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Colorado Group
With new headquarters in Brisbane, Australia,
Colorado Group are a leading national footwear
and apparel retailer with an Australian heritage
dating back over 140 years. Now operating in
more than 430 stores in Australia and New
Zealand, Colorado Group has become one of
Australia’s leading retailers. The group’s portfolio
of brands include Colorado, Mathers, Williams,
Pairs, Jag and diana ferrari.
Colorado Group has chosen to work with
DigiPoS Store Solutions to rollout 500 lanes of the
DigiPoS Retail Blade solution across Australia
and New Zealand. The DigiPoS Retail Blade has
delivered the continuity of supply, warranty and
upgrade options which Colorado Group couldn’t
find with other products.
With existing systems coming out of warranty
and consistency of supply becoming an issue,
Colorado Group began to look for a new
solution. After exhaustive investigation of what
the market had to offer, Colorado Group decided
that the DigiPoS Retail Blade was the only
system flexible enough to meet all of their
requirements.
DigiPoS Store Solutions have been able to deliver
continuity of supply which Colorado Group have
been searching for. DigiPoS has guaranteed
consistency of supply on core components for
the entire rollout.
DigiPoS Store Solutions has also delivered a 5 Year
Warranty on the entire lane of POS equipment
(including all of the POS peripherals). The fact
DigiPoS was prepared to offer such an extended
warranty provided Colorado with the
reassurance that DigiPoS stood behind their
solution and backed their claims of reliability
and longevity.
Even after the DigiPoS Retail Blade solution has
served them for a full 5 years, the flexibility of the
innovative Blade design gives Colorado Group
the independence to upgrade only the core
components and extend the lifecycle of the
project to a full 10 Years (whilst still ensuring
that they are able to take advantage of the
latest technology).
DigiPoS really "stood out from the
crowd" because they listened and were prepared
to be flexible. They were also able to deliver the
fastest retail hardened system available on the
market. Mark Chapman, CIO of Colorado Group,
says "They listened and were prepared to deliver
exactly what we needed. They have made a
number of customisations to suit our specific
requirements". The configuration in use by
Colorado Group utilises an Intel Pentium 4
2.8GHz processor with 1Gb of RAM and an
80Gb SATA hard drive. This is believed to be the
fastest retail hardened system in use by any
retailer in Australia or New Zealand.
Vivien Thompson, IS Services Manager of
Colorado Group, sums it up “The Retail Blades
are a great improvement, they are faster, easier
to maintain and offer outstanding reliability, The
DigiPoS staff are professional, truthful and
tremendous to deal with”.
Colorado Group now have peace of mind when
it comes to their new systems. With over 250 of
the DigiPoS Retail Blade solutions currently
installed, Colorado is due to complete the rollout
of all 500 lanes by February 2007.
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