Camping World Successfully Installs Thin Client Technology; New application from GERS Saves Time, Man-Hours and Money.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 1999-- GERS Retail Systems has successfully delivered Thin Client technology to Camping World. Camping World, a recreational vehicle (RV) supply retailer and wholesaler headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky Bowling Green is the fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of Kentucky after Louisville, Lexington and Owensboro, with an estimated "population" in 2006 of 53,112. It is the county seat of Warren County and the principal city of and is included in the Bowling Green, Kentucky , deployed the GERS Enterprise1 Retail Suite of products in February. Camping World has 29 stores in over 15 states and is adding additional stores this year. Modules deployed during the live Camping World conversion were Warehousing and Distribution, Merchandising, Sales Audit, and Accounts Payable. Several interfaces, including a completely functional recommended purchase order generation program from a third party replenishment software program called MARS, were also implemented. GERS joined forces with Network Computing Devices (company) Network Computing Devices - (NCD) Producer of X terminals, PC-Xware and Z-Mail. http://ncd.com/. (NCD NCD - Network Computing Devices ) to offer Thin Client technology to its customers. For the same money more Thin Clients can be purchased and utilized than PCs, therefore, the unit cost is very attractive to retailers. This offering is the latest application to be added to the GERS Retail Suite of products. Thin Clients allow a user access to "PC" applications without the normal maintenance necessary with fully-loaded PCs. A Thin Client user operates the Thin Client device just like a PC, in that the user is presented with the applications available to them -- Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. , Excel, or Access. The main advantage of the Thin Client is that the application only needs to be loaded one time on a Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. server, which is centrally managed. A further benefit is that the system can be remotely administered. Jim Bullock, Vice President of MIS for Camping World, has reported the greatest benefit of the GERS Enterprise 1 system is `that people are talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to one another.' He adds, "We have A/P A/P Airport A/P Accounts Payable A/P Advanced Placement (education) A/P Anterior/Posterior A/P Active/Passive A/P Assessment & Plan (medical) A/P Automatic Pilot A/P Aircrew Personnel talking to merchandising; merchandising talking to warehousing, trying to figure out better ways to run our business via utilization of the new systems and applications." -0-
The implementation at Camping World includes:
-- Integration of Microsoft products
-- Integration of Third Party software products
-- Connectivity to the Enterprise1 application and General
Retail Character applications
-- Connectivity to Oracle financials
-- Connectivity to the CW Wang "legacy systems/applications
Built upon an Oracle relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. to maximize flexibility, data access, and high growth, the GERS Retail Suite of products is a comprehensive business management system designed to maximize employee and inventory efficiency. San Diego-based GERS Retail Systems provides fully-integrated, Open Systems computer solutions software, hardware, and comprehensive training for direct marketing operations, including catalog and Internet marketers; as well as retailers of softlines, hardlines, department stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. , home furnishings retailers, and consumer electronics/wireless retail operations. For more information, login on to www.gers.com |
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