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2019 Metro User Forum and Awards Event
Join us for this year's Metro forum where without a doubt we have the best customer presentations, keynote speakers and interactive sessions planned for what is going to be our biggest and best forum ever! Following an action-packed day of industry analysis, insight...
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RMS to attend RetailEXPO (previously known as RBTE) 2019, 1st and 2nd May, Olympia, London
RMS are delighted to be exhibiting at RetailEXPO to be held in the Grand Hall at Olympia London on 1st & 2nd of May 2019. RetailEXPO is the must-attend event for all retail and hospitality organisations looking for the right tools, solutions, innovations and...
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The 13th Annual User Forum and Awards Evening – the biggest and best forum to date
Castle Malwood, Minstead, Hampshire. Thursday 12th July 2018 saw RMS host their 13th Annual User Forum and Awards evening, with guests from retail, hospitality and healthcare, along with the RMS team enjoying a fantastic day of presentations and an evening of fun and...
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Metro User Forum 2018 Photo Gallery
Winners announced at 2018 Metro Awards Ceremony
What a terrific day everyone had at the 13th Annual Metro User Forum on Thursday 12th July 2018, with an even more special evening for the award winners below. A full report of day can be found here but our congratulations go to:- The Award Winners...
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How much time and money do companies waste on email?
The fact is our reliance on email has got out of hand and there’s absolutely no reason for it; email is no longer the most effective way to communicate, engage or collaborate with your workforce. According to various internet sources (just google it!) the average...
read moreRetail Reinvention
According to the Office for National Statistics, there were 93,000 fewer jobs in retail during 2018, and that trend looks to continue as the prediction made by the British Retail Consortium in 2016 starts to look increasingly accurate. The BRC said then that almost a...
read moreHow to turn Black Friday into a Golden Quarter!
Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving when Americans traditionally start their Christmas shopping) and Cyber Monday have become growing phenomenon’s for UK shoppers seeking a bargain on their Christmas shopping. For retailers, the build-up to this event, along with...
read moreMaximising the AI opportunity
This week we had the opportunity to attend Microsoft Future Decoded 2018 and have come away with a mind-blowing view of the future. With incredible first-hand insights into technology concepts such as Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge, as well as emerging...
read moreWhat are you budgeting for 2019?
In the comparative calm before the madness of Halloween, Bonfire Night, Christmas and the New Year kicks in, this is the time where that other great annual tradition starts to take place - Planning, Forecasting and the setting of Budgets for the year ahead. Perhaps...
read moreLocal labelling Imperatives
Reading the sad events that unfolded recently due to an incorrectly labelled baguette, whilst also hearing of another death due to an allergic reaction, one cannot help think with all the technology available how these tragic events could have been avoided. Obviously,...
read moreIs your organisation’s efficiency clogged up with Toxic Technology?
Toxic technology - It's nobody's fault but the inevitability of developing and purchasing individual applications to solve single problems. In isolation this can work fine, automating processes and bringing productivity gains to the individuals utilising the...
read morePersonal Productivity Tools
People like to dabble around in the world of personal productivity tools - Word or Pages instead of a typewriter, Excel or Sheets instead of a calculator and PowerPoint or Keynote instead of overhead slides. And just like their predecessors they are not easily...
read moreIntelligent pricing could help to eliminate waste from luxury brands
I read an interesting post this morning on the Retail Technology Review website on the back of recent news that luxury brands have destroyed millions of pounds worth of unsold merchandise to avoid their products falling into the wrong hands and being sold on the "grey...
read moreSo what are the compelling reasons to move to metro ?
Well, one of the big factors is cost - not just cost to purchase, but the cost savings to the organisation of getting rid of dozens of other software products that are superseded by metro. The cost of keeping multiple software applications running is often overlooked,...
read moreWhat keeps metro on the top spot for branch control and communication?
Well, one viewpoint is the care we put into our customers - no random email surveys or the occasional telephone call here, each customer is allocated their own Team Metro personnel - real people who genuinely care, who are employed just to ensure your businesses gets...
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