This book gives an overview of all the work accomplished by the Association for Retail Technology Standards. They have created 8000 attribute retail data model with 29 subject areas in Erwin, 1 data warehouse model with 3 data marts in Erwin, 29 message interface standard schemas in XML and JSON, over 36 device interfaces, 9 message schemas for robots, 9 blueprints for understanding various technologies, 7 Integration Technical Reports, 9 best practices papers to make sure the standards are standard, over 20 RFP's to reduce the cost of purchasing new technology and an enormous number of technology models showing how to use all this work, This video gives a great overview School of Retail - YouTube
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