Reimagine Retail with Smart Digital Solutions
For years, brick and mortar retailers faced competitive pressures from online retailers, inspiring new innovations and personalized services to gain and retain loyal shoppers. Recent challenges and mandates to curb in-store shopping and dining is yet again prompting retailers to get creative to maintain loyalty and drive revenue. Stores who have not yet started app-based ordering and pick-up are doing so now. Traditional dine-in restaurants are now adopting the same practices as traditional drive-thru chains. Clothing retailers are adapting to deliver high-touch services, in a no-touch world.
As retailers look to change the way they serve customers, they are transforming their brick and mortar stores to do more. This transformation requires digital tools, data processing right where users and devices are, and leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve IT processes and drive business outcomes.
As retailers look to innovate, Aruba can help.
ARUBA’S RETAIL SOLUTIONS
Aruba’s solutions enable retailers to engage customers and drive top-line growth. Retailers can deploy high-performance networking and security across any location – stores, warehouses, campuses , outdoor locations, and teleworker home offices. Aruba uniquely integrates management and policy enforcement across Wi-Fi, wired, and wide area networks (WAN) to right-size network infrastructure and ensure end-to-end mobility.
Aruba’s Edge Services Platform (Aruba ESP) is the industry’s first AI-powered platform designed to automate, unify and protect the edge for businesses of any size or type. Aruba ESP includes attributes of Unified Infrastructure, Zero‑Trust Security, AI Powered Operations (AIOps), and Flexible Consumption/Financing Models. These attributes are designed for the unique challenges facing retail, including being able to adapt quickly for unknown future use cases. A Unified Infrastructure provides a single management source for wired, wireless, & SD-Branch to facilitate any retail location. Zero-Trust Security ensures that all store, factory, warehouse, associate, and shopper devices are profiled and correctly assigned network access. AIOps enable network automation, proactive problem resolution, and provides robust management tools for network operators.
