I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful holiday season. As 2017 ends, BRdata would like to reflect on this year’s accomplishments. We are proud to report another record-breaking sales year, which includes a 20% growth in sales, and an increase in personnel to an all-time high. We now offer a fully integrated e-commerce platform for retailers looking for a powerful, affordable, back-office data-driven, end to end solution. We launched the BRdata Cloud app – which provides an enterprise sales dashboard and item movement views – and the BRdata Store app – which includes a meat grind-log solution, and is the basis for our transition from the store level Windows client application. There were several enhancements added to the BRdata Cloud solution – including numerous new reports and features, enhanced customer loyalty, in-lane digital coupons for RORC point of sale, production planning, and automated report emailing. There have also been two major releases to the BRdata enterprise suite – versions 8.07 and 8.08.
BRdata World 2017, our 10th annual user’s conference, was a well-attended success. The feedback for the industry speakers, case studies, networking, and education was overwhelmingly positive. We elected a new user group president and added several grocery industry veterans to the BRUG board of directors.
We have two big trade show events over the next two months. We hope to have the opportunity to meet with you and demonstrate our new technologies, either at NRF in New York City, on January 14-16, or at NGA in Las Vegas, on February 11-14, 2018. If you are attending NGA, please plan on joining us, and your peers, at a BRdata user group (BRUG) meeting on Monday, February 12th, at 5:00 pm, in the Mirage hotel.
Although this past year has been a great success, it could not have been possible without our dedicated BRdata family of associates, customers, and partners.
As always thank you for choosing BRdata for your retail technology needs and for your continued support. Here’s to a Happy New Year from everyone at the BRdata family. We look forward to a healthy, prosperous 2018 – and beyond.
Sincerely,
John Abbene
President
BRdata | johna@brdata.com