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BRP is an innovative management consulting firm specializing in strategy, selection and implementation of unified commerce, POS, payment security, mobile, e-commerce, CRM, order management and merchandising solutions.  Retailers choose BRP because of our extensive retail expertise, knowledge-based approach, and rapid end-to-end solution deployment.  www.brpconsulting.com
PLATINUM
IBM helps Retail and Consumer Products companies deliver relevant, differentiated, and compelling products, services and experiences to their consumers. We help you better leverage data to discover new insights with cognitive capabilities, powered with Watson to understand, reason and learn over time – automatically and at scale.  IBM can help quickly implement new capabilities to innovate and drive profitable growth.  ibm.com/retail 
 
Level 10 knows you need less partners to do more.  By strategically bundling the services you need-hardware procurement, key injection, PCI QIR certified staging & integration services, deployment services, and help desk—we act as an extension of your IT team throughout your technology rollouts, store openings/closing/remodels, and store support work.
RSM US LLP is a full-service, nationally recognized Microsoft retail partner for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure, Power BI, Office 365 and more. We are the largest accounting, tax and consulting firm serving the middle market, with 8,800 professionals in more than 80 U.S. offices. Learn more at rsmus.com/winDynamics365.
GOLD
In the world of retail, Aptos engages customers differently. We are the pioneer and recognized industry leader in delivering singular commerce via the Cloud, to enable the seamless experiences that today’s shoppers expect—across all channels and touchpoints—with the highly efficient, integrated operations your business demands. Learn more at aptos.com.
A digital connected retail experience can increase customer and employee loyalty – not to mention sales. Avanade is the leading provider of innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences. Our professionals bring bold, fresh thinking combined with technology, business and industry expertise to help fuel transformation and growth for retailers. www.avanade.com.
Cybera is a leading provider of secure, software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solutions to many of the world’s top enterprises. The company provides a simple solution to the growing complexity that distributed enterprises face at remote locations by uniquely automating application centric security and performance in the cloud, providing greater customer choice through best-of-breed partnerships, and integrated services that accelerate time-to-market. www.cybera.com/sd-wan-retail
Hughes innovation empowers retailers to drive store performance and elevate their customer’s experience by providing a full portfolio of managed services (e.g. SD-WAN, Wi-Fi, security, training, digital signage, etc.) Hughes offers cost effective, and scalable customer-facing and employee-facing solutions that will transform your broadband connections, engage your employees, and elevate your customers’ experience.  www.business.hughes.com
 
Mi9 Retail is passionate about helping retailers create great experiences for their customers – online, in-store, and on any device.  We know that great retail experiences happen when optimized inventory management intersects perfectly with well-executed customer engagement strategies to deliver higher customer loyalty, better margins, and a more engaged workforce.  Our solutions for merchandise management, digital commerce, and store operations are used by leading retailers across the globe. 
 
NEC Corporation of America is a leading provider of innovative IT, communications, retail and biometric products and solutions. NEC’s retail portfolio includes a comprehensive full lifecycle management solution using the best retail hardware, software and support solutions. NEC Corporation of America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation. Visit www.necam/smartretail to learn more.
Since 1989, Posiflex has provided retail-ready POS purpose-built terminals. Posiflex engineers, designs and manufactures touch screen terminals, tablets, POS peripherals with a full complement of hardware support services. Posiflex hardware is software agnostic and can run virtually any software for POS, mobile POS or digital display.
Founded in 1982, Softtek is a global provider of process-driven IT solutions with more than 30 offices in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Softtek helps improve time-to-business-solution, lower costs of existing applications, deliver better engineered and tested applications, and produce predictable outcomes for top-tier corporations in over 20 countries.
With over two decades of consulting and IT support experience, TCS helps global retailers improve processes and cash flow to drive top and bottom line growth. Eight of the top 10 U.S. retailers partner with us on business transformation programs aimed at reimagining and growing the business. 

Leading retailers leverage our new generation products including OmniStoreTM Store Commerce Platform and OptumeraTM, digital merchandising suite to support operations. 

Our Innovation Labs harness technology trends to incubate and develop innovative solutions for retailers. Backed by a strong asset base and an information hub that offers daily insights on the industry, retailers, and their competitors, we deliver industry relevant consulting, solutions, and IT services and support.
WorkJam is the leading employee engagement suite empowering the digital workplace for shift-based and hourly associates. WorkJam manages and optimizes the entire employee-employer relationship life cycle with dynamic mobile schedule management, on-demand training and assessments, streamlined communication, employee recognition and reviews to drive operational efficiency and productivity.
SILVER
Advanced Pricing Logic, Inc. (APL) is a software development company located in Seal Beach, CA. We offer our flagship business software PRICEXPERT as the foremost performance based price optimization solution and analytics tool that provides accurate, predictive insights, enabling smarter pricing decisions.
SATO Global Solutions develops comprehensive IoT solutions for retail. Our VISION Retail platform helps in-store compete, using our integrated Sales Associate and Smart Fitting Room applications designed to increase inventory visibility and create a VIP shopping experience. Future-proof and technology agnostic, the platform empowers sales associates and customers by leveraging the power of data. http://www.satoglobalsolutions.com/
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