Epicor for Retail vs SAP Point of Sale comparison

Epicor provides retail POS software for retailers comprising integrated POS systems, mobility, eCommerce, customer relationship management, cross-channel selling, merchandise/assortment planning, sourcing, merchandising, inventory management, audit, and operations management, business intelligence, and financial management. Epicor's tools are designed to help retailers accomplish more and provide visibility into store operations.

Epicor POS software solutions are available in fast-track end-to-end packages, through Epicor's hosted retail software as a service (SaaS) offering. The vendor boasts that with their deep retail knowledge and full flexibility, Epicor point-of-sale merchandising software is trusted by more than 5,000 retailers to drive their retail business, achieve greater success, and deliver outstanding retail experiences.

SAP Omnichannel Point-of-Sale is a standards based and it is designed around a central service-oriented architecture, an operating-system and hardware independent. The key software component of SAP Omnichannel Point-of-Sale by GK runs on the SAP HANA platform. SAP Process Integration technology connects the POS solution to users enterprise resource planning software. All data is shared automatically between the headquarters and retail outlets, while an enterprise cockpit helps the users to keep an eye on all POS systems. Additionally, SAP Omnichannel Point-of-Sale by GK supports all advanced core POS functions and shares transactional data with the enterprise processes through electronic data interchange, using intermediate documents (IDocs) or Web services.