In the innovative and competitive UK market retailers continuously seek to improve their performance and strive to meet the demands of consumers.

The availability of new and diverse channels to market, the growth of sustainable e-business models, the move towards globalisation and a continued drive for operational excellence all demonstrate that the retail market has never been more challenging.

We have worked with many major retail and commercial organisations across the UK and Ireland to deliver a range of IT solutions to help them achieve their competitive advantage.

Our Consultancy Team combines extensive business and technical expertise to develop realistic business visions for future growth.  We help to manage change and ensure business readiness.

Many retailers now compete at a global level and are seeking ways to fully exploit their customer data.  In some cases retailers are reinventing themselves as wider 'service providers' to local communities.

Our Business Intelligence team provides a gap analysis between your business requirements and current Business Intelligence provision.

We develop online shopping solutions that deliver safe and secure portal aggregation for better customer targeting and increased return on investment.  We develop bespoke solutions that enable quicker delivery, faster stock turnover and lower stock holdings, JIT delivery and zero defect/top quality goods.

As retail businesses fight to achieve greater returns on investment and increased operational efficiency, many business leaders are choosing to outsource activities to specialist organisations.  Sopra Group's Application Outsourcing and Systems Integration divisions design, develop, integrate and support applications for many of the UK's key retail and commercial businesses.

To support our clients, we deliver an agile business model that tailors our services to the specific requirements of the client.  Using our sourcing model, clients can access our onsite, offsite and offshore delivery models that add increased flexibility to projects and deliver reduced costs and increased operational efficiency.

New service oriented architectures and supporting infrastructure can exploit the workhorse systems that sustain your business whilst providing dynamic front ends and "plug and play" dexterity.  The smart deployment of these new architectures is the way forward and the rewards for those that get IT right the first time are huge.

We have teams of specialist testing professionals.  With a depth of experience and range of services that are second to none, we work with some of the UK and Ireland's leading organisations.  We help assess and manage potential risks by ensuring that IT systems deliver and keep delivering.

Our testing professionals ensure that solutions are not only fit for use, but also fit for purpose, and, by deploying Risk-Based Techniques at the earliest stages in the lifecycle, we provide the assurance that organisations and technical risks are mitigated.
 

Sopra Group's Information Security Division is a leading provider of information security services and solutions across the UK and Ireland.  We recognise that in order to be successful information security management is a business issue that needs to become an extension of your organisation's culture.

Finding the right information security partner is essential and we believe in building relationships that grow and last and will support you for as long as you need.  With a range of industry-recognised accreditations and certifications you can be assured that we fully understand the risks and have the skills to deal with them.