Association for Retail Technology Standards

ARTS Reduces Technology Costs

Through Standards

The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) is an international membership organization dedicated to reducing the costs of retail technology through standards.

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Top Story: ARTS Releases Data Warehouse for Business Intelligence

Calling on 15 years of retail standards experience to identify the "right" data elements necessary to manage a retail business, ARTS worked with leading retailers and vendors to select the appropriate elements from the ARTS Data Model to design a model for business intelligence for retail. Click here to download the model from Members Only.

ARTS to Present on SOA Blueprint for Retail at IBM Retail Users Group

ARTS Executive Director Richard Mader and Viswanath Srikanth, Senior Software Engineer at IBM and also Chair of the SOA Best Practices Committee will be speaking May 19th at the IBM Retail User Group Annual Conference, May 18-21 in Orlando.

Standards News

U CONNECT 08

Produced and presented by GS1 US™ and VICS, the U Connect Conference^® is the ONE conference for education on bar codes, data synchronization, e-commerce, EPC/RFID, business process automation, and collaborative commerce! U Connect takes place June 9-12 2008 at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas TX. Learn more at www.uconnectevent.org.

ARTS SOA Blueprint and Best Practices Technical Report Ready for Download

This technical report provides the retail industry with a depiction of the best SOA practices for retail. The blueprint and technical report are free to members; nonmembers may purchase them together for USD 249. Read the press release to learn more about the project, and click here to download or purchase the blueprint.

ARTS UnifiedPOS 1.12 is the new standard

UnifiedPOS version 1.12 has been approved by the ARTS Board, reviewed by users and committee members and has been promoted to standard. Click here to download the specification as a pdf file (15.9 MB) or click here to download a zip file (8.8 MB). Click here to learn more about the standard and read the press release.

Conferences & Events

12-15 May 2008

ARTS XML and Data Model Committee Meetings

Salt Lake City

Registration Closed

18-21 May 2008

IBM Retail User Group Annual Conference

Orlando

3-5 June 2008

UnifiedPOS Committee Meeting

Washington DC

9-12 June 2008