Rethink Retail with Dynamics 365 and the Microsoft platform

The best retailers are those that are ‘Customer Obsessed’
The past few years have not always been the 'easiest' for retailers. Buying behaviours have changed massively, putting immense pressure back on you to continually answer to the needs of customers and consumers. Together with Microsoft, we are confident we can enable business transformations for our retail customers, around the globe.

Most retailers collect data across the omnichannel, but can't share across departments, creating barriers, disparate landscape and lack of intelligent insights to understanding their customers.

As customers real time engagement across omni channels increase so do their expectations of a unified, continuous, personalised and consistent experience as they switch between platforms.

Due to data’s fragmented nature, it's not shared, not understood and loses value. This prevents Sales, Marketing, Merchandising for example to analyse & understand trends in customer behaviour, product churn, changes in consumer demands and as such lost opportunities.

Brand loyalty continues to be challenging as customers retention rates fall. Customers frequently switch, due to factors ranging from price, poor customer service (I'm a high value customer!), poor user experience and the inability for retailers to fulfil their order demands.

Converting new customers to placing an order is not just applicable in physical stores, but now via multiple platforms too from ecommerce to mobile apps.

Customers still encounter countless purchasing journeys heavy with time delays, repetition and an overall frustrating experience, increasing the risk of those customers looking elsewhere.

‘Companies with the greatest amount of customer loyalty had more frequent access to customer experience performance data, often in real time’..
Rethink Retail with Dynamics 365 and the Microsoft platform
Create a unified, connected, real time Customer Data Platform (CDP) providing a 360 degree personalised view of each of your individual customers.
Create a deeper, personalised understanding of your customers, with access to their browsing and purchasing history, understanding their sentimental behavioural habits. Empower departments to tailor promotions and marketing campaigns to individual demands.
Proactively unlock new opportunities, through predicative recommendations for new product lines, identifying product churn and trends based on consumer demand. Provide seamless, consistent and enriched user experience, engaging with your customers and improving customer service.
Meet consumer fulfilment demands through leveraging the wider Microsoft Retail ecosystem of Intelligent Order Management (IOM) and Unified Operations.


Register today for your HSO Envisioning Workshop
Our Envisioning Workshops are designed and purposed to help companies better understand the capabilities of the Microsoft platform and how the Dynamics 365 suite of applications can support retail organisations like yourself to improve their operations and become more customer focused. Over the course of a single day, we will together engage in a dialogue to help you build your Business Applications roadmap.
Are you looking to enhance the connection between your distribution channels on the one hand vs. your fulfillment capabilities on the other side and improve how resilient your supply chain really is? In this workshop, we will focus on the capabilities of Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management and how it can power your supply chain fulfillment.

Being customer focused, or customer obsessed, starts with having the full, holistic, overview of who your customers are, where they are and what their preferences are. Based on what they tell. And based on how they interact with your brand. Microsoft developed Dynamics 365 Customer Insights to do just that. In this envisioning workshop, we will focus on what your information requirements are in better understanding your customers and how the Microsoft platform can help you

Data is often anywhere but very often also not everywhere. Data has tremendous power but only when you are able to use it in the grander scheme of things, in a setup that enforces a single version of the truth. HSO's Retail Ready KPI's offering enables companies to bring together data from multiple sources. This workshop will focus on gathering your information requirements and drafting a roadmap towards the deployment of HSO's Retail Ready KPI's Accelerator.

Why do retailers work with HSO?
At HSO, we are very well aware you have many choices when it comes to both IT platforms and IT partners. We, on the other hand, are proud to be HSO. A partner with proven expertise in the retail industry.
It is people that make projects a success. Within HSO, we can rely on a large group of people with deep industry expertise, understanding business challenges and solutions.
Your business doesn’t stop at the border, nor do we. Operating with over 30 nationalities, languages and cultures, more than 15 global offices and successful implementations in over 40 countries.
Our holistic understanding of what it takes for true transformation through enabling the relevant and right solutions for your business. Innovative assets and accelerators to deliver consistent and timely value.
Continually recognized by Microsoft as one of their leading global partners. HSO has been a member of the Microsoft Inner Circle for over 15 years and won the prestigious Global Partner of the Year in 202.
We said it before. We can't stretch it enough. HSO is large enough to serve, small enough to care.





Book your Envisioning Workshop now
If you are considering next steps into the Microsoft and Dynamics 365 platforms, you might be wondering where to start. Our envisioning workshops geared to help you right there. They are offered free of charge, in collaboration with Microsoft. All we ask from you is your time and focus.








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