UTC RETAIL Merchant Solution listed as Validated Payment Application; achieves PA-DSS compliance

Rochester, NY February 10, 2010 – UTC RETAIL™, a leading provider of integrated retail management solutions announces the successful completion of a Payment Application Data Security Standards (PA-DSS) review of their Merchant cross-channel merchandising management solution. UTC RETAIL Merchant allows small to mid-size specialty retailers to manage all areas of a retail organization including POS, Merchandising, Inventory Management, Allocation, Warehouse Management, Reporting and more, all in one integrated system.

The UTC RETAIL Merchant 5.2 application has been approved by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) as meeting its best practices requirements for protecting privileged card data as outlined in the Data Security Standard Version 1.2 (PCI-DSS V1.2). The importance of this certification is that when a PA-DSS compliant application such as Merchant 5.2 is implemented into a PCI-DSS compliant environment, it minimizes the potential for security breaches leading to compromises of payment card data. The Merchant listing can be found on the PCI-SSC website at https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/vpa/vpa_approval_list.html?mn=U.

“Achieving PA- DSS V1.2 compliancy on our Merchant solution results in a retail application that retailers can deploy and feel confident about with regards to security”, said Sam Villanti, President and Chief Executive Officer of UTC RETAIL. “As a retail solutions provider we have responsibility to deliver products that meet the ever changing needs of the market and with this certification, our Merchant product now joins our POS-J store automation solution which is also PA-DSS compliant allowing UTC RETAIL to offer a full suite of products that can facilitate and support retailers PCI-DSS compliance efforts”.


About UTC RETAIL™
UTC RETAIL is a leader in providing seamlessly integrated retail management solutions including software, hardware and professional services to the small to mid-size specialty retail market. Our retail software solutions include Cross-Channel Merchandising, Store Automation, Planning, Loyalty and Retail Management enabling specialty retailers to increase sales, lower costs and build competitive advantage. In addition to best in class software solutions, UTC RETAIL provides a complete set of branded hardware solutions and comprehensive professional service offerings, providing retailers a single point of contact and accountability for all of their retail management solutions. We’re UTC RETAIL. We’re retail solution experts. It’s all we do and we do it better than anyone else. For more information on UTC RETAIL, visit www.utcretail.com

For more information, contact Kathy Manners, Marketing Communications Specialist, at 585-742-5245 or by e-mail at kmanners@utcretail.com