Web Services as an Information Enabler in the Retail Industry
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چکیده
Retail organizations works on thin margins and hence it is very imperative that they utilize information technology to achieve optimization on time and space in the entire retail supply chain in order to remain competitive. Web services is an emerging technology holding tremendous promise as a platform neutral, easy to implement mechanism to achieve information and business process integration in the extended enterprise. In this paper, we review how Web services in consonance with other technologies can prove to be an effective business enabler for the retail business when adopted in a phased manner.
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