Software meets needs of evolving retail environment.
Press Release Summary:
IBM Store Integrator allows retailers to integrate store and Web-based applications with 4690 ACE, SA, or GSA Point of Sale systems. Integrated store infrastructure supports real-time delivery of information and services to consumers as well as to store associates, at every point in shopping experience. Software eliminates need to maintain duplicate price files or payment facilities; other applications can reuse pricing and transition logic in POS.
Original Press Release:
IBM Store Integrator Enables Integration of Store and Web-Based Applications with POS
Overview
As a key component of the IBM Store Integration Framework, IBM Store Integrator allows retailers to integrate store and Web-based applications with their 4690 ACE, SA, or GSA Point of Sale systems in response to today's evolving retail environment.
The consumer shopping experience has changed dramatically. Integrated multichannel retailing is becoming the norm. While the store remains the hub of the customer experience, the Web and new technology have empowered consumers and opened new venues for evaluating and purchasing merchandise around the clock.
As the retailer's relationship with the consumer becomes ever more important, providing differentiating service for the consumer across all channels of operation is even more important for success. At the same time, global expansion, market saturation, and the proliferation of retail supercenters have made it imperative for retailers to optimize all aspects of store operations from eliminating unnecessary costs by streamlining processes to improving productivity by empowering
employees with real-time information. Most importantly, retailers need to provide consumers with a focused shopping experience that invigorates loyalty and increases profits.
Creating an on demand store environment, one that enables you to respond dynamically to customer and employee needs, will be critical to retailers' success in this challenging environment. Accomplishing this requires the development of an integrated store infrastructure that can support real-time delivery of information and services to the consumer as well as to store associates, at every point in the shopping experience, whether
from home on the Web, in the store, or even after the sale is completed. Store Integrator ensures that POS is part of this on demand infrastructure.
Planned availability date
July 16, 2004
At a glance
IBM Store Integrator enables you to reuse the business logic in your ACE, SA, or GSA POS applications.
o Provides a common Java(TM) API to integrate store and Web-based applications with POS. Business Partners and Independent Software Vendors can use this API to interface their applications once with ACE, SA, and GSA.
o Eliminates the need to maintain duplicate price files or payment facilities. Other applications can now just reuse the pricing and transaction logic in POS.
o Enables the extension of existing ACE, SA, or GSA POS applications using modern Java development tools.
o Provides an enhanced XML-based GUI toolkit to develop simple, intuitive consumer and operator POS interfaces with upgrades
available for SureVision and Astra PRPQ customers.
o Enables integrated management of the store based on the Java Management Extensions (JMX) standard.
o Delivers a key component of the IBM Store Integration Framework.
