Authors: Rob High (IBM), Brad Corrion (Intel), Henry Lau (HP Inc.)
Publish Date: January 12, 2021
Digital transformation in the Retail industry is accelerating. This transformation was already underway but has taken a new level of urgency as a result of the impact the Covid-19 Pandemic has had on the workforce and processes that Retailers have been forced to endure1. Businesses have had to either step up their digital game, or face being obsoleted by their competitors. Whether you sell merchandise or food, financial services or automobiles, hard or soft goods, you are expected to have an on-line menu or catalog. You are expected to take on-line orders, and in many cases you are expected to deliver orders directly, to the curbside, or at least in a controlled pick-up location.
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To that end, a new project is being started within the Linux Foundation, to create LF Edge umbrella that creates an open source framework to enable exactly that level of collaboration amongst Retail industry vendors; as envisioned by the Open Retail Initiative (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/retail/open-retail-initiative.html).
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This open source framework will be created as a sub-project of EdgeX Foundry, an LF Edge project. With the creation of this sub-project, we are enlisting other key partners to help build out the Open Retail Reference Architecture (ORRA).
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This project will build on collaboration between lF Edge projects EdgeX Foundry, Open Horizon, and Secure Device Onboard (SDO) projects.
Stakeholders
IBM, Intel, and HP Inc. are co-sponsoring supporting the creation of this project within the Linux Foundation and invite others to participate.
We are targeting this project to retail other Retail suppliers, merchants, and partners in creating solutions for the Retail industry.
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If you have material contributions you want to make to the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of this project, please follow the directions outlined at: https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/display/FA/Open+Retail+Reference+Architecture.
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#SDO
#SecureDeviceOnboard
#OpenHorizon
#EdgeXFoundry
#EdgeXIoT
#LFEdge
#opensource
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- “IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2021 Predictions”, IDC, https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US46942020