The retailer’s challenge
As the economy emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and new demographic and technological shifts become the norm, organizations must be agile enough to respond to evolving customer expectations. From fixed point of sale systems to fully- autonomous shopping experiences, each retailer will be at a different stage on their transformation journey. Yet each will share common goals – to delight consumers, drive efficiencies and open up new revenue- generating opportunities. And each will face a similar challenge – to securely manage end- to-end infrastructure while grappling with budget, legacy IT and integration constraints.
Four future needs in the retail sector
- Agility and flexibility. Post-pandemic, customer expectations continue to evolve. In order to provide the best experiences possible, further tech implementation is a must. This requires a flexible core.
- Retail at the Edge. Going digital is not enough. It’s now about consumer experience differentiation and, much of that will happen at the Edge, at the closest point to the customer.
- Cost transformation. Running an omni-channel operation and assigning capital to further innovate means cost efficiency will be at the heart of future organizational strategy.
- Resilience. Retailers need to power super-fast transactions and up-to- the-minute insights. As a result, business-critical applications, such as SAP, need to stay up and running around the clock.
Linux
SUSE’s business-critical Linux solutions accelerate innovation and enable our customers to respond to markets demands faster. We support the widest range of architectures, virtualization, container runtime, storage, and network options.
Cloud Native
Kubernetes maximizes development agility and accelerate digital transformation. Rancher unifies all your clusters to ensure consistent operations, workload management, and enterprise-grade security – from core to cloud to edge.
Run SAP
SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP Applications is the premiere Linux platform for SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver and SAP S/4HANA solutions in manufacturing. We reduce the risk of service outages, and let you deploy SAP services faster on-premises and in the cloud.
Edge Solutions
SUSE is the leader in intelligent edge computing solutions based on lightweight Linux, Kubernetes, and storage products for x86 or Arm hardware. We deliver consistency, performance, reliability, security – all of which are vital for manufacturing edge use cases.
OfficeDepot
- Office Depot have saved over 40% in IT management costs -this reduced cost of retail store IT overhead, equates to a lower cost competitive position.
- SUSE infrastructure only requires a lean team to run it, helping to keep operating expenses down.
- SUSE Manager pushes out releases to 1,200 store environments
- Simplified data center management allows more time to innovate better customer experiences
See the difference with SUSE
products & solutions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
The industry’s most secure, modular Linux operating system that paves the way for IT transformation in the software-defined era.
Rancher
Addresses the needs of DevOps teams deploying applications with Kubernetes and IT staffs delivering enterprise-critical services.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
Leverages the enterprise-hardened technology components of SUSE Linux Enterprise and merges that with what developers want from a modern, immutable OS platform.
SUSE Manager
Employ a management solution rearchitected for the retail Industry with granular, centralized image management.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or SAP Applications
The leading Linux platform for SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver and SAP S/4HANA solutions and is endorsed by SAP.
SUSE NeuVector
The industry’s only 100% open source, Zero-Trust container security platform.