Epicor Software has introduced Epicor Retail Store Point of Sale in the Cloud. The company this month promised the product would significantly reduce deployments from what it said are often one-to-two year ordeals. The system utilizes Amazon Web Services Infrastructure as a Service platform moving all business logic to the cloud. Epicor also says the application enables retailers to "future proof" [a phrase I hope doesn't catch on POS systems to scale and support new countries/regions and new POS devices, along with integrating with new technologies and new partners.