Overview

Calico was founded as a modest store in Bedford Village, NY in 1948. Currently, the company has 60+ retail stores in North America. It offers 10,000 first-quality designer fabrics, plus the ability to transform any of them into custom window treatments, furniture and more.

Challenge

• Calico had a MMS ERP package for retail business processes. The MMS was an IBMi hosted software package with a legacy user interface with green and dark screens.
• The user experience on their MMS screen was very poor, although the software was very stable.
• To replace the MMS with the latest ERP package would cost heavily considering the huge effort of customization.
• Paging up and down on their IBMi screens took a lot of time, affecting their user productivity.
• Users couldn’t access the MMS software outside of the office network.