This was in the early days of DataWorks we were young, unfocused, trying to figure out how to make a buck, product names were not registered, and trademarks were a thing of our future.
So DataWorks has this long tradition of keeping the acronym but changing the words. We went Advanced when we started working with Resorts and Casinos. Circa 1994 the acronym was once again changed to mean Advanced Retail Management System. ARMS first stood for Apparel Retail Management System. "Are we talking about OUR "RMS" or THEIR "RMS"? The pronoun THEIR referring to a little software outfit called Microsoft.Īs the fickle winds of marketing blew through our corporate doorway, we changed our software's product name again to ARMS around 1992. Lately there have been a lot of internal conversations between DataWorks staff about the "RMS POS System." As you can imagine, this has caused some confusion among the long-toothed, senior DataWorks staff. Twenty-three years later (2010) we have integrated NeXT®, our enterprise back office inventory software, to Microsoft Dynamics RMS POS software. It was the last logo I created for the company. When I get a chance I will insert the DataWorks RMS logo here. A typesetter or a proof-reader may have made the switch without anyone knowing. As I recall the change may have not even been deliberate. One year the "S" was changed to mean "Software", and for a month or two the "S" stood for System. RMS stood for Retail Management Solutions. But back in 1988, when DataWorks started creating inventory control software for the fashion retail industry, we marketed and shipped our own software called "RMS". Ask anyone in the POS industry what "RMS" is and they will tell you that "RMS" is Microsoft's POS and Inventory Control system.
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