Retail Real Estate expert and Lucernex CEO, Mike Nuzum (see Mike’s management summary here) along with IWMS, Store Lifecycle Management expert and Lucernex President, Joe Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here), discuss their perspective on the history of the Store Lifecycle Management (SLM) and Retail IWMS markets.

Typically in our blogs, we attempt to write an impartial analysis of the subject at hand and save the Lucernex marketing for the end. However, in this blog, the story of the SLM and Retail IWMS market is really the story of Lucernex so there is no way to separate the Lucernex details from the body of the blog.

This is the story of how the Retail IWMS market came about, from the perspective of several industry experts who work at or with Lucernex. As IWMS is a consolidation of the Facilities Management, Facilities Maintenance and Corporate Real Estate software markets, I am very sure there are other opinions from other vendors, especially from outside the retail part of this market, but here’s our viewpoint. (more…)