Samsonite Chooses Polaris 'iStore Linux'

Polaris Retail Infotech (PRIL), a retail software provider and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Polaris Software Lab, has announced the launch of its Linux-powered Retail Store Management solution 'iStore Linux'. PRIL has signed up Samsonite to roll-out iStore Linux in its 60 exclusive brand outlets across India. iStore is available on all Linux flavours present in the market.

Samsonite in India has chosen PRIL’s iStore bundled with IBM's Retail Integration Framework to gain advantages of scalability and flexibility that a next-generation retail solution and an open operating environment can provide. With iStore available on Linux, Samsonite was convinced of the benefits of robustness, high availability and low TCO.

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iStore was jointly launched by PRIL and IBM in 2009. It is the first SOA-based retail solution in India that is built on the open-standards-based Java Platform Enterprise Edition and is bundled with IBM’s Retail Integration Framework. iStore offers rich back-office functionality and operations-friendly PoS capabilities. The iStore PoS interface is touch screen enabled with L-design for maximum sales user comfort. The PoS supports multi-channel and self-service capability. iStore back office has a pre-integrated enterprise module with retail ERP functionality and pre-built SAP integration capability.

Owing to its SOA architecture, Intellect Store can easily integrate with the retailer’s software and hardware legacy systems.

Mohit Oberoi, CEO, PRIL, said, "Modern format retail requires scalability, performance and flexibility to address the rapidly growing business operations. Last year we partnered with IBM to benefit from their flexible and scalable J2EE platform for iStore, our next-generation retail PoS application".

"We have now made iStore available on Linux. This can bring down the set-up and run costs of PoS application software to as low as 50 percent of the existing costs. This is particularly useful for large retailers with an expanding network of brand outlets as every distribution of store software will be available at half the cost," he added.