IBM Retail Store Solutions
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IBM Retail Store Solutions is a division of IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

 that is in the retail market segment. It has been in the business for 30 years and has thousands of sales, technical and services professionals focused on all retail segments. It has several lines of product, both hardware and software. Hardware products include IBM SurePOS 700 point-of-sale
Point of sale
Point of sale or checkout is the location where a transaction occurs...

 systems or printers. There are software products which are under its portfolio such as IBM 4690, IRES (IBM Retail Environment for SUSE LINUX), Lotus Expeditor, Lotus Expeditor Integrator, IBM Store Integrator, IBM Store Integrator Graphic User Interface . IBM has won awards such as 2008 Point of Sale Green Excellence of the Year award. Among its notable product achievements, IBM RSS is responsible for the creation of software such as the 4690
IBM 4690 OS
IBM 4690 Operating System, sometimes shortened to 4690 OS or 4690, is IBM's specially designed Point of Sale operating system. 4690 is widely used by IBM's retail customers to drive retail systems running their own applications as well as IBM's Application Client Server Environment , Supermarket...

software, IRES and POSS for DOS.

IBM IRES

IBM IRES (IBM Retail Environment for SUSE LINUX) offers proven retail functions such as those provided by IBM's 4690 features, such as Server-based POS loading and booting, Industry standard system-wide configuration and change management, Automatic problem determination with single-step dump button support, Combined server/terminal support, Client preload GUI and Remote Management Agent for systems management support.

IBM IRES is used with 360Commerce. 360Commerce was recognized for partnership excellence via the 2005 PartnerWorld Beacon Award for IRES Solutions.

IBM IRES is also used with Triversity's Transactionware Enterprise and, for retail, it is the first Java POS solution designed from the ground up to harness the power of J2EE.

IRES has a IBM IRES Sales Mastery course and exam which still can be found online.

It is one of the platform that supports Websphere MQ platform as part of the IBM Store Integration Framework .

IBM POSS for DOS

This is a key piece of legacy software that works well with IBM PC DOS and that enables many IBM customer's from the 1980's. The latest publicly supported version is 2.2.0 .
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