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A Cloud-Based Retail Management System

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Retail management systems have been deployed extensively as web applications and stand-alone systems. However, in order to maximize return on investment while also improving on retail business efficiency and performance, it is imperative to explore newer technologies that can be leveraged. Cloud computing shows great potential in this regard; and so it is our aim in this paper to develop a cloud-based retail management system. We realize this by first designing the framework of the system and then implementing it.

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Adewumi, A., Ogbuchi, S., Misra, S. (2015). A Cloud-Based Retail Management System. In: Intan, R., Chi, CH., Palit, H., Santoso, L. (eds) Intelligence in the Era of Big Data. ICSIIT 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 516. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46742-8_41

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