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360Commerce Customer FedEx Kinko's Presenting Best Practices for Business Transformation at NRF's Big Show.


AUSTIN, Texas -- 360Commerce Industry Thought-Leaders to Present Mission Critical Topics

360Commerce announced today that FedEx Kinko's FedEx Kinko's is a chain of stores that provide printing, copying, and binding services. Many FedEx Kinko stores also provide video conferencing facilities. The primary clientele consists of small business and home office clients. , one of 360Commerce's leading retail customers, will be presenting, Automating Business Processes in Stores and Across the Enterprise Through Vision, Technology, and Execution during the National Retail Federation's Big Show in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
 on January 17 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in room E16. Richard Maranville, vice president of field systems for FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Services Inc., will:

--Illustrate "Redefining Retail" through a real world example

--Describe FedEx Kinko's business process challenges and innovative application solutions

--Provide best practices for multiple, large, and parallel systems integration

--Outline FedEx Kinko's adaptive development approaches for transformation automation projects

As an integral member of 360Commerce's FedEx Kinko's project launch team, Christopher Brown Christopher Brown (born August 15, 1978) is a Bahamian athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, he has been a successful relay runner with three World Championships medals.  will describe the role of 360Commerce products and project management methodology in the FedEx Kinko's project from inception to rollout.

In addition to the FedEx Kinko's speaking engagement, several other key members of 360Commerce's management team will participate in speaking engagements at the NRF NRF National Retail Federation
NRF NATO Response Force
NRF National Research Foundation (South Africa)
NRF Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (urban renewal funding package in the UK)
NRF Nouvelle Revue Française
 Big Show from January 16-19 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center.

Brian Hopcraft, vice president of workforce management Workforce Management (WFM) encompasses all the responsibilities for maintaining a productive and happy workforce. Sometimes referred to as HRMS systems, or even the larger ERP systems (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP). There are many software vendors within this space.  for 360Commerce, will present How to Get the Most ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot).  from a Workforce Management Solution during a Big Ideas session on Tuesday, January 18 from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Hopcraft, recognized as a workforce management industry thought-leader, will demonstrate what retailers should look for in a workforce management solution to ensure they realize the maximum ROI.

On Sunday, January 16, Ray Allen Not to be confused with Ray Alan or Allan Ray.
Walter Ray Allen (born July 20, 1975) is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Boston Celtics, for whom he plays shooting guard. He has also played for the Milwaukee Bucks and Seattle SuperSonics.
, vice president of engineering for 360Commerce, is moderating a retailer panel during the ARTS Sunday Session titled, Measure Twice, Cut Once: Using ARTS-NRF Standards to Select the Right Software and Make Sure it Fits. Prior to joining 360Commerce, Allen spent over a decade at The Home Depot as Director of Store Systems. Allen will leverage his retail expertise to focus the panel discussion on Best Practices for Evolving to Standards. Panel members include Blockbuster, Smart and Final, and Circuit City. The panel will be held from 10:00 to 10:30 a.m. in room 1E 12/13.

Additionally, Bob Clements, vice president of workforce management product development for 360Commerce, will be presenting RFPS RFPS Radio-Frequency Plasma Spraying  and IXRetail Schema, a Perfect Complement at 9:15 a.m. during the ARTS Sunday Session. Clements has extensive experience in the retail workforce management industry and joined 360Commerce with the Simplified Workforce Solutions acquisition in December of 2003. Clements will also be presenting in the ARTS booth #338 on Monday, January 17 at 5 p.m. and Tuesday, January 18 at 11:30 a.m. on WFM (1) (Wired For Management) A specification from Intel for a PC that can be centrally managed in a network. It must be DMI compliant, be accessible by a management server prior to booting, contain instrumentation for component discovery and identification and  -- Accelerating ROI with IXRetail.

In addition to these speaking engagements, 360Commerce will demonstrate their store and workforce management optimization solutions in their booth #1615 as well as in the IXRetail and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries)  booths in the expo hall.

About 360Commerce

360Commerce's proven and flexible store and workforce management applications are running in more of the world's leading retailers than any comparable Java solution. 360Commerce empowers retailers to achieve profitable differentiation by enabling a superior shopping experience and providing a lower total cost of ownership and rapid time to ROI. 360Commerce's applications embody the best-practices functionality of customers such as Apple, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Circuit City, The Home Depot, Gap Inc., KB Toys, Kinko's, and Rite Aid. Their applications include Point-of-Sale, Back Office, Inventory Management, Central Office and Workforce Management.
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