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January 15, 2008

ARTS Announces UnifiedPOS Release 1.12

For Immediate Release
Contact Kathy Grannis or Ellen Davis (212) 624-8470
grannisk@nrf.com or davise@nrf.com

ARTS Announces UnifiedPOS Release 1.12

New York City, January 15, 2008 – The Association for Retail Technology Standards today announced a significant new release of Unified Point of Service (UnifiedPOS) 1.12, the international POS device connectivity standard. This new release includes XML mapping, the foundation for future remote access capability and support for data encryption, card and device authentication for magnetic stripe readers to reduce fraud. Other changes in this release include: six new device categories, systems management information and device statistics, new methods to the fiscal printer and support for Sweden and the Swedish Krona.

“The inclusion of XML POS in this release positions UnifiedPOS to take advantage of SOA and web services,” said Phuc Do, Senior Software Engineer at IBM and Chair of the Remote Access POS work team that is developing the new features of UnifiedPOS enabling remote and mobile POS environments by leveraging various wireless technologies. “By incorporating XML, future releases will be truly open, with no need for special implementation guidelines for different platforms.”

UnifiedPOS continues to be the worldwide single specification for OPOS, POS for .NET and JavaPOS, ensuring consistency across platforms and offering retailers freedom of choice in selecting new software and hardware for the Point of Sale.

“Representatives from UnifiedPOS member companies BearingPoint, Datalogic Scanning, Fujitsu Transaction Solutions, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, NCR, OPOS-J, Seiko Epson and Wincor Nixdorf contribute hundreds of hours of volunteer labor each year,” said Harry McKinlay, representing Fujitsu Transaction Solutions and the outgoing Chair of UnifiedPOS. “The committee is determined to continue to meet the single specification objective for POS peripheral interoperability by embracing new technologies, such as XML, that benefit retail IT.”

Demonstrations of POS Interoperability, including Web Services POS, will be presented in the ARTS Standards Pavilion (booth 2155) at the NRF Annual Convention January 14 and 15. Retailers and vendors are encouraged to stop by and give input for further development of this standard. The new specification with full update details is available here.

The Association for Retail Technology Standards 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 ARTS-XML. Membership is open to all members of the international technology community—retailers from all industry segments, application developers and hardware companies.

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 2006 sales of $4.7 trillion. As the industry umbrella group, NRF also represents more than 100 state, national and international retail associations.

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