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IT Standards:
There are 2 major industry
standards mostly followed:
NRF
(National Retail Federation) has a standards body called ARTS (Association of Retail
Technology Standards), which works on creating standards for
the retail technology. ARTS mainly focuses on four areas,
There are subcommittees focusing on
each of these areas. For example UPOS which includes both JPOS
and OPOS (Ole for POS) defines the device interoperability
standards between a Point-of-Service terminal and a
peripherals such as a scanner or printer. IXRetail builds on
the ARTS Data Model to develop standard XML schemas and
message sets to ease Application to Application (A to A)
integration within a retail enterprise. The data model is
described a a logical description of the data and its entity
relationships required to support a retail enterprise and
finally the RFP subcommittee focuses on creating Request For
Price Quotations (RFP’s) standards to save the retailer
community time and effort by providing a starting place for
the development of individual RFP documents.
OAGiS: The Open Applications Group
Integration Specification (OAGIS) is an integration framework
for defining a common data model based on XML Schema
The OAGIS standard is published by
the Open Applications Group (OAGi).
OAGIS is defined as a horizontal
standard using XML Schema for business integration. OAGIS
makes use of the UN/CEFACT Core
Component Standards. By using OAGIS as a platform of adopting
Core Components other vertical standards can leverage the
OAGIS platform while also providing a common basis industry
standards that furthers the end goal of making integration
across vertical domain possible
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