Earlier this week, the LS Retail Team had their representatives in Moscow to take part in a seminar held by the LS Retail Partner, Impactsoft in cooperation with Microsoft and LS Retail. The participants of the seminar, which focused on automation technology in the retail business, were current Impact-Soft customers and potential customers coming from some of the major Russian and Ukrainian retail and pharmacy chains and various other verticals.
Gunnar Gunnarsson CEO and Carsten Wulff, Director of Partner Management from LS Retail presented the new 2009 versions of LS Retail at this event and discussed the potential of the products in this economic climate that demands productivity, precision and security above all else. Local LS Retail customers in Russia also related their experience with using the system, and of the cooperation with Impact-Soft.
„In the time of an international recession, we are very happy to experience steady growth of about 20%“, says Gunnar Björn Gunnarsson „We added another 210 new customers last year and this year we are on budget. One of the reasons for these results is that we have opened up new markets China, India, the Middle-East and in May we expect to close our first sale in Latin America. “
„Since the year 2000 we have been working with Impact Soft in expanding Microsoft Dynamics NAV and LS Retail into all regions of Russia and CIS. The results of Impact Soft earned them a certification as LS Retail Platinum Partner at the LS Retail Conference in Paris in February, and Impactsoft is now among the 5 most successful LS Retail partners in the world.“
„You should imagine that it would be difficult to sell IT solutions into a retail industry experiencing decreasing sales. But many retailers realize that the current situation forces them to optimize their business. The combination of LS retail and Microsoft Dynamics NAV can show good results in this area. Furthermore, retailers are complimenting their traditional retail business with multi channel retailing – in other words E-commerce. This is one of the reasons, whey LS Retail will make it easier to integrate LS Retail with leading E-commerce solutions.“
The LS Retail visitors were very impressed with the professionalism and hospitality they met everywhere from their hosts.
 Anatoly Stepanskiy, Commercial Director of Impactsoft is also happy with the LS Retail partnership.
„This cooperation gives us an opportunity to offer our customers the most modern solution with a great number of Best Practice for their retail business. LS Retail helps us to implement projects with the customers who have more than several hundred stores with more than 1000 POSs. LS Retail can be easily adapted to different kinds of business: from flower boutiques to fashion and service stations.“
„Working with LS Retail really puts us in a position among the leaders on the Russian IT-market”, concluded Anatoly. |