Wind River
Offerings for Retailers
Ensure connectivity, simplify IT operations, and
make accurate, data-based decisions.
Wind River products and services enable retailers to automate, orchestrate, and optimize their distributed technology infrastructure.
Retailers can unify traditional IT, operational technology (OT), and IoT devices by using Wind River® Cloud Platform, the eLxr Pro™ operating system, and edge orchestration partners including Avassa. The result: resilient, real-time retail operations that support omni-channel integration across store locations.
The Urgency of Uptime
Retail operations cannot afford downtime. When systems fail, sales are lost, customers are frustrated, and operations halt. Any technology platform serving the retail industry must ensure business continuity. Wind River’s eLxr Pro and partners such as Avassa can ensure always-on operations by providing:
- Enterprise-grade reliability: The open source eLxr Linux distribution boasts enhanced security with ongoing monitoring and compliance certifications, performance optimizations for cloud-to-edge and mission-critical workloads, and scalability across diverse infrastructure from data centers to edge devices.
- Automated failover and recovery: Intelligent systems detect and resolve issues before they impact operations.
- Real-time monitoring: Proactive system health management prevents problems before they occur. Avassa Edge Platform, integrated with Wind River Linux and eLxr Pro, reduces complexity for retailers that manage distributed systems.
Make Better Use of Retail Data
IoT devices are making inventory management and supply chain operations more efficient and affordable. The entire retail ecosystem benefits, especially online platforms, physical stores, logistics, and customer data analytics. These practices collect a lot of useful data — if the organization can access it.
Fragmented IT management across distributed store networks prevents real-time visibility and slows access to actionable analytics. The consequences? Missed sales opportunities, inefficient inventory management, and omni-channel marketing failures. With Cloud Platform, eLxr Pro, and Wind River Analytics, retailers can integrate analytics with edge technologies (including AI, machine learning, and IoT) for better insights and decision-making. Among the benefits:
- Centralized edge orchestration: Unify edge device management using eLxr Pro through Avassa Control Tower with intelligent agents.
- Real-time data flows: Deploy and manage analytics applications across a retail network using automated provisioning and lifecycle management.
- Open standards integration: Use customizable APIs and plugins for third-party integration, ensuring vendor independence and future growth.
Simplify Operations
Managing thousands of distributed devices, applications, and systems across multiple store locations drains resources. Retailers need automated, centralized lifecycle management.
Minimize operational complexity using automation and centralized management. With Cloud Platform, eLxr Pro, and management tools such as Wind River Conductor and monitoring tools such as Analytics, retailers get:
- Zero-touch automation: Streamline deployments, updates, and maintenance across all store locations without requiring onsite IT staff.
- Centralized management: Avassa Control Tower provides complete visibility and control over edge devices and applications from a single interface.
- Cost optimization: Automated operations lower costs by enabling efficient deployments.
