SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service

360Commerce's proven and flexible store and workforce management optimization applications empower retailers to achieve profitable differentiation by enabling a superior shopping experience and providing a lower total cost of ownership and rapid time to return on investment. 360Commerce's applications embody the best-practices functionality of customers such as Apple, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Circuit City, The Home Depot, Gap Inc., KB Toys, FedEx Kinko's and Rite Aid. Applications include point-of-sale, back office, inventory management, central office, returns management and workforce management.

The ACR-5000 point-of-sale software delivers the most extensive feature set available to retailers in many verticals and configurations. An easy-to-use graphical user interface makes everyday transactions uncomplicated and allows for new employees to learn the system quickly. The ACR-5000 includes a built-in accounting and cash management system designed to drive data directly to corporate accounting systems without user intervention. Time-tested operator security and loss prevention control features eliminate opportunities for theft. Advanced features include unequalled historical data retention, data reporting and analysis, sophisticated transaction control options and types such as layaway, charge, special ordering, etc., along with thousands of optional settings for customizing to virtually any retailing requirement. The ACR-5000 supports multiple languages and currencies, all popular payment types and the most popular third-party applications.

Nextor represents the future of point-of-sales systems. And that future is enterprise integration. This All-Java application has been designed from the ground up to give you the ultimate in control over your point-of-sales operations. With Nextor, you can substantially reduce acquisition costs for hardware and software. Maintenance costs are cut to a fraction of those of current systems. Support costs shrink dramatically with many of our built-in alert features. And all of these savings do not force you to accept less functionality from your point-of-sales system. You won't sacrifice reliability with Nextor, either. Nextor has many built-in safeguards to make sure your operation is up and running. Nextor also includes smart error recovery, data caching, and integrity checks for maximum uptime and greatest fault tolerance. Nextor is designed for the most taxing retail environments. While it is highly scalable, it shines in a high volume, high SKU-count retail enterprise. It will support multiple in-store servers and over 50 point-of-sales terminals from a single server. Its clean, customizable interface is designed to speed customers through your checkout lanes.

The OPUS Millennium Store System is our premiere retail solution with one of the largest installed bases of any package on the market. Its comprehensive feature set provides all the functionality you require while its flexibility allows it to be customized to fit your specific needs. Advanced features include layaway and layaway search capabilities, electronic journaling, background checking, credit authorization, off-line capabilities, a training mode, international currency support, and much more. The OPUS Millennium Store System uses a simple, menu-driven approach at the point of sale. It supports a wide variety of devices including monochrome CRT in text or graphics mode, color CRT in text or graphics mode, touch screen, mouse, pointer, and/or function keys, ASCII terminals, Web browser and handheld point-of-sales terminals.

JDA Point-of-Sale is JDA's slim-client store solution that features a component-based architecture and utilizes the high-performance BEA WebLogic environment to deliver extreme scalability and flexibility. You'll greatly simplify the customization, distribution and maintenance of your store system without compromising integrity, functionality or usability. With JDA Point-of-Sale, you can make rapid software adjustments or upgrades on every register throughout your chain as frequently as you need and at a reduced cost. In addition to next-generation Java technology, JDA Point-of-Sale delivers world-class functionality. At the touch of a finger, store associates can effortlessly handle such point-of-service functions as sales, returns, exchanges, layaways and special orders. Plus, you'll have enterprise visibility into your merchandise management and other corporate systems. With real-time access right at the point-of-sale to product and pricing information, you'll have just what you need to deliver the type of service that leads to increased sales and repeat business.

Vision BeanStore is a totally open, pure Java, Point-of-Service solution designed for the Retail and Hospitality markets. BeanStore can be implemented in several architectural configurations to meet client-specific business requirements. It combines the latest technologies with leading edge functionality to provide a level of flexibility, adaptability, and re-usability not possible even a few years ago.

RBS~InStore is a Web-enabled system that offers retailers a real-time view of their business. The solution is platform-independent with system support that includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service. RBS~InStore is functionally rich and easy to customize. RBS~InStore offers retailers the lowest cost of ownership by running on legacy hardware systems, supporting the Java platform and Retail Foundation Classes and supporting Internet-based communications for remote deployment and support. RBS~InStore components include a Web browser POS, kiosk, HHT and DOS point-of-sale applications, as well as a Web-shopping application.

Retalix Ltd. provides integrated enterprise-wide software solutions for the retail food and fuel industries worldwide, including supermarkets, convenience stores, fuel stations and quick service restaurants. Retalix offers a full suite of software applications that support a food retailer's essential retailing and supply chain management operations and enable retailers to increase their operating efficiencies while improving customer acquisition, retention and profitability. Through its StoreNext subsidiaries, Retalix also offers head-office and back-office applications and services via the Web to small chains and single-store retailers. With installations in more than 30,000 stores across 44 countries, Retalix markets its software solutions through direct sales, distributors, local dealers and its various subsidiaries.

The Retek Point-of-Sale (RPOS) solution delivers one of the most powerful, scalable, flexible, and stable point-of-sale solutions available. RPOS offers comprehensive point-of-service solutions including point-of-sale, cash management, inventory management, customer management and labor management. Building on decades of retail experience and research, the technology and retail business logic of RPOS adapts to retailers business style, operating seamlessly with existing networks, data repositories, hardware and operating systems.

SIVA Corporation is the creator of one of the first "next generation" offerings for the foodservice industry —a suite of store applications designed for the connected enterprise and built using Internet technologies that enable hardware independence and free exchange of data. The company's iSIVA point-of-sale, time and attendance, labor scheduling and inventory software runs on a variety of platforms, including SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service. Using SIVA's applications, restaurant operators can streamline core restaurant processes associated with money, materials and people and increase the timeliness and availability of operations information throughout the organization. SIVA is located in Delray Beach, Florida and distributes its solutions in North America and Europe.

Aurora L from Sweda is a leading point-of-sale solution for grocery and merchandise retailers. With a rich heritage, strong customer base and rock-solid reputation, Aurora has been designed to outperform in some of the most demanding conditions possible—conditions like your store's. Feature-rich and highly flexible, Aurora combines the latest development technologies, including support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, to deliver a robust, affordable point-of-sale application ideally suited to your environment. Aurora L provides you with an open architecture design point-of-sale application that delivers exceptional stability, reliability, and security at a lower cost of ownership than either Windows-based or proprietary systems.

Torex LUCAS-POS is Torex's fully scalable and internationally proven Point of Sale solution. Designed specifically for retail from the ground up, LUCAS exploits the full power of Java. LUCAS has more than 7,000 retail installations and more than half are running under Linux, delivering significant total cost of ownership benefits. Based on the ARTS data model, the product uses open XML-based interfaces to ensure ease of integration with third party retail management, merchandising and stock solutions. LUCAS is fully scalable with no design limits imposed on the organizational structure, catalogue size or number of terminals. It operates on any modern hardware and supports conventional and touch-screen user interfaces.

SAP Transactionware Enterprise from SAP Triversity is the most cost-effective, easily deployed J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) solution available today for point-of-sale and point-of-interaction applications in the retail enterprise. SAP Transactionware Enterprise is the first Java point-of-sale solution designed from the ground up to harness the power of J2EE. Its highly scalable, open architecture allows retailers to deploy solutions ranging from true thin-client to thick-client systems, on up to massively scalable enterprise server environments that handle billions of transactions per year.

Volanté represents the next generation in hospitality and restaurant point-of-sales software systems and cash register solutions for the food and beverage industry. Developed from the ground up with state-of-the-art technology, Volanté will meet the most complex point-of-sales software and cash-register demands of diverse users not only today but also well into the future. Simple to use yet extremely powerful, Volanté's versatile architecture puts power at your fingertips. Whether it is changing a restaurant menu item or reformatting the layout of corporate and property management reports, Volanté's engine gives users the flexibility to customize details to any point of sale specification. With incomparable operational capability, a comprehensive feature set, powerful reporting abilities, superior fail-safe data redundancy and point of sale data synchronization management, Volanté offers an integrated, point-of-sales enterprise system solution designed to raise the level of your hospitality and restaurant practice.