ThinLinc Terminal Server Solution for Retail

Success in retail comes down to delivering what the customers want, when they want it, at a competitive price. To achieve this you need to get maximum value out of your supply chain and employees, in order to control costs and preserve margins.

With this in mind, more and more retailers are turning to the Internet to help them manage their supply chain more efficiently. Online inventory tracking systems are integrated with order management tools to feed orders to partners up and down the chain. They also connect with internal systems used by employees to check stock data, order status and other criteria. Similarly, the company intranet keeps the employees updated with human resources information as well as policies and procedures. Other online applications manage customer loyalty programs, together with self-help tools for suppliers and customers. And most retailers of course have an e-commerce solution which must work flawlessly.

The ThinLinc terminal server solution addresses all these demands from the retail sector and ensures optimal response times from applications, privacy for sensitive financial and private information, plus ensures the availability of the system since downtime can mean lost revenue.

How ThinLinc can help the retail sector:

• Load balancing and traffic management at application level to ensure high availability and peak application performance.

• SSH encryption to ensure data privacy end-to-end, with offload capabilities which speed up encryption and reduces the server workload

• SSH based remote access to allow simple, secure, on demand access to online systems for remote employees and partners.

• Robust attack protection to prevent virus and worm attacks from burdening server resources

• The terminal server acts as a bridge between the user and the application servers. In this way the user can have access to the applications best suited for the job, no matter what operating system the application happens to be programmed for. It's easy to mix programs from Linux, Unix and Windows, for instance, on the same desktop.