STORIS Announces Release 8.5

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STORIS Management Systems, a leading supplier of Retail Solutions and Services for Big Ticket retailers, announced the availability of Release 8.5, the latest version of STORIS’ highly successful Windows-based product Vision R8. “We are so pleased to be able to provide our clients with such a powerful new release so soon after our 8.4 offering, which was also packed with many new advanced features. Servicing Big Ticket retailers is our business. No other software company has demonstrated the capacity to consistently deliver the capabilities retailers require to remain competitive, thus illustrating our continued leadership as the premier solutions provider for today’s Big Ticket retailer,” stated Doug Culmone, COO of STORIS. Release 8.5 highlights include: - Enhanced processing of international and domestic shipment of goods for improved supply chain management. Specific capabilities include improved processing for Customs Brokers, Freight Forwarding, Shipping Ports, and more. - New graphical presentation of business logos and banners to promote brand awareness - Enhanced vendor shipping and payables processing, with multi-layered buyer assignment - Payment Processing Inc. (PPI) interface to STORIS’ electronic POS payment processes - Broadened customer mailing list selections with more user defined run-time options - Enhanced Product Search functionality displaying inventory quantities along with Next and Previous selection toggling - Gift cards with electronic magnetic swipe device integration and card number identification - Detailed customer activity log David Berger, Director of Product Management of STORIS concludes, “A software solution should provide features that serve a company’s ever changing business requirements, while increasing overall process efficiency with enhanced user experiences, via intuitive capabilities. Like its predecessors in the Vision R8 product line, 8.5 is a solution that offers retailers balanced features developed for today’s business requirements and designed for improving their employees’ interactive experience.” About Vision R8: Vision R8 provides a comprehensive family of adaptive business applications for retailers of all sizes. The Vision R8 solution provides best of breed features built for complete integration, unlimited scalability, and easy, secure processing. At the foundation of Vision R8 lies a real-time system that integrates all the essential aspects of retail operations, from Order Management, Supply Chain Management, Business Intelligence, InTouch CRM, Financial Management and eCommerce. STORIS Management Systems, an IBM Business Partner, provides leading Retail Solutions and World-Class Services to Big Ticket retailers. Over 350 retailers, small and large, have installed STORIS Solutions worldwide to integrate operations, streamline processes and outperform the competition.