Casey’s General Stores Inc. has selected Acumera Reliant Platform to support the convenience-store chain’s digital transformation and edge computing initiatives.
The Acumera reliant platform will integrate with Casey’s legacy systems as the Ankeny, Iowa-based retailer plans to enable a scalable technology foundation across its more than 2,600 locations in the United States.
“With edge computing Casey’s is bringing processing power into the store where it’s needed the most as it enables flexibility to run software apps on devices for our team members to best serve our guests,” said Sanjeev Satturu, chief information officer for Casey’s.
The Acumera Reliant platform is also focused on providing the opportunity to lower the total cost of ownership by hardware consolidation and extending Casey’s overall front-end hardware lifecycle.
“Today’s modern convenience, retail and hospitality brands operating at scale face significant challenges, with a requirement to deliver next-generation applications and experiences consistently across thousands of locations,” said Phil Stead, vice president of sales at Acumera.
With the Acumera Reliant Platform, Stead revealed that legacy systems, container-based applications and digital content are all delivered and managed at scale, along with fully integrated monitoring and observability. The partnership between the two companies also enables the opportunity to lower the total cost of ownership by hardware consolidation and extending Casey’s overall front-end hardware lifecycle.
The convenience-store chain will retain full control and flexibility, optimizing the selection of physical hardware vendors and compute to meet both near-term and strategic objectives, as a result of choosing the Acumera Reliant Platform.
The platform aims to make technology convenient and a friction-free experience for team members and customers. Mike Heine, director of business technology and architecture for Casey’s, said that this collaboration “enables Casey’s to take an agnostic approach to cloud hosting providers, physical edge hardware vendors and third-party application vendors.”
- Casey's General Stores is No. 3 on CSP's 2023 Top 202 ranking of convenience-store chains by store count.
"Casey's deployment of Acumera Reliant Platform is now the foundation for consistent operations and represents a singular approach to all next-generation system delivery across all new initiatives—all able to operate locally with high availability without WAN connectivity," said Richard Newman, chief revenue officer at Acumera.
Casey’s, which operates c-stores in 17 Midwestern states and Texas, is the third-largest convenience store retailer, the fourth-largest holder of liquor licenses and the fifth-largest pizza chain in the United States.
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