WebSphere® Remote Server’s IBM Retail Store Server Editions deliver a fully integrated platform to help manage remote environments. This infrastructure offering extends the IBM Enterprise Business Integration technology to distributed locations, enabling integration from the enterprise to the edge of your business.
WebSphere Remote Server and its IBM Retail Store Server Editions, are a core component of the IBM Retail Industry Framework. The IBM Retail Store Servers Editions are a pre-integrated, pre-tested package of IBM software products designed specifically to support the store of the future.
WebSphere Remote Server Editions integrates diverse systems in the distributed environment, such as existing IBM Point-of-Sale (POS) applications and new POS solutions provided by IBM Business Partners, with the infrastructure to quickly deploy and manage new solutions built around the IBM Retail Store Server Editions. It links each remote node and the enterprise to help customers determine whether they have the right goods and services, in the right location, at the right price, and with the level of service and the unique shopping experience that consumers demand. Also available is the IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Provisioning Add On for IBM Retail Store Server which provides remote functionality to manage and maintain the store infrastructure. For complex store environments, two store enterprise service buses are available: IBM WebSphere Message Broker Retail Store Edition and IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Retail Store Edition.
Key benefits
IBM Retail Store Server Editions provides a standards-based platform for running distributed operations, designed to be implemented across hundreds of locations while managing the remote IT aspects centrally. By leveraging the robust, scalable, and secure middleware already used across enterprise implementations, this middleware can be used immediately by clients. It allows for future growth via new technologies that are radically changing the consumer service experience. The time to develop and deploy solutions can be reduced. By working with leading clients and software Business Partners, this offering is designed to integrate customer and employee touchpoints as well as enterprise processes and data warehouses.
- Using IBM Retail Store Server Editions, IBM Business Partners can leverage a standards-based platform for building, deploying, and managing partner solutions. This helps in meeting customer requirements faster and meeting J2EE and industry-specific standards. They can easily roll out applications to hundreds, or even thousands of distributed locations.
- WebSphere Central Site Server provides a single convenient package of middleware components at the same level as provided by IBM Retail Store Server Editions for use at the enterprise with no processor or memory restrictions.
The IBM Retail Store Server Editions and the IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Provisioning for IBM Retail Store Server streamline remote operations to cost effectively integrate existing and new technologies such as:
Mobile shopping devices with personalized information at the consumer's fingertips
Transaction log (Tlog) handling for non-IBM 4690 applications to move POS data to headquarters
RFID technology to speed the checkout process and locate merchandise in the distributed environment
Digital merchandising solutions that can provide consumers with dynamic product information and comparisons on demand
Accurate inventory information to help prevent erroneous reordering of merchandise
Manages distributed environment middleware
- Step-by-step approach to distributed environment efficiently transforming operations to efficiently transform stores
- Platform for distributed environment innovation to differentiate your customers' shopping experience
- Robust, standards-based platform for future expansion to help you more effectively compete in your market
