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4/3/96 Charles Hooper
TOR: Comparing POCL outlet processes to
that of Standard Retail EPOS packages
5/3/96 lan Gair
TOR: EPOSS ‘Way forward Task Force’
8/3/96 Preliminary meeting
EPOSS Task Force
19/3/96 John Meagher
EPOS - A discussion document for
consideration by the EPOS Task Force
2/4/96 John Meagher
to Charles Hooper re TOR
10/4/96 Ian Gair
Paper from EPOS(S) Task Force
11/4/96 Charles Hooper
to Andy Radka, David Smith, Len Watson re
Cash Acct Changes
19/4/96 Ian Gair
Progress report to Paul Rich
21/4/96 John Scannell
to Charles Hooper & John Murray re Cash
Acct changes
25/4/96 Report
Electronic Point of Sale Service: “Way
Forward”
27/4/96 Andy Radka
to Bernie O’ Keeney (caution)
15/5/96 PFI
contract awarded to ICL Pathway. Extract
from ICL 1996 Review, Keith Todd, Chief
Exec “we crowned this achievement with our
largest win to date: ICL Pathway was
awarded the contract to design, build, finance
and operate a new Post Office infrastructure
and roll out the UK Department of Social
Security's new card-based benefit payments
system. This will be the largest ISDN based
network in the UK.”
20/5/96 Sue Rhodes &
Barbara Scannell
Report: EPOS & The Cash Acct - concluded
“standard EPOS system will be able to
provide cash acct in the format required by
CBDB.”
10/6/96 Dallas, Texas
ICL Retail Systems and Post Software
International (PSI) announce the merger of
their global operations. The focus is on the
implementation of in-store systems and
migration strategy for all non-food retailers.
The strategy, GlobalSTORE, is based on the
Association of Retail Technology Standards
(ARTS) data model, PSI's existing business
rule objects and Microsoft tools and
technologies including Windows NT. Future
solutions will also incorporate Internet
services and business objects from third party
suppliers.
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Note: PSI previously part of Syntegra PFI bid
- PSI acceptable to POCL.
20/8/96 Charles Hooper
letter to Alan Shepherd and subsequent
corres. Draws a blank.
28/8/96 John Meagher
memo to Peter Crahan. Extract: “....what
became the two unsuccessful suppliers, were
proposing a solution based on a standard
retail package, while the Pathway solution is
effectively a new application written on top
of Riposte, their messaging middleware.”
11/9/96 Paul Rich
e-mail to Charles Hooper et al rejects
GlobalSTORE approach. Extract:
“,,..to introduce a PSI solution at this stage
would be dangerously risky to the timetable.
Andrew (Stott) and others estimate a delay to
release 1 of up to a year is likely.
....80, my decision is to stick where we are.”
17/9/96 Wendy Powney,
Charles Hooper, Rupert
Lloyd Thomas
Draft ‘Make or Buy’ decision for Pathway
EPOSS - advocates use of packaged software.
31/9/96 Charles Hooper
Paper “Integration of GlobalSTORE into
Pathway Solution” - advocates use of
packaged software.
4/10/96 Ian Gair
memo te Mena Rego. Extract: “....I think we
are in danger of receiving a solution that does
not meet all our requirements.”
7/10/96 La Jolla, California
Paul Rich, Wendy Powney et al visit Fujitsu-
ICL Systems and see GlobalSTORE
demonstration.
11/11/96 Paul Rich
letter to John Bennett, MD, ICL Pathway.
Extract: “I was hoping that something a bit
more formal would be set up to integrate
PSI’s expertise on the programme - such as a
PSI person on the Pathway team, as one
example?”
13/11/96 Paul Rich
memo to Mena Rego & John Meagher.
Extract: “I do think there are some long-term
potential benefits of involving PSI more, and
I've written to John Bennett saying so,
following my US visit. This is a piece of work
we agreed would happen, and I’d appreciate
your co-operation in it.”
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1/12/96 Jeremy Folkes
memo to John Meagher rejects GlobalSTORE.
Extract: “Many companies would die for the
economies of scale that having 40,000
machines would give as far as developing a
bespoke solution.”
1/12/96 John Meagher
memo to Mena Rego rejects GlobalSTORE
approach. Extract: “.... For me the whole
thrust of its argument is open to criticism....”
8/1/97 Paul Rich
to John Bennett, MD, ICL Pathway,
requesting joint meeting with Adrian King,
MD, ICL Retail Systems to activate
EPOS/GlobalSTORE review.
30/6/97 Charles Hooper
Last day of service.
11/7/97 Joint Meeting:
Paul Rich, Wendy Powney, POCL,
Adrian King, ICL Retail Systems
John Bennett, Liam Foley, John Dicks, ICL
Pathway.
6/8/97 Dominic Barton
Head of Business Development, ICL
Pathway, letter to Wendy Powney outlining
EPOS/GlobalSTORE review activity.
Extract: “....we will produce a document
which details whether or not the (PSI)
module will run on the Horizon platform,
and this will provide clear evidence to
support the conclusions either way.”
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