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Escalating point-of-sale (POS) maintenance costs. Outdated and inflexible store infrastructures. The need for more comprehensive and current information. The infrastructure decisions you make today will strongly influence your ability to leverage leading-edge technology tomorrow. Open POS Solutions from IBM can help you meet these challenges with an integrated, open and flexible store infrastructure.
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Our Open POS Solutions are J2EE™-based and run on IBM Store Integration Framework, a retail-optimized, open integration platform that creates a flexible, scalable IT environment.
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We use a service-oriented architecture (SOA), which supports component-based applications and interoperability—with SOA, you simply plug in new business processes, applications, systems and devices or combine them individually.
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Our solutions are packaged and proven for retail environments—together with our retail-hardened SurePOS systems, IBM
 ® systems and leading-edge store services, IBM offers a complete solution for the store.
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Open Point-of-Sale Solutions from IBM are complete POS configurations, built on open standards, pretested, packaged and proven for store environments. They include a Java™ 2 platform and Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology-based software running on IBM Store Integration Framework. IBM retail-optimized hardware, operating systems and additional service components can be combined with the solution, including:
- IBM Store Integration Framework—a virtual seamless set of middleware, packaged specifically for retail, that integrates your devices and applications—past, present and future.
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IBM SurePOS systems—engineered to withstand a harsh retail environment.
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IBM Retail Environment for SUSE Linux (IRES) operating system—leverage a fully integrated Linux platform that delivers the flexibility you need to operate, expand, integrate and reduce costs between your stores and enterprise.
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IBM xSeries®—provide a complete solution for maintaining security and increasing reliability.
We can also provide project management, store transformation and infrastructure services through IBM Global Services.
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| A proven, low-risk solution
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Several customers, like Pep Boys or Scheels All Sports, have implemented Open POS Solutions over the last several years in their stores. Implementation partners of choice have been ISV companies like Oracle Retail, PCMS and SAP Triversity.
Pep Boys, for example, started its IT transformation by replacing its outdated POS environment with an IBM Open POS Solution—a next-generation POS configuration built on Java technology-based Oracle Retail Point-of-Service software running on IBM Store Integration Framework and comprising hardware, an operating system and services from IBM.
The solution is based on IBM Store Integration Framework, an open-standards, Web-based platform that connects Pep Boys’ POS system and Oracle Retail applications. “Store Integration Framework enables the integration of people, processes and data throughout the store and at various customer touch points,” says Jan Jackman, general manager, Retail on Demand. “It is a service-oriented architecture that leverages open and industry standards to allow Pep Boys to reuse components and applications, helping to reduce the time it takes to deploy new service touch points as well as reduce total cost of ownership.”
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Open POS Solutions from IBM provide an open and flexible infrastructure with a low total cost of ownership. Our solutions are designed to help you: -
Reuse existing business components to reduce your IT maintenance and installation costs.
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Leverage open standards like J2EE, XML and ARTS—middleware and applications can run on virtually any hardware and operating system.
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Enjoy reduced integration costs and a speedy integration process.
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Increase efficiency of systems management and administration.
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Make enhancements and changes without disrupting systems.
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Take advantage of flexible configurations for compatibility with future application investments.
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Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM retail specialist.
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