System Architecture

Command Retail System: Architecture Overview
  • Celerant Command Retail was one of the first real-time POS, point of sale, software systems on the market and has been rigorously tested and embraced by retailers.
  • Keep track of each store's inventory to prepare for transfers and purchase orders without having to poll.
  • The system is java-based, enabling retailers to add a more robust database on one or more workstations, without having to replace the entire system.

How the Retail System Works

 

Retail is a complex industry, directed by various dispersed, finite details. The better organized and connected a retail organization is, the better its ROI. 

Celerant Technology meets the demands of retail by bringing together industry-established engineers to construct, from the ground-up, a completely integrated, real-time system that is 100% Java.  Information is stored in Microsoft SQL databases that are housed in a head office, or hosting facility, as well as in local application servers located at each store location.

Celerant actually built its system, designing it specifically to meet the needs of retail; therefore Command easily overcomes the limitations of the current fragmented, multi-systems and the integration difficulties that occur with a combined-vender approach. The Celerant-advantage is that we built our architecture right from the beginning. 

The result of our hard work and years of development is our Enterprise Application Server (EAS) architecture, a unique platform that employs Java technology to efficiently operate multiple locations from a single centralized data repository. With EAS, information flows through the organization in real-time, providing live, accurate data and unrivaled remote managerial control. 

The design of the multi-threaded EAS servers enables Celerant to process very high transaction volume. Since each EAS server can service the requests of multiple workstations/registers, the database platform is no longer a bottleneck as it can be on many traditional client/server systems. 

Celerant makes use of a single company-wide database to maintain all critical enterprise data. This database instance, which is located in your corporate data center, is interacted via the EAS servers that service the requests made by your workstations and  point of sale terminals. As EAS servers process requests on behalf of workstations and  point of sale terminals, they communicate directly with this database, bypassing the need to maintain multiple copies of important company data. By making sure that all of the company data is located within a single repository (instead of distributed in many smaller chunks throughout the company), Celerant helps to minimize the risks involved in data synchronization and increases the usefulness of enterprise data. 

Our system was one of the first real-time systems on the market and has been rigorously tested and embraced by retailers. It is a proven technology unlike any other available on the market.


 

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