Your Options in Order Management Systems

• UNIX-based systems (about 200 users). There are three packages: Ecometry Oracle from Ecometry, Controller+ from Sigma Micro and MOSP from Datamann. They’re written in COBOL and designed to serve the demands of very large enterprises (Sears runs on Controller+, for example).

• Systems running on the DB2 database on IBM eSeries hardware (about 300 users). The three systems in this category are CW Direct and its suite of multichannel modules from CommercialWare, OrderPower! from Computer Solutions, and Directions from Peppler & Associates.