• Why buy POS
• RetailTouch Software
• RetailTouch POS
• POS Peripherals
• Administration
• Data Management
• Data Safety
• Multi-Stores
• Networking
• Design

From the outset, RetailTouch's design has been optimised for the latest versions of MDAC, which comprises:

• ADO (ActiveX Data Objects)
• OLAP (Online Analytical Processing, for OLE-DB)
• OLE DB (Microsoft's open standard, efficient, low-level interface for universal data access and integration)

This combination ensures RetailTouch's compatibility with the widest possible range of hardware and other applications, and allows it to take full advantage of the latest developments in database speed and connectivity.

Database Efficiency and SQL Queries

RetailTouch uses the latest Microsoft OLE-DB provider for Jet, to connect to a local Access 2002 or later database.

Our evaluations show this to be the fastest, most efficient connection to a local-hard-disk database, as required by RetailTouch in its uniquely effective "full-time stand-alone" design for POS (coupled with constant transaction sharing between multiple workstations, via a shared log file).

RetailTouch then uses the power and speed of SQL to query its database.

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