Natural Insight Delivers Retailers Rapid Task Management and Store Communication via the Cisco Cius Business Tablet

Natural Insight Provides Decision-Makers Immediate Understanding of Outstanding Tasks, Even Photo Validation of Work Completion

STERLING, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Natural Insight, a retail technology company driving best practices for retail execution, today announced that it is launching its task management and store communications solution on the Cisco Cius™, an innovative business tablet that delivers one of the most portable and powerful collaboration experiences for a device of its kind. Natural Insight is featured in the Business section of the Cisco AppHQ™, an application ecosystem built specifically for the Cisco Cius that provides new ways to create, manage and rapidly deploy mobile business applications in the enterprise.

“making our workforce management platform available on such a reliable, secure and collaborative device -- on site in the store – can provide new real-time knowledge that is transformative for efficiency in retail operations.”

In making the announcement, Stefan Midford, President and CEO of Natural Insight stated that “making our workforce management platform available on such a reliable, secure and collaborative device -- on site in the store – can provide new real-time knowledge that is transformative for efficiency in retail operations.”

Natural Insight is a cloud-based platform that significantly improves sales, reduces overhead and provides real-time workforce activity feedback. With Natural Insight on the Cisco Cius, staff at a retail location can immediately see outstanding tasks, easily report on execution, gather and report in-store data, view communications to the store or access a library of documents. Using the innovative tablet, sales floor staff can even take pictures to validate work completion such as display setups, and use WebEx, video calling, and other built-in features to collaborate.

The combination of Cisco Cius and Natural Insight eliminates e-mail and phone tag by providing a seamless execution management platform. Retailers should expect reduced administration time, improvements in consistency of task execution and an improved customer experience.

About Natural Insight

Natural Insight is a retail technology company providing an innovative, cloud-based platform that significantly improves sales, reduces overhead and provides real-time workforce activity feedback. Through an integrated suite of solutions focused on task management, scheduling, data reporting and timekeeping, managers are empowered to coordinate a larger number of workers with significantly less effort. Rapid work verification, improved accountability and increased accuracy are all benefits of Natural Insight solutions. Customer organizations such as Sony, Kraft Foods, WalMart, Loblaw’s and Sears have all gained a newfound ability to make superior business decisions with the confidence of in-store execution intelligence. www.naturalinsight.com

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