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Technology Soup: The Fashionista’s Guide to Navigating the Fashion IT Landscape

If you’re a fashionista interested in the business of fashion, you will discover IT plays an enormous role. You’ve likely heard terms like fashion PLM, ERP and SaaS and wonder what all of these acronyms mean.

Acronyms make sentences shorter and the tech industry discovered this a long time ago. While this alphabet soup of letters may appear to be complicated, the concepts are straightforward and each of the tools play a critical role in the fashion and apparel business.

Read on for our non-techie expert explanation of the fashion IT basics and increase your fashion industry IQ!

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