SOA Solutions for Retail Organizations
Retailers must manage an increasingly complex portfolio of industry-specific systems—planning, procurement, logistics, and point- of- sale applications—as well as core applications that provide customer service, financial, and human resources capabilities. Unfortunately, most retail applications are one-time implementations residing on disparate systems that cannot readily interoperate. As a result, neither functionality nor data are integrated, rendering manual workarounds and data duplication as the norm. In an industry where competition is increasingly intense, it is critical that IT investments enhance store operations and selling capabilities, and that the shopping experience of customers be differentiated, no matter which channel they opt to use.
It is fast becoming clear to retailers that in order to improve in-store operations and to realize greater efficiencies in their supply chain, application silos must be integrated. The cost of manual processes, limited insight into operations, and information redundancies is simply too high not to take action. At the same time, retailers do not want to revamp their entire IT infrastructure or invest in new capital expenditures if the return on investment is too far into the future or insufficiently high. What is needed is an approach to integration that leverages existing IT assets, while at the same time realizing a faster time- to- value.
We help your organization:
Providing developers, architects and IT professionals with the tools, technologies, framework and guidance for building and maintaining SOA solutions.
Providing business users with personal productivity software that can help your organization increase productivity, lower costs and promote organizational agility by streamlining and optimizing business processes.