Leader in ISG Private Cloud Report 2026.

UnitedLayerBlue Version

Retail and consumer

Every
channel fast.
Every shelf stocked.

Stores, web, app and marketplaces on one platform that scales for peaks and keeps payments PCI-ready.
Peak-season check
Private AI
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AI agents run our platform
UPC AI Factory
Private LLMs on your data
0 %
Availability for POS and e-commerce

Predictive

Replenishment on private AI

PCI

Ready payments

4×

ISG Leader, 2023 to 2026
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Omnichannel view
COMMERCE
OPERATIONS

Channels and stores

Example · illustrative figures
Uptime99.999%
Orders / h3,200
Stockouts0
POS fraud held2
Channel · detailStatus
Online checkout3,200 orders/h · autoscaling
Healthy
Stores · 212POS on UnitedEdge® · 38 ms
Healthy
Card data environmentSegmented · PCI DSS · zero trust
Healthy
Replenishment AIPrivate GPUs · 0 stockouts predicted
Healthy
SAP S/4HANAG3 Private Cloud · 99.999%
Healthy
  • Diamond Foods, LLC
  • Discovery Food

For the CDO and the COO

Never lose a sale to a slow checkout

Autoscaling for peaks and edge compute in every store.

Stop stockouts and overstock

Predictive replenishment on your own data.

Protect payments and shopper data

PCI-ready, segmented environments and private AI.

Built for your industry

Enable every channel
to stay fast, every day

Checkout that scales for the sale, stores that keep selling offline and AI that restocks before the
shelf is empty.

Omnichannel private cloud that scales for peak season

E-commerce, order management and S/4HANA on single-tenant clusters with predictive scaling and PCI-ready segmentation.
PCI DSS
SAP S/4HANA
G3 Private Cloud
Check your peak readiness

POS at the edge and private AI for retail

Stores keep selling when the WAN drops; replenishment, personalization and fraud models run on your GPUs with shopper data kept private.
High Availability
Data Encryption
Software Defined
See retail AI use cases

Guide

Scale Smarter, Secure Faster with United Private Cloud®

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Diamond Foods

Customer story

Consumer brand running on UnitedLayer with low-latency processing at the edge.
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30%

lower cost than public cloud for steady retail workloads, with burst capacity for the sale.
What retail leaders ask for

Five priorities. One partner.

Pick yours.

Fast on every channel, every day

An AI-optimized, high-availability cloud for stores, web, app and marketplaces, with predictive scaling for peaks.
  • 99.999% availability
  • Predictive scaling
  • Low-latency edge in stores
United Private Cloud® · UnitedEdge®
Fast on every channel, every day
AI-native private cloud

Run by AI agents

Five AI agents watch your estate around the clock. They handle routine work and ask a person
before anything high-impact.
Animated UPC AI Cloud architecture: requests flow from a private LLM through a Vector DB and ML Gateway to network, security, performance, virtualization and cost agents
Agents at work right now● live · example
Security agentBlocked an API key leaked in a public repoDone
Cost agentRightsized 22 idle dev VMs · saves $5.8K a monthDone
Performance agentCheckout p95 rising · scaled before the launchDone
Network agentRerouted around a congested linkDone
Security agentWants to rotate a service account credentialNeeds approval
1,284Actions today
5Specialist agents
1Waiting for a person
Compliance map

Your standards, mapped

Pick a standard. See what it asks, how we help and the evidence you get.

PCI DSS v4.0

Card data at POS and online.
What it asks for
  • Network security controls
  • Protect stored account data
  • Strong cryptography in transit
  • Log and monitor all access
How UnitedLayer helps
  • Segmented card data environment
  • Encryption rules enforced
  • Central logging and SIEM
Products · UnitedSecure™ · Compliance CloudEvidence you can show · Segmentation scans, encryption configs, access logs
Peak-season readiness check

Could your checkout
survive Black Friday?

Seven questions. Get your score and the gaps.
1. Can your checkout scale 5× for a sale without a change freeze?
2. Do stores keep selling if the WAN link drops?
3. Is your card data environment segmented and PCI DSS v4.0 ready?
4. Do you predict stockouts before they happen?
5. Could you recover POS and e-commerce from ransomware within hours?
6. Does customer data stay out of public AI tools?
7. Do you know what each channel costs to run?
0/7Capabilities in place
7Gaps to close
At riskPeak-season readiness
Readiness score
0%
How UnitedLayer closes your gaps
  • Autoscaling and predictive scaling · United Private Cloud®
  • Edge compute in every store · UnitedEdge®
  • Segmented, zero trust CDE · UnitedSecure™ · Compliance Cloud
  • Predictive replenishment on private AI · UPC AI Cloud
  • Immutable backups and tested DR · UPC Cyber Vault · UPC DRaaS
  • Private LLMs on your own GPUs · UPC AI Factory
  • Cost benchmarking and forecasting · UPC Vektor
Private AI for retail

AI on shopper data. Kept private.

Replenishment, fraud, personalization and placement on GPUs you control. Pick one.

Orders placed before shelves empty

Models forecast demand per store and SKU and place orders automatically.
DataSales and inventory
Where it runsUPC AI Cloud
Human in the loopCategory managers set rules
Data leaves your cloudNever
Orders placed before shelves empty
UPC AI Factory

Your data. Your private LLM.

Train, fine-tune and run models on your own GPUs. Personal data is masked, every model is
signed off, and you own it.
Animated UPC AI Factory: data is classified and masked, a private LLM is fine-tuned on private GPUs, evaluated and signed off, then served inside the private cloud
Your data
Approach
Search your data (RAG)

Your documents are indexed in a private Vector DB, and a private LLM answers from them with sources.

Fastest to value · nothing is retrained
Uses your
sales and inventory
Good for
ReplenishmentDemand forecasting
Your pipeline in UPC AI Factory
  1. Connect sources
  2. Classify and mask personal data
  3. Index in a private Vector DB
  4. Evaluate answers and sources
  5. Serve a private assistant
🔒 Data, GPUs and the finished model stay in your private cloud
AI governance

Built for your privacy and loss-prevention teams

Every model passes the same gate before it touches a shopper.
Model inventoryEvery model, version, owner and purpose on record.
Bias and accuracy testingEvaluated against your test sets before and after release.
ExplainabilityDecisions traceable to inputs and sources.
Human sign-offRisk owners approve release; people approve high-impact actions.
Audit trailPrompts, outputs, data lineage and approvals logged.
Monitoring and retrainingDrift detected, models retrained and re-approved.
See it in motion

Watch peak season at work

Six moments from a retailer on UnitedLayer.
Every channel fast. Checkout scales, AI restocks, fraud is held. Illustrative.
LIVE · AUTO-PLAYING
Customer stories

Across grocery, fashion,
omnichannel and payments

Five stories from the retail ecosystem.
Product placement optimized with edge AI
Diamond Foods · consumer

Product placement optimized with edge AI

Edge AIIn-store behavior analyzed on site
Cloud analyticsDecisions across stores
PlacementOptimized from real behavior
BeforeAfter
PlacementGuessworkOptimized from customer behavior
AnalyticsCentral onlyEdge AI plus cloud analytics
Products · UnitedEdge® AI · United Private Cloud®Named on UnitedLayer’s retail page; details beyond the headline are not published.
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PCI

Card data

ISO/IEC 27001

Information security

SOC 1 (SSAE 18)

Service controls

GDPR

Shopper data

NIST

Security framework

ISG Leader

Private Cloud Report 2023 to 2026
How it works

From siloed channels to one AI-
ready retail platform in five steps

Assess

We map channels, stores, SAP and payment flows, and peak targets.
OUTCOMEA retail platform design
Assess
Questions and due diligence

What retailers ask

Due diligence

Where exactly does our data live?

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In the UnitedLayer data centers you choose, in a single-tenant private cloud. UPC Sovereign Cloud adds residency controls for regulated data.

Who is responsible for what?

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We agree a written shared-responsibility model, from the data center floor to the application, so every control has an owner.

How do you protect card data?

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A segmented, zero trust card data environment with encryption and central logging, ready for PCI DSS v4.0.

What if a store loses connectivity?

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UnitedEdge® keeps POS and local systems running; traffic reroutes when the link returns.

Can you run SAP S/4HANA?

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Yes. G3 Private Cloud scales on demand for POS integration, inventory and real-time analytics.

Platform

How do you handle peak season?

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Predictive scaling for compute and storage, autoscaling at checkout and edge compute in stores, on 99.999% infrastructure.

What AI do you offer for retail?

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UPC AI Cloud for predictive replenishment, omnichannel fulfillment, customer experience, POS fraud detection and payment analytics, on private GPUs.

Do you support SAP?

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Yes. G3 Private Cloud for SAP S/4HANA, with on-demand scaling for POS integration and real-time analytics.

How is payment data protected?

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PCI-ready encryption, access controls, segmentation and centralized compliance logs.

Can stores run on the edge?

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Yes. UnitedEdge® brings low-latency compute and AI to every store.

How do you control cost?

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Unified visibility, cost benchmarking and forecasting, and automated IT operations.

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