{"id":2279,"date":"2021-12-23T06:35:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T06:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skillnetinc.com\/?post_type=blogs&p=2279"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:29:26","slug":"the-need-for-consolidated-monitoring-of-retail-it-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"blogs","link":"https:\/\/www.skillnetinc.com\/es\/resources\/blogs\/the-need-for-consolidated-monitoring-of-retail-it-landscapes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Need for Consolidated Monitoring of Retail IT Landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Understanding the Complexity of Retail IT Systems<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The IT landscape of retail enterprises is made up of a network of interdependent systems \u2013 internal legacy applications, modern COTS implementations and interfaces to external applications like payment gateways, merchandizing, and supply chain systems. Various infrastructure elements that are essential to the retail industry \u2013 POS devices, Bar Code Scanners, Card Readers \u2013 to name just three, add to the complexity. The CIO is responsible for ensuring that these diverse systems perfectly work in-synch with each other. With ever increasing requirements to provide customers with better experience, real time store monitoring becomes a critical necessity. Orchestration of these systems to provide consolidated retail monitoring solutions, becomes extremely challenging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Challenges with Traditional Retail Monitoring Solutions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Orchestration begins with monitoring. With so many disparate systems, retail enterprises have had no option but to use multiple retail monitoring systems, each necessitated by the choice made at the time of acquiring or upgrading these systems. These diverse monitoring for retail systems provide information that gets isolated into islands. Worse, different retail monitoring systems give rise to different versions of the truth and provide conflicting data that could lead to poor operational decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Need for a Unified Retail Monitoring Dashboard<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In such situations, the need for a retail monitoring solution that can consolidate all these islands of information onto a single dashboard becomes critical. The solution will help present information that reflects operational status in an accurate manner.  Further, such a solution can also forecast peak load periods, based on seasonality, time of day, and day of week or month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key Features Missing in Traditional Monitoring Systems<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Traditional retail monitoring solutions lack features that are essential for the retail enterprise. Some of these are critical for ensuring consistent customer experience, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n