ARTS Evolution
Sept 1991 Concept of Retail Data Model (RISCON )
Jan 1993 First Member Meeting and Board Election at NRF
Apr 1993 Data Model and Software Distriution Committees formed
Jan 1994 Initial Data Model Entities and Attributes Distributed
IBM & Microsoft Lead Software Distribution Committee
May 1994 ARTS Expands Internationally
May 1995 ARTS and ESOG Merger
Feb 2000 IXRetail XML project launched to build schemas from the Model