360Commerce Wins IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Award for SUSE LINUX Retail Environment.AUSTIN, Texas -- 360Store Point-of-Sale Enabling Excellent Customer Service and Lowering Total Cost of Ownership for Retailers 360Commerce has been named the winner of the "IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Retail Environment for SUSE LINUX A Linux distribution from the SuSE Linux division of Novell. Both consumer and enterprise versions are available, and the distribution includes several user interfaces. SuSE Linux comes with the Yet Another Setup Tool (YaST), which is used to install, configure and maintain the OS, as " category in the annual IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards competition, honoring IBM Business Partners for their ingenuity, customer satisfaction and outstanding achievements in providing on-demand business solutions. A key factor in the judging was the input provided by the nominee's customers during the nomination process. The winning solution, 360Store Point-of-Sale, is a Java-based retail application from 360Commerce that is currently deployed on a wide range of hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . It was announced this summer that major retailers, such as Circuit City and Pep Boys, plan to deploy 360Store Point-of-Sale on IBM SurePOS(a) Point of Sale terminals featuring IBM Retail Environment for SUSE LINUX (IRES). 360Commerce's application suite also provides back office functionality leveraging the IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. (a) xSeries(a) running SUSE LINUX and the IBM Store Integration Framework. "This award further validates our position as the choice for retailers who want to implement next-generation technology and functionality that has been tested and proven in retail," said Tom Fornoff, vice president of business development. "We are proud to have IBM recognize our leadership in support of their new retail offerings, and that the award criteria ultimately relied on the value our combined solution delivers to our joint customers in the demanding retail environment." About IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards Nearly 600 nominations were judged by a team of leading industry journalists, analysts, and IBM executives, who selected winner and finalists in 31 award categories. These IBM Business Partners will be honored during the IBM PartnerWorld 2005 Conference in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nevada, Feb. 27-March 2. For more information about the IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards please visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/pw2005_beacon.html. About 360Commerce 360Commerce's proven and flexible store and workforce management Workforce Management (WFM) encompasses all the responsibilities for maintaining a productive and happy workforce. Sometimes referred to as HRMS systems, or even the larger ERP systems (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP). There are many software vendors within this space. applications are running in more of the world's leading retailers than any comparable Java solution. 360Commerce empowers retailers to achieve profitable differentiation by enabling a superior shopping experience and providing a lower total cost of ownership and rapid time to ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). . 360Commerce's applications embody the best-practices functionality of customers such as Apple, Build-A-Bear Workshop Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE: BBW) is an American retailer that sells customizable teddy bears and other stuffed animals. Build-A-Bear is the largest of the create-your-own animal chains with the other companies in the business consisting of regional and/or locally-owned , Circuit City, The Home Depot, Gap Inc., KB Toys, FedEx Kinko's, and Rite Aid. Their applications include Point-of-Sale, Back Office, Inventory Management, Central Office and Workforce Management. On the Net 360Commerce site: http://www.360Commerce.com IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards site: http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/pw2005_beacon.html Trademarks: 360Commerce, 360Store, 360Enterprise and Unleashed are trademarks or registered trademarks of 360Commerce Inc. (a) Trademark or registered trademark of IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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