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The POS system needs to be available to provide customer checkout, customer service and to support store personnel in their daily tasks.  Any interruption in the availability of the store system or its components adversely affects customers.  StoreGazer’s goal is to eliminate POS system outages and to maximize system availability.

StoreGazer:

  • Reports hardware and software problems automatically.
  • Restarts applications that have stopped.
  • Gathers diagnostic data automatically for software problems.
  • Enables action by the support staff to resolve problems.

StoreGazer alerts the support staff to hardware problems and can restart registers and controllers to clear hardware faults.  StoreGazer assists the support staff in diagnosing software problems, performing corrective actions and increasing the stability of the system.

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Today when a problem happens in the store’s point of sale system, the store manager is notified.  The manager spends time investigating the problem and starts the resolution process by telling the help desk about the problem.  The manager is dragged into the diagnostic process with the help desk staff.  While this is happening, the manager is not performing their regular duties.  Cashiers may also be involved in the diagnostic process.  The store is losing management and cashier hours that could be better spent with the customers.

StoreGazer:

  • Reduces store labor costs by automatically fixing and reporting problems before store personnel are impacted by the problem.
  • Reduces store labor costs by helping to solve problems faster.  Store personnel do not have to continually call the support desk to see whether or not the problem is fixed yet.
  • Reduces store labor costs by letting the support staff be able to sign-off an open register that is holding up the store closing process.

StoreGazer can help reduce the amount of time that the store manager spends in trying to get problems with the point of sale hardware or software fixed.  StoreGazer can also make sure that hardware problems do not go unreported.  This can be especially critical at holiday periods when all registers need to be available.

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StoreGazer:

  • Alerts the support staff before the store calls about a problem.  The problem resolution can be started immediately.  Telephone call time can be reduced dramatically.
  • Restarts authorization programs automatically so the staff does not need to restart them.
  • Organizes the information about an incident in a logical and complete approach.  The complete incident text is available.  Instant access to the current information manual for the message number is one mouse click away.
  • Builds an institutional knowledge base of problem resolutions.  It does not disappear when a support person leaves the group.  New support personnel have the wisdom of previous staff available to them through the user text feature.

StoreGazer puts the necessary tools and knowledge at the fingertips of the support staff.  Problems and issues can be dealt with faster.  Support staff has less frustration trying to find out levels of installed software or distributing fixes to the right stores.  Even as the number of stores increases, the number of support staff does not have to also increase.

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New automated capabilities for developers and support functions.

The increased information about store level incidents makes it easier for the support programmers to fix problems.  The ability to add checkpoint and informational messages into new and existing code means that over time the quality of the code will improve.  Improved programming code has a direct impact on the number of incidents experienced by the store.  More time can be devoted to creating new profitable programs and less time spent in the support mode.

StoreGazer:

  • Supports building diagnostic and checkpoint messages into new code.
  • Can report which modules have been loaded into the register at the beginning of the day.
  • Can report the results of software distribution operations.  Where an  ASM procedure failed to complete, the report will show back level code on the system.
  • Can report when a pin pad fails during the day.
  • Can alert the staff to performance problems due to excessive chaining in the keyed files.
  • Monitors self-checkout terminals and other Windows applications.
  • Detects memory leaks in 4690 applications.

Our current users are discovering new uses for StoreGazer that we never imagined.

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  • Reduces store labor costs by automatically fixing problems before store  personnel are impacted by the problem.
  • Reduces store labor costs due to more rapid resolution of incidents.
  • Reduces support staff costs due to shorter problem resolution times from the first report of the problem to the delivery of the final fix.  Better information shortens the mean time to problem resolution.
  • Reduces support staff costs due to the collective intelligence that grows during the use of StoreGazer.  This benefit area is in training costs.
  • Reduces support staff costs due to the higher productivity of the staff in dealing with problems.
  • Reduces support staff costs in the area of asset tracking since controller and register serial numbers for each store are kept in the database. This allows hardware maintenance invoices to be audited against actual installed hardware.
  • Can reduce support staff costs due to automatic hand off of hardware problems to a dispatch system.
  • Reduces development staff costs due to better information available to diagnose and resolve application errors.

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