Riverbed will showcase a set of retail-focused digital performance solutions at NRF 2019, January 13 -15 in New York City, to enable retailers to further optimize their online and in-store channels, and to stay competitive by rapidly deploying digital services, boosting same-store profits, and improving the overall customer shopping experience while cutting back on operational costs.
Digital transformation continues to disrupt the retail industry as modern consumers agree that a positive online digital shopping experience, in addition to price, is essential to their loyalty in continuing shop at a specific retailer. Today’s consumer demands an always-on, high-performing experience, that is both seamless and accessible across all available shopping channels— from online to mobile to brick-and-mortar. Retailers around the globe have large growth opportunities in ecommerce environments, compelling them to invest in new digital capabilities. Riverbed will demonstrate digital performance solutions that enable rapid delivery of digital services and expansion of retail locations (including pop-up stores) and to optimize all IT channels with increased agility, performance, visibility and reliability to ensure POS connectivity, security and business continuity at stores. Riverbed will also showcase how retailers can manage and monitor the customer’s digital shopping experience and proactively identify and solve issues before they ever impact the customer.
Visit Riverbed at Booth #4359
During NRF 2019, Riverbed will provide presentations and live demonstrations of the following solutions to show how customers can:
- Improve the Customer Shopping Experience with Riverbed SteelCentral to gain visibility into both your customer and employee omni-channel digital experience, while proactively resolving issues to improve services, and to optimize app and digital services performance and improve in-store connectivity through the use of Riverbed SteelConnect SD-WAN and SteelHead SD solutions.
- Rapidly Deploy Digital Services with easy-to-use Riverbed SD-WAN, Riverbed Xirrus Wi-Fi and SteelHead, which enable both the speed and deployment of new services or pop-up stores with a unified network policy orchestration across your LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi and cloud to simplify management, while also providing secure connectivity.
- Boost Same-Store Profits with Cloud Edge, SteelHead, SD-WAN and Wi-Fi to reduce operational and capital costs to open and run each store, enable new services to provide similar in-store and online experiences, speedy and secure POS transactions, as well as to reduce downtime, data loss, and disaster recovery time.
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