SOA in Retail Solutions - Fast, Secure Partnering through SOA Infrastructure
Retail is a field where cost pressures and a rapidly-cycling business climate reward companies that can adapt their enterprise IT quickly and easily. Working with Staples, Best-Buy, and others, SOA Software has delivered service oriented architecture SOA Infrastructure to enable agility and cost-effective partnering capabilities.
SOA Software’s retail service oriented architecture SOA solutions include:
- Secure and manageable service oriented architecture SOA-based credit card authorization interfaces
- Secure and reliable messaging infrastructure for stored value cards
A financial services company asked SOA Software to help streamline its integration with retailers for the purpose of processing stored value (gift) card transactions.
Business Challenges:
Integrating the retailers’ point-of-sale systems with the financial services company’s back-end systems on a cost-effective, rapid implementation basis
Assuring the ability to be flexible in the way that gift card programs could be rolled out and modified over time
Technological Challenges
Reducing dependence on proprietary middleware to integrate with gift card partners
Assuring transaction integrity for accounting purposes without requiring the use of inflexible infrastructure
SOA Software Solution
SOA Software’s Partner Manager™ provides a secure proxy for both the financial services company and its gift card partners. The Partner Manager allows the financial services company to expose its Web service gift card application to selected partners as a “virtual service” that appears to exist inside the domain of the partner entity
Benefits of SOA Software solution
Cut partner integration time and expense from 300 hours to 30 hours
Agility in partnering arrangements
No need for financial services company to authenticate users from the partner organization, which was previously a time consuming and error prone process
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