As a retailer, you want to focus on what matters most: your customers. To ensure they receive excellent service, you need to optimize your IT systems through applications that enhance product sales, assess which products are selling, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, cooperate seamlessly with partners and suppliers, and equip managers with insightful information and tools. To do all this, a reliable and secure operating system is crucial.

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Point of Service is the best-engineered, lowest cost and most reliable platform optimized for the retail environment. Secure and stable, it provides a robust operating platform for point of service / point of sale devices, in-store servers and the data center. It helps you reduce your total cost of ownership through centralized administration and deployment tools, small operating system footprint images, and support for a variety of applications and hardware.

In addition, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service is backed by the global Novell ecosystem, which includes world-class support and services from Novell and our partners.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service is a flexible platform that allows you to easily integrate third-party solutions, retail applications and hardware drivers to customize the point-of-service client image. More than 30 retail software vendors support SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, so you can continue to use the retail software you prefer.

The ecosystem of hardware, application, consulting, training and support vendors for SUSE Linux Enterprise includes such retail leaders as IBM, NCR, Wincor Nixdorf, and SAP and Oracle to name a few. In addition, you can easily run any Java / JavaPOS based applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service.

Novell has formed partnerships with leading retail software and hardware vendors to provide a complete solution. By integrating Novell partner solutions, you can deploy additional store applications such as inventory management, cash management, workforce management and loss prevention. SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service has an open and uniform code base that optimizes compatibility with leading retail hardware, software and solutions without requiring time-consuming adaptations or additional infrastructure investments.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service enables retailers to provide richer customer experiences, accelerate customer checkout, respond quickly to customer needs, work more efficiently with partners and enhance overall store operations.