CRS Retail Systems Selects Sonic Software as Recommended Middleware for Real-Time Integration Across Its Product Line
CRS Selects SonicMQ® to Help Customers Drive Sales and Deliver Innovative Services by Enabling High-Speed, Reliable Communication Across Thousands of Retail Locations
NEW YORK, N.Y., NRF Convention & Expo, Booth #2425 — January 12, 2004 — Sonic Software, the leader in distributed, standards-based integration, today announced that CRS Retail Systems has selected the company`s award-winning enterprise messaging server, SonicMQ®, to be the recommended enterprise messaging provider for its CRS IntegrationFramework, a combination of .NET, XML Web Services and JMS-compliant messaging components that ensure real-time communication between its broad suite of retail software applications.
CRS Retail Systems provides retail store systems and enterprise applications to help retailers integrate a multi-channel retail enterprise in order to drive incremental sales and improve the customer shopping experience. CRS applications, for example, let retailers see real-time inventory availability across the entire enterprise, create and process sales orders between channels, and validate return/exchange transactions against original transaction data for sales processed that same day.
To enable these communications, the CRS IntegrationFramework comprises JMS-compliant messaging software and proprietary CRS components to link the CRS RetailStore™ POS, CRS EnterpriseSelling™ (formerly "Found Inventory and Order Management"), and CRS ReturnsManagement™ applications, as well as third party applications for e-commerce, warehouse management, or call center customer service.
With many standards-based enterprise messaging alternatives available, CRS selected SonicMQ to be its recommended JMS-compliant enterprise messaging provider for customers installing the CRS IntegrationFramework.
"In retail, providing sales associates with needed information right at their fingertips is a tremendous supplement to the training they receive," said Kathy Frommer, chief executive officer of CRS Retail Systems. "SonicMQ enables this capability in several of our applications and, by exceeding our requirements for performance and scalability, allows our retail customers to confidently expand their businesses with CRS Retail Suite™ applications."
The CRS IntegrationFramework links retail applications in real-time via the Internet or local network. Network performance constraints, however, can be acute during peak load conditions, such as the busy holiday and back-to-school seasons. Sonic`s enterprise-class messaging system provides the store-to-headquarters and store-to-store communications backbone that ensures guaranteed message delivery so, regardless of network performance, CRS customers can be confident that sales orders, inventory updates, and other customer-centric data is reliable.
"By utilizing Sonic`s enterprise-class messaging infrastructure, CRS has a proven foundation for its real-time applications and, at the same time, realizes significant savings in development costs and time-to-deployment," said Gordon Van Huizen, chief technology officer for Sonic Software. "SonicMQ enables high-speed, reliable and scalable communications between thousands of retail stores, multiple distribution centers and corporate offices. This makes it possible for CRS customers to stay ahead of the competition, drive sales, protect margins and improve customer service."
About CRS Retail Systems
CRS Retail Systems provides retail management software, hardware, and services to help its customers drive sales, improve the customer shopping experience, and reduce operating costs, all with more ease and flexibility. The CRS Retail Suite™ includes intuitive and configurable applications for POS, store back-office, mobile store, multi-channel order management, loss prevention, sales audit, CRM, sales analysis, workforce management, and training. The CRS IntegrationFramework utilizes both .NET XML Web Services and JMS-compliant messaging to link all stores, sales channels, and the home office in real-time, putting timely information at the fingertips of those who need it. With more than 100,000 in-store systems installed in 32 countries and 10 languages, CRS is a trusted leader in the retail industry with customers such as American Eagle Outfitters, Ann Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Chico`s, Foot Locker, J.Crew, Sport Chalet, Yankee Candle, and Rosebys (U.K.), among others. CRS is a privately held company with more than 260 employees based at its Newburgh, N.Y. headquarters and a regional office in Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information, please visit the CRS website at www.crsretail.com or call 845-567-1234.
About Sonic Software Corporation
Sonic Software provides the first comprehensive business integration suite built on an enterprise service bus (ESB). The Sonic product line delivers a distributed, standards-based, cost-effective, easily managed infrastructure that reliably integrates applications and orchestrates business processes across the extended enterprise.
Sonic is the world`s fastest growing integration and middleware company and counts global leaders among over 500 customers in financial services, retail, energy, telecommunications and manufacturing. Sonic is an independent operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS, a $300 million software industry leader. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Sonic Software can be reached on the Web at www.sonicsoftware.com, or by phone at +1-781-999-7000 or 1-866-GET-SONIC.
SonicMQ and Sonic Software (and design) are registered trademarks of Sonic Software Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Any other trademarks or service marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
For More Information:
Trip Kucera
Sonic Software Corporation
Telephone: 781-999-7142
Email: trip.kucera@sonicsoftware.com
John Moran
Schwartz Communications, Inc.
Telephone: 781-684-0770
Email: sonic@schwartz-pr.com
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