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Store Integrator

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Feature Benefits
Extends the functionality of IBM 4690 OS applications (including business logic and data sources) to kiosks, self-service systems, handheld scanners, other devices
  • Creates opportunities to offer personalized service, improve employee productivity and motivate consumers to spend more in the store
  • Protects current investments in POS technology
  • Helps enable retailers to deliver unique and highly differentiating customer service
Makes it easy to generate intuitive graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for customized IBM 4690 OS applications Allows consumers and employees to access useful data from virtually any touch point
Enables retailers to pull information from the POS—such as pricing, item information, transaction data and promotional details—and share it with applications storewide

Helps retailers add new solutions without recreating OS software or duplicating databases

  • Kiosks for photo processing, DVD rental and deli orders
  • Home shopping
  • Line busting
  • In-store inventory management
  • Returns management
  • RFID-enabled checkout
  • Personal shopping assistants
Includes the Application Extension facility (AEF), an open, Java technology-based application programming interface (API)
  • Allows current POS applications to run in a virtual register session within other applications or Web interfaces
  • Enables retailers to integrate new capabilities at the POS, such as an RFID reader
Includes the POS business component (POSBC), which extends the AEF with support for an XML-based interface to the POS software Enables retailers to distribute POS functionality to an even wider range of non-Java clients
Allows store managers and sales associates to access business-critical information anywhere in the store
  • Mangers can perform transaction authorizations, overrides and other tasks via handheld devices and stay on the store floor to assist customers
  • Sales associates can access customer data, pricing and product information, as well as handle remote checkout and ordering from a tablet device, so they can answer customer questions almost instantly, instead of walking away
Helps retailers build intuitive GUIs for IBM 4690 OS POS applications without having to alter current capabilities or functions Improves usability because retailers can train staff on a single system, then deploy them anywhere in the store

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