CA Technologies(NASDAQ:CA) has announced that the Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) is using CA ERwin to develop a uniform data model for the retail industry. This standard model is designed to help member businesses reduce IT complexity, streamline it and improve their profitability.
ARTS has developed practices, technology standards and training programs to support retailers and their technology suppliers do business globally in a cost-effective manner.
To make fact-based business decisions that maximize profitability, retailers need integrated IT systems that capture and share meaningful and useful data. The ARTS Operational Data Model provides an architecture for retail systems that is built, updated and maintained using CA Erwin. It features more than 800 entities, 4,900 attributes and thousands of relationships.
The operational data model is linked to the ARTS Data Warehouse Model and it enables customers to collate and manage real-time and historical data to create meaningful reports for improved decision-making.
Donna Burbank, Vice-President, Product Marketing, Data Management, CA Technologies, said, “To increase profitability in today’s highly competitive business environment, retail organizations need a comprehensive view of information to make strategic decisions. With the help of CA Erwin, ARTS is addressing this challenge with a modeling effort that is empowering their members to efficiently achieve their IT goals by leveraging standardized data definitions – instead of constantly having to reinvent the wheel.”
