Totally Open
Vision Portfolio is based on open standards and allows retailers a choice of: Operating Systems, Databases, Hardware. Retailers can use any POS device that uses industry standard drivers. The Vision Portfolio browser components are designed to run on Internet Explorer or Mozilla.
Multiple Deployment Options
The Vision Portfolio’s layered architecture offers the choice of running the application in the following models: In-Store Standalone Till, In-Store Server, Central Server or a Mix of these models.
Scalability
The Vision Portfolio is fully scaleable and flexible. It can be configured to handle anything from a single lane to a 400+ lane store using either thick or thin clients.
International Scope
The Vision Portfolio supports multiple languages (European and Oriental languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean), multiple currencies, multiple taxes, and multiple date formats.
Ease of Customization
With its object oriented architecture, the Vision Portfolio allows applications to be customized to meet the retailer’s needs. Customizations can include individualized user interfaces, advanced workflow, as well as extensions to a specific feature or function. The Vision Portfolio can adapt to a retailer’s existing business flow and does not require changing processes to match the application.
Over time, competitive influences require store formats to evolve or radically change. The Vision Portfolio meets this need by allowing multiple formats to run on the same application – even if they are in different sectors such as retail and hospitality.
Ease of Integration
The Vision Portfolio enables the distribution of data in various ways. It has a well defined XML API to allow the import and publishing of data. This data can be formatted in multiple ways ranging from standards based IXRetail to custom integrations. It can also integrate through web services, http communication, asynchronous messaging, batch polling, and database integration. The Vision Portfolio integration options can greatly simplify the job of interfacing legacy systems.
Independent User Interface
The Vision Portfolio’s user interface is totally separate from the database and the business logic. This means that a retailer can have a single set of POS functions, yet provide a completely different look and feel for different concepts.
Resilient non-stop selling
No business can afford to have systems down. With the Vision Portfolio, critical data is kept on the register to enable transaction processing while off-line. Data synchronization occurs automatically once connectivity is re-established. Properly configured, on-line authorization can continue uninterrupted.
Self-sufficiency
The Vision Portfolio was designed to provide retailers with the option of bringing the product in-house for development or maintenance.