ARTS Member Update - February 2008

ARTS Sets Development Priorities for 2008

At the Annual Planning meeting January 16 in New York City, ARTS Technical Committees set priorities for all ARTS Standards.

	ARTS XML - Tax Transaction, Expansion of the SOA Blueprint, Video Anaytics and Fresh Management
	ARTS Data Model -  Complete the new Data Dictionary and a New Release of the Model
	UnifiedPOS - Major Release 2.0 and Web Services POS (WS-POS)
	Standard RFPs - GiftCard Applications, Business Intelligence (BI) and VoiP

Complete minutes of the meeting are available on the ARTS XML Webboard.  Comments and suggestions are welcome - we want to work on projects of value to our members!

ARTS Sets ARTS XML and Data Model Committee Schedule for 2008

	February 18-21, San Jose CA, hosted by Cisco Systems
	May 11-14, Salt Lake City, hosted by Alpha Bay
	August 17-21, Hawthorne NY or Toronto, hosted by IBM
	October 13-17, Annual Europe Meeting, tentatively set for Amsterdam
	November 9-12, Delray Beach FL, hosted by Escalate Retail

Already nearly 50 members have registered to attend the San Jose meeting.  For agenda details and to register, see http://www.nrf-arts.org/agendas/AgendaXML_DM_SanJose_Feb2008.htm.

New Chairs for ARTS Technical Committees

ARTS Technical committees UnifiedPOS and ARTS XML have selected new Chairs: Paul Gay of Epson succeeds Harry McKinlay of Fujitsu as head of UnifiedPOS and Jerry RIghtmer of Oracle Retail is the new chair of ARTS XML. Jerry also serves on the ARTS Board and Paul is Epson's delegate to the Board.  Congratulations Gentlemen.

ARTS SOA Blueprint

The ARTS SOA Blueprint and accompanying Best Practices Report were released at the NRF Annual Convention in the Sunday morning ARTS update session, which was attended by more than 250 people.  Since release more than 50 companies have downloaded the Blueprint, and praise and questions are flowing into the website.  Members can download it free and non-members can purchase it for $249 on http://www.nrf.com/nrf-arts/schemas/agreement.htm

Watch for announcement of a webcast in March by the principal developer to offer insight and address your questions.  You can view the Update presentation on http://www.nrf-arts.org/presents/2008/ARTSupdate2008.pdf

ARTS in Europe

ARTS will be in stand C45 (hall 6) at EuroShop, 23-27 February in Düsseldorf, Germany thanks to Bizerba.  A member of the Fresh management work team, Bizerba is also an active supporter of ARTS' SOA and Video Analytics work.  ARTS Executive Director Richard Mader will be available to discuss how your company can benefit from ARTS standards.

This year Retail Solutions moves to London and ARTS will be doing a standards pavilion at the show. This is a great opportunity for you to work with ARTS to show your support of standards and have a presence on the floor of this longstanding show.  See www.retailsolutions2008.com for more information about the show itself.  If you have an interest in the ARTS standards pavilion, contact Richard Mader at MaderR@nrf.com.

ARTS Testimonials

Do you have a story to share on how your company is using SOA or ARTS standards?We are seeking presentations for our Summit conference this October in Amsterdam and we also we invite members to contribute stories to the monthly ARTS column in StORES Magazine.  Email  Richard Mader at MaderR@nrf.com  or Karen Shunk at ShunkK@nrf.com with a brief outline.

Standard Data Formats for Mobile Transactions?

ARTS is exploring the development of standard data formats for mobile transactions - everything from orders through payments. Phones are beginning to play a larger role in retailing; without standards, consumers will be frustrated, further delaying business expansion in this new channel.  ARTS wants to hear your comments and ideas.  Send an email to Richard Mader at MaderR@nrf.com to share your opinion.

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