POS terminal study released

POS Terminals running Microsoft Windows operating systems increased from 71% of shipments to nearly 76%, taking share away from Linux and other operating systems in 2008 according to a new study by IHL Group, says Retail Solutions Online.

Overall shipments decreased 4.2% in 2008, with only Grocers and Supercenters/Warehouse Clubs seeing shipment gains.

Other segments, such as Table Service Restaurants and Category Killers (large specialty hard goods retailers) saw the greatest decrease in shipments in 2008, according to the 2009 North American Retail POS Terminal Study, which is available immediately from IHL.

The global banking technology market will decline by almost 2% in 2009, according to a new report by independent market analyst Datamonitor, states Banking Technology.

The report, titled 'Impact of financial crisis on technology spending in banking', says this will be concentrated in European and North American markets, led by the UK, where banking technology spend will have the greatest fall, declining almost 7%.

Datamonitor expects overall technology growth to remain depressed compared to pre-crisis forecasts up to 2012, removing over $40 billion of what would have been IT spending from the banking sector over next five years.

ProfitBase, a provider of ready-to-use, rapidly deployed data warehouse, business analytics, budgeting and planning software, has entered into an alliance with LS Retail to bring a business intelligence (BI) and point-of-sales offering to retailers using Microsoft Dynamics AX and NAV, reports msnbc.

The BI component of the solution features certified connector templates that extract point-of-sales data from the LS Retail AX and NAV systems and retail specific business templates that provide metrics and key performance indicators for store, category, brand and financial performance.

The business templates support and extend the National Retail Federation, Association for Retail Technology Standards data warehouse standard.