Columbus IT gains contract at department store Tallinna Kaubamaja

Recently a major contract with Estonia-based department store Tallinna Kaubamaja marks an important step in Microsoft and Columbus IT’s joint strategy to move into the retail sector. The new solution gives the department store a number of important competitive advantages and makes it much easier to give customers the service they demand.

The contract with the Estonian department store is the first result of a strategic initiative aimed at the retail market that was launched by Columbus IT in the autumn of 2009 in collaboration with the world’s biggest software company, Microsoft, which has bought the rights to Columbus IT’s industry solution for the retail sector.

“The retail sector was hit hard by the economic crisis and only very few retail businesses had the systems and the functionality needed to handle such drastic changes in the market and in customers’ buying habits. We now see a massive need for end-to-end systems in the retail sector that cover the entire business, from cash registers to customer systems and storage management. Consequently, we have developed a strategy in collaboration with Microsoft, and Estonia’s leading department store, Tallinna Kaubamaja, is the first customer in the Baltic countries to acquire the entire strategy,” says Columbus IT Group Managing Director Claus E. Hansen.