Please use the below URL to view recording of this webinar: http://wso2.com/library/webinars/2015/02/connected-retail-reference-architecture/ The key focus areas of this session are An overview of the retail IT landscape What is a connected retail IT architecture How the WSO2 middleware platform enables a connected retail business Connected retail L0 architecture Connected retail L1 architecture with WSO2

1. February 2015
Connected Retail Reference
Architecture
Software Architect
Kasun
Indrasiri

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About WSO2
๏ Global enterprise, founded in 2005
by acknowledged leaders in XML,
web services technologies, standards
and open source
๏ Provides only open source platform-as-
a-service for private, public and hybrid
cloud deployments
๏ All WSO2 products are 100% open
source and released under the Apache
License Version 2.0.
๏ Is an Active Member of OASIS, Cloud
Security Alliance, OSGi Alliance, AMQP
Working Group, OpenID Foundation
and W3C.
๏ Driven by Innovation
๏ Launched first open source API
Management solution in 2012
๏ Launched App Factory in 2Q 2013
๏ Launched Enterprise Store and
first open source Mobile solution
in 4Q 2013

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What WSO2 delivers

4. About the Presenter
๏ Kasun Indrasiri
๏ Software Architect and Product Lead of WSO2 ESB
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5. Agenda
๏ An overview of the retail IT landscape
๏ What is a connected retail IT architecture
๏ How the WSO2 middleware platform enables a
connected retail business
๏ Connected retail L0 architecture
๏ Connected retail L1 architecture
๏ Customer Stories
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6. ‘Retail’
๏ Selling goods and services to the final consumer.
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7. Types of Retail Businesses
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An overview of Retail IT
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An overview of Retail IT
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10. ๏ Product, Order, Inventory and Supply chain
Management Systems(Legacy or proprietary systems)
๏ Distributed deployments (eg: PoS and main data
center)
๏ Merchandising/Business Intelligence : Market
Analysis, Trends
๏ Proliferation of Devices : Mobile and API enablement
๏ Cloud Services (eg: Paypal)
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An overview of Retail IT

11. ๏ Building an internally and externally connected retail
business
๏ A competitive and globalized retailed business,
requires to quickly launch products and promotions
and provide enhanced customer experience.
๏ Consistent engagement, seamless shopping,
personalized attention, and memorable interactions.
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A ‘Connected Retail’

12. ๏ Create rich customer experience (eg: Fast checkouts)
๏ Develop a transparent, collaborative, real-time
supply chain. (optimize the inventory stock)
๏ Offer multichannel data/sales management.
(proliferation of devices)
๏ Price management. (upload price updates seamlessly)
๏ Point-of-sale (POS) transformation. (move away from
p2p model)
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Challenges in building a Connected Retail
Source : msdn - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264584.aspx

13. Connected Retail Reference Architecture
(L0)
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14. Connected Retail Reference Architecture
(L1)
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15. ๏ Ultra fast Message routing with low latency. (over 6
Billions of transactions)
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Use Case I – High volume message
routing

16. ๏ Integrating : SAP and Non SAP systems, databases and
message broker
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Use Case II – Distributed Point of Sale

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Links
๏ Enabling a Connected Business -
http://wso2.com/landing/enabling-the-connected-business/
๏ Connected Business webinar series -
http://wso2.com/landing/connected-business-webinar-series/
๏ Convert your enterprise to a Connected Business –
http://wso2.com/whitepapers/convert-your-enterprise-to-a-
connected-business/

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