Retail Trends & Upcoming IT Solutions

	Level 0. Manual process – (registers?) - pocket economy with paper history
	Level 1. Simple Computer assisted invoicing
	Level 2. Isolated Point of Sales (POS) solutions (stand alone) with bar code readers & payment stations (Credit Card) & Manual integration to finance processes (accounting)
	Level 3. POS workstations with background ERP integration
	Level 4. Online POS (web) with seamless ERP integration (SmartPOS) (Online & Offline)

• AI  - Artificial Intelligence (assisting humans)
• Machine learning (suggest solutions/articles)
• Intelligent things (user interfaces)  - smart displays, drones, robots
• Data analytic (data science) (prospective based in historic data)
• Internet of Things (IoT) beacons to interact with customer smartphones

• Digital twins (digital representations of the real world)
• Cloud to the edge
• Conversational platforms (interactions with systems)
• Immersive experiences, augmented reality
  
   

• Maximizing and optimizing connections among processes, apps &  devices  (social & collaboration experience)
• Event driven processing (more dynamic) pushing information instead of waiting for request scenario  to orchestrate custom services
• Continuous adaptive risk & building trust
  
   

1. SmartPOS 5.1 (Optimized for pharmacies & retail stores) 
   - Compatible with idempiere 5.1                (July 2018) 
   - Enhanced UI - phase 1 v 5.2  (September 2018) 
   - QA & simplified processes (tablets, kiosks
   - Additional features for marketing (adds, images)  
   - Enhanced support to POS devices (reader, scales, QR codes, electronic shelf labels)
    
2. SmartECommerce 1.0 - Webapp (September 2018)
   - E-commerce store – multilevel (amazon/mercado libre experience)
    
3. SmartOrder 1.0 (APP) (September 2018)
   - Online & offline – ordering platform for SmartPOS 
    
4. SmartLoyalty 2.0 plugin  (October 2018)
   Loyalty programs mgmt 
    
5. SmartReplicator 2.0 plugin ( November 2018)
   Selective online & offline replication for idempiere
    
6. SmartSocialPOS: Digital marketing + social network tools for sales + CRM integration – January 2019
    
7. SmartRetailAnalytics – Big data & machine learning solutions to generate to increase sales and generate cross-market sales. Feb 2019
    
8. SmartPayment (under review)  March 2019
   - Web gateway to simplify setup & transactions with payment gateways
    
9. Smart IoT – Gateway to support new generation of IoT devices to interact with customers: beacons, smart displays,TBD
    
10. SmartMarketplace 
    - Extension de e-commerce para contactos entre proveedores de servicios/distribuidores
     
11. SmartLogistics (under review) 
    - Potential partnership with external provider
     
12. SmartReality  - Augmented reality models to simulate shopping experiences  TBD
     
13. SmartBioSecurity – ligth biometric security for retail

1. SmartTourism 2018-2019
 SmartPOS & erp extension for hotels, restaurants & tourism vendors

2. SmartGanadero 3.0  (compatible with Idempiere 5.1)
Drones for automated distance monitoring, 
Radio frequency sensors (radar for animals)

3. SmartAgro 1.0 
Online & offline – ordering platform for SmartPOS