Real Estate Software expert and Lucernex President, Joe Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here), discusses the differences between a single platform and multi-platform Store Lifecycle Management (SLM)/Retail IWMS and why you should care.

Have you ever looked at an older house and noted how it’s had extensions added that don’t fit the original house? Whether it’s the pattern of the windows, the exterior surface or the shape of the extension that does not match you can tell it’s just not right and makes the whole structure look bad. Inside the house, the switch and outlet layout in the new rooms are different and the plumbing does not work as well as it did before. The air conditioning doesn’t get the house as cool and even the foundation of the house is cracking because the new and old sections are settling differently.
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