Samsonite chooses Polaris “iStore Linux”

Polaris Retail Infotech  (PRIL), a wholly owned subsidiary

of Polaris Software announced the launch of Linux powered Retail Store

Management solution “iStore Linux”. PRIL has signed up Samsonite to rollout

iStore Linux in its 60 exclusive brand outlets across India. iStore is available

on all Linux flavors present in the market. The combination of SOA based iStore

application on Linux system can potentially bring down the set-up and running

cost of retail store software by 50%.

Samsonite in India chose 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 could

provide.

With iStore available on Linux, Samsonite was convinced of

the benefits of robustness, high availability and low TCO.

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.  The iStore POS interface is touch screen enabled

with L-design for maximum sales user comfort.