ARTS committee for SOA blueprint
Earlier this week Association for Retail Technology Standards announced that it has launched the SOA Blueprint for Retail project, a program that will provide retail businesses with specific guidelines and best practices for implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Retailers require SOA to more easily link business operations across stores, the Web, suppliers and merchandisers.
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The committee working on this effort consists of representatives from variety of vendors and customers. There are close to 25 members in the committee and includes representation from Kohl’s, Big Lots, CSK Auto, IBM, Oracle, Cisco, SAP and Microsoft.
Retails have been slow in adopting the SOA despite all the benefits it brings to the business. So this group's goal is to create the much needed blueprint and define the steps to get started on this path. Talking to Retailers, it was obvious that there is an urgent need for help on how to get started. So this committee will do its work in helping the retailers get started and realize the benefits of SOA.
I'm representing Microsoft on this committee. So if you have any questions, please feel free to ping me.
