TCS solution to help retailers roll-out new outlets

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a globalIT services firm, has ann-ounced a
new retail-specific solution utilizing Microsoft technologies, designed to give
project managers better in-sight into new store opening processes through
enterprise reporting. The new solution called 'New Store Opening' will be
demonstrated in the Micro-soft booth at the Retail Sys-tems Conference in
Chicago and at the TCS booth. By some retailers' estimates, roughly 80 percent
of tasks associated with a new store opening or store rem-odel stay the same
from store to store. Retailers, however, often lack the appro-priate set of
tools and metho-dologies to assign, monitor and report on the multitude of
tasks.

According to the press release, TCS' new store ope-ning solution provides
retai-lers with customized busi-ness process templates and a cen-tral,
searchable repository for documents, budgets, or any content associated with
assi-gned tasks. The solution also offers many additional bene-fits such as
benchmarking and giving companies a better understanding to anticipate how long
a particular business process should take versus how long it actually takes.

This solution utilizes Microsoft Office Enterprise Management technologies
including Microsoft Office Project Server 2003, Microsoft Office Project
Professional 2003, Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2000 and the Microsoft Office
System. The release further states that 'New Store Opening' address-es
numerous issues and challenges a retailer may face, such as lack of
communication and collaboration across project teams, unstructured document
repositories, delays with new and remodeled sto-res and corporate governance and
compliance pressures.

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