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Total Cost of Ownership for Point-of-Sale and PC Cash Drawer Solutions: A Comparative Analysis of Retail Checkout Environments, 2006 Update

Overview This white paper presents a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis of IBM's Point-Of-Sale (POS) solutions and PC Cash Drawer (PCCD) solutions running on IBM PC platforms in the United States and Europe to uncover the actual costs associated with both systems over their lifetime of use. The goal of this white paper is to help retailers understand the differences in total costs between POS and PCCD checkout systems as they evaluate future purchases.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	IDG (International Data Group)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	November 2006	Downloads	10
Format	White Papers
Topics	Point of Sale Devices, ROI - TCO

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