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Information about Alpha Bay products and services for the retail enterprise can be found in the Solutions section of our site.
Alpha Bay Corporation is a retail systems software and
services provider that delivers 21st century technology
solutions to multi-channel retailers. Whether customers
purchase product in a traditional store, by catalog, or
online, retailers must provide a seamless experience to
stay competitive. Our software gives retailers the
integrated, real-time data access they need to see where
their inventory is, when they need it, across all
channels of their business. This allows retailers to
increase their revenues by raising the average order
value, reducing out-of-stock situations, and
dramatically increasing customer loyalty.read more
The world’s greatest retail success story is Wal-Mart. Beginning as a small discount store in the 1960s, the company now has more than 3,000 stores with more locations being added daily. Besides being the world's largest corporation, Wal-Mart also leads worldwide retail sales in categories like jewelry, appliances, groceries, and toys. To compete with this commercial juggernaut, retailers need to upgrade their IT solutions to allow them to manage all aspects of their business from supply chain to human resources. This will help them effectively compete in an Internet connected e-commerce world, where information equates to profit.
One of the key factors to Wal-Mart’s success is their information technology. While not actually in the software business, Wal-Mart is one of the biggest software companies in the world with over 73,000 employees in IT continually working on its proprietary systems. Competitive retailers can’t buy Wal-Mart’s software, nor can they afford to spend the billions of dollars Wal-Mart has invested to develop a similar solution. Alpha Bay is in a unique position to provide retailers Enterprise Retail Software (ERS) even more advanced, more flexible, and much more affordable than the solution which has driven Wal-Mart to unprecedented success.
The founders of Alpha Bay Corporation have over 120 years of combined experience in enterprise system software and networking technologies. They also have extensive technology experience in software design, development and management, in enterprise system, client/server computing and network/system management. The founders have been involved in international successes like Novell, JD Edwards, Word Perfect, and Dynix. They have created enterprise system software solutions in use today by IBM, Microsoft, SAS, the US Army, the University of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institute, and thousands of other companies and government entities around the world.
This experience and technical acumen led the founders to conclude that a new, adaptive, integrated enterprise retail system solution would revolutionize retailing—a system based on real-time point-of-sale and inventory information, service oriented architecture (SOA), virtual private networking (VPN), Web 2.0 rich client functionality, role-based security, SQL databases, object-oriented programming (OOP), industry standard Linux operating systems, and low-cost dual and quad-core processors. From this was born the concept for Alpha Bay Corporation and its comprehensive, web-based, distributed computing solution, the Adaptive Integrated Retail System—AIRS™.
Alpha Bay Corporation views itself as a partner with its customers, employees, industry, and even its competitors. While at Novell, Alpha Bay founder and CEO Jack Blount invented a philosophy of “coopetition” which led Novell to a very rapid and successful growth by leveraging partnerships with its most aggressive competitors. Mr. Blount established OEM partnerships and strategic alliances with many competitors, including IBM, HP, DEC, Compaq, Microsoft, and 3Com. This offered benefits to customers and to the industry and generated hundreds of millions in revenue for Novell.
The founders of Alpha Bay have spent the past thirty years designing, creating, and implementing state-of-the-art enterprise software systems in markets such as database (DB), enterprise resource planning (ERP), networking, collaboration, and most recently a vertical retail market. Today Alpha Bay is focused on creating the first truly integrated solution to drive every aspect of the supply chain, starting with point-of-sale. The AIRS system is driven by the customer’s action, referred to as a “pull supply chain,” rather than from the traditional “push supply chain” driven by manufacturers.
Alpha Bay Corporation is dedicated to providing its customers with a total, leading-edge solution for enterprise retail, resulting in smarter stores, smarter warehouses, smarter processes, and increased profits.