Unit­ed King­dom–Episys, the glob­al in­for­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy ser­vices com­pa­ny, has part­nered with Cal­i­bra So­lu­tions, a tech­nol­o­gy con­sult­ing and soft­ware ser­vices com­pa­ny based in T&T, to sim­pli­fy new sig­nage for re­tail­ers fol­low­ing the re­moval of VAT on most food stuff.

Fol­low­ing im­ple­men­ta­tion of the new law, su­per­mar­ket op­er­a­tors through­out T&T had the lo­gis­ti­cal night­mare of work­ing long hours to man­u­al­ly change prices on the shelves. They will be faced with sim­i­lar chal­lenges in the fu­ture when it comes to re-in­tro­duc­ing VAT. This process can be made sim­ple with the Episys re­tail sig­nage so­lu­tion.

Episys pro­vides a ro­bust sys­tem which cre­ates new sig­nage quick­ly and eas­i­ly for re­tail­ers. With Cal­i­bra So­lu­tions' proven suc­cess in pro­vid­ing di­ver­si­fied and qual­i­ty, em­bed­ded so­lu­tions, the com­pa­ny was keen to ex­pand its port­fo­lio in the re­tail mar­ket with Episys, to meet the de­mands fac­ing re­tail­ers fol­low­ing the new law.

The Episys re­tail sig­nage so­lu­tion is wide­ly used by re­tail­ers in­ter­na­tion­al­ly and helps them to in­crease sales, re­duce costs and im­prove op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cy. The out-of-the-box con­fig­urable so­lu­tion com­bines pre­cise pro­mo­tion­al mes­sag­ing and sig­nage with mo­bile ap­pli­ca­tions. The so­lu­tion will guar­an­tee con­sis­ten­cy of mes­sage and ac­cu­ra­cy of in­for­ma­tion de­liv­ered in a time­ly and ef­fi­cient man­ner in­de­pen­dent of the fi­nal out­put method.

George Whyte, Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor, Cal­i­bra So­lu­tions ex­plains: "Cal­i­bra had been look­ing for in­no­v­a­tive busi­ness so­lu­tions to add to its port­fo­lio and we ex­pect that Caribbean re­tail­ers will be very in­ter­est­ed in Episys' abil­i­ty to help them gain in­creased sales, re­duce costs and im­prove op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cy. The idea of en­sur­ing that each prod­uct sign or la­bel is a silent sell­er should be ap­peal­ing to all re­tail­ers."

Derek Buchanan, Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer at Episys, said: "Part­ner­ing with Cal­i­bra So­lu­tions fur­thers our glob­al part­ner pro­gram and we are pleased to be able to of­fer a ro­bust sig­nage so­lu­tion to Caribbean re­tail­ers. Episys is al­ways look­ing for part­ners who share a de­sire for the ul­ti­mate in cus­tomer ser­vice.

"Episys clients, which in­clude Home De­pot, Bon-Ton Stores, Sains­bury's, Belk and Sears Hold­ings, are able to dri­ve con­tent from a sin­gle source to all types of out­put me­dia in­clud­ing pa­per, hand­held mo­bile de­vices, elec­tron­ic sig­nage, plas­ma screens and web pages. This en­sures the in­tegri­ty, ac­cu­ra­cy and qual­i­ty of a re­tail­er's pro­mo­tion­al mes­sage and elim­i­nates da­ta re­dun­dan­cy."