GK SOFTWARE AG: GK SOFTWARE AG Presents The First POS Solution for Retail Stores Worldwide Leveraging SAP HANA(R)
(firmenpresse) - (DGAP-Media / 12.11.2012 / 14:20)
Schöneck, 12. November 2012 - GK SOFTWARE AG, an SAP(R) software solution
and technology partner in the retail sector, will be exhibiting the first
Point-of-Sale (POS) solution worldwide on the SAP HANA(R) platform at the
SAPPHIRE(R) NOW conference being held in Madrid, November 13-15. This
solution will enable retail customers to use the latest technologies down
to the POS system level. This will result in a wide variety of potential
savings and opportunities for optimizing performance, helping customers to
address business-critical challenges in the retail sector.
At SAPPHIRE NOW, GK SOFTWARE (booth 1018) will be holding several
roundtable discussions, a microforum and a presentation highlighting the
benefits resulting from the cooperation with SAP in extending solutions
from GK SOFTWARE. One presentation will highlight the SAP Point-of-Sale
application by GK leveraging the capabilities and benefits of SAP HANA.
By integrating with SAP HANA, the application will reduce the time needed
to access information critical to a retailer's business, leading to better
optimized retail operations.
Michael Jaszczyk, CTO at GK SOFTWARE, commented: 'SAP HANA will have a
massive impact on retail. We believe it is truly the enabling platform that
will unleash the power of omni-channel services in cloud environments.'
SAP HANA is a completely re-imagined platform for real-time business. It
transforms business by streamlining transactions, analytics, planning,
predictive and sentiment data processing on a single, in-memory database so
business can operate in real time.
'The utilization of SAP HANA provides our retail customers with the tools
needed to positively impact and effectively run their retail operations in
a way that best serves their customers,' said Thomas Vetter, senior vice
president, Retail&Multichannel Product Management, and Lori
Mitchell-Keller, senior vice president and head of Global Retail Industry
Business Unit, SAP. 'Our partnership with GK Software is an important
component of the SAP Retail solution portfolio. Our strategic relationship
has been further strengthened by the development investment GK Software has
made in integrating SAP HANA with its solutions. Leveraging SAP HANA is yet
another step to optimize our end-to-end solution portfolio for retail
customers.'
About GK SOFTWARE AG
GK SOFTWARE AG is one of Europe's leading technology developers and
providers of standard software for the retail sector, and offers an
extensive range of products for stores and enterprise headquarters. Thanks
to its open software solutions in the GK/Retail Suite, which can be used
with any platform and is fully programmed in Java, the company has
established itself as one of the retail market's leading providers of
technology and innovations. Its software enables retail chains with
numerous stores to optimally manage their business operations, offering
them significant potential for saving costs and implementing customer
loyalty programs and hence helping them to improve their competitiveness.
The company employs 428 members of staff (figures for 31 December 2011)
across its headquarters in Schöneck (Germany) and five other business
locations in Berlin, St. Ingbert, Cologne, Plzen (CZ) and Basel/Riehen
(CH). GK SOFTWARE AG's customers include many well-known retailers from
both Germany and beyond, including Galeria Kaufhof, Parfümerie Douglas,
Coop (Switzerland), EDEKA, Hornbach, JYSK Nordic, Lidl, Netto
Marken-Discount and Tchibo. The software is currently being used at 140,000
installations across approximately 27,500 stores in more than 30 countries.
The company has grown rapidly in recent years and its sales revenues
totaled EUR 31.8 million in 2011. GK SOFTWARE AG achieved EBIT of EUR 6.65
million (EBIT margin of 21.0% on sales). Since launching the company in
1990, the two founders Rainer Gläß(CEO) and Stephan Kronmüller (deputy
board member), together with the experienced management team, have shaped
GK SOFTWARE AG into a profitable company exhibiting strong growth.
Further information about the company: www.gk-software.com
For More Information:
Investor Relations
GK SOFTWARE AG
Dr. RenéSchiller
Tel.: +49 (0)37464-84-264
Fax: +49 (0)37464-84-15
E-Mail: rschiller(at)gk-software.com
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Company: GK Software AG
Waldstraße 7
08261 Schöneck
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)3 74 64 84 - 0
Fax: +49 (0)3 74 64 84 - 15
E-mail: info(at)gk-software.com
Internet: www.gk-software.com
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