Task Retail wants to conquer POS world with Sydney centre

Stan Beer
Wednesday, 10 June 2009 10:28

Business IT - Technology

Houden said that the through the command centre franchisors can provide a vast array of instantaneous retail sales information to its franchisees, and help them, where ever they are located, to maximise their potential sales.

“We monitor more than 1300 stores in Australia and we expect to sign large deals with global retail chains before the end of the year.” said Houden.

“We have created the future of retail with this new technology and command centre by connecting the web to any retail counter or transaction device.

“We have built the Global Support Command Centre on the expectation that we will soon expand into the US, UK and China. A number of large retail franchise operators in overseas markets are very interested in how our software can deliver instant information updates.

Here in Australia a large franchisor might have 600 stores in the US they could have 16000.

The centre consists of six large panel screens that provide a real-time world-view, or a data dashboard, of the performance of any of the store locations that Task Retail connects to its network. Task Retail has integrated a suite of technologies into its offering, including Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth mapping technology, SMS and Bluetooth.

According to Houden, the centre already tracks more than a million retail transactions every day in Australia and will link to international computer networks, as the company expects to sign contracts in overseas markets.

Task Retail Technology’s Xchangexec software, delivers key diagnostics information on how franchise, retail stores and the hospitality industry are tracking in sales, provides prompts on how to maximise sales, provides visibility into their critical operations, and is designed to ensure their own IT networks are working properly.

Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth technology is used to provide retailers with up to the minute satellite information that helps them alter sales strategies based on a multitude of data fed to them.

Houden said the company’s software can save retail chains millions of dollars in lost revenue opportunities by streamlining every aspect of their business operations. He said after travelling extensively around the world in the past year, Task Retail Technology has been informed by major global retail chains that its real-time web-based retail point of sale technology is a world-first.

“The magic of our software is that the information produced is in real-time, as we have harnessed the power of the Internet to provide our customers with transaction-based information direct from the retail counter,” said Houden.

“We have created a groundbreaking piece of software technology, and we expect to grow exponentially in the international market in the next few years.”

Houden told iTWire that his company expects to enlist the "help" of mutlinational players such as NCR and Microsoft to break into international markets.