Boot Barn selects Epicor Retail SaaS solution

IRVINE, CALIF: Boot Barn selected Epicor Retail Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to streamline its retail operations and support its long-term growth plans. Boot Barn was one of four Retail SaaS deals Epicor signed during the first quarter of 2008.

Boot Barn is the West Coast’s largest specialty western and workwear retailer. Boot Barn offers the best and biggest selection of top quality western and work related footwear, apparel and accessories from its 34 retail store locations in the western United States and its online store.

To support its current growth strategy, Boot Barn sought an end-to-end fully integrated, retail solution to replace existing disparate systems and in doing so, eliminating the manual processes required to integrate and share data among these systems. To this end, Boot Barn chose the Epicor Retail SaaS solution over a number of competitors to provide the infrastructure and retail best practices to support its strategic growth.

The Epicor Retail SaaS delivery model is a turnkey retail solution that provides retailers with access to Epicor’s award winning suite of solutions for the specialty retail market place while virtually eliminating the need for an on-site retail IT infrastructure. The “pay as you go” SaaS pricing model eliminates the need to amortize the cost of “traditional” software licenses, providing substantial total cost of ownership advantages as a result.

The Epicor SaaS solution for retail includes the associated implementation and integration services, support and maintenance as well as ongoing updates and upgrades, giving retailers the freedom and flexibility to focus IT resources on other more value added efforts. With a proven four month project timeline from project kick off to live, the Epicor SaaS solution for retail offers significant time-to-market benefits.

For a fixed quarterly fee plus a one-time start-up charge, the SaaS offering delivers Epicor’s acclaimed Retail Store, Merchandising, Planning, Sales Analytics, CRM and Core Financials directly to store locations and the head office, via reliable, high-speed networks. Epicor hosts the software on secure and redundant servers, supplies and installs all hardware and infrastructure, and provides round-the-clock data security, backups and complete system maintenance—all at a fraction of the cost of traditional software licensing and implementation. The SaaS offering also includes ongoing updates to the latest Epicor Retail software releases, making it the last migration a retailer will ever need.

“Epicor Retail had the strongest feature set of all the solutions we considered, and was clearly the front runner during the evaluation process.” The Epicor Software as a Service preconfigured suite of retail solutions and proven deployment process helps mitigate the risk of deploying new technology,” said Patrick Meany, CEO, Boot Barn. “Epicor’s experience, demonstrated leadership and proven ability to successfully implement their Retail SaaS solution within a four-month project timeline coupled with its impressive retail customer list went a long way to make the Boot Barn management team confident with its decision to select Epicor as the right technology partner.”