Get Better Every Day: Self-Improvement Techniques for ISV Executives
Earlier this year at the RetailNOW show in Nashville, Jim Roddy, reseller and ISV business advisor at Vantiv, interviewed Jeremy Julian, COO CBS NorthStar. Last year, I interviewed the company’s CEO, Art Julian, and was intrigued by the hospitality VAR-turned-ISV’s insistence that he viewed his company as a 20-year-old...
Star Micronics, Sudzy Team Up to Provide Turnkey iPad POS to Dry Cleaners
Star Micronics, the global industry leader in point-of-sale printer solutions, has teamed up with Sudzy, a leading-edge developer of POS software for the dry cleaning industry, to provide an all-in-one cloud-based iPad POS solution, featuring Star Micronics mPOP, which is certified with the Sudzy software.
Sudzy POS provides many industry-specific features that...
This ISV is Using Real-Time Business Intelligence to Make Retail Smarter
Today’s retailers face many challenges. Online competitors such as Amazon provide customers with not only low prices and lots of variety, but with convenient and engaging shopping experiences. In response, brick and mortar stores have had to adjust their businesses to simply survive. Many of the adjustments they’ve made...
BIXOLON Releases Xamarin and Apache Cordova SDKs
BIXOLON Co., Ltd. a leading global mobile, label and POS printer manufacturer, today announced two new software solutions to speed development of cross-platform printing applications for its broad family of mobile and stationary POS receipt printers. The first POS printer manufacturer to offer development tools for the Xamarin and Apache...
Granbury Solutions Receives 2017 Inc. 5000 and Fast Tech Honors
Granbury Solutions received honors from both the 2017 Inc. 5000 and Tech Titans FastTech awards. This marks the company’s fourth consecutive year on the Inc. 5000 list and 5th consecutive year on the North Texas Tech Titans FastTech list.
“We are excited to have received both of these honors again...
Retail focus group reveals 3 best practices for ISVs
In my position as Reseller & ISV Business Advisor for Vantiv Integrated Payments, I’m fortunate to spend time on the phone each week with software developer executives. But there’s nothing quite like being immersed with those execs for several days and viewing the business world through their eyes.
I had...
Ordermark Certifies Epson Smart Printer for Its Online Order Consolidation System
Epson America, Inc., a leading supplier of value-added Point of Sale (POS) solutions, today announced that Ordermark, a provider of online ordering solutions for restaurants, has certified Epson’s OmniLink® TM-T88V-i intelligent printer for its unique ePOS™ Print and Server Direct Print technologies. Epson and Ordermark help restaurants reach their full online ordering potential by consolidating orders from online ordering services and streaming...
Como and Preoday Partner to Offer Integrated Customer Engagement and Online Ordering
Como (www.como.com), a global leader in customer engagement solutions, and Preoday (www.preoday.com), an online and mobile ordering technology company, today announced a new strategic partnership to provide integrated customer engagement and online pre-ordering solutions to their clients.
The partnership will provide clients with a combination of Preoday’s white-label platform for...
Road Report: RetailNOW 2017 Recap in 9 Photos
This Organization Is Thriving
Walking among the new member reception Sunday night, I was struck by the many new application developers focused on retail, loyalty, engagement, and more. Having new software companies focused on the most significant trends breathes new life into the organization and help the entire ecosystem rise...
Road Report: What You’re Missing at RSPA RetailNOW 2017
RSPA RetailNOW 2017 kicked off today at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. For those who don’t know, this is the premier show for any tech company (software developer, reseller, hardware vendor, payment company, or distributor) that focuses on retail, hospitality, and grocery.
Having been to the show almost every...
A Winning Combination: Cloud-Based POS and Managed Services
Company: Cirra Systems
Founded: 2014
2016 sales growth rate: 150%
2017 projected sales growth rate: 100%
Employees: 10
Verticals: restaurant
Vendors: Amazon AWS, APG Cash Drawer, Apple, Elo Touch Solutions, Epson, Heartland Payment Systems
Distributor: Metropolitan Sales
Phone: (435) 565-1444
Website: www.cirrasystems.com
Cloud based point of sale (POS) and managed services have both been around for several years now, but...
Test Your Payment Integration IQ
Let's face it. As a software developer, you want to spend time on building better software that meets the needs of the customers you serve, not struggling with payment processing integrations. Unfortunately, if you want credit card processing to be a part of your software, you need to have...
4 Must-Read Lessons for ISV Startups
With roots going back to 1993, NiceLabel, a developer of bar code label design and label management software, has gone through many changes over years and experienced every type of market condition you could think of. You can’t survive — particularly in the data collection industry — without making...
How a Millennial ISV is Perfecting Digital Customer Loyalty
Company Name: Spendgo
Founded: 2010
2017 Projected Sales Revenue Growth Rate: 200% +
Employees: 25
Website: www.spendgo.com
Verticals: hospitality, retail
Vendors: Apple, Epson, Google, Samsung
While many ISVs dream about inventing a new software solution or platform that’s unlike anything that’s existed previously, the probability for success is much more likely to happen by improving upon a...
Star Micronics To Showcase New mPOS Solutions At 2017 RSPA RetailNOW
Star Micronics, leading provider of point of sale and proof of transaction technology, will be exhibiting new solutions at the 2017 RSPA RetailNOW expo at booth #707.
The show will be held from August 6th through August 8th at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. RetailNOW® is one of RSPA's signature events, billed as "the place where...
