July 2010 - "All roads lead to Rome" or possibly Aruba
This month's CEO Corner begins with a thank you to our clients and Partners for taking the time to read my ramblings. I try to make the topics timely, meaningful and appropriate.
There have been many positive changes in our product delivery, product vision, and product quality in the last year. We delivered a new release of Version 8 Retail Pro and announced that we will produce yet one more release for Version 8, with even more enhanced and useful features. We delivered a fantastically enhanced and extremely stable release of our Version 9 Retail Pro product and produced PCI compliant versions of both products long before the stated deadlines for retailers to meet all the PCI compliance issues. We also announced and debuted our next generation family of Retail Pro solutions code named Aruba. Aruba is a completely new and different line of POS/Retail Management solutions that will allow the retailer to choose a centralized, decentralized or SaaS IT architecture (you can read more about Aruba in the Retail Pro Roadmap document available through your certified Retail Pro Business Partner). So, with all these current and future products in the mix, what is the path to the future for retailers using Retail Pro today?
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June 2010 - Communication is King
In the last eleven months since the formation of Retail Pro International LLC we have done an exemplary job of putting Retail Pro on a firm, stable, financial footing. We have made the company profitable and cash flow positive while at the same time growing and investing. We have spent tireless hours on improving many of our internal procedures having to do with developing our software products, testing our products and making them simpler to install and support. We have paid attention to making our product delivery deadlines, while producing much more stable, trustworthy releases. We have delivered on all the areas we committed to improving eleven months ago. That being said, I must confess that the one area that our partners and our clients agree we have not excelled at is frequent and meaningful communication.
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