Vendor Press Releases
Escalate Retail’s 2009 Highlights
In our continuing series of highlighting the positive aspects of 2009 I had a recent conversation with Brian Johnson, Vice President and General Manager for Escalate Retail and he shared the following insights to their successes in 2009.
With Escalate Retail’s release of Ecometry Commerce Suite version 10.0.4 last December, customers now have PCI certified PA-DSS [...]
Manage Metrix: Inventory & Merchandising Modules Announcement
Since third quarter 2008, we have been engaged with Taurus Software to develop best in class business intelligence and KPI/dashboard application – the first specifically for multi channel businesses and covering all areas of the business. In conjunction with the application, we have developed a set of services to assist companies utilize the application to [...]
Systemax Exiting PCS Hosted Software Business
Press Release from 6-2-09 from BusinessWire.com
– Company Ceasing External Sales –
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Systemax Inc. (NYSE: SYX) today announced that it is exiting the ProfitCenter Software (”PCS”) hosted software business. The Company is working on transition plans with its customers who are currently live, and the Company will not undertake any new hosting arrangements. As [...]
Systemax Shutting Down PCS Software
As written in Multichannel Merchant Magazine by Melissa Dowling on 6-2-09
Computers manufacturer/marketer Systemax announced yesterday it’s getting out of the ProfitCenter Software (PCS) hosted software business. The company is working on transition plans with current customers and not taking on any new hosting arrangements.
Founded 2002, PCS is a java, Web-based order management and e-commerce system. [...]
Retail Pro, Page-Digital File for Bankruptcy Update
It has been brought to my attention that there are a few inaccuracies in our original blog on this subject that I would like to amend/correct as follows:
Retail Pro product sales have not in fact been declining over the past several years, nor have their annual maintenance renewals. Further review of the of the documents [...]
Last Month’s NRF Show
F. Curtis Barry & Company showed attendees its operational assessment capabilities, including consultation on warehouse management, call-center and order-management systems and freight-rate analysis and contract negotiations. The company also shared with attendees a new book by its founder and president, Curt Barry, “Best Practices in Multichannel Operations and Fulfillment,” which Jeff Barry said is a [...]
Industry e-Newsletter from ACMA
Dear Members and Friends:
It has been a couple of months since our last industry general update. While the summer months are typically a slower time, this period has been anything but. The pace of change at the USPS continues to accelerate with numerous issues that affect cataloging moving one way then the other, [...]
ACMA’s National Catalog Advocacy & Strategy Forum
Save the Date:
National Catalog Advocacy & Strategy Forum
June 26-27, 2008
Washington, D.C.
The American Catalog Mailers Association (ACMA) has been engaged in continuing important discussions on how we can address the current state of affairs in the catalog industry with the USPS, and has been making progress on a number of fronts. These will be covered at [...]
F. Curtis Barry & Company, Taurus Software Partner to Make Key Multichannel Data Easily Accessible and Usable
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Upcoming solution will bring together multiple data sources to analyze business performance, aid merchandise analysis, analyze productivity in call centers and fulfillment centers
Redwood City, CA, and Richmond, VA; April 2, 2008
For 20 years, Taurus Software has been “making data liquid†for over 700 companies world-wide, with over 80 clients being in the direct [...]
Co-Branded Systems Workshop “Evaluating, Selecting and Implementing Direct Commerce Systems”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Richmond, VA, & Philadelphia, PA, April 7, 2008 — F. Curtis Barry & Company, a leading consultancy to multichannel businesses, in partnership with Catalog Success, the leading publication serving the catalog/multichannel business, today jointly announced a co-branded two-day interactive workshop, “Evaluating, Selecting and Implementing Direct Commerce Systems.â€
“The software marketplace for today’s multichannel direct [...]
