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Jan 15, 2007

ARTS Announces UnifiedPOS Release 1.11

For Immediate Release
Contact: Kathy Grannis or
Ellen Davis (202) 783-7971
E mail: grannisk@nrf.com or
davise@nrf.com

ARTS Announces UnifiedPOS Release 1.11

New York, NY, January 15, 2007 – The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) today announced the release of Unified Point of Service (UnifiedPOS) 1.11, the international POS device connectivity standard. This new release contains significant enhancements to support self service check out and fiscal printers required in many countries outside the USA. UnifiedPOS continues to be the worldwide single specification for OPOS, POS for .NET and JavaPOS, ensuring consistency across platforms that offer retailers freedom of choice in selecting new software and hardware for the Point of Sale.

“Representatives from UnifiedPOS member companies BearingPoint, Fujitsu Transaction Solutions, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, OPOS-J, PSC, Seiko Epson, Sun Microsystems, Symbol, and Wincor Nixdorf contribute hundreds of hours of volunteer labor each year,” noted Paul Gay, representing Seiko Epson and a core member of UnfiedPOS. “The committee is determined to continue to meet the single specification objective for POS peripheral interoperability by embracing new technologies that benefit retail IT.

Future releases of UnifiedPOS will support remote peripheral devices such as line busters and cart-mounted scanners. WAMPOS, the first specification for remote, browser-based connectivity, will be available soon as volume two of UnifiedPOS 1.11. This new Volume will grow over the next few years and become the Remote Access POS specification encompassing Web Services and XML implementations to operate within service oriented architectures (SOA).

Microsoft is deeply committed to standards to provide developers, partners and retailers a rich user experience, productivity gains and significant performance improvement," said Ilya Bukshteyn, director, Windows Embedded Marketing, Mobile and Embedded Devices Division, Microsoft Corp. "Our next release of Point of Service for .NET version 1.11, available later in the quarter, will include support for the Unified POS v1.11 specification, offering greater POS peripheral and application compatibility.

Conceptual demonstrations of Web Services POS (WS-POS) will be presented in the ARTS Standards Pavilion (booth 2155) at the NRF Annual Convention January 15 and 16. Retailers and vendors are encouraged to review these demonstrations and provide direction to the developing standard. The new specification with full update details is available at www.nrf-arts.org.

The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) is an international membership organization dedicated to reducing the costs of technology through standards. Since 1993, ARTS has been delivering application standards exclusively to the retail industry. ARTS has three standards: The Standard Relational Data Model, UnifiedPOS and IXRetail. Membership is open to all members of the international technology community- retailers from all industry segments, application developers and hardware companies.http://www.nrf-arts.org/

The National Retail Federation is the world's largest retail trade association, with membership that comprises all retail formats and channels of distribution including department, specialty, discount, catalog, Internet, independent stores, chain restaurants, drug stores and grocery stores as well as the industry's key trading partners of retail goods and services. NRF represents an industry with more than 1.6 million U.S. retail establishments, more than 24 million employees - about one in five American workers - and 2005 sales of $4.7 trillion. As the industry umbrella group, NRF also represents more than 100 state, national and international retail associations. http://www.nrf.com/.

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