IBM launches eco-friendly system for small retailers
27 Aug '07
4 min read
IBM uses state-of-the-art design and manufacturing processes to help extend the life of its retail products, thereby helping protect the environment. IBM point-of-sale systems are built to enable retailers to expand and upgrade over a long life cycle.
IBM's Global Financing's Global Asset Recovery Services (GARS) gives small and medium businesses environmentally sound solutions for underutilized assets through an eco-friendly disposal process. GARS was developed 20 years ago to reuse, remarket and recycle servers, hard-drives, monitors, and point of sales systems in an environmentally safe manner.
The IBM SurePOS 100 is a value-oriented POS system that bridges the gap between high-end electronic cash registers (ECRs) and point-of-sale systems. The competitive value includes the system's all-in-one design and its powerful ability to run demanding POS applications. The system comes with exceptional worldwide service support backed by a global network of IBM Business Partners and value added resellers.
The IBM SurePOS 100 will be available in September in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Latin American. Retail store environments can often damage a point-of-sale system's integrity. IBM's advanced retail hardening increases the durability of the SurePOS 100, thus helping to reduce downtime and maintenance costs.
IBM has designed this system specifically for retail environments. Several manufacturing innovations of the advanced retail hardening process include board flex testing, power cycling and pre-shipment integration. IBM's highly reliable design protects the system from damaging factors such as: • Electrostatic Shock • Fluctuations in temperature and humidity • Dust pollution • Harmful vibrations
The compact, retail-hardened system is easy to install and incorporates the technology retailers need to manage operations in convenience, grocery, specialty and other environments, including enterprise class management through Remote Management Agent (RMA).
RMA from IBM is available at no charge for the SurePOS 100, and allows retailers to remotely monitor the POS device, as well as track assets and distribute software.
When combined with IBM Director, also available at no additional charge for use on IBM servers, these functions can be monitored at an enterprise level across multiple store locations.
IBM Director is an integrated, easy-to-use suite of tools that provide customers with flexible systems management capabilities to help realize maximum system availability and help lower IT costs.
With IBM Director, IT administrators can view and track the hardware configuration of remote systems in detail and monitor the usage and performance of critical components, such as processors, disks and memory.
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