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Retail POS Deployments Don't Happen On Their Own
January 4, 2008
•White Paper: POS Deployments Don't Happen On Their Own
In the 1990's, a retail POS manager would contact their hardware provider about how they did business and look to that provider to match them to a software package that would work that way. Or, they would pay a lot of money to their legacy application provider to ‘customize' their application even further than they already had, often compromising core components, ensuring that the platform change would be difficult if it ever came about.
When java was introduced, there came with it a plethora of software providers who could make the retail application full screen and make it do what the RETAILER wanted, not the other way around (What a novel concept!!) The only problem was that these ISV's (Independent Software Vendor) were software guys; they were introducing a technology into a field, and didn't always bring with them knowledge of hardware platforms that the retailer needed in their environments. Fast forward into the 21st century, and those ISV's have created their products, made a splash, and in some cases, sold their products to large corporations.
What's missing from that equation is the integrator; the company that can take the new software choice and not only deploy it in your chain, but assist with the correct hardware choices that allow the retailer to be innovative, or at a minimum keep up with the competition.
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