Is it any good

Dear Ed,

The Microsoft RMS is the right product for you. It has a software SDK for devellopers that wish to write extensions [visit our website and download the list of various addons from a flashing GIF that says "Download Retail Realm Brochure]. More importantly the software has been installed in liteeraly thousand of fashion outlets of all sorts [I also recommend our RR Fashion Bundle - enhancing the RMS features for fashion].

I have looked at QB POS [not a fashion POS product] and though I saw Everest several years ago I have not seen it since so I frankly canot comment. All I can say is that Micrsoft is spending over $10 million per year on Retail POS development and they have a very clear road map and strategy. I will hazard and guessn that QB POS and Everest are not spending anywhere near that amount on development and trust worthy computing.

If you wish to have a detail demo of RMS and our fashion bundle contact our US office

Retail Realm US Office

Tel: 732-730-8239 Fax: 732-730-8312 Email: snipped-for-privacy@retailrealm.us

Contact:

Isaac Rosenblum Managing Director snipped-for-privacy@retailrealm.us

Tricia Jacob Office Manager snipped-for-privacy@retailrealm.us

Good luck

Afshin Alikhani - [ snipped-for-privacy@retailrealm.co.uk] CEO - Retail Realm

Actually i may be interested in your fashion bundle and what it does for me, i'm about to go read about it now. I googled for a "road map" of the upgrade path and came up short on what they were doing with this product...it seems like they have left is somewhat high and dry and focused on MS POS (for single shops) and MS Office Accounting, which seems to be an entry level accounting product (i'm curious if this is SQL based too though, or if it has an upgrade path to SBF).

So i'm having a problem choosing my "total" solution...i just know i want sql server everything so i can integrate our CMS and Order Fulfillment apps...and would like everything to talk to an accounting package at some point.

I want to mass change, add, edit matrix items...i just need much more education on what I can do with this, and who can help me do it, even though I'm an architect, i have limited time for development projects and want to focus only on integrating systems rather than writing them.

"Afsh> Dear Ed,

Ed,

I am a consultant/software developer and i looked at lots of pos systems for my 2 wine stores. I can say that RMS is awesome. You have lots of options to purchase add ons and because the database is open you can create your own. I had some developers put together a web interface with more details info on my wines and it works great. The price is right too.

Jason

Alot of our clients are using QuickBooks, Great Plains and Navision. There is very good support for the US versions of QuickBooks but here in Canada the "native" integration doesn't work well as the US and CDN versions are different creatures, but is does a basic GL export and import into QuickBooks which our clients have found work very well for them. As far as further integration for SBF and SBA (touted as the QuickBooks killer), we are being told that 3rd quarter 2006 will bring about integration for these 2 products. As far as CRM functionality it does a decent job and there are add-ons that will take this further, such as MPI Plus.

my email is snipped-for-privacy@factor1.com > So as far as accounting integration and maybe MS CRM integration, anyone

Well if you're a DBA, you'll appreciate the RMS and GP packages. You might as well get certified and learn how to integrate the software packages if you're good enough and have the time.

I know there's an SDK for the OLAP side of RMS, so there's an opportunity for you to develop some cubes and take advantage of commercial exploitation of internally developed add-ons. . . somewhat Sabre-like.

To my knowledge, there are no good grocery-store cubes on the market, so I'm investing a little to have an Oracle DBA build that competency and will maybe take advantage of external demand for OLAP.

David

"ed" wrote: