# Become a Shopper-focused, Digitally-enabled Business

Transformational Retail offers retailers expert guidance in the following areas:

- Strategy-aligned technology planning
- Solution selection, vendor due-diligence
- Innovation evaluation, prioritization & business case creation
- Technology portfolio review, legacy rationalization plans
- Digital planning, eCommerce & mobile
- Project prioritization & implementation planning and guidance

# Today’s Retailer Challenges

The fact is, legacy software is holding great retailers back. We are living in a time of significant technological transformation, and many retailers find it hard to keep up with the fast pace of the change. Legacy software presents the following challenges for retailers:

1. **Current software solutions are fragmented, too many vendors.**  
   - Lack of integration (multiple forecasting systems)  
   - Finger pointing between vendors is common  
2. **Master data is replicated, managed redundantly.**  
3. **Legacy platforms hard to replace,** entrenching bad processes  
   - Finding capable talent (i.e. Cobol/RPG coders) hard to do  
4. **Maintaining old software uses budget needed for innovation**  
   - Replacement systems are difficult to financially justify  
5. **Legacy systems lack key technologies** such as AI, Mobile, etc.  
6. **Inefficient, people and paper intensive business processes**, and dependencies on external solutions like Microsoft Excel, have developed around these platforms  
7. **Shopper support systems are siloed**, resulting in disparate mono-channel experiences vs. omni-channel experiences

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# We Help Retailers Meet Their Technology Transformation Goals

Our experts guide retailers to operational excellence, helping them make the transformation to shopper-focused and digitally-enabled businesses.

## Current State

**Tactically-focused**  
**Legacy Dependent**  
**On-Premise or hybrid (Some Cloud)**  
**Complex, Multi-Vendor**  
**Proprietary, Older Platforms**  
**Monolithic Architecture**  
**Too Many Competing Priorities**  
**Investing Budget in the Past**

## Desired State

**Strategically-Focused**  
**Future-Ready**  
**Fully Cloud-Deployed**  
**Simplified, Fewer Vendors**  
**Open, Modern Platforms**  
**Services/Microservices Architecture**  
**Priorities Clearly Defined**  
**Investing Budget in the Future**

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