Mission
Our mission is to remain focused on our core values of service, innovation, precision engineering, and disciplined management. These values will deliver superior service to our customers, foster innovation, ensure product quality, and contribute to improved retail practices around the globe. These principles have been fundamental in our ability to support leading retailers with their international expansion into more than 25 countries earning us a considerable European market share.
GK/Retail will continue to support our customers’ retail requirements as they expand their local and international footprint. We will invest into new technologies that will deliver positive impact to our customers and the retail industry. We will further globalize and expand both with our customers to support their entry into new markets, and into new territories that a business advantage to GK SOFTWARE AG.
Mission of Market Leadership
We contribute our fast growth and market success to a focus on superior service, delivering a quality solution portfolio, and disciplines of a strong management team. These principles has allowed us to complete major international projects on time and on budget. We have proven to be a reliable partner with a reputation of delivering the finest retail solutions on the market.
Our emphasis on service, innovation, technology, and precision engineering has contributed to our success as a leader in global store solutions. We will continue to deliver the highest quality of service, introduce new technologies to improve retail practices, and follow corporate governance guidelines to support our expansion into new territories while increasing shareholder value.
We will continue to exercise the discipline necessary to support one global code base to provide our customers superior service and fast response to industry trends. This also allows us to deliver rapid implementations which will continue to give us a sustainable advantage as we enter into these new markets.
Focusing on the Store
For retailers to be competitive they must deploy the best technology solutions throughout the enterprise, especially in the store. There are many facets to running a retail enterprise that requires a multitude of software solutions. The value we deliver to retailers is our unbridled focus on store automation.
GK SOFTWARE AG focuses on operations that service the customer and lead to a sales transaction. The ability to attract and retain consumers in every retail channel is crucial to gaining market share. To drive value for our retail customers we address business challenges through technology and innovation.
GK SOFTWARE AG places a strong emphasis on enterprise integration to deliver superior results at a low total cost of ownership. Our technologies are developed using universally accepted standards including Java, the ARTS data model, ARTS UnifiedPOS, ARTS IXRetail, EAN/UCC, Advanced Business Component (ABC) technology and the ARTS Retail Transaction Interface with SOA enablement.
The store is an integral component in any enterprise-wide retail strategy. Today the “store” has expanded beyond the traditional “bricks and mortar” to e-commerce and mobile technology. Cross channel sales is one of the fastest growing segments of retail today. Consumers in this segment are demanding one version of the truth, seamless integration of the channels in regards to service, selection, and price. As the traditional store has transformed so has GK/Retail into an enterprise wide retail solution that continues to support store operations and the consumer.
Delivering standardized technology ensures that retailers react to consumer demands within all retail channels quickly and efficiently. This is achieved through software component reuse within crucial customer touch points including self checkout, kiosks, web stores, customer loyalty, mobile technology and other complementary solutions.
Retailers who deliver service and innovation without the right use of technology will gain market share but at a cost. GK/Retail enables retailers to deliver service and innovation with the right technology to realize a low total cost of ownership. Our retail customers not only gain market share, they are market leaders.
