retail sector customers with the following solutions.

• Technology Infrastructure Services

  Data Center Network Security Communications

  End-point Cabling Staffing Outsourcing