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POS on the Cloud

While most retailers are taking a conservative approach to cloud-based applications, those with a more adventurous bent may want to explore a cloud-based POS application offered on www.akite.net via Bedin Shop Systems, Cornuda, Italy. The company's akita POS.net application offers a full array of POS features, including a virtual keyboard and a search and navigation function. The system runs on Microsoft's

While most retailers are taking a conservative approach to cloud-based applications, those with a more adventurous bent may want to explore a cloud-based POS application offered on www.akite.net via Bedin Shop Systems, Cornuda, Italy.

The company's akita POS.net application offers a full array of POS features, including a “virtual keyboard” and a search and navigation function. The system runs on Microsoft's Azure platform-as-a-service.

“This is a very interesting proposition,” said Bob Parker, group vice president of research, IDC Industry Insights, Framingham, Mass. “It's hard for most retailers to consider POS running on a centralized corporate infrastructure let alone a public one.”

On the other hand, he said, a retailer could make a cloud-based POS system work “as long as you had some recovery mode of operation so that if the network went down, the POS devices would be smart enough to continue processing,” Parker said.

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