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Point of sale integration in food retail

FOCUS ON: Retail & Consumer Products, Cloud Computing, Azure,

The amalgamation of in-store and online shopping has led to changed expectations of customers towards the services retailers have to provide. To respond adequately to the needs of the customer, requiring a continuous re-evaluation of processes and underlying IT architectures.

Solidsoft Reply supported a major grocery retailer in the UK to integrate their Point of Sale Cash Register solution with their back-end Data Warehouse. The goal of this project was to move beyond the day-to-day view, to identify customer needs more efficiently. In addition, the retailer wanted to integrate data from in-store activities and the customers’ online shopping to achieve a deeper insight into customer demand. In addition to having real time view of stock availability to improve the customer experience in-store and online and to be able to offer additional services such as home delivery.

Systems integration for a comprehensive, connected and real-time view

Technically, the integration of POS solution in stores across the UK, the retailer’s backend systems and connected partners asked for the implementation of a new integration layer.

Solidsoft Reply provided the integration layer, hosted entirely on the Microsoft Azure platform using BizTalk Server (hosted on Azure) to provide a hybrid capability and employing the following integration technologies on Azure

  • Service Bus
  • Logic Apps
  • API Apps
  • API Management

To facilitate the communication between a variety of third parties, Solidsoft Reply provided API apps, enabling third parties to integrate with the retailer’s back end systems in a lightweight, low latency way.

The solution developed by Solidsoft Reply offers a comprehensive, connected and real-time view of stock, delivery and of customer buying habits. This has resulted in offering a home delivery service either online or in-store. This is the foundation to further improve the customer experience and to excel in a highly competitive market such as food retail, through offering outstanding services that add real value for the customer.

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Solidsoft Reply is the Reply group company creating enterprise strength solutions on-premises and utilising the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. A global award winning Microsoft Gold certified partner, Solidsoft Reply specialises in: System Integration on the Microsoft platform, including BizTalk Server and Logic-Apps, Service-Bus and API-Management on Microsoft’s Azure PaaS public cloud; Custom Application Development on the Microsoft Azure platform; Business critical application support; Azure operational services and Application Lifecycle Management. A published thought leader and trusted advisor to Microsoft, engineering innovative solutions since 1993, Solidsoft Reply has helped over 500 enterprise clients succeed. www.solidsoftreply.com

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