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ARTS Standards

ARTS Created these three standards in order to make the IT infrastructure for retailers cheaper, faster, more secure and easier to upgrade.

Data Model

The ARTS Retail Data Model offers two distinct perspectives across the retail business. These are the Enterprise Context, which offers insight into the retail enterprise via three levels within the retail operation (home office, distribution and store levels), and Subject Area Composition, which gives an insight into the retail enterprise via the subject areas which cut across all three levels of retail operation. read more...

UnifiedPOS

UnifiedPOS is the acronym for Unified Point of Service and version 1.13 is the current standard. It is an architectural specification for application interfaces to point-of-service devices that are used in the retail environment. This standard, which has been in existence for several years, is both operating system-independent and language neutral. read more...

ARTS XML

ARTS XML builds on the ARTS Data Model to develop standard XML schemas and message sets to ease Application to Application (A to A) integration within a retail enterprise. read more...