Cost Reductions

The solutions provided by GK SOFTWARE AG can help reduce the total cost of ownership in the long term. There is savings potential in various areas.
You can significantly reduce the costs (TCO) for your stores by using solutions provided by GK SOFTWARE AG and you will obtain a rapid return on investments by using new business processes.

• Rapid completion times

  The open architecture, the ARTS standard and the Advanced Business Components technology allow new business processes to be completed quickly so that you obtain competitive advantages or can respond to campaigns initiated by your competitors.

• Updatable standard software

  By consistently further developing the standard product and guaranteeing that it is updatable, customers can obtain long-term benefits from new functions, technologies and improvements.

• Central Architecture

  Support expenditure and hardware and software errors are significantly reduced by moving the store servers to a central location in conjunction with the Lean Store Server. Engineers’ work with long journey times is a thing of the past.
  The expenditure on servers and backup scenarios in the stores is no longer required.
  Rapid high-end enterprise solutions can be used for hardware, operating systems, databases and backup at enterprise headquarters.

• Seamless Store Integration

  Stores and enterprise headquarters are seamlessly linked by using StoreWeaver and all the subsystems in the store are integrated. The costs for this central area of store IT are kept manageable in the long term and investments are protected.

• Central Administration

  The central management and control of all the POS systems and other subsystems by Enterprise Storemanager simplifies administration work, even for complex store structures spread over several countries. Administration costs are reduced in the long term and new or amended business processes can be introduced more quickly.  

• Central Monitoring

  The Enterprise Cockpit allows all the systems across a corporation to be monitored (system status, heartbeat etc.) and allows proactive responses to eliminate faults faster and prevent possible breakdowns at an early stage.

• Internationalization

  Expansion to new countries can be completed much faster thanks to the universal internationalization of the software in the GK/Retail suite. The taxation framework and the EFT framework ensure that local requirements are implemented quickly.

• Integrated Software for Loyalty and Promotions

  The far-reaching functions in the Loyalty and Promotions area provide competitive advantages through providing innovative customer loyalty schemes and no additional software is necessary.

• Integrated Mobile Solutions

  GK/Retail Mobile allows operators to feed a wide variety of processes directly to shelves and make merchandise management and administrative functions available on the spot.  

• Integrated Digital Signage Software

  The Digital Content Management facility provides integrated software to distribute digital material across a corporation and this can use the normal GK/Retail communications paths. Additional costly software, which only increases the complexity of store IT, is unnecessary.  

• SOA

  All the GK/Retail components can be integrated in a services-oriented architecture. Components can then be used several times within an overall concept, so reducing expenditure on additional development work.

• Installation Routines

  GK/Retail is designed so that it can be installed by your own IT staff or external services providers. This reduces costs and time during the rollout.

• Service and Support

  The number of help calls and therefore service costs can be significantly reduced by using GK/Retail.
  The option of servicing all the components by a remote connection reduces the need for costly servicing work locally in the long term.  

• Training Costs

  Training costs can be significantly reduced by using ergonomic and self-explanatory touch-screen systems. This also cuts the error quota for users to a huge degree.