In retail, customers are key to the success of your business. How do we make ensure that companies can get as many loyal customers as possible? By providing the best customer experience possible, and you can’t do that if you don’t modernize your retail operations to keep up with the ever-evolving customer demands. To achieve this goal, you can use Oracle Retail Xstore Office on Autonomous Database Dedicated in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Oracle Retail Xstore Office
Oracle Retail Xstore Office is an easy-to-use, central web-based management console that provides for the effortless management of the data and configurations, specifically designed for retail. With the retail landscape continually changing in response to customer demand, making the right decisions regarding front line systems is critical to gaining and maintaining a competitive advantage. This robust, flexible, and scalable system incorporates customer relationship management features and boosts customer interactions. You can capture customer information, track purchase history, and deliver personalized offers and promotions to build that crucial customer loyalty and improve the overall shopping experience.
With customer relationship management, Xstore offers a wide range of features and functionalities to support various retail operations. The point-of-sale system enables retailers to efficiently handle sales, returns, exchanges, promotions, discounts, and loyalty programs. Inventory management works in real-time, ensuring accurate stock levels and reducing out-of-stock situations for customers. It also facilitates effective product management because it supports product hierarchies and categories, making it easier to manage all in a central location.
Your store operations are made easy because of the different tools to help with scheduling, cash management, and so much more. Plus, Oracle Xstore can integrate with other enterprise systems, such as Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, while offering scalability to support single-store retailers to large retail chains. So, no matter how big you are, Xstore is the right fit for you.
Why run on Autonomous Database?
Oracle runs best on Oracle. So, running Oracle applications on Autonomous Database is an easy choice because it uses groundbreaking machine learning (ML) and automation to accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and reduce risks. Autonomous Database eliminates much of the labor for database administration activities like provisioning, securing, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting databases. This reduces costs and improves operational efficiency and productivity, which you can use for accelerating innovation in your core retail business areas.
With zero application downtime for patching activities and a 99.995% availability SLA with Autonomous Data Guard, Autonomous Database gives you increased system availability and business continuity, eliminating any impact on your business operations. It automatically recovers itself from any physical failure either at the data center level or server level. Autonomous Database also reduces risks when it comes to mundane, commodity database administration management tasks like patching and upgrading.
Plus, it applies database, operating system, and security patches every quarter to protect itself from all kinds of vulnerabilities. These patches are applied on a rolling fashion across the nodes of the database cluster ensuring zero application downtime. These updates give your customers an even better seamless experience.
With its advanced capabilities, Autonomous Database is a perfect tool for you to use and benefit from future Oracle innovation. It promotes the long-term process of redefining and reimagining IT management at an organizational level. By adopting the Oracle Autonomous Database, you get set a solid foundation for utilizing any future value-driven innovation from Oracle that provides significant business benefits.
When you apply these capabilities to a dedicated Exadata Cloud Infrastructure, you get the highest performant version of the Autonomous Database because you’re completely isolated. With all the precious data you have for X-Store, you want to ensure that you get the highest levels of availability, performance, security, and isolation. Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Cloud Infrastructure is the ideal for these enterprise-, business- and mission-critical applications and gives you complete control over your database environment. Allowing you to run your business how you want to run it. To learn more about why Autonomous Database Dedicated is the perfect home for your data, read this blog post.
Reference architecture
Migrating Oracle Retail Xstore Office to Autonomous Database Dedicated is simple with this reference architecture to accelerate your cloud adoption.
Figure 1: Oracle Retail Xstore Office on Autonomous Database Dedicated Reference Architecture
Designed to simplify retail operations
OCI provides a complete cloud infrastructure platform for retailers to accelerate their cloud investments, continue to innovate for the customer, and set the course for long-term growth and resilience. Oracle offers a comprehensive portfolio of cloud services for any retail workload, from cloud native applications to high-volume enterprise workloads, to help retailers innovate and accelerate their business growth. Retailers can build new applications, extend existing ones, or bring enterprise applications to the cloud with minimal refactoring or rewrites. They can also run applications and databases more economically and with the performance, resilience, and security that enterprises need.
OCI is available globally and provides a complete cloud infrastructure platform for retailers to accelerate their cloud investments, continue to innovate for the customer, and set the course for long-term growth and resilience. Learn how Oracle is meeting retailers on their journey to the cloud.
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Ensure that your customers are happy and keep coming back by providing the best customer experience possible with Xstore running on Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure. Try out Autonomous Database Dedicated yourself with Oracle LiveLabs, a way for you to get hands-on experience and build up your technical skills. When you feel ready to explore Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, get unlimited services like Autonomous Database with the Always Free Tier.