News and Events

Dakota Retail Technologies is proud to announce the launch of our new website at www.dakretail.com. The goal of the new website is to make it easier for our existing clients to submit and manage support requests, and provide more information about our services for prospective clients.

POS Solution with FuturePOS

Dakota Retail Technologies & FuturePOS

According to Kory Lindersmith, co-owner of Dakota Retail Technologies, the POS installation at The Sioux Falls Arena in South Dakota was one of its largest installs and the first ever in a Sports Arena setting, which means that the VAR pulled out all the stops.

Now available, our client portal allows you greater access to Dakota Retail. You can use the portal to submit new support tickets or view past tickets. You can even view all of the hardware you have purchased from Dakota Retail.

Best of all you can view and pay your invoices.

Please contact us for a login to your portal.

To better serve our clients and grow the company we have move our offices to spacious property in the Oxbow commercial area.

Our new address is 3500 S Kiwanis Ave Ste 101.

2011 RSPA & VSR Magazine ISV/VAR Collaboration Award

At the 2011 RSPA RetailNOW event in Orlando, Dakota Retail Technologies and Future POS received the Innovative Solution award in the ISV/VAR Collaboration category.

“Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 made it possible to integrate the handheld POS terminals running Windows Embedded CE. Dakota Retail used Remote Desktop Services (RDS), one of the core virtualization technologies available in Windows Server 2008 R2, to “terminal”  

Saving a little on your technology can go a long ways, but cutting too many corners can lead to additional problems and expensive downtime. Here are a few ways you can cut costs without creating long term issues.

Email is (and has been) a prime method of communication for businesses of all sizes. With email comes a whole slew of issues that are essentially synonymous with the technology; spam, information overload, phishing, and information privacy. Even South Dakota small businesses that only do business locally are at risk of these issues. Personal email accounts are equally at risk. Employing proper precautions and practices whenever communicating via email is very important to prevent the risk of security compromises, monetary loss, and even legality issues.

When you mention the term 'disaster recovery,' most people think about the big ground-shattering events like earthquakes, fires, floods, tropical storms, etc. While these natural events are certainly disasters and devastating in their own right, smaller things can constitute as a disaster for your business, and they aren't seasonal.

Sometimes when your workstation feels bogged down, a relatively cheap and simply hardware update can make a huge difference in performance. Adding more RAM (Random Access Memory, often just referred to as memory) can be a game changer for your bogged down PC.

The Internet has long been a great tool for business, but you can’t take advantage of it without putting your sensitive data at risk of threats, like hackers and malware. Granted, when it comes to cyber security, even the most cautious business will have a lot on their plate. We’ll go over eight of the most important security best practices, and how you can implement them for your business.