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New Hughes Video Series Provides Insights on Retail Industry's Most Pressing IT PrioritiesGERMANTOWN, Md., March 31, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent survey of U.S. retailers by Boston Retail Partners (BRP) indicates that improving payment security, unified commerce and faster networks are some of their top IT priorities in 2015. Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) today brought that research to life with a series of videos featuring BRP Principal, Ken Morris, explaining the most important implications of this market shift for retailers.  Hughes, the world's leading provider of broadband satellite solutions and a leading provider of managed network services, was a gold sponsor of BRP's POS/Customer Engagement Benchmarking Survey. One Version of the Truth "Over the next three to four years there will be a 663% increase in the number of retailers who are going to move to this one version of the truth," Morris said, adding that retailers are moving to the cloud to achieve their unified communications objectives. "There's a movement afoot…to create a thinner, lean POS by moving to the cloud. It's easier to protect one source than trying to secure a thousand and one store locations where you're trying to protect customer information and payment information." A new trend toward order management is also pushing POS to the cloud. "Order management is the new point-of-sale. In other words, order management is just a point-of-sale transaction adjudicated rapidly… We're seeng a movement of order management vendors adding a POS front end to their solutions." The Network is Key to Real-time Retailing The research revealed that faster, more secure networking is a key technology enabling real-time retailing and other sweeping trends in retail. "This move to real-time retail has tremendous payback. The future is this sort of 'Amazon experience' at the store level…When you're standing in front of me, I have customer Wi-Fi in the store. I identify who you are. You opt in because you like my brand. I immediately know what's in your closet. I know what you've looked at online. And I can present to you what you're most likely to buy at a price you're most likely to spend…With that comes the need for increased bandwidth," Morris added. Hughes sponsored the survey and produced this unique video series to help retailers better understand the need for a highly reliable, high-performance network to support these important retail trends. HughesON™ is a suite of cloud-friendly network and digital media managed services from Hughes, designed for the unique needs of distributed enterprises, such as retail. Hughes can help retailers implement cost-effective solutions addressing their security, unified commerce, and real-time retailing initiatives by providing the underlying WAN and in-store network needed for today's fast moving market. Click here to view the complete video series and survey. About Boston Retail Partners About Hughes Network Systems Headquartered outside Washington, D.C., in Germantown, Maryland, USA, Hughes operates sales and support offices worldwide, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), a premier global provider of satellite operations and digital TV solutions. For additional information about Hughes, please visit www.hughes.com. ©2015 Hughes Network Systems, LLC, an EchoStar company. Hughes and HughesNet are registered trademarks and HughesON is a trademark of Hughes Network Systems, LLC. Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110112/NE29456LOGO To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-hughes-video-series-provides-insights-on-retail-industrys-most-pressing-it-priorities-300058092.html SOURCE Hughes Network Systems, LLC 
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