GEMFIRE IN RETAIL

Every facet of retailing operations is driven by data. From radio frequency identification (RFID) to online retailing to supply chain and inventory management, automated retail systems need to act on massive amounts of data. In addition, much of this data must be repeatedly presented to the application after access from multiple, disparate systems like legacy mainframes, databases, and file-systems. Data management becomes a significant challenge as these firms strive to achieve operational efficiencies.

The GemFire Enterprise Data Fabric provides a distributed operational data fabric that instantaneously provides information whenever and wherever it is needed. Its inherent distributed nature enables it to hold large volumes of data in memory across multiple servers and scale to meet the data needs of a retail enterprise. It also supports intelligent data analytics and event processing to enable real-time decision making and identification of business opportunities. This helps weed out unnecessary data to focus on events or data subsets that are relevant.

GemFire solutions can aid retailers in improving their online retailing operations, address their RFID data processing and analysis needs, and promote real-time information visibility for pricing, merchandizing, and promotions planning .