Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Hewlett Packard has cracked the Australian retail market for the first time with its new POS terminals winning a major contract to roll out its point-of-sale PC system to 80 of The Body Shop stores across the country.
The countrywide rollout of the first of 116 HP
rp5 700 RPos PCs to be installed by the end of the 2009-2010 financial
year, started this month, and a further 80 PCs will be installed the
following year.
The Body Shop’s IT Retail Systems Manager, John Bartlett, says the
company took advice from its trusted technology partner, GunPoS, who
recommended HPs rp5700 “as it was the stand-out performer in testing
against its competitors.”
Bartlett says GunPoS worked with HP to customise a standard rp5700 RPOS
PC to give The Body Shop a reliable performer suited to their needs.
"We seek to always implement a reliable, robust and fully effective IT
infrastructure. The HP rp5700s fits in very well and the installation
of the first 30 PCs this month has gone smoothly,” Bartlett said,
adding that “we particularly like the fact that this is a flexible PoS
box that has easily integrated with our existing software and PoS
peripheral systems.”
HP market development manager, retail PoS systems, Robert Bergqvist,
says The Body Shop deployment “is a great example of how the rp5700 can
be used in the retail space.”
"HP’s RPOS offers the reliability of Intel and Microsoft Windows
technologies and available SATA hard drives with RAID support to offer
customers PC technology that easily integrates with back-office
infrastructure. We are looking forward to helping The Body Shop
Australia complete this rollout and integration through to next year.”
According to Trevor Perry, sales director of GunPoS, “the HP rp5700 has
come to market in Australia at the perfect time, as this is a great
solution to meet The Body Shop’s needs.
"Energy efficiency is a must as PoS systems need to be on and running
100 percent of the time. The rp5700 has been designed to have the
latest energy efficient components as well as being engineered to
withstand the rigors of the retail environment.
“The Body Shop needed an exceptionally stable and highly-reliable RPoS
PC for its demanding business environment. The Body Shop’s current
technology was disparate and having several different PC configurations
meant maintaining the store PoS environment was not always
straight-forward.
David Bass
| For the fourth year in a row, IDC has placed content security provider Websense (NASDAQ: WBSN) at the top of the IDC Worldwide Web Security 2011 –…
How to Make Business Discovery Work for Your Business
Business Discovery takes its cues from consumer apps. Like Google, it encourages us- ers to hunt for and explore data without worrying about or even noticing the underly- ing technology. Their entire experience is working within an intuitive interface to get real-time, self-service results with only minimal training. ...more
Try an easy-to-use set of web-enabled
tools for business-class productivity services. Office 365 provides
anywhere-access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars
on almost any device.
Latest Headlines from IT INDUSTRY
