The Application of Meraki in the Retail Sector
In the face of the business trend of continuous growth, the retail sector is also confronted with such problems as store location dispersion, increased cost of network maintenance cost, and impedance upon concentrated and efficient management.To address the above-mentioned management issues, we provide CISCO Meraki cloud management solutions that can effectively solve the pain points in the retail sector. The auto site to site VPN function specific to Meraki network device can solve the tedious work of manual VPN connection that the stores have to do to realize dynamic IP. Consequently there is no need for the stores to be equipped with specialized network maintenance personnel to achieve convenient internal system utilization and other needs of internal communication.
CISCO Meraki Brings Cloud into the EnterpriseIt is worth mentioning that this solution provides a uniform cloud-based network management; only one IT staff member is needed to realize real-time management and test the network status within the Chinese region, and in case of breakdown the most accurate information can be obtained through the cloud platform to serve its rapid analysis and elimination. With Cisco Meraki solution, we can realize the unified planning of various branches, instant plug and using of network devices of the newly opened stores, and a shortened period of time of only half a day for arrangement of new arrangement, thus successfully relieving the retail sector of network deployment stress brought by constant store increase.
New reform of network management extending to multiple industriesChain retailers will face the same network management issues, and CISCO Meraki cloud management solutions have become very mature solutions that have obvious advantages. Cisco Meraki network devices are concentrated in the cloud for management, and constitute a 100% cloud management network, completely solving the problems of location dispersion and inability to realize concentrated management; Cisco Meraki equipment, being rich in functions, provides a cloud framework that is easy to use and enables the clients to slove new business problems and reduce operating costs. As a new cloud management solution, Meraki can be easily tailored to demands of different industries, extending from retail sector to such sectors of health care, education, industrial / manufacturing industry, and catering. It can be said that Cisco Meraki has brought a new revolution to network management of multiple industries.
Convenient Auto Site to Site VPN facilitates utilization within the internal system of the stores and their other internal communication needs, replacing the MPLS line and greatly saving expenses.
SMS / WeChat authentication system
Traffic statistics function
To analyze customer location, dwelling time, customer repetition rate, and provide important data for market analysis.
The analysis system being built in WLAN, no additional equipment or software is required.
To provide real time data interface for CRM software, customer loyalty management system and other custom software.