IWMS expert and Lucernex President, Joe Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here), discuss the risk of NOT buying a Software as a Service (SaaS) Cloud delivered solution.

Since Gartner coined the term IWMS and lumped in all similar vendors including those focused on Store Lifecycle Management (SLM), it has become increasing hard to tell the difference between IWMS and SLM. Some companies provide SLM, or a point solution and call themselves IWMS and others are truly IWMS vendors and call themselves SLM but just within the retail industry. In truth, while there is an overlap of some of the core features there are marked differences in the needs of the end user, the focus of the applications and how the solutions were developed and are delivered. (more…)