February 2015

Connected Retail Reference Architecture

Software Architect

Kasun Indrasiri

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About WSO2๏ Global enterprise, founded in 2005

by acknowledged leaders in XML, web services technologies, standards and open source

๏ Provides only open source platform-as-a-service for private, public and hybrid cloud deployments

๏ All WSO2 products are 100% open source and released under the Apache License Version 2.0.

๏ Is an Active Member of OASIS, Cloud Security Alliance, OSGi Alliance, AMQP Working Group, OpenID Foundation and W3C.

๏ Driven by Innovation

๏ Launched first open source API Management solution in 2012

๏ Launched App Factory in 2Q 2013

๏ Launched Enterprise Store and first open source Mobile solution in 4Q 2013

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What WSO2 delivers

About the Presenter๏ Kasun Indrasiri

๏ Software Architect and Product Lead of WSO2 ESB

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Agenda

๏ An overview of the retail IT landscape

๏ What is a connected retail IT architecture

๏ How the WSO2 middleware platform enables a connected retail business

๏ Connected retail L0 architecture

๏ Connected retail L1 architecture

๏ Customer Stories

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‘Retail’

๏ Selling goods and services to the final consumer.

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Types of Retail Businesses

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An overview of Retail IT

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An overview of Retail IT

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๏ Product, Order, Inventory and Supply chain Management Systems(Legacy or proprietary systems)

๏ Distributed deployments (eg: PoS and main data center)

๏ Merchandising/Business Intelligence : Market Analysis, Trends

๏ Proliferation of Devices : Mobile and API enablement

๏ Cloud Services (eg: Paypal)

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An overview of Retail IT

๏ Building an internally and externally connected retail business

๏ A competitive and globalized retailed business, requires to quickly launch products and promotions and provide enhanced customer experience.

๏ Consistent engagement, seamless shopping, personalized attention, and memorable interactions.

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A ‘Connected Retail’

๏ Create rich customer experience (eg: Fast checkouts)

๏ Develop a transparent, collaborative, real-time supply chain. (optimize the inventory stock)

๏ Offer multichannel data/sales management. (proliferation of devices)

๏ Price management. (upload price updates seamlessly)

๏ Point-of-sale (POS) transformation. (move away from p2p model)

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Challenges in building a Connected Retail

Source : msdn - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264584.aspx

Connected Retail Reference Architecture (L0)

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Connected Retail Reference Architecture (L1)

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๏ Ultra fast Message routing with low latency. (over 6 Billions of transactions)

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Use Case I – High volume message routing

๏ Integrating : SAP and Non SAP systems, databases and message broker

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Use Case II – Distributed Point of Sale

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Links

๏ Enabling a Connected Business - http://wso2.com/landing/enabling-the-connected-business/

๏ Connected Business webinar series - http://wso2.com/landing/connected-business-webinar-series/

๏ Convert your enterprise to a Connected Business – http://wso2.com/whitepapers/convert-your-enterprise-to-a-connected-business/

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