Menlo Park, CA (March 2012) – New CAM Commerce Solutions LLC, a leading vendor of retail management software, has spun out the assets of its MicroBiz point of sale software business into a new company, MicroBiz LLC. The new company will be owned and operated by Kevin T. Kogler, the former President of CAM Commerce. The business will be based in Menlo Park CA, with a development facility in Las Vegas NV. As part of this transaction, several key employees of CAM Commerce will join MicroBiz LLC, including Jose Arteaga as Director of Sales and Stephen Walcott as Director of Development.
MicroBiz was founded in 1985 and was acquired by CAM Commerce Solutions in August 2000. MicroBiz currently markets MicroBiz Business Controller, a Windows-based point of sale software solution with well over 2,000 active users.
In mid 2012, MicroBiz plans to release MicroBiz Online, a completely new web-based integrated point of sale/eCommerce software as a service (SaaS) targeted at local multi-channel merchants. MicroBiz Online will combine easy to use yet feature rich web-based point of sale software with the popular and powerful Magento Community eCommerce platform. This completely integrated solution will enable local multi-channel retailers to operate their retail stores and eCommerce sites with a single Cloud-based management system – including unified product records, customer records, inventory management and reporting. MicroBiz Online has been designed from the ground up to integrate with Magento and the X.commerce open commerce ecosystem. As a result, MicroBiz Online’s customers will be able to leverage the 4,000+ extensions and add-ons available to Magento users as well as third party retail technologies through the X.commerce integration fabric.
“Separating MicroBiz from CAM Commerce will allow us to focus exclusively on launching MicroBiz Online” says Kevin Kogler, President and CEO of MicroBiz LLC. “This completely new web-based point of sale offering will allow any of the 100,000+ merchants running a Magento Community eCommerce site the ability to seamlessly integrate their offline ‘brick and mortar’ store with their online operations – eliminating the need to do double data entry or manage two sets of customer or inventory records. Furthermore, our ability to harness the power of the Magento Community and open source technologies will allow MicroBiz to offer a feature-rich integrated point of sale/eCommerce offering at very low monthly fees.”
“The sale of the MicroBiz assets helped complete our transformation into a 100 percent pharmacy management software business,” says Douglas M. Robertson, CEO and President of Robertson Piper Software Group, former owner of CAM Commerce and MicroBiz. “We think that shoppers will increasingly look to research products online while buying local – so the lines between online and offline commerce will continue to blur. MicroBiz Online will be well positioned to help independent local retailers operate efficiently in both worlds.”
About MicroBiz
MicroBiz was founded in 1985 and currently markets MicroBiz Business Controller, a Windows-based point of sale software solution with well over 2,000 active users. MicroBiz is based in Menlo Park CA, with a development facility in Las Vegas NV. For more information visit www.microbiz.com.
About Magento
Contact: Jose Arteaga
Head of Sales and Marketing
Email: jose.arteaga@microbiz.com
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