ARTS invites retailers and vendors to Scandinavian launch, April 23, Oslo

ARTS, the Association for Retail Technology Standards, is pleased to invite you to attend a special full-day session at the Profitbase users conference, Wednesday April 23rd at the Holmen Fjordhotell in Oslo, Norway. You may also choose to join the full two-day seminar, which includes highly recommended presentations, an excellent social setting and dinner prepared by one of the worlds finest chefs for an additional fee.

Since its founding in 1993, ARTS standards have become the principal means to manage data within retail, enabling retailers and their vendor partners to capture and store data and share it with back office applications. Recently, ARTS announced a new Data Warehouse Model that can be updated by ARTS schemas to deliver up-to-date and accurate reporting of key performance indicators (KPIs); ARTS standards are optimized for the new world of service oriented architecture (SOA). Learn more about ARTS by visiting us online at www.nrf-arts.org.

Topics will include:

• ARTS overview and the benefits of membership and implementing ARTS standards.
  1. Did you know ARTS has standard Invitations to Tender, XML schemas in additional to the Model?
  2. Learn why El Corte Ingles, House of Fraser, Galeries Lafayette, Gap, and many others are using ARTS standards.
• Data Management from Point of Sale (POS) through Business Intelligence with KPIs via ARTS standards
  1. Create a strategic data plan from ARTS Master Data Management document
  2. Implement it with XML schemas and the Operational and Warehouse Data Models
• Panel discussion on using standards to increase the efficiency of your IT business support
  1. ARTS Invitations to Tender (ITTs) to  help you select the"right" application
  2. Using the data models as the roadmap to a comprehensive and flexible data architecture
  3. Lower integration costs with XML

Registration
Please send your registration and relevant questions to conference@Profitbase.com.

ARTS-only: NOK 900.00 (ca. euro 110,-)
Includes ARTS presentation on April 23 from 10.00 a.m. and presentation by Jan Jönson from 4.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Total conference package: NOK 4.900 (ca. euro 620,-)
Includes accommodations in single rooms from April 23-24, lunch at arrival and departure, dinner and entertainment on the first day, and admittance to the ARTS seminar and other relevant seminars. For more information on the whole user conference 2008 please click here.

Please register by April 15th by sending an email to conference@Profitbase.com.

ARTS would like to thank Profitbase for this opportunity.