Retail Center of Excellence

MindTree's Retail delivery organization is supported by Centers of Excellence (CoEs) comprising of a mix of functional and technical experts who help in sharing best practices across the engagements, building solutions/frameworks and identifying future direction, emerging trends and challenges. We leverage our alliance with partners such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle to enhance competency in product knowledge, new solutions and frameworks and provide integrated end-to-end solutions to our customers. MindTree has dedicated CoEs for Oracle Retail, IBM WebSphere, Sterling Commerce,  Microsoft Dynamics and Testing.

At a broad level, the key objectives for our CoEs are

Oracle Retail CoE

MindTree's Oracle Retail CoE works in collaboration with the MindTree's Retail Industry Group, Oracle Practice and the Java/J2EE Practice to build internal competency via training, recruitment, establishing alliances, defining processes and methodologies and sharing best practices across projects. MindTree's focus areas within Oracle Retail include RMS (Retail Merchandising System), RPM (Retail Price Management), RWMS (Retail Warehouse Management System), ReSA (Retail Sales Audit), Allocation, ReIM (Retail Invoice Matching), RDF (Retail Demand Forecasting), 360 Commerce and SIM (Store Inventory Management). Our CoE team comprises of Oracle Retail technology experts and senior domain consultants with experience in areas such as point-of-sale, merchandising, supply chain management, inventory management, store management and financials.

IBM WebSphere CoE

IBM WebSphere CoE at MindTree has over 450 professionals specializing in WebSphere technologies developing scalable, secure B2B, B2C and B2E applications on various WebSphere products helping companies leverage technology to deliver against specific business challenges.

Sterling Commerce CoE

MindTree Sterling Commerce COE has developed a holistic perspective on offering Sterling Commerce package based solutions to customers. It has been instrumental in developing ‘Industry Best Practices’ for any Sterling Multi-Channel Fulfilment implementation. It primarily focuses on providing solutions to leading organizations across geographic locations:     

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Microsoft Dynamics CoE

Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) offers small and mid-market retailers a complete point-of-sale (POS) solution that can be adapted to meet unique retail requirements. This powerful software package automates POS processes and store operations, provides centralized control for multi-store retailers, and integrates with Microsoft Office system programs, Microsoft Dynamics GP, and other popular applications. Microsoft Dynamics RMS is built on a proven Microsoft platform that adapts to meet unique and changing retail needs.

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Testing CoE

MindTree's Testing CoE has helped retailers streamline the testing processes for store as well as corporate applications to bring high-performance to market quickly and efficiently. With a focus on retail domain knowledge, processes, tools, innovation and best practices, MindTree's dedicated Testing CoE takes complete ownership of the testing process and helps in providing comprehensive testing services and implementing strong quality processes for retailers. MindTree has helped retailers for various testing engagements such as end-to-end testing of various retail applications for a leading discount retailer in US, User Acceptance Testing on all modules of Oracle Retail for a leading retailer in Middle East, performance testing approach for store and head office applications, etc.