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Announcing the Ready for IBM Retail Store Innovations — Store Integration Framework initiative

  
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Countless new retail technologies claim to revolutionize store environments. Speed checkout. Personalize shopping. Drive sales. Faced with this complexity, you must select the right solutions to deliver a fresh, engaging store experience—while optimizing your choice, costs and risks.

Facilitating your search for innovative, reliable retail technologies

The Ready for IBM Retail Store Innovations—Store Integration Framework initiative can help you optimize IT investment decisions for your stores and prepare you for tomorrow’s retailing opportunities. Through the initiative, IBM works with select IBM Business Partners to design services and validate store applications on IBM Store Integration Framework—our open-standards-based, industry-leading middleware optimized for next-generation store environments.

Driving store innovation

IBM Store Integration Framework is a Web services architecture that’s easy to install, deploy and support, so you can integrate, distribute and manage applications and data across numerous channels and touch points. Just ask the more than 50 IBM Business Partners in retail that have already migrated their solutions to the Store Integration Framework platform.

When you consider new solutions for your business, look for the Ready for IBM Retail Store Innovations—Store Integration Framework mark to realize benefits including:

  • Faster store innovation—Choose from a wide range of open-standards-based IBM Business Partner technologies. Plug and play applications and reuse business logic across solutions. Benefit from extensive pretesting procedures—without taking on the costs.
  • Reduced business risk—Equip your company for smooth, successful store initiatives. By resolving potential integration issues through the validation process, and providing developers with expertise and technical support, we can help reduce your risk exposure.
  • Lower TCO—Backed by Store Integration Framework, validated solutions can reduce integration, maintenance and training costs. Initiative features such as plug-and-play functionality and access to intuitive touch-based technologies contribute to a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and efficient operations.

For more information
To learn more about the Ready for IBM Retail Store Innovations—Store Integration Framework initiative, please visit: ibm.com/products/retail/readyfor.