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CONSIDER THIS/ ARTS UPDATE Blueprint of the ARTS Pavilion BY RICHARD MADER Expect a line when visiting the ARTS Pavilion (Booth 2155) at NRF 2008, January 13-16 at the Javits Center in New York City. The ARTS SOA Blueprint and associated SOA Best Practices document, developed over nine months by 26 of the world’s leading retailers and software vendors, will be available free to ARTS members and for review and purchase by non-members. Just as an architectural blueprint guides one through the steps of building a house, the SOA Blueprint is designed to help retailers understand and implement a service-oriented architecture (SOA), an efficient and cost-effective strategy to enable IT support of internal business practices and collaboration with external partners. The blueprint describes the infrastructure components, tools, models for business services and how to leverage ARTS standards to ensure success in your SOA crosoft, Oracle, PCMS, Progress Software, SAP, Soft Solutions and Third Solutions. Each will have expert representatives rotating through the Pavilion to provide information on “business agility powered by ARTS standards.” Five of the sponsors — Microsoft, IBM, Magtek, Progress/Sonic, and Epson — have joined forces to showcase the latest capabilities of XML-based UnifiedPOS. Looking for better ways to protect your customer data? You can see a new mag stripe reader technology that can detect cards that have been illegally reproduced (“skimmed”) as well as cards that have had their data altered. How better to reduce identitfy theft than to eliminate the value of the stolen data? One demo will show how to connect devices via web services, the next generation of UnifiedPOS that conforms to the ARTS SOA best practices; another demo will connect printers via XML, the next big step in POS platform independence. ARTS and NRF continue to reach out to grocery and food services, clearly evidenced by a demonstration connecting a scale to the POS terminal. Richard Mader is executive director of ARTS. implementation. ARTS has immediately put theory into practice by releasing Retail Transaction Interface (RTI), a new XML specification built on the blueprint and best practices that enables reuse of your core POS functionality as SOA services. The Blueprint and RTI are just two of the exciting activities in this year’s Pavilion. Other featured demonstrations include: • Video analytics • Data card protection via UnifiedPOS • Enhanced digital receipt processing At the hub With so much going on in the Pavilion, ARTS and its sponsors have developed the ARTS Solutions Center as the hub of the booth. Start your Pavilion visit at the Solutions Center by scrolling the list of business problems: If you find one facing your company, touch the screen for more information on how ARTS standards can help — and where in the Pavilion you can obtain more information. Pavilion sponsors come from around the world and work in a wide range of retail technology areas, demonstrating the reach of ARTS standards. This year’s sponsors are Alpha Bay, Axis Communications, Bizerba, Epson, Escalate Retail, IBM, Intellivid, MagTek, Mettler Toledo, Mi116 STORES / JANUARY 2008 Video analytics Video analytics is the hot new technology that can enable retailers to improve customer service and safety, reduce theft and streamline operations. Video analytics turns images into data that can create instant messages to alert the store associates of unsafe conditions or depleted shelf inventory. Images are captured and stored in a data warehouse for subsequent analysis, including an accurate count of shoppers that entered the store (to calculate conversion rate) or measure the effectiveness of a promotion. In the Pavilion, you can see demos of people-counting, tools to conduct analysis of data from multiple sources and a scale that can properly identify the produce or fruit placed on it, automatically calculating the price. ARTS remains at the forefront of developing standards that lower retailers’ risks and costs for implementing leading-edge retail technologies; our existing XML schemas and the Data Model remain critical components for retail applications. Come by our booth and learn more: 15 minutes in the Pavilion may be your best use of time in 2008. WWW.STORES.ORG http://WWW.STORES.ORG

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