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February 28 2007

IVIS awarded by Microsoft

Multi-channel solutions provider IVIS Group has won the multi-channel category in Microsoft's EMEA Retail Application Developer Awards. The Sonetto Pricing and Promotions Management (PPM) solution, for which the company won its award, is an application that allows a retailer to fully manage and control prices and promotions across a multi-channel environment.

Sonetto PPM provides multi-layered pricing and promotions calculation across products, bundles, categories, baskets and coupons with the system dynamically creating pricing and promotions using business rules and promotional templates. These are applied in real time when calculating basket price to ensure that the end customer gets the best value - a marketing tool which many multi-channel retailers are employing to encourage online purchases.

IVIS Group lists Tesco.com amongst its customers.

The Microsoft EMEA Retail Application Developer (RAD) Awards programme is an annual competition that recognises application developers who make the best use of Microsoft technology to provide business value to their customers in the retail industry.

Other winners include Knowledge Support Systems Ltd (Business Insight award for its PriceStrat solution); Triangle Computer Services Ltd (Communication and Collaboration Award for its Retail Manager solution), RedPrairie (Store System Category for its BlueCube Enterprise solution); Know IT AB (Supply Chain Award for its FRAS solution).

Press release follows:

28 Feb 2007 - Last night at the 7th annual Retail Application Developer (RAD) gala dinner in Düsseldorf, Germany, Microsoft Corp announced the 2007 Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) RAD Award winners.

The successful firms included Knowledge Support Systems (KSS) Ltd, which won the Business Insight award for its PriceStrat solution; Triangle Computer Services Ltd, which received the Communication and Collaboration Award for its Retail Manager solution and IVIS Group Ltd, which successfully beat the competition to come first in the Multichannel category with its Sonetto™ Pricing & Promotions Management (PPM) tool. In the Store System category, RedPrairie's BlueCube Enterprise solution won the award while Know IT AB took home the Supply Chain Award for its FRAS solution.

This year a single special award, the People-Ready Business in Retail Award, was presented by Microsoft to reward the technology solution that is providing people working in retail organisations with the tools to help them strengthen customer relationships, improve operations, build high-value business connections and drive retail innovation that benefits the organisation as a whole. Retail Manager, developed by Triangle Computer Services, and referred to by one of the judges as "a truly liberating solution", was announced as the winner of the special award. The solution's ability to reduce manual and paper-based processes in store and enhance employee productivity while maintaining a focus on customer service contributed to its success.

Dilip Popat, managing director of the retail industry solutions unit, Microsoft EMEA, said, "The Microsoft EMEA RAD Awards are a showcase for innovative technology in retail. At the heart of these awards are the people that work for the EMEA retail industry to ensure the best possible service to the end customer. By developing the right solutions, Microsoft, together with its partners, can help people achieve success in their business by being innovative and feeling empowered to deliver great results for their customers. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all the partners who took the time to participate."

The awards, which attracted entries from all over the EMEA region including Belgium, France, Israel, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey and the UK, are designed to reward independent software vendors (ISVs) and retailer IT departments that can successfully demonstrate innovation and excellence by delivering business value using Microsoft® technologies in the retail sector. This year's panel of judges was made up of some of the leading figures from the European retail industry: Païvi Hokkanen (Stockmann, Finland), Hansjoerg Bausch (Kaufhof, Germany), Neil Ashworth (Tesco.com, UK), Martin White (Primark, Ireland) and Michael Gerling (EHI Retail Institute, Germany).

Gerling, who is managing director of the EHI Retail Institute and a long-time judge and co-host for the RAD Awards gala dinner, said, "I am extremely delighted to have once again participated in the judging process for this year's Microsoft EMEA RAD Awards. Each year the awards provide me with the opportunity to see first hand the innovative solutions that technology providers have developed for the retail industry during the previous 12 months. Nominating the winners was, as always, an extremely difficult task as the quality of entries was very high, but I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I believe programmes like the RAD Awards play an important role in promoting technology innovation in the retail industry which, in the end, can only improve customers' retail experience"

The 2007 EMEA RAD Awards winners are as follows:

  • Triangle Computer Services won People-Ready Business in Retail and Communication and Collaboration Awards. The Retail Manager version 4.0 Revolution solution is a business tool providing business applications for all elements of communication between head office functions and the retail chain hierarchy. With modules such as Planner and Project Tracking (task management), Content Creation (communications), Survey Tool (retail information/feedback), Expert (knowledge base), Messaging (control hierarchical messaging and communications, integration with e-mail /PDA/Blackberry), workflow business forms (Accident and Incident, Civil Recovery, POS ordering etc), a complete simple, but effective Labour Manager Suite (labour forecast, starters/leavers, timesheet and rostering) and many other modular features, Retail Manager provides an effective and dynamic platform for all retail communications, collaboration, compliance and control needs


  • KSS won the Business Insight Award. KSS's PriceStrat version 3.5 supports two critical aspects of price and promotion decision-making: streamlining the decision processes and applying advanced analytics and decision-support techniques to increase the effectiveness of price/promotion tactics. Operational efficiency and productivity are improved by integrating price/promotion management, demand analysis, decision-making, decision execution and performance monitoring.


  • IVIS Group won the Multichannel Retailing Award. The Sonetto PPM version 1.0 solution provides business users the ability to fully manage price promotions across a multi-channel retail environment. It enables retailers to manage an unlimited amount of promotions with simplicity, consistency and with full control on their information. Sonetto PPM provides multi-layered pricing and promotions calculation across products, bundles, categories, baskets and coupons. The system dynamically creates pricing and promotions using business rules and promotional templates, applying these in real time when calculating basket price.


  • RedPrairie won the Store Systems Award. BlueCube Enterprise version 6.2 web-based applications are centrally deployed and managed, enabling businesses to employ best practices across the enterprise, and helping managers to quickly resolve issues through real-time business performance monitoring. Integrated Reporting, Alerts, Workflows, Dashboard, Learning Management and Corporate Data Management suites further enhance business performance.


  • Know IT won the Supply Chain Award. Know IT has developed a supply chain integration solution that provides companies with a comprehensive order, invoice and delivery solution - FRAS version 1.9. FRAS connects the ERP systems of an organisation and provides thereby a seamless flow of order, invoice and supply chain related information (in-stock-status, delivery status), providing support for an entirely new business model that enables the organisation to share common distribution resources while retaining the status as competitors on the Swedish market, in essence a solution that creates a "coopetition" situation.


    • Emma Herrod

    This article is tagged as: IVIS Group Retail Application Developer Awards Microsoft Knowledge Support Systems Triangle Computer Services RedPrairie Know IT AB

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